Author Archives: Sybil C

Culture Jam 1 & 2 (drafts) Culture Jam 1 & 2 – (revisions) Culture Jam 1 & 2 (final edit)

One idea I have for a culture jam is the book ban in Florida. Led by a group called Moms for Liberty, books have been removed from libraries and schools. These books contain subject matter that is deemed inappropriate (race, … Continue reading →

In The Border Patrol State, Leslie Marmom Silko writes about growing up believing that everyone had the right to travel freely across the borders of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and how that freedom is now policed, especially among … Continue reading →

In Video Games and Holding Power, Sherry Turkle writes that video games have two promises, one is the “touch of infinity”, and the other is the “promise of perfection” (pg. 511). In the video game world, a user has multiple … Continue reading →

In the piece, From a Native Daughter, Haunani-Kay Trask writes about how she heard the history of her people, first from her parents and then from her teachers, and how those two stories differ. She felt as though she lived in … Continue reading →

A concept that stood out to me from Robert Coover’s article, The End of Books, is that hypertext doesn’t translate into print (pg. 8). Today many books, magazines, and periodicals have been digitized. Some even start that way and have … Continue reading →

Link to draft For this paper, I tried to think of technologies that have changed during my lifetime. There have been quite a few; televisions, public transit tokens, telephones, cameras, and computers. My first 3 choices were the telephone, the … Continue reading →

My draft needs more details. I struggled with this project and had some writer’s block. The biggest struggle was deciding on 3 technologies. I also need to figure out the best way to incorporate McLuhan’s philosophies into the paper.   

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After today’s class discussion and reviewing my notes, I had to rethink the 3 technologies that I chose for my research paper. They didn’t relate to each other well. My third technology is now the e-reader.   I can see how … Continue reading →

McLuhan inspired “art” cave__scodrington.docx Part 2  The 3 technologies I chose are the telephone, the digital camera, and the omny card.   The telephone changed the concept of space between people. Its intended use was for business, but it was used … Continue reading →

blog post 3__scodrington tech lit narrative__sybilcodrington

tech lit draft__sybilcodrington Part 1  Who did these graphics?  Why did Newt Gingrich discount McLuhan and who is McGovernik? (pg. 10)  What does McLuhan mean by “retribalized man”? (pg. 33)  Who were his critics? (pg. 35)  I may have to … Continue reading →

Neil Postman speaks about how technological changes of one era do not make the previous ones irrelevant in “Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change.” Postman’s first idea is that all technological changes have advantages and disadvantages. There … Continue reading →