Digital Media Culture

Stop Dave, I'm Afraid

2009-09-08T01:38:00.000-04:00

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Is Google Making Us Stupid !

2009-09-08T00:21:00.000-04:00

Eric Carr makes the argument that the internet has changed the way we access and internalize information. In essence, by reducing reflective, open-time with texts, the long, deep reading that produces independent, critical thinking and free association is now gone as we are reduced to mere "decoders of information"hopping from link to link, using search engine results as our guides and algorithms as our strategies.

In your own opinion, describe our (human) relation to computers. Moreover, has the computer augmented or stifled our senses ? Finally, how do you predict we will use the computer in the future–what type of culture will emerge from this relationship ?

Post your responses here.

Welcome Fall Art 108 Digital Media Culture Students !

2009-09-01T17:41:00.000-04:00

Hello Art 108 Student !

This fall semester, we will be using Blogger to hold conversations about in-class (and out-of-class) topics and experiences. The Digital Media Culture blog here will be used for starting threads which you will respond and comment on.

Each student must sign up for their own Blogger account as well (we'll do this the first week) and we'll link to your own blogs through the course blog.

Happy blogging !

Ken