I really enjoyed reading this article by Jean Twenge. It was extremely interesting to me because she is talking about my generation, and I could relate to a lot of the points that she was bringing up. One of the claims Twenge made was that smartphones and what they bring, such as social media, are … [Read more…]
“Anyone in limelight must regularly navigate disconnected social contexts simultaneously, balancing what they say with how their diverse audiences might interpret their actions.” (31) “When teens face a collapsing context in physical environments, their natural response is to become quiet… sudden appearance of someone with social authority changes the context entirely.” (33) “I … [Read more…]
R.I.P to 11 year old Mary Toman, who lied about her birth year in order to legally be able to have a Facebook account. Thank you for all the good times. Your “Like this for a truth is and rate!” statuses will be greatly missed by many.
In Sherrie Turkle’s TED talk Connected, but Alone?, she claims a lot about how she feels about technology and what she believes that it is doing to us as humans and as individuals interacting with one another. The main idea of Turkle’s TED talk was that we, as individuals and as a group, are letting technology … [Read more…]
As a writer, I have always had the habit of using run-on sentences or putting commas where they don’t belong. After reading The Little Seagull‘s tips on comma splices and fused sentences, I got some really helpful advice. For example, I didn’t realize that comma splices, which I use a lot, are often seen as … [Read more…]
I will most likely use iMovie as my way to do my digital piece to my literary narrative. I have had a lot of experience with iMovie throughout middle school and high school because it was automatically installed on the MacBook laptops and I would always play around with it. For my digital project, I … [Read more…]
After re-reading Sherman Alexie’s article Superman and Me, I picked up on some of his narrative elements that he used in his writing in order to keep his readers locked in and also to make his writing better. One of the methods I noticed was that he uses imagery. When talking about how he was … [Read more…]
