For Media Technology and Cultural Change
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2010
So, you might have noticed that this is my third blog tonight…this isn’t because we have class tomorrow and I am trying to fill the “suggestion” of three blogs per week, but rather, I have these ideas stored in my head, but don’t have the time to blog them as they come to me. Instead, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2010
I mentioned this point in class the other day, but I’m really wondering if there is any way to start advertising iPhone apps. My family (yes, even my parents have iPhones) and friends often share their discoveries with me, and sometimes I search for the most popular apps on my phone, but I feel like […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2010
Last year I took a J-Term course called “Ethnographic Writing.” While we did quite a bit of in class writing, our instructor asked us not to bring computers, and instead to write in a notebook. She felt that students produced more thoughtful work that way, and were more in tuned with the writing process and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2010
While trying to keep my “tweet” under the character limit, I’m having all sorts of “revelations” about the way in which my communication techniques (ie word choices, sentence structure, etc) is affected by the medium I am using to communicate: twitter v. phone v. ichat v. text v. email v. email on iphone, etc etc […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2010
I am fascinated by apps. My newest one: the Dragon app–it lets you dictate your texts and emails to your iPhone. Here are the feelings I experienced while dictating my first message to my iPhone: awkward, frustrated, amazed and embarrassed. Why? Because in order for the app to understand me, I had to annunciate my […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2010
After reading a few articles about the future of journalism, I’m really wondering why the struggles of this industry have ignited such a drawn-out debate. What incentive does one have to BUY their news when they can access it for free, in real-time, online?? START CHARGING ME! Yes, I will, as people have for years […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2010
This morning, I was driving through the town of Middlebury, and a guy in a passing car yelled at me to get off my phone…while I was stopped at a stop sign. I mean, I could understand if he was frustrated at me for cutting him off while I was on my phone, but I […]
