Mixed Media Creative Critical Essay 1 Network literacy is an applied knowledge, where the best way to understand is to learn through experience. With control of a personal blog, I discovered that only by submerging myself within the realm of networked media could I fully comprehend what it meant to be network literate.2 By creating posts, embedding videos, incorporating folksonomies 3,…
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Kanye, Privacy & the Wikipedia Game
While searching through my colleagues’ recent blog posts, I selected three at random and will aim to link them to one another. Just as hyperlink connects foreign online material. I guess I’ll start off with the topic of hyperlinks then. Jane discusses the wikipedia game, something that I did all through high school as one of my many means of…
Shoutouts
I’m continuously impressed with the variety of interesting material that comes out of the Networked Media students’ blogs. It’s great to read the opinions of others, as it triggers me to form my own opinion and actually think about things – something I seldom do. I guess I’m more of a do-er. Take Monique’s latest post for example. She’s created her…
Explorers, not readers.
I pick up a book. My eyes scan the page, beginning with the left side and moving to the right. Then I move my visual focus one line below and repeat. Left, right, down, repeat. What am I doing? I am reading, probably a book, or perhaps a smaller type of text; a magazine, newspaper, or instruction manual. That is…
What’s all the Hype about?
After having a look through George Landow’s words on Hypertext, I was left feeling a little overwhelmed with all the information to intake. Not in the sense that it was convoluted and uninterpretable, but more so that there were so many discussion pathways I could take from it. Here’s one. What is Hypertext anyway? The first time I heard the word…