For my scouting report, I looked at one of the past Xbox Live interviews on file from March–a girl (a college student in Illinois) uses Live to tutor students from the local high school in math. While English is definitely…
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Intimacy in New Media
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 0 Comments
This week I wrote about how relationships are shaped by the New Media. As shown by the YouTube videos about Facebook, technology has had a powerful effect on the way we view intimacy and relationships. I believe that this technology…
W6, Seiter:Technology for Companies or for Education
by Jeong Kinser • • 0 Comments
I thought that Seiter hit the nail on the head regarding the field of cyber education. She said, “There are powerful economic interests behind the promotion of hardware and software in educational institutions at all levels”. As she said, the…
Digital “Playground”: teeter totters are fun but sand can get in your eyes . . .
by kmontero • • 2 Comments
The New Digital Media is a powerful and seemingly unstoppable force. It has the ability to influence large groups of people. Many of these influences are positive, many are negative. For instance, I am sure we all heard about the…
Scouting Report: Electronic Portfolio, a Call to Action Realized
by rhetdezigner • • 0 Comments
One of the “hot topics” at the Computers and Writing Conference at UC Davis that I attended this past June surrounded the idea of “electronic portfolios.” The concept made total sense to me. This definitely will be the future status of…
Jeong’s Scouting Report: TED
by Jeong Kinser • • 0 Comments
I want to introduce TED community to teachers of composition or literature. Utilizing TEDTalks would be highly constructive in those classes. The rapid development of the new media has been difficult to equate the process of its actual practice into…
The Great Technology Divide between Baby Boomers and Children of the Great Depression
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
While Seiter brings up many interesting points about how technology exacerbates the divides between social classes and groups amongst young people, I think she fails to examine another group that is impacted by this-baby boomers and those born during the…
Making Friends in New Media
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 0 Comments
In “Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media,” the authors writing the paper explored the “ways in which youth may be redefining identity, privacy, ownership, credibility, & participation as they engage with the new digital media” (James, et. al).…
“Public is the New Private”–If Not Now, Soon
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
The “Good Play Project’s” commentary cites the four characteristics (mentioned in boyd’s article on social networking) of NDM that make privacy issues so challenging: persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audience. The argument put forth is that online, especially among younger…
Finding an Identity “the Hard Way”
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
In high-school, I never had internet. There was no Facebook, no MySpace, no Second Life for me. I had to create my identity “the hard way” (this is probably what I’ll tell my kids someday instead of “I had to…