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English 231 (Module 2 (Twenty Concepts in New Media (Mastering Memory…

- - - - Abby Rumsey
        
        Rumsey addresses the fact that we are not alone when we are active on the web. She says, “data can be accessed by intelligence agencies to trace our political affiliations, and network of friends and be exploited by rogue hackers for identity theft, or fraud.”
    - - Michael Patrick Lynch
        
        Google knowledge is what we learn from looking up information that other individuals have posted online. It very useful for us in this day and age, but we also need to be aware of the information being shared, and if we can actually rely on whether it is correct, or not.
    - - Alan Lightman
        
        Our reliance on technology continues to grow, and can potentially damage us in the future. Lightman says that the continuation of focusing on our devices will cause individuals to become disconnected from the world since we are limiting ourselves due to our technological use.
    - - Sherry Turkle
        
        Turkle informs the public of the dependence we are creating on our devices, and they are causing us to emotionally disconnect form the world.
- - - - Readings For Module 1
        
        Defining New Media Isn’t Easy: Bailey Socha, and Barbara Eber-Schmid
        
        Socha and Schmid looked up Wikipedia's definition of new media, and it said, "It is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century”
        
        To ensure that your information is safe online, Socha, and Eber-Schmid inform their audience members to simply not share information about yourself online, that you would not want others to know about you
        
        The medium is the message: Marshall McLuhan
        
        McLuhan had a lot of insight on what the generations to come would do to society, and how enhancing technology would change our views as we drift away from religion, and begin to focus on being materialistic.
        
        McLuhan is also known for The Tetrad. The Tetrad is a four-pronged approach people can use when considering the effects of media. These four prongs express question such as: What does it amplify, how does it flip when pushed, what does it bring back, and lastly, what doe it make obsolete?
      - New Media does not have a clear definition because it is constantly changing.
        
        Examples of New Media are online newspapers, blogs, and social media.
- - - - A theory that says a societies technology is what separates its social structure
        
        Benjamin Lee Whorf and Edward Sapir introduce “the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis” . It says this hypothesis says that, “our thinking is determined by language and people who speak different languages perceive and think about the world differently."
      - "The Gaze"
        
        Cinemotography
        
        Camera angles, colors, and other aspects that evoke emotion
        
        There are four types of gaze.
        
        1)Spectators gaze is the spectator who is viewing the material.
        
        2) Intra-diegetic gaze is whne one person is looking at another person or object.
        
        3) Extra-diegetic is when a character is looking at the viewer
        
        4) The camera gaze which is the gaze of the camera.
    - - Social shaping technology is influenced by two different theories, known as the actor-network theory, and social construction of technology.
    - - A movie set in the future where technology has advanced so much that a man falls in love with an IOS who can speak to him and show verbal affection.
- - - - Is Technology Making People Less Sociable?
        
        Larry Rosen, a research psychologist, feels that technology does not positively impact individuals because the time we put into making virtual friends, we are taking away from making actual connections with others, physically. Kevin Hampton, however disagrees with Rosen’s logic because he states that the new technology we have been introduced to does not make us less sociable which is why they debate over the topic of technology.
    - - Does the Internet Make You Smarter?
        
        Shirkey says that the internet is making you smarter. He feels that an enhancement in any form of technology makes people question if it is actually positive or not since we will always wonder if we are truly only benefiting from what we are using at the time.
        
        Does the Internet Make You Dumber?
        
        Carr feels that technology is a distraction. He thinks that we need to distance ourselves form technology to better our attention as it has been disrupted by technology.
        
        The Internet Isn't Making Us Dumber:It's making us Meta-Ignorant
        
        Poundstone expresses his thoughts by informing his audience that the internet is not making us dumber, but rather “meta-ignorant” since the technological advancements we have seen allow for laziness, and distractions to occur because we feel we no longer need to store as much information as before.
    - - Manoush Zomorodi
        
        The podcast, “Bored and Brilliant”, discusses the connection we create with our phone. We find free time and we want to fill it, and now we use our phone as the filler. We are no longer letting ourselves experience daydreaming, or boredom.
    - - A film explaining the creation of Facebook.
- - - - Augmented Reality
        
        Google Cardboard
        
        A virtual reality platform where individuals can place their phone in the cardboard, and experience virtual realty in different locations in the world.
        
        Snapchat glasses
        
        Glasses that have built in cameras to allow individuals to shoot videos that can be uploaded to snpachat.
        
        Second Life
        
        A virtual world where you can be someone else in a world that does not physically exist.
    - - James Gee
        
        A game is a set of problems that we must solve so we can win the game. Gaming relates to our education system in how we are assessed on our ability to evaluate material and accomplish a goal.
    - - Terry Flew
        
        Violence, and video games correlation to one another has been questioned for years and many have wondered if they actually do impact one another. Since so many people were curious about the connection, research on video games, and violent behavior sparked in the 1990s. After doing research, people started connecting different behaviors with the exposure of video games.
- - - - Fareed Zakaria
        
        “A Brief History of Liberal Education” by Zakaria explains the evolution of a liberal education. He discusses the changes in curriculum and how over time, the system has become what it is today.
    - - The Economist
        
        Higher education is being challenged by online universities because of the cost, and accessibility. It is much cheaper, and easier to "attend" an online school rather than paying a lot of money to attend a university.
    - - Derek Newton
        
        The article explains that entrepreneurs see higher education as “being unbundled on the internet-producing more choice and lower costs." Entrepreneurs want to see universities become obsolete so that they can continue profiting off of online schooling, but universities are not going anywhere, anytime soon.
    - - A memory bank is a collection of information from one specific event that has occurred.