Evolution of Music in a Decade: Downloading to Streaming

Web Evolution Assignment

I chose to look at the evolution of People Magazine’s website whose earliest archive dates back to December 5, 1998. On this day, their website doesn’t have many pictures or images at all besides two small images towards the bottom. The page is very simple with not a lot of…

Buzzfeed is all the hype now. You see it literally everywhere, from on your Facebook feed, to Youtube or your Twitter. They’ve managed to become a viable news source, as well as have hours of mindless content to keep you from being bored in classes where you should really be paying attention.

Programming as a Form of Empowerment

I have never considered myself a “tech person,” and it wasn’t until taking this class that I realized how much of a limitation that self-assigned label is. In this day and age, we are constantly using media. According to Manovich, software has become a layer that…

Finding the You in YouTube

In it’s humble beginnings back in 2005, YouTube literally looked like a blank canvas.

INTERFACES: REPLACING FACE TO FACE COMMUNICATION?

Technological advancements are made everyday. We live in a world where constant interaction with technology is not only expected, it’s required. Education relies heavily on technology, employers and employees cannot do their jobs without…

Behind the Screen- Command Line Interface

As technology continues to evolve, so does the required skill level of those who use it. With the recent upward shift in user-friendly applications and systems, a greater number of people are able to complete complex tasks with little to no knowledge about…

Working With Interfaces: Understanding What’s Behind the Screen

There is no doubt in my mind that first month of COMM 200 has taught me more about working with computers than any “technology” class ever has. I thought I had a good understanding of computers, but it was only a…

The Evolution of The Hollywood Reporter

As the 1990s progressed, the development of the Internet enabled consumers to get news, entertainment and information on-demand. The inner workings of Hollywood remained a mystery to the general population (unless they worked there), until the rise of trade…

WEB DESIGN: EVERCHANGING

I’ve chosen to trace the history of my alma mater’s website. Though I attended Brownell-Talbot School in Omaha, NE for 14 years, the design of the website never changed for me, at least while I was using it. The website was altered multiple times throughout my time at BT, but for the…

Comments to Computing Interfaces

“Software is our interface to the world.”— Lev Manovich, <Software Takes Command>

In contemporary society, people’s lives always involved with technologies, and laptops and smartphones are mostly often used. Now, those machines can be the…

Failing to Take Command with Command-Line Interface

We live in a world of not bothering. All we have to do is Google search what we are looking for and hope it gives us the answer. We only pay attention to the visible part of software and ignore what is happening in the background. However…

All But The Tip of the Iceberg

Computers, as available today, excuse users from knowing anything but the very superficial functions of their machines. In order to be a consumer of technology, one does not need to understand the very complex features that work together to make those utilities possible, and…