WRT 205 Blog

I have posed my questions to my 3 roommates; Rachel, Liv, and Julia, and this is how they evaluated my questions.  1. Is social media and alternative journalism helping or hurting the journalism/news industry? Rachel: "I like this question because most things technology based revolves around social media, but this poses a completely different way that technology can affect an industry." Julia: "This is an interesting thought, I am not sure how it would affect something like that." Liv: "Being in Newhouse and taking a lot of journalism classes, I would say it has a huge affect on the industry because it can be a good source and people use it for good reasons, but it can also lead to rumors and news that is fake." 2. Is face to face communication depleting in society and how is that affecting human relationships? Rachel: "I want to be a counselor/therapist when I graduate, and technology is having a huge affect on and straining a lot of rel...

From the unit 1 assignment, I feel that the sources that I chose accurately represent what I want to speak about as the units go on and this forms into a paper. I am choosing the focus my ideas on how technology has influenced and changed the way we communicate in society, how it has changed journalism and provided a second source called alternate journalism, and how social media has and is going to affect our generations and younger generations self image. I feel that the quality of the sources I have chosen are very good and well written. I have sources that range from news articles to scholarly articles with different facts, statistics, and study cases. The first source that I have is From Pencils to Pixels by Dennis Baron, and I think it is a very in depth and good source about how not only technology has influenced writing, but also has influenced communication. Baron states that the advancements that were made with the computer make humanists mad, but other advancements of ...

1. From Pencils to Pixels by Dennis Baron- http://www.english.illinois.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/essays/pencils.htm Baron started his article off with the idea that the computer is going to change literacy and writing, for better or for worse. This comes with going from the innovation of the typewriter, and then going all the way to the invention of the computer and the "world wide web".   Baron also admits his positivism and reliance on computers, and how it has changed his own writing for the past 15 years. " I readily admit my dependence on the new technology of writing. Once, called away to a meeting whose substance did not command my unalloyed attention, I began drafting on my conference pad a memo I needed to get out to my staff by lunchtime. I found that I had become so used to composing virtual prose at the keyboard I could no longer draft anything coherent directly onto a piece of paper. It wasn’t so much that I couldn’t think of the words, but the physic...

Free Write on 1/30/18-- Text video about child. "We just watched a film on texts and how these 2 people met and ended up having an unplanned baby, and the father leaves. this really resonated with me because my father also abandoned my mom and I when I was very young, so I can really relate to the situation. It is upsetting seeing that that child is going to have to grow up without a father. Being almost 20, the absence of my father still affects me in my day to day life, and knowing that this child is going to have the same confusion and heartbreak and questions I had is disturbing. even though it still affects me, I have come to terms with what has happened in my life, and hopefully this child will too.  " The reason I chose this to include in my unit 1 assignment is because this is one of the first things that I have ever seen in a class setting that really resonates with my own life. My father, being absent since I was about 4 or 5, has been changed a lot in my life, ...

4th Annotation The Impact of Technology on Journalism by John Pavlik -  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14616700050028226?needAccess=true This source I found on google by searching the phrase "influence technology communication" in the scholarly articles search. This article talks about how journalism has changed since the times of Julius Caesar. to now, where our society is defined by technology. "This article proposes that technological change influences journalism in at least four ways. Technological change affects: (1) the way journalists do their job; (2) the nature of news content; (3) the structure and organization of the newsroom and the news industry; and (4) the nature of the relationships between and among news organizations, journalists and their many public's, including audiences, competitors, news sources, sponsors and those who seek to regulate or control the press." (Pavlik, 1) This article also states how technology has change...

3 Curated Sources Analyzed 1. From Pencils to Pixels by Dennis Baron-  http://www.english.illinois.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/essays/pencils.htm Baron started his article off with the idea that the computer is going to change literacy and writing, for better or for worse. This comes with going from the innovation of the typewriter, and then going all the way to the invention of the computer and the "world wide web".    Baron also admits his positivism and reliance on computers, and how it has changed his own writing for the past 15 years.  " I readily admit my dependence on the new technology of writing. Once, called away to a meeting whose substance did not command my unalloyed attention, I began drafting on my conference pad a memo I needed to get out to my staff by lunchtime. I found that I had become so used to composing virtual prose at the keyboard I could no longer draft anything coherent directly onto a piece of paper. It wasn’t so much that I couldn’...

In the array of vast quizzes and surveys that are available on the internet, I chose to take one from a website called Buzzfeed, which is notorious for having fun and interesting personality quizzes. They range from quizzes on your horoscopes and personality, to crazy quizzes such as "Which shoes predict what kind of tacos you like". The survey that I decided to take was “We Know Which Cast Member from ‘Jersey Shore’ You Are”. It was more of a fun quiz, and my friends and I being a fan of this show, it was very entertaining to take. It had funny options that related to the show, and it was not very long. It made references to the show such as their shore house and sayings that they had such as “G.T.L” which stands for gym, tan, laundry, which they assumed as a lifestyle. The results that I got was that I was the most similar to Jenny, also known as JWOWW. I also had a couple of my friends take it, and they all had a variety of the different cast members. The answers wer...