Category Archives: Forum
Digital Text
The future of writing and reading seems to be on the edge of a line. On the one side, everything is digitized, and on the other is the traditional print. Society seems to want to place these two futures at …
The written word never dies, only changes
From our reading, I’m quite surprised at the doomsday prophecies people seem to have concerning print media. Granted, I myself am a voracious reader so my view is probably quite skewed, but to me print media is not at all …
Post 2
We are seeing how the internet and word processing has affected general cognition in terms or reading and writing. Although one may struggle to adapt to create and process information, the creative drive will always be present. The danger of …
First Blog on Humanities
As we move forward with technology and the advancment of access to information I believe that it is inevitable that the Humanities department will be forever changed. Our society’s technology has pushed the younger generation towards new channels of information …
Where ever we are going We are already there
The way our society is moving it seems clear that we are going towards becoming digital ourselves. This isn’t to say that I believe in Gibson’s idea of having digital information stored into our heads, however, it seems clear our …
Cyborgs: Post # 2
While watching the video “Sixth Sense Technology” by Pranav
Mistry, I was shocked. My mouth was left open. I was in complete denial that
something like what was discussed in the video could exist. I began to discuss
what I …
Of Man and Machine
Digital technology has become a major factor in the way texts are read. Through digitized texts, works are able to be manipulated, edited, and accessed from any location that has Wi-Fi. It only takes one look at popular social media …
Blurring the Lines
In his article “Faux Friendship,” William Deresiewicz makes this frighteningly plausible argument: “We have given our hearts to machines, and now we are turning into machines” (12). The notion that technology is making us more like machines than human beings …
Best of Both Worlds
As an aspiring teacher, I constantly read about the importance of learning how to read and write in a child’s early years. Although the structures of reading and writing are perfected slowly as kids get older, the vitality of opening …