Think critically about the role of media in your own life and environment. In my life, media has ruled every aspect of my life. From my addiction to pong to the splendid graphics in Nintendo’s Contra, in the span of…
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I am a graduate student, and I am eager to learn how to research adequately and take command of the material that I want to present.
Prensky Digital Immigrant
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My family are dominated constantly by fantasy football One of the few phenomema on the Web that people are willing to pay for consistently, fantasy sports, where people trade players and manage teams in baseball, basketball, football, hockey, or (in…
Danah boyd, Interacting with unfamiliar others Learning society’s rules
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statess that the Public plays a crucial role in the development of individuals. Society’s norms and rules only provide the collectively imagined boundaries. Experienced IMers often have several of these conversations, in separate windows going at once, and there can…
Social Bookmarking tools
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Aaron Arias English 5010 Dr. Devries Fall 2007 Social Bookmarking tools Computers are a way of life in the educational setting, unfortunately there a too few teachers who can successfully integrate computer technology effectively in the classroom (1). What Selber…
Postman
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Aaron Arias English 5010 Dr. Devries Fall 2007 Postman What culture is he talking about? Is he talking about academic culture or cultures in general? Languages are alive and growing as we speak. The definition of a living language is…
Incoherence of the Incoherence
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Incoherence of the Incoherence This consequence, that everything which exists is simple, is a necessary consequence for the philosophers, if they assume that the First Agent is like a simple agent in the empirical world. But this consequence is…
Lu Xing
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Lu Xing Lu Xing says that“Chinese rhetoric has implicit rhetorical practices are contained in literary and historical texts” (Xing 2). “There is, in fact, no single unified signifier, equivalent to the term rhetoric, in Chinese texts” (Xing 3).“In the…
Quintilians institute of oratory
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Quintilians institute of oratory. Quintilian believed that professions of the grammarian and teacher of rhetoric should be in some degree united (Content and context should be united) Facility in speaking is attained by exercise in it, and by reading, hearing,…
“Distant Voices”
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“Distant Voices” “Distant Voices” is interesting. As many of the school districts that have the means to do so, are using technology to enhance teaching, those that don’t are relying on Government subsidies in order to try for some…
Changing Bodies
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Changing Bodies Educational organizations are constantly looking at the establishment theory and practice. As Spivak associates conventions he states, “Rhetoric sees itself not as creating a balance between theory and practice, but rather as ‘inhabiting a kind of productive…