Libguides

Give correct information on what is being advertised. Posters need to be more visual so that they grab anyone attention so that want to see what is be advertised. If there is a Qr code, tell what it is. Text needs to be clear to read, try to make the text short and straight to the point. Information, Information, Information!

First Vlog

An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube

Michael Wesch start his presentation off by telling about how ABC was the third television network to start broadcasting in 1948. He then says that if all three networks had broadcast everyday for the sixty years they had been operating then there would have been 1.5 million hours of programming. Then Michael lets us know that YouTube produced for than that in the last six months. YouTube is more than just a site on the internet to watch videos. YouTube lets people from all over the world connect with one another and be able to show the world anything. Michael tells the tale about the moldovan pop song Numa Numa and how the song spread across the world because a person in New Jersey made a web cam video of him dancing to it in his room. How that persons act spread to millions of people to remake his video of them dancing to Numa Numa and even getting so big that there were news stories all over the country talking about the guy from New Jersey. He starts to give all kind of statistics about YouTube were very interesting.

Grandberry Museum

On the first day of the Digital Literacies II the class went to the new Grandberry Museum to see the brand new Smartphone Museum. The museum consist of old forms of digital media, each display includes a QR code that can be scanned with your smartphone. Once scanned with your smartphone, the user will be shown a video explaining how the device works and how it was used. We were told to pick one of the displays that interested us. The display I found most interesting was a record player from the 1920's that had the capability to transmit the sound of the record to a radio nearby. It is the same technology as bluetooth or AM/FM radio transmitter.

Digital Lit Post #17

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Pecha Kucha also know as PK,was named after the onomatopoeic Japanese phrase for the sound of talking. Creators Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein are the founders of PK and are inviting a group of leading designers to talk about their current work, using only 20 slides, with each slide on screen for just 20 seconds. "You've really got to be there to get the atmosphere," says co-founder Mark Dytham, who describes the intimacy of these gatherings as "like the Internet in reverse." -time.

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Digital Lit Post #13

Image Before Re-size:

Image After Re-size:

They appear the same but if you make them bigger, you can see that the second picture is slightly blurry because of the pixel reduction.

Digital Lit Post #12

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Digital Lit Post #11

First things I did was decide that Limestone College is very much like a video game, so that's what I went with. Started by using a background that is filled with stars. The theme I went with was retro Nintendo. So I found an old 8-bit picture that would represent an old Nintendo game. The bottom of the picture is slanted upwards, so I made the title go with that slant. I through in the Nintendo logo and add another text box saying "Entertainment System", which is what all the old games would say on them. This game has the Nintendo seal of approval to let people know that it is legit. The game could hit it big because many have seen it on Home Box Office aka HBO. I used center alignment through out the poster.

Digital Lit Post #10

Starting with the business card, I decided to go with a simple design. I made two boxes with rounded corners. The boxes are the same just the box on the right has been dragged off the right side so that it gives it that straight edge with no corners. I chose blue and green because that is the most common colors for tennis courts. Inserted my company's logo and put all company contact info.

For the envelope, I used the same green that was used in the business card. I made a bar on the side and created another box with rounded corners and made it stay behind the bar. I am trying to keep the same look though out. Inserted the same logo and info.

For the letter head, I did the same design as the envelope, but with the blue from the business card being used. Created the same way as the envelope with the same information.

Digital Lit Post #9

Digital Lit Post #8

Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or (in the Saussurean tradition) semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically.

Semiotics is often divided into three branches:

Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata, or meaning
Syntactics: Relations among signs in formal structures
Pragmatics: Relation between signs and the effects they have on the people who use them

Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions; for example, Umberto Eco proposes that every cultural phenomenon can be studied as communication. However, some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science. They examine areas belonging also to the natural sciences – such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis). In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics or zoosemiosis.

Syntactics is the branch of semiotics that deals with the formal properties of signs and symbols. More precisely, syntactics deals with the "rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences." Charles Morris adds that semantics deals with the relation of signs to their designata and the objects which they may or do denote; and, pragmatics deals with the biotic aspects of semiosis, that is, with all the psychological, biological, and sociological phenomena which occur in the functioning of signs.

Digital Lit Post #7

After watching the Beverly Hillbillies and seeing how they did not know what certain things were. How would you explain to someone that does not know what something is.

How signs sometimes fail to comunicate.

Petroleum - A liquid mixture of hydrocarbons that is present in certain rock strata and can be extracted and refined to produce fuels including gasoline, kerosene, and diesel oil; oil

Oil - Any of various thick, viscous, typically flammable liquids that are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents and are obtained from animals or plants

Telephone - An instrument used as part of such a system, typically a single unit including a handset with a transmitting microphone and a set of numbered buttons by which a connection can be made to another such instrument

Airfield - An area of land set aside for the takeoff, landing, and maintenance of aircraft

Big bird - the were actually referring to a helicopter - A type of aircraft that derives both lift and propulsion from one or two sets of horizontally revolving overhead rotors. It is capable of moving vertically and horizontally, the direction of motion being controlled by the pitch of the rotor blades

Million dollars - an amount of dollars using the amount of million; start with units e.g. 1-9, then tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, then million.

Digital Lit Post #6

Blog: The Truth About Cars
Who is writing?
"The Truth About Cars provides no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners automotive news. reviews and editorials. Our writers call it like they see it, and pull no punches. We also provide a comments section for readers to voice their informed and passionate opinions in an atmosphere of mutual respect." "Back in the day, Robert Farago was a freelance writer living in the UK. After Autocar blacklisted the auto writer for slating then Editor-In-Chief Steve Sutcliffe (for boasting about driving a Lamborghini with his eyes closed), Farago started posting rants on www.pistonheads.com. Despite (or because of) Fahrenheit 451 temp replies, he created a regular series called “The Truth About Cars.” When Farago moved to the U.S., he started TTAC.

In 2009, Robert Farago left The Truth About Cars, leaving then-Managing Editor Edward Niedermeyer “at the con.”"

Who is reading?
The readers are people that want to know the latest information about cars whether it be about the improvement on the BMW M5 or how the collapse of GM happened, it is all car related threads.

What kind of language is used? Why?
The tone in completely care related however there is some new internet terminology in their posting rules that I found quite funny stating, "1. No flaming the website, its authors or fellow commentators. “Flaming” means personally insulting. For example, you are free to suggest that a TTAC editorial should consider Toyota’s green policies, but you are NOT free to say “we’ve got it in” for domestic automakers (or anyone else). You are free to argue that a reviewer should take the new Jeep Patriot off-road, but you are NOT free to call the writer biased or unfair. You are free to say Ford makes reliable vehicles, but you are NOT free to diss a commentator’s personal history of unreliable Fords.

2. No trolling. “Trolling” means making comments deliberately designed to encourage flamers. For example, you are free to suggest that TTAC should consider Toyota’s green policies, bit you are NOT free to say “Toyota’s a bunch of lying scumbags.” You are free to argue that a reviewer should take the Patriot off-road, but you are not free to say “anyone who doesn’t take a Jeep off-road is a wimp.” You are free to say Ford makes reliable vehicles, but you are not free to say “people who don’t love Fords are lousy drivers.”"

What kind of "look" is used? Why?
The look is clean and right to the point. You have the hot new articles talking about the new big news of anything car related. There are many different sections to browse from news to car or product reviews, there is even a pod cast section so that anyone can listen to the very important press conference. You can even get the latest and greatest about any vehicle by searching by make and model, making it extremely easy to find what your looking.

What is the length of the average post? Why?
The articles vary in size, they can be anywhere from one paragraph just getting to the point or 20 paragraphs with pictures to talk about what the new and what you are seeing the pictures. Regardless of the lengths, the post are very informational and it really shows that the authors are trying to get all the important details in on the topic.

Digital Lit Post #5

Blog: Kill Screen
Who is writing?
Kill Screen is a group of people from creator to contributors. Kill Screen tells about their goal by saying saying "Coupled with world-class design, Kill Screen will serve as the voice for a generation of consumers who grew up on games and now wants to talk about them with the same wit and rancor that can be found in dialogues about film, television, etc. We are a professional, curated approach that respects the time constraints of the older game player and aims right for the brain."

Who is reading?
People that are reading this are people that have video games in mind. From people that love video games to people that want to know about what video games are.

What kind of language is used? Why?
The language tone in all the post are telling you about the games in a lot of detail. They want you to get a feel of how the game is going to play out and give their opinion of the game at the same time. Sometimes they ever through in what the reviews of the game was by leading gaming sites such as IGN or Game Informer and then tell why the review is good, bad, or just one sided.

What kind of "look" is used? Why?
I fell the look is simple and to the point. It gives new daily stories along with featured gotta read stories.

What is the length of the average post? Why?
There are a lot of different people posting on this. A lot of effort is going into making this blog, so the average post can vary from 2-4 paragraphs to 10+ paragraphs.

Digital Lit Post #4

Word of Mouth to Printed Information: The world changed when writing came into play. It made telling a story more accurate because the story didn't change from person to person, the information was the same every time it was read. It also made it possible for someone to get information farther and for that information to be around long after that person has died.

Printing Age to Screen Age: Then the printing age changed and advanced to the screen age, where people can watch what is going on around the world while standing in the same place. More information can spread farther faster with exact detail because the information is instant and the viewer doesn't have to wait till the next day or week to receive the information they are after.

Broadcast media to new media: The term 'broadcast media' covers a wide spectrum of different communication methods such as television, radio, newspapers, magazines and any other materials supplied by the media and press. New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century that refers to on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community formation around the media content. Another important promise of new media is the "democratization" of the creation, publishing, distribution and consumption of media content. Another aspect of new media is the real-time generation of new, unregulated content

Digital Lit Post #3

In the article Becoming Screen Literate, the author is talking about how the world has changed over time form spoken word to writing and how the world is changing again. However the world is changing from reading to watching electronic screens. This author has a good point about how everything is changing, however this is a reoccurring article. Down the road there will be another article similar to this talking about how the world is changing yet again.

Digital Lit Post #2

After reading The Long Tail I realized how much the world has changed in the last fifty years. Not just the fact of how much more advanced the technology is today than it was back then, but way the world itself functions in today's society. I don't want to spoil the good read too much for people that are interested in checking it out. You can find it here, -->The Long Tail<--, it is a short comic but very eye opening. Happy reading!

Digital Lit Post #1

What is your experience with digital media?

I have a lot of experience with a large variety of digital media. In today's world who isn't familiar with the internet, television, or cell phones. However I have also had much experience with gaming, electronic commerce, E-books, and many other interactive media. I have ran a few websites for such things as my parents E-bay business or my World of Warcraft guild. Although I have never had a blog before or ever even thought about making one. I have a Facebook like the rest of the world or at least it seems that way.

What are your learning goals for this class?

I know i'm probably not familiar with a lot of the material that is going to be covered in the class, so I don't really know what to expect. So I would say that my learning goal is to learn many new things and maybe open me up to something new that I may really like.