I remember being in elementary school, and shielding my paper from onward lookers who were trying to copy off of me. I hated it. I liked that my ideas and answers were my own, and didn’t care to share them with my next-desk neighbor. These days, I’m more focused than ever on getting people to [...]
I am currently reading Convergence Culture – an insightful book by Henry Jenkins, Professor of Humanities and the Founder/Director of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. Although I just started the book, I am already enthralled by the observations and concepts presented by Jenkins. One particular piece of information that caught my attention was a reference [...]
I recently finished a very interesting book by Naomi S. Baron – Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World. Perfect, I thought – I had yet to read a book that addressed the implications and impact of new technologies in relation to language! Baron does an admirable job in discussing historical concepts of language and electronic [...]
