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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…