During the first ten minutes of class on Thursday, write a summary of your reading of the “Hyperreading and Hyperwriting” chapter from Jones and Hafner. Incorporate your own experiences and observations in your summary. Copy-and-paste your summary memo into a comment made to this blog post.
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To: Jason W. Ellis
From: Ashley A. Dunlap
Date: February 25, 2016
Subject: Beginning of Class Writing, Chapter 3
This chapter summarizes the affordances that are available to users only in a digital form,such as hypertext, interactivity, and multimedia. With hypertext in particular, researchers have concluded that early exposure has resulted in increased cognitive skills. Interactivity describes the creation of methods to made it easier for readers to interact with writers. Writing through new media has become more collaborative and social. The multimedia aspect discusses the ease with which content can be created and shared. This has brought forth the need to have a better way of copyrighting such as the system of Creative Commons licensing, which allow users to alter and edit content systematically.
To: Professor Ellis
From: Christopher Navarrete
Date: 2/25/2016
Subject: Chapter 3 Summary
Chapter 3 discusses how digital medias have changed the way we read and write. the limitations of printed books are overcome by digital medias affordances, namely hypertext, interactivity, and multimedia. Multimedia allows us to “represent information and make meaning using a wider range of modes than is possible in print.” This includes content in images, audio, videos, and text. New technologies have made it easier to incorporate contents such as these compared to print.
Hypertext is electronic text that creates a link or ‘hyperlink’ to other electronic text. It has been shown to have a great effect on the way writers and readers go through structure and organization. According to the author, hypertext is fundamental to the architecture of the internet it is used to easily get from one place to another.
Overall, “these new affordances of digital media have required people to rethink their understanding of reading and writing, refine their ideas about what a reader is and what a writer is, and adopt new practices in reading abd writing.”
To: Jason W. Ellis
From: Rownak Choudhury
Date: February 25, 2016
Subject: Beginning of Class Writing, Chapter 3
Technology allows us to interact with each other and technology itself in a unique fashion. Reading and writing has changed drastically with the usage of technology and the progression which we have had in our society. I can relate to the book and how simply it explains terms and theories to help me relate them to my previous learning.
I have spent a long time in my other classes realizing things about the advancement of technology and its direct relationship with language, which includes writing and reading.
To: Jason W. Ellis
From: George Gordon
Date: 3/1/2016
Subject: Chapter 3
Chapter 3 of this book focused mostly on the way the way we read and write have evolved over time thanks to technology. The chapter brings up hypertext, interactivity, and multimedia. One of the affordances brought up is hypertext, which allows to link new articles or information through digital articles for more information and allows us to interact between different modes of information easily as well as, allowing us to interact with other people and establish relationships with other through a digital means. While, multimedia is basically anything that is conveyed through audio, video, and text that allows to represent information.