Category Archives: Writing for Emergent Media

Writing for Emergent Media: Garden of Forking Paths

Garden of Forking Paths’ focus on research and how one could only pay attention to specific research as appose to all required research somewhat parallels this hive-mind attitude specific groups of people can have online when they try to fact … Continue reading

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Writing for Emergent Media: Coda

Now in days you’d be lucky to find anyone that does not think that the internet and social media do not play a major role in everyone’s lives. Any that don’t think so are likely from a generation that did … Continue reading

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Writing for Emergent Media: Chpt. 8

The concept of history repeating itself always interested me whenever it is in regard to something ahead of its time, so the ‘finnagins wake’ example stood out to me as I had not thought of how twitter hashtags and website … Continue reading

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Writing for Emergent Media: Chpt. 7

I can be a stickler for quality at times, and I always pick the higher quality format over the lower counterpart. While I agree that when you consume any media, audio or visual, whatever is the most complete is always … Continue reading

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Writing for Emergent Media: Chapter 6

Ive come to notice the idea of “Enjoying the bottle instead of the wine” with many aspects of both my digital life and physical life. For me personally, it is a mix of a bit of OCD and just a … Continue reading

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Writing for Emergent Media: Chpt. 5

I subscribe heavily to the connection between Joseph Cornell’s box construction to our list of apps on computers and phones. The idea I got from looking at Joseph Cornell’s boxes is that each object in each individual segment in the … Continue reading

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Out of the 26k I had to pay to be here, can’t any of that go towards parking?

My girlfriend commutes from my home town, but best year she stayed on campus. Despite having to pay tuition and room and board, once she got her first car she had to pay to park outside of her dorm which … Continue reading

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Writing for Emergent Media: Wasting Time Chpt. 4

Archiving is something we all do instinctually, and people have done it before the internet as well. What makes internet archiving different however is how easily obtainable everything is and how little space it takes up. So there is a … Continue reading

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Writing For Emergent Media: Wasting Time Chpt. 3 response

The concept that our browsing history is like a look at how our minds work is an interesting argument, although the only issue I have accepting that is that what we look at is not as free as how we … Continue reading

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Writing for Emergent Media: Wasting Time Chpt. 2

Goldsmith has this fixation on the concept of us all being ‘zombies’ in regards to how we all mindlessly use social media without a second thought, corresponding with his thesis about us becoming something against singularity and more connected with … Continue reading

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