Thursday, September 29, 2016
Writing views from a Bio Major - Eric Calderon
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzNwH5Ghy1AmT0lUVjhFUmQtUkVHckRuc19ZY1NqZjlXMEFV/view?usp=sharing
Journal 4- mia batansky
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Journal 4 Talia Colarusso
Dad Video 1:
https://youtu.be/Niir-LL6K44
Stacy and Lauren Video 2:
https://youtu.be/4cHolD0NLdw
https://youtu.be/Niir-LL6K44
Stacy and Lauren Video 2:
https://youtu.be/4cHolD0NLdw
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Journal Reflection #4 - Shannon Herlihy
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0f95wA_iYa-WlEydDFBcng5TXc
My audio recording is in the .wav format, so it will not play automatically. However, I have tested it, and the recording plays easily after downloading the file.
My audio recording is in the .wav format, so it will not play automatically. However, I have tested it, and the recording plays easily after downloading the file.
JR #4 Violet Soliz
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwLWeRQtRh4bS2ZISFp5NElpblB4R3ZzYWY1Zm5VZTd0MzM4/view?usp=sharing
Monday, September 26, 2016
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Journal 3 - Terres, Andrea
Social media is our generation's best form of circulation, it just also happens to be a technology. Movements the use to rely on protest and occupations but today we have so many tools at our disposal. Movements that go "viral" get the most attention because they get coverage on television. The relationship between circulation, writing,and technology is important to translate a point and to make it successful.
For example in the Adbusters posters had a hashtag that could be used for social media. Hashtags are a way to synchronize Facebook posts, Twitter posts, and more social Mideast outlets. Supporters can use social media to post their support for the cause by using the hashtag and through that hashtag you can see other people who support the same cause, that is circulation. Sharing the post allows the cause to circulate and the writing then becomes public and can be disbursed to other outlets. Newspapers, and TV news can pick up a popular shared idea and give it more exporse.
Technologies that allow people to connect or to make lives easier are used more know. In class we use a blog to post our thoughts on readings and discussions and it's easier for our teacher to have all our ideas in one place. This is a great example for using technology and writing.
All three work in helping each other with communication. We write and use technology as a source of circulating our writing.
Journal #3-- Erica Timmons
Writing, technology, and circulation are all related and one can not exist without the other. Technology is needed in order to write, this doesn't just include laptops or smartphones, pen and paper are also technological advances considering cavemen used to carve into stone in order to write. Technology is also needed in order for circulation to exist because there was no way to circulate news until the printing press was invented and now we even have social media and the Internet to circulate news even faster. These are just some examples of how these three terms work together. Jolly uses the example of the Women's Peace Movement to show that all of these are needed in order for effective communication to occur. The women used letters in order to unite and inform a large group of people. Once that happened, their ideas began to circulate. While Jolly used the example of writing, Penny and Dadas use the example of technology. They talked about how the Occupy Wall Street movement was able to circulate quickly through the use of Twitter. The believed this was an effective way of circulating their ideas because they needed to be concise (Twitter only allows for 140 character posts). Jolly would say that letters are a more personalized way of circulating an idea and I would have to agree with her. As opposed to posting something on social media or a large online forum, a letter may have generic information but it is calling out the person in a way. However, it is easier circulate information online due to the fact that distance or physical barriers are not an issue. Traditional writing and writing online circulate differently. Sometimes writing a letter will circulate through word of mouth. One might read something and share what they read through verbal communication. The same is true about writing online but with the example of Twitter, a post can be retweeted by anyone who manages to see the post which can cause for it to spread virally. Being that we live in a digital age it is definitely easier to spread things via the Internet rather than in a written letter or post. Things just manage to get around faster if they're on the Internet.
Journal #3 - Jack Quinn
Jack Quinn
20 September
2016
Journal #3
Over time, humans have developed a
vast array of knowledge. From the early beginnings of our species until the
present day people have been collecting and contributing to our ever growing
collection of information. The last decade alone has seen human beings produce
a litany of texts and resources that may one day be vital to the education of
later generations.
Writing, technology, and circulation
are to thank for this wealth of information. The relationship of these three
concepts is important to understand as they are directly responsible for the
development human societies have seen over the past several thousand years.
Writing, technology, and circulation
are closely linked. Writing refers to the actual content created by an author.
The way these authors create this content however, is closely linked to
technology.
Technology is defined as: “the
application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in
industry”. Major advancements in technology have allowed writers to express their
ideas and information in new and improved ways. The first example of this was
paper. By today’s standards paper is not something to come to mind in terms of
technology, but this was a major milestone in the development of the written
word. With paper also comes the first major examples of circulation. Circulation
refers to the public exposure or access something has. With paper information
could be consumed an unlimited amount of times. Before paper writing could only
be recounted orally, and only as many times as an orator deemed fit.
This trend of a major technological advancements
followed by changes in circulation and brand new tools for writing has been
seen countless times through history. The most recent of which has been the
advent of computer and the world wide web. These advancements have led to a
world more connected than ever before, with ideas being spread across seas
almost instantly. Things have changed quite a bit from the early days of paper,
and the question is where will we go next. However, one thing stays the same.
Writing, technology, and circulation are closely related as they work together
to spread ideas and information.
JR #3: Violet Soliz
Writing, technology, & circulation all go hand in hand.
One of the main purposes of writing is to communicate, and communicating is a
form of circulating information. Electronic technology, for the purpose of this
reflection, shares many different forms of writing, such as online newspapers
or Facebook statuses, and social media helps the writings to circulate.
Writing itself can be classified as a technology. Technology
can be defined as a means of creating, especially in the creation of knowledge.
In this sense writing is technology because writing is used by authors to
create knowledge, engaging the brain of the reader to analyze, respond, and
question said knowledge, similar to how technology engages its users through
physical manipulation to complete a task. Writing could also be said to physically
manipulate because to read you use your cerebrum, or you manipulate your
cerebrum to do the task, in this case reading texts across various mediums.
Writing communicates via electronic technology over many
mediums. Television broadcasts, the Internet, apps on a cell phone: what they
all have in common is that they’re all an electronic technology that display
writing in one form or another and then is shared to the public. This sharing
to the public is circulation, and is how writing reaches a large audience to
inspire or lead to something more, something like a social movement. This process
is circular and therefore never ending: when one is inspired by a text they
create their own text as a contribution, and this then circulates and someone
else gets inspired, and so forth A prime example of this is the
#blacklivesmatter social movement, that while in reality began centuries ago, the
use of technology, in this case a smartphone that allowed the Twitter app, allowed
the hashtag to circulate and consequently become a widely known topic. To
continue with the concept of Twitter, the social media app uses tweets as a
form of writing. This clearly requires technology because one has to have
access to a smartphone or computer to be able to tweet. Once a tweet is “tweeted”,
it has the ability to be “liked” and/or “retweeted” by other Twitter users.
This form of circulation via technology allows the tweeted text to be
circulated quickly and efficiently, reaching many audiences.
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Journal #3
Writing, technology, and circulation can all not exist without the continuation of one another. To write, technology must be utilized for the simple act (be it a pencil or keyboard) and circulation is required for the writing to reach an audience. Technology exists and develops because instructions, studies, and the like are all written and circulated amongst users and developers. Circulation requires a medium in need of transport (writing) and uses technology for this travel.
As all of these concepts coordinate and coexist, they also develop simultaneously. Technology is what will typically lead this development. When a new form of technology is introduced, it expands circulation and provides a new media for writing. This allows the platform to reach a larger audience, thus expanding the target goal of the writer. In addition to technology as the main tripod, increased circulation often allows the writer to use their skill more often and usually brings them access to better technology, and increased writing I would say leads to more circulation and a greater interest for new technologies geared towards this trade.
Additionally, the purposeful regression of this triage will often lend a great significance to the message being offered. Hand-writing a letter and sending it through the mail is going to seem more effortful, and thereby more genuine, than using Snapchat. We mail graduation announcements, thank you notes, and holiday cards not just for formality and tradition, but for the fact that it makes it seem like we might really care.
House of Cards is a great example of this. After a fallout with the president, VP Frank Underwood uses a typewriter (archaic technology) to send a letter by page/bodyguard (decreased speed of circulation), with the letter discussing a boyhood tale (personal writing vs quick note). The president is more easily swayed by this gesture; although he has been ignoring phone calls and emails, the sheer effort of a letter is enough to make him pause and reconsider the situations.
I suppose rather than it being regression, it is effort that has a greater significance. Taking additional time instead of utilizing the simplifying triumvirate means that the intended audience might actually mean something to you, because you are devoting 60 seconds to 1 message instead of 1 minute to 60 messages.
Journal 3
Over time, people have created a million and one different
types of technology for writing. And these technologies have crucially affected
the way writers can circulate what they aim to share with the world. For
example, fifty years ago a journalist would publish an article in a newspaper
that might only reach its local audience. Today, that newspaper publishes an
article on its website and it has the potential to reach millions of readers;
whoever is on the Internet has the ability to find and read the article. It
might reach readers the author didn’t intend for it to.
Because of the depth of the possibility of circulation the
Internet provides, writers must be weary of the potential consequences of
having such a wide audience. Someone using the technology of Twitter (without
putting the account on private) might not be aware his or her writing can
circulate to a potential employer, for example, and write something that would
deem him or her not eligible for employment. Penney and Dadas write about how
large an effect Twitter had on the Occupy Wall Street movement—people from all
over the country flew to New York to be a part of this movement that they may
never had heard about if it weren’t for Twitter or other elements of social
media. It’s interesting to note that as time goes on, social media sites like
Facebook are doing much more to make users aware of their audience, or of their
privacy settings. People have lost their jobs over posting their opinions on
Facebook because they weren’t aware of whom it would circulate to…and this is a
consequence of people not understanding every facet of a new technology.
I think that as technology continues to advance, people must
aim to make themselves more aware of the consequences of using it. People can
use modern digital technology to write and find people to empathize or connect
with, but it can also create harsh divides among people who see opinions of
others they might not have sought out to begin with. The Internet is forever
and nothing can ever really leave cyberspace. So while it’s great that opinions
can be shared on such a vast level, the consequences of this must be kept in
mind.
Journal 3 - Lizzy Sellers
Much of society today is dependent upon sharing ideas and
beliefs to connect to each other and the world. Writing, technology, and circulation
all share the same purpose of spreading knowledge to others, and it is easy to
connect their influences to one another. One example of the relationship
between the three as a whole is an e-reader. Amazon released the Kindle that
has revolutionized the process of daily reading. The Kindle makes writings such
as books and magazines accessible to more people through new, sleek technology.
One downside to this is that e-readers are expensive, and this could make this
outlet of information a little less accessible than a person’s ability to
obtain books from somewhere like a library for free. In this sense,
circulation, technology, and writing are all still in play. The technology of
the alphabet alone is in itself a feat of technology, and the library itself is
the form of circulation of writings like books, newspapers, and magazines.
Books are shared between people and returned to be recirculated to other people
as they desire to check them out.
Each of these three terms are directly influenced by the
other two as well, not just as a big picture. Individually, they all can be
seen in different examples of outlets in which the three terms come into play. Technology
is influenced by writing and circulation, for example, through social media
outlets that digitize the transfer of thoughts disguised as shared albums,
status updates, cute cat videos, and tweets. Writing is influenced by
technology and circulation, for example, through translator applications and computer
software that allow for the expansion of thoughts, ideas, and beliefs to people
of a whole different culture and language to effectively break the language barrier
and allow writings to become inclusive to all people. Circulation is influenced
by technology and writing, for example, through the example I used earlier: electronic books and e-readers
such as a Kindle. They allow much easier access to books and magazines from all
over without having to obtain the physical copy of the writings.
Journal 3 -- Chris D'Avanzo
Writing, technology, and circulation are all intertwined in
some capacity. The desire for people to connect to one-another is something
that has existed as long as humanity itself has, and the creation of writing
and new technologies, and the circulation of writing as a result, has allowed
for those connections to take place.
It can be argued that writing is a
direct byproduct of technology. Technology is more than just the computer or
tablet or smartphone that people use in their everyday lives. Technology can
mean any invention, whether tangible or otherwise, that changes the way that
people live in some capacity. In class last Thursday, the point was made that
writing itself—more precisely, the creation of an alphabet—was and is a form of
technology. Written language isn’t inherent and there is no universal means of
communication beyond slight aural and movement based cues. The mere act of
writing is, in and of itself, a product of technology and could not exist if not
for the invention of certain key elements. The alphabet was the first, but
other critical elements such as a paper and ink, the printing press, and more
modern inventions such as word processors and the Internet, have allowed
writing to develop into a means of communication now essential to society and humanity
as a whole.
However, writing in a vacuum has
little value. Written words find their meaning through the eyes of the people
that read them. Writing now, more than any other time in human history, has the
ability to reach the eyes of anyone who wants to see it. The technological
advancements of the 20th and 21st centuries have made it
so that information, opinions, and other text can be accessed by billions of
people worldwide. This unprecedented level of circulation means that more
people can connect with each other, learn new information perhaps previously unavailable
to them and understand the world and the people within it better. Much like
with writing itself, circulation on the macro scale is a direct byproduct of
the technological achievements such as those computers, smartphones, and
tablets mentioned earlier. It would be reasonable to assume that as time progresses and moves forward, as the ability for more people to access the technology that allows these things to be possible, circulation will continue to increase. More writing will become available. The scope of human interaction will continue to unrivaled by any other time in our species history. That is a special relationship, and one that is exciting to see.
Journal 3 - Janecia Britt
Well in the simplest way of saying technology has created a
quicker way to circulate writing. Social media is a prime example of this idea
of quick or swift circulation. As said in the OWS article. “ The brevity of twitter messages-
limited to 140 characters- almost seems to be purposefully designed for quick
circulation.” and that authors using these mediums are rhetorically savvy about
how they can draw in their audience with just a few words, using the brevity to
their advantage, anticipating future considerations of distribution. You could argue writing loses value
without circulation. It poses the question: What value does writing have if not
shared or circulated?
Without modern technology movements are slow to form and
evolve. The Women’s Peace Movement
relied on postcards, banners and T-shirts. Using a typewriter to type out
letters. Imagine what their movement could have been if they had Instagram? Or
even just Facebook. But without
circulation writing can be more intimate, this also a notion that accompanies a
lack of technology. Without technology there is privacy, because as we no
nothing is private on the Internet.
The Women’s Peace Movement when speaking about their newsletter
mentioned this a bit “On one
level, this showed that the community was a small one. On another, the motif of
the personal address emphasized intimacy and respect as an aspiration no matter
how far-flung its readership.”
The movement then advanced to chain letters, which increased
their circulation. It was the first means of circulation that included
self-participation. And isn’t that what technology is about? Man and innovation interacting? Even though this new technology of chain letters is far from the
type of social interaction we have today, it is for sure a rhetorical savvyness like mentioned earlier. They anticipated the circulation of these letters and by
giving women a way to participate they created a social web of letters. Which as
I posed earlier, isn’t that what writing is about? All the technological advances
in writing have been more or less for the cause of circulation. The printing
press, the computer, social media. We want words to spread far and wide; we
want ideas to be accessible to everyone. What value can we place on writing if it isn’t accessible? If
it can’t be circulated?
Journal Reflection 3 - Shannon Herlihy
Writing,
technology, and circulation are all directly connected by a common goal: To
produce, share, and spread information far and wide. The conventional sense of “technology”
may suggest for people to consider more modern ideas, specifically in the
digital realm, like computers, tablets, cell phones, etc., but in all
actuality, writing can just as easily be considered a form of technology.
Humanity progressed through the original form of communication – oral speech–
to a more advanced form of intelligent conversation – written language. Without
the discovery and invention of specific writing tools and utensils, the
technology of writing itself would have never come to exist. While we should
consider writing as a form of tech, we should also recognize its uniqueness in its
integration with other types of technologies. Writing exists in many forms –
cave drawings, record keeping, handwriting, print, etc. – and is now accepted
as an essential aspect to digital technologies as well. In the modern age, it
is likely close to impossible to encounter any form of computer or laptop that doesn’t feature some form of word
processing system. Furthermore, we cannot avoid the use of writing in almost
all internet applications.
Circulation,
while not considered a technology, is a critical aspect of the sharing of
information. This is an undeniable fact of our modern world, especially in
regards to the power of social media sites. Information (and writing) is
circulated at faster rates than ever before through the use of the internet. Regardless
of our modern technology, circulation has always been an integral aspect to the
spreading of information. In her academic essay entitled, “We are the Web,”
Margaretta Jolly discusses the importance of the circulation of letters to the
Women’s Peace Movement of the 1980s. The letters were essential for the sharing
of information regarding the major movement.
Altogether,
writing, technology, and circulation should not be analyzed as entirely
separate components when discussing the overall ideas of information and
communication amongst a large group of people. Writing, without the help of
circulation, would generally remain unseen or unaffected by the masses it is
usually attempting to reach.
Journal #4 - Eric Calderon
I
feel that the biggest relationship between writing, technology, and circulation
that they differentiate through different time periods. Usually, if you need a
specific piece of writing to be disbursed to the people of the world, you need
to rely on popular forms of technology. If you're trying to do it in the most
effective way possible, you have to be up to date with the most accessible and
popular form of technology, similar to the way Jolly, Penny and Dadas did in different
time periods. Especially in today's social media influenced society, where
videos, pictures, and even pieces of writing can be circulated millions of
times within days, it makes it that much more important for people to realize
that what they set out into cyber space can be spread and analyzed faster than
ever before. This can be both good and bad.
A
more recent example of this is when several videos that demonstrated police
brutality, specifically within inner cities, went viral. I remember seeing
these same videos being shared by people that I follow on twitter, and people
that I’m friends with on Facebook. Along with the videos being rapidly spread
throughout different types of social media, opinions on these videos were also
being stated by different through status updates, and also videos. This also
enabled writers to go and write articles to either state an opinion on this
subject, or even call to promote a change that is needed within the United
States. Which is what was explained in “(Re) Tweeting in the service of
protest: Digital composition and circulation in the Occupy Wall Street movement”
how the emergence of social media, specifically Twitter, can help escalate a
specific movement. Although they argue that single tweets won’t necessarily
change the movement, it’s the dialogue that is created through these 140
characters that help create quick circulation throughout the internet.
Throughout
generations, there has been a substantial advance in how writing can be
advanced throughout technology, which can increase the level of circulation of
a specific piece of writing, whether it’s a lengthy news article that is
attempting to take a stance that promotes change for a certain cause, or if it’s
a 140 character tweet, new advances in technology have significantly altered
the way we, the public, can see and receive writing through technology.
Journal 3 - Dakota Helbig
To analyze the relationship between writing, technology, and
circulation it would be important to look at the relationship each individual
concept has with the others. Writing, for example, can be looked at as a
combination of the concepts of general communication and technology (written
alphabet). Circulation involves a degree of reproducibility so that the idea
being spread can move beyond the original instance of the idea; this doesn’t
necessarily mean a reliance on technology but technology has improved the
capability of reproduction, especially for texts. Technology has circulation as
a core concept but in a different way. Technology has circulation as an end
goal as it relies on people adopting new technologies in order to succeed. As
such, many innovations and new technologies are designed around the idea of
being easy to circulate or easy to adopt. Writing relates to circulation fairly
naturally, a written text is only useful if the target audience has access to
it and therefore is paired with the idea of circulation. Now that individual
relationships between these three concepts have been established it’s easier to
look at them together. They work as a cycle that can move in any pattern
between its three steps. Writing can influence technology which can influence
circulation, circulation can influence technology which can influence writing,
technology can influence writing which can influence circulation, etc. To see
examples of this we can look at newspapers and their history. The first
recorded history of a newspaper is in Germany during the 1400 which existed as
circulated pamphlet. The invention of the printing press in 1440, also in
Germany, improved greatly on the concept of circulation as a newspaper could
now be mass produced exactly the same much faster and much more efficiently. As
technology continued to improve circulation increased as well as how much
writing could be in a newspaper. Look to the mid-1900s and we see mass
produced, multi-page newspapers being circulated across the continental United
States on a daily basis. The invention of television and the subsequent
widespread adoption of the technology loosened the newspaper’s hold as the
dominant source of information for the public but it wasn’t until the invention
and widespread adoption of the internet that newspapers were forced to innovate
to survive. Newspapers began to move online to compete with the instantaneous
transmission of online content. This cycle has each concept of this complex
relationship influencing various changes and innovations on the real world
text.
Journal #3 - Megan Quinn
Especially
true to modernity, writing, technology, and circulation are intricately linked
together to accomplish a goal: to get a message out. Circulation can be any
platform a text is presented on. The advancement of technology has changed
circulation from newspapers and TV to a more prominent online presence with the
utilization of social media tools, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The
purpose of writing has hardly changed; it desires to convey a message, to sway
an audience into thinking or feeling in a way that suits the author. The
articles by Jolly and Penny and Dadas are examples of two social movements, in
different time periods, using distinct substrates. These are but two showings
of how social movements employed writing to get their concerns out to the
greater public. Writing, technology, and circulation were put to use in
combination to rabble-rouse American colonists to support independence from
Great Britain, as well as supporting abolition for slavery in the next century.
Social movements are not a unique concept. It is the means with which the
movement spreads that has evolved.
Social
media has taken on a life of its own in the realm of circulating messages.
Information can be rapidly disseminated to people nationally and globally, and
there is an immediate response. Before the Internet, people relied on newspapers,
TVs, and magazines to learn the happenings of the world; before mass circulation,
it took even longer to dispense news and drum up support or protest for a
cause. Letter writing was another means to approach people, as seen in Jolly’s
article. The introduction of Twitter and Facebook not only encourages the
spread of information but also incites conversation about it. Twitter is useful
for capturing attention, with tweets limited to 140 characters, and inviting curiosity
from people to find out more about something. Facebook does much the same,
sharing posts and articles to friends’ and families’ feeds and allowing them,
however brief, a look into what someone found significant enough to share. Social media has enhanced the dissemination of
information and encouraged a quicker return rate to a call to arms, which could
explain the multitudes of social movements happening at once, instead of their
being a focus on a singular issue.
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