7/21-8/5 Post 3: Burkitt Conclusion

What a great wrap up for this book! I like the way Burkitt concluded this book. It definitely gave me food for thought and further interest in this subject matter and an interest in researching it some more. All in all this book along with the other articles, has opened my eyes to the study of communication in terms of social media and new media. In my field of study, public relations, I have a better sense of what I need to do and should be looking for when working, writing/posting blogs and so on. This book also worked out perfectly ending right when the research project was due because it helped me write it. Not only that is helped me better prepare myself for it. All in all, Burkitt used great metaphors and examples to convey these important messages that can help society move forward.

7/30-8/5 Post 2: Discourse of Attention

How I love this article. My thoughts written down perfectly. I am so thankful that I grew up not watching television too much. I was outside mostly, taking trips with my parents, on play dates or at practice. Granted I wasn't reading, I was actively doing stuff that required a good portion of my attention. Gymnastics for instance, required 4 1/2 hours of my attention everyday. After that was homework which also had my attention for quite some time so there was never really time for television. But I didn't really read either. That did not increase my vocabulary which gave me problems later on. But especially with this class, I have been reading much more whether its web browsing or reading these blogs and it's helping me tremendously. Though it's in small segments, everything I read gets me thinking. I feel like television is a trend, and what is seen on TV can be the "hot topic" of the day and if you don't know what it is you're not cool. But now I believe that has transferred over to the Internet and multimedia. People have to keep up on much more than just shows to fit in. All in all, I think this article has truly helped me want to actually pick up a book, a good book.

7/30-8/5 Post 1: The World Wide Web

Another great flashback article of how something was created and the thought process behind it. It made me appreciate the Internet much more. This was written the year I was born and it's amazing to see how the Internet/world wide web has evolved. I remember in grade school having computer class and it had nothing to do with the Internet until 7th and 8th grades. I do believe that we all, especially the younger generations, take it all for granted. It's fascinating to see their predictions of the world wide web for the future. It is also a great article that shows detailed step by step explanation of how it works from a technical perspective of the backside of it all. When the article first spoke about URIs I thought they misspelled it because all I know is URLs. So I researched it and found they are a bit different but URL is also used to talk about URIs. The last thing I would like to mention is this quote, ""For example, the common URI syntax reserves the '/' as a way of representing a hierarchical space, and '?' as a separator between the address of an object and a query operation applied to it," (793). I finally know what they mean when I click or type in a link or web address!