Blog Posts for Electronic Research & The Rhetoric of Information, DTC 356, Fall 2015
Blog Entry 1: Reading Response: Chapter 6
Things that stood out to me:
"...we don't think of these screens as separate from our everyday worlds".
Its crazy to think that we are so glued to our computer, tablet or smart phone that we blend the two together as if they are one. Its true in a way, you are responding to someone without actually being there so in a way you are in two places at once but you are not physically there and that is what this sentence is saying.
"The term mass media came into common use in the post-World War II era, a period marked by the dissemination of broadcast television throughout much of the world"
Mass media brought people together.
"Mass media is a term that has been used since the 1920's to describe those media forms designed to reach large audiences perceived to have shared interests."
Its crazy to think that we went from newspapers to television to internet and each new form of media is accessed by more and more people around the world. We are no longer hidden from the news of our neighbors and we can share information we know through uncontrolled media pathways. Satellite transmission made it possible to access information that was once secluded to one place. The internet then made it even more possible to access and release information.
Blog Entry 3: Reading Response: Chapter 7
Advertisements are everywhere. Because we see them everyday, we tend to tune them out which causes advertisers to find new ways to promote and market their product.
"Culture jamming is, at root, just a metaphor for stopping the flow of spectacle long enough to adjust your set."
As marketing teams find new ways to promote their product people find new ways to take their advertisement and make it their own. Reordering words and parts of the advertisement to give it an entirely different meaning.
Blog Entry 5: Reading Response: Chapter 1
"To willfully look or not is to exercise choice and compliance and to influence whether an how others look. To be made to look, to try to get someone else to look at you or at something you want to be noticed, or to engage in an exchange of looks entails a play of power"
"A single image can serve a multitude of purposes, appear in a range of settings, and mean different things to different people."
Images can show reactions or evoke a reaction. It can tell a story and convey information. we can reflect or make meaning.
"We construct the meaning of things through the process of representing them."
"Since the mid-nineteenth century, there have been many arguments for and against the idea that photographs are objective renderings of the real world that provide unbiased truth."
"Photographs are also objects in which we invest deep emotional content. They are one of the primary means through which we remember events, conjure up the presence of an absent person, and experience longing for someone we have lost or someone we desire but whom we have never seen or met."
Blog Entry 7: Reading Response: Chapter 2
The meaning of an image comes from ourselves. It is how we interpret the image that makes the meaning.
"The production of meaning involves at least three elements besides the image itself and its producer: 1) the codes and conventions that structure the image and that cannon be separated from the context of the image: 2) the viewers and how they interpret or experience the image: 3) the contexts in which an image is exhibited and viewed."
The viewer is the main subject in creative production.
Blog Entry 9: Reading Response: Chapter 8
Is postmodernism a period? When did it start?
"We do not live in a world of postmodernism but rather in a world in which the tensions of modernity and postmodernity are active and present, a world that has many populations living in what can only be called premodern life situations of poverty and subsistence."
Blog Entry 11: Reading Response: Chapter 10
Images are distributed easier than they were back in the day. Instead of using print forms of distribution we can now use the internet and satellite to distribute images and information.
"Movements of people, ideas, information, and images have taken place throughout the history of the world. However, the concept of globalization has a much more recent, post-Cold War history."
"The declaration of Earth Day in 1970 marked a moment in history when the idea of a unified planet carried a strong humanitarian appeal to the mostly North American and European advocates of this celebration."
"During the 1960's and 1970's people were fascinated with the idea of satellite transmission."
This reading had me dive into "The Last Whole Earth Catalog" which was essentially Google, 35 years before it was invented. It was also said to be an inspiration to Steve Jobs.
Blog Entry 13: Reading Response: Read Lessig 7-30, Where Does Information Come From?
I do not own this book*
Blog Entry 15: Reading Response: Read Lessig 53- 79, What Constitutes Intellectual Property?
I do not own this book*
Blog Entry 17: Reading Response: Read Lessig 213-234 Can or Should Information be Owned?
I do not own this book*
Blog Entry 19: Reading Response: Read and Explore Old+Old+Old=New
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.3/topoi/digirhet/index.html
"We are also a collective that believes that it is time for more of us in rhetoric and composition, and computers and writing specifically, to have a louder voice and a more persuasive say in the intellectual property debates going on in our culture and in our world."
Blog Entry 21: Reading Response: Read Tim O’Reilly, What is Web 2.0
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
Really cool list via: oreilly
Blog Entry 25: Designers and Web Designs as Inspiration
tyler.com
www.uber.com
www.apple.com
http://tennentbrown.co.nz/
Things that stood out to me:
"...we don't think of these screens as separate from our everyday worlds".
Its crazy to think that we are so glued to our computer, tablet or smart phone that we blend the two together as if they are one. Its true in a way, you are responding to someone without actually being there so in a way you are in two places at once but you are not physically there and that is what this sentence is saying.
"The term mass media came into common use in the post-World War II era, a period marked by the dissemination of broadcast television throughout much of the world"
Mass media brought people together.
"Mass media is a term that has been used since the 1920's to describe those media forms designed to reach large audiences perceived to have shared interests."
Its crazy to think that we went from newspapers to television to internet and each new form of media is accessed by more and more people around the world. We are no longer hidden from the news of our neighbors and we can share information we know through uncontrolled media pathways. Satellite transmission made it possible to access information that was once secluded to one place. The internet then made it even more possible to access and release information.
Blog Entry 3: Reading Response: Chapter 7
Advertisements are everywhere. Because we see them everyday, we tend to tune them out which causes advertisers to find new ways to promote and market their product.
"Culture jamming is, at root, just a metaphor for stopping the flow of spectacle long enough to adjust your set."
As marketing teams find new ways to promote their product people find new ways to take their advertisement and make it their own. Reordering words and parts of the advertisement to give it an entirely different meaning.
Blog Entry 5: Reading Response: Chapter 1
"To willfully look or not is to exercise choice and compliance and to influence whether an how others look. To be made to look, to try to get someone else to look at you or at something you want to be noticed, or to engage in an exchange of looks entails a play of power"
"A single image can serve a multitude of purposes, appear in a range of settings, and mean different things to different people."
Images can show reactions or evoke a reaction. It can tell a story and convey information. we can reflect or make meaning.
"We construct the meaning of things through the process of representing them."
"Since the mid-nineteenth century, there have been many arguments for and against the idea that photographs are objective renderings of the real world that provide unbiased truth."
"Photographs are also objects in which we invest deep emotional content. They are one of the primary means through which we remember events, conjure up the presence of an absent person, and experience longing for someone we have lost or someone we desire but whom we have never seen or met."
Blog Entry 7: Reading Response: Chapter 2
The meaning of an image comes from ourselves. It is how we interpret the image that makes the meaning.
"The production of meaning involves at least three elements besides the image itself and its producer: 1) the codes and conventions that structure the image and that cannon be separated from the context of the image: 2) the viewers and how they interpret or experience the image: 3) the contexts in which an image is exhibited and viewed."
The viewer is the main subject in creative production.
Blog Entry 9: Reading Response: Chapter 8
Is postmodernism a period? When did it start?
"We do not live in a world of postmodernism but rather in a world in which the tensions of modernity and postmodernity are active and present, a world that has many populations living in what can only be called premodern life situations of poverty and subsistence."
Blog Entry 11: Reading Response: Chapter 10
Images are distributed easier than they were back in the day. Instead of using print forms of distribution we can now use the internet and satellite to distribute images and information.
"Movements of people, ideas, information, and images have taken place throughout the history of the world. However, the concept of globalization has a much more recent, post-Cold War history."
"The declaration of Earth Day in 1970 marked a moment in history when the idea of a unified planet carried a strong humanitarian appeal to the mostly North American and European advocates of this celebration."
"During the 1960's and 1970's people were fascinated with the idea of satellite transmission."
This reading had me dive into "The Last Whole Earth Catalog" which was essentially Google, 35 years before it was invented. It was also said to be an inspiration to Steve Jobs.
Blog Entry 13: Reading Response: Read Lessig 7-30, Where Does Information Come From?
I do not own this book*
Blog Entry 15: Reading Response: Read Lessig 53- 79, What Constitutes Intellectual Property?
I do not own this book*
Blog Entry 17: Reading Response: Read Lessig 213-234 Can or Should Information be Owned?
I do not own this book*
Blog Entry 19: Reading Response: Read and Explore Old+Old+Old=New
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.3/topoi/digirhet/index.html
"We are also a collective that believes that it is time for more of us in rhetoric and composition, and computers and writing specifically, to have a louder voice and a more persuasive say in the intellectual property debates going on in our culture and in our world."
Blog Entry 21: Reading Response: Read Tim O’Reilly, What is Web 2.0
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
| Web 1.0 | Web 2.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| DoubleClick | --> | Google AdSense |
| Ofoto | --> | Flickr |
| Akamai | --> | BitTorrent |
| mp3.com | --> | Napster |
| Britannica Online | --> | Wikipedia |
| personal websites | --> | blogging |
| evite | --> | upcoming.org and EVDB |
| domain name speculation | --> | search engine optimization |
| page views | --> | cost per click |
| screen scraping | --> | web services |
| publishing | --> | participation |
| content management systems | --> | wikis |
| directories (taxonomy) | --> | tagging ("folksonomy") |
| stickiness | --> | syndication |
Really cool list via: oreilly
Blog Entry 25: Designers and Web Designs as Inspiration
tyler.com
www.uber.com
www.apple.com
http://tennentbrown.co.nz/
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