I'm sure all of you know where this image is from... How did we come to accept this image as indicative of something like Myspace? Did you accept this image? Assign it a value?
Do you ever think about the images associated with brands, services, or people? Do you know the origins of the brands you readily recognize?
From the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
The Design of Symbols
By STEVEN HELLER
Published: October 21, 2011
The symbols found in airports, hospitals and government buildings are ubiquitous, but few people know where they had their origins.
Creating in Web 2.0? [101.13]
In the world of user-generated content, each one of us is capable of becoming an overnight sensation. As we observe, discuss, and analyze Web 2.0, we will start to unravel what it means to live in Web 2.0. But mostly—as this is above all a writing course—from the first day of class, we will compose an exploration of the many forms and types of media that make up our daily experiences. In doing so, we will compose a living record of the what it means to create and compose in Web 2.0.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Web 2.0 implications?
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Sentence Deconstruction and Reconstruction
Here is the list of sentences we read in class.
1. Under situations like these, the author does not realize that his or her information is wrong…instead, he or she believes that whatever he or she is writing is factual and true, for whatever the reason.
2.The major consequences are not only does it take away from traditional dating but we never really know who we are talking to online.
3. Age, gender, sexual orientation, birth place, languages spoken, phone numbers, even area which they are living at.
4.There are definitely much more important things we can be doing besides being noisy and looking at peoples’ pages.
5. However times have changed, technology has advanced and the youth of this generation found a new way to bully by using social networks, cellphones or any other electronic device to harm those they do not like in this generation basic bullying has morphed into cyberbullying but who is at blame and what can we do to stop it.
6. With the incredible use of technology our world today have shape into a more of a message saturated world meaning a world being dominated by technology which is changing the way we communicate by sending, receiving and interpreting messages we encounter every day in our lives.
7. Although visual literacy is a good skill to comprehend, focusing on only the visual will have its backfire.
8. Since many children don't tell anyone about the bullying they experience, it is easy to see some of the negative impact that social media has had on our youth especially.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
New iPhone Application!
This article is about the Find My Friends application and this guy who found out his wife was cheating on him with this application.
So what do you think about this application? Cool? Creepy?
Personally I find this new application to be scary and creepy.
Just wanted to share this! Have a nice weekend ENG 101!
homework 3: remix
Remix:
I choose this particular video because my friends really thought that the remix was just as good as the original video with a smaller amount of budget. The singer in this video sound just as great and you can actually focus on the song apposed to the last video which switches the mood every 2 seconds. I personally think many people wouldn't mind listening to this video over and over. I also happened to read the comments many of the viewers actually loved it.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
How to create hyperlinks in Blogger!
Privacy!
Monday, October 10, 2011
Love your iPhone!
"As we embrace new technology that does everything but kiss us on the mouth, we risk cutting ourselves off from human interaction. For many, the iPhone has become a best friend, partner, lifeline, companion and, yes, even a Valentine. The man or woman we love most may be seated across from us in a romantic Paris bistro, but his or her 8GB, 16GB or 32GB rival lies in wait inside our pockets and purses."
You Love Your iPhone. Literally.
from New York Times,
September 30, 2011
image from Elizabeth Anne Designs
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Looking at the multiple meanings and representations of images
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Networks and Social Media
This School Friendship Network plot is from a website called www.visualcomplexity.com. Created by James Moody in 2001, it represents how students of different races associate themselves within certain networks. Here is a description from the website about this project.
Friendship network of children in a US school. Friendships are determined by asking the participants, and hence are directed, since A may say that B is their friend but not vice versa. Vertices are color coded according to race, as marked, and the split from left to right in the figure is clearly primarily along lines of race. The split from top to bottom is between middle school and high school, i.e., between younger and older children.
The colors of the dots in this image represent the following races.
Yellow - White Race
Green - Black Race
Pink - Other
How would you rationalize the splits that occur between ages and races in this plot? How is this plot similar or dissimilar to your online networks? How else could you group together the members of your social network?