In class, we’ve been talking a lot about how technology has impacted our daily lives. I don’t think a greater example exists in today’s culture than Apple. Their innovative products have been altering their technological industry for years and their brand has become synonymous with terms like convenience and accessibility. I think it is fascinating [...]
In the readings by Slack and Wise in regards to the development of technological culture, it explains the evolution of technological culture throughout human history, from when humans first existed to the modern day digital world we experience today. We must recognize technology as a human made entity, designed to ease and facilitate the daily [...]
I think one of the most interesting things about popular culture is the ability we have to recognize pop culture items and the way we continuously recycle them through references and parodies. Saturday Night Live is probably the best example of this happening. Most of us have seen the numerous SNL skits poking fun at [...]
After discussing various publics and specifically the publics at work around the Smithsonian/Wojnarowicz controversy, I could not stop thinking about the use and effects of public memory within specific publics. In the introduction to Rhetoric/Memory/Place, Carole Blair, Greg Dickinson, and Brian L. Ott refer to public memory as a powerful rhetorical device consisting of a [...]
After concentrating solely on specific time and place conjunctures, it was difficult for me to switch gears and look at the bigger picture. Globalization in and of itself has usually bored me. It’s not that I don’t care about the world, I do, but the abstraction of the word and all of its components tends [...]
“Putting things to good use that others have discarded as broken is what we do,” I read. I glanced over my shoulder at the rusty shovel with a splintered handle leaning up against the broken chair in the corner of my room. I am saving them for repurposing. Other found objects have already been repurposed: [...]
“His image in the blue plate faded. ‘Kuno!’ He had isolated himself. For a moment Vashti felt lonely” (4). For a moment she felt lonely, and then she turned back to her buttons in her small, isolated room, and all was well again. Several elements of “The Machine Stops” fascinated me, one of which being [...]
Let me just start off by saying that I was in utter shock while watching these videos. I was literally cringing the entire time I was watching them. I had no idea what popular music has come to these days. Before I watched the video I was expecting to see the typical motifs like the [...]
Blog Post #1 First, I must say that Becks was right when she mentioned that the first couple readings would be pretty dry (OMG… like Usher) they were pretty hard to work through but thankfully, they were mirrored in class for the most part. The first reading we were asked to unpack was the Cultural [...]
