Digital media has advanced tremendously and changed the way civic life operates. So much so that it is hard to imagine a life…
Digital media has allowed humans to stay connected and have access to almost everything easily and in their hands. Sometimes this ends up doing more harm than good. In our reading for Monday, one of the main ideas was attention structures. One of the main things we discussed was multitasking, which is…
For this week’s writer’s blog, I wanted to focus more on my Medium short feature assignment. I love the idea of this assignment because unfortunately our society and generation do not feel as though they are responsible for being aware of social issues. I think this assignment makes students look…
For this weeks writers blog I wanted to talk about the slides that we looked over in class on Monday and Friday. I found these really helpful for considering my feature story. I have not started writing yet but I think the powerpoints we were given really help to get a starting point. In Mondays…
My name is Alyssa and I am a student at High Point University. I am majoring in Political Science with a double minor in Legal Studies and Philosophy. Most of my writings discuss different things I have learned in class or talk about social issues. A lot of my blog posts highlight the importance of internet literacy and digital media.
Politics is not the most beloved topic of conversation among people in society. However, as politics only continue to…
This week we explored more into digital writing. Something that we talked about was multimodality. In Jones and Hafner chapter 4, they described this as “the practice of combining multiple modes and texts that are made up of a combination of modes in this way are called multimodal texts”. Along with…
This week we talked about a lot of interesting topics concerning digital media. One of the topics that stuck out to me was the conversation about Twitter and white supremacy. I think Twitter is one of the least strict social media apps out there. One of the aspects of this we discussed was filtering…
My biggest insecurity when it comes to writing is that I always think it’s bad. I constantly think my writing sounds horrible and anyone who reads it is going to think I’m illiterate. To improve this area, I think I need to learn how to stop being so overly critical of myself but remember that…