Imagining the Unimaginable
Being a student who has grown and adapted with the internet, it’s hard to imagine life any other way. From an early age when I was preoccupied with the happenings on child gaming sites such as Neopets...
View ArticleThe Traditional Community’s New Competitor
There’s no doubt that the web has changed what “community” means. It’s not entirely just a physical presence in your local area, but a presence in a virtual world that can be practically limitless in...
View ArticleJapan: One – Or Many – Steps Ahead
This past week in Dr. Wiesinger’s class we’ve been discussing the internet and its role in countries around the world. It has opened my eyes to the fact that America isn’t as high and mighty as we make...
View ArticleToo Much of a Good Thing?
Everything that is possibly imaginable is located somewhere on the Web. Using a search engine I can find things such as an old article to a chili recipe from Gourmet magazine, or a news report of a car...
View ArticleThe Web Takes Reading Up a Notch
I don’t know what I would have done without Sparknotes in high school. Taking advanced English classes and being required to read a hefty amount of chapters each week from various books was sometimes a...
View ArticleIlliteracy… Innumeracy… Iweberacy?
According to Jakob Nielson, participation inequality has been a huge contributor to the empowerment divide as the internet continues to grow larger. Nielson states, “90% of users don’t contribute, 9%...
View Article“Show Me It’s Online So I Know It’s Real”
As Tim Burners-Lee puts it, “if it isn’t on the Web, it doesn’t exist.” Immediately when I think of this quote, I think of Facebook. Being a freshman in college, I’m meeting new people all the time;...
View ArticleR.I.P. Myspace
I’d like to take a moment to visit the social networking grave and dig up the infamous website known as Myspace. It was every tweener’s go-to website to check their friends’ bulletins, edit their...
View ArticleTaking a Look at a Celebrity Blog
One site that I frequently look at is the popular celebrity and pop culture blogging site, Perezhilton.com. It’s where I normally go to get my fix of celebrity gossip and news, so I’m pretty familiar...
View ArticleTechnology Influencing the Web and Media Literacy
Technology is a funny thing; it shapes the lives of everyone in one way or another and there’s hardly any way to avoid it all together. Whether you’re someone who is attached to your iPhone at all...
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