David Goggins: A Brand

As a former Navy Seal and Army Ranger, David Goggins is the epitome of a strong-minded, hard-body individual. Following…

Midterm Essay Instructions

Overview

For your midterm you will write a longer post (at least 2000 words) on Medium about the keyword you chose at the start of the semester.

Using the essay from Peters’ Digital Keywords (2016) as a starting point, you…

Reese Witherspoon and Online Identities

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Surveillance Capitalism, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence

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Portfolio Assignment #3

This week’s readings about digital media and the public sphere explain a lot about the issues that we are currently facing within the online world. The various terms explored within Simon Lindgren’s text on cyber debates, ranging from technological determinism to peer production are…

Portfolio #5: Online Identity

Any Taylor Swift fan can recognize and remember her Instagram habits. She always includes subtle hints or…

Portfolio Assignment #2

MEME

Within Limor Shifman’s essay about the concept of a meme, they go on to discuss its origins and applications within both the offline and online world alongside contemplating the way in which the term has evolved over the last few decades to obtain a new meaning. Shifman…

Digital Media and the Public Sphere

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The Digital Public Sphere

On a broad scale, a public sphere is a place for people to come together to freely share and discuss societal problems, typically pertaining to politics and authority. Christian Fuchs claims that a public sphere requires a “…media for information and communication and access by all…

Portfolio Assignment 5: It’s an Influencer’s World