The webpage for the Broadway musical “Hamilton” is almost as innovative and intriguing as the musical itself. Once you open the site, you’re greeted with the musical’s logo – a mustard yellow background, the silhouette of a star (four prongs of a basic star and a man pointing upward to symbolize the top and fifth…
2: The Meaning Behind Buzzfeed’s Design
The website I probably visit the most often is Buzzfeed. I used to be on it 24/7 but I have decided to cut down, you can only take so many quizzes in a day. The point of Buzzfeed is to create a community to share news, great memes, celebrity gossip, and so on. The first…
2: Design Choices behind Instagram
Like others for their second blog post, I wanted to focus on a social media site, the rhetoric and rhetorical situation behind it, and analyze it. Instagram is “…a mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharingapplication and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly, or privately to pre-approved followers.” (Wikipedia). While you can…
2: Epic Reads Design Choices
Epic Reads is a digital community created by HarperCollins that caters to Young Adult readers. The site promotes HarperCollins’ YA publications through blog posts, polls and quizzes, online forums, and giveaways. The very top of the site, which remains the same no matter what content you are looking at, includes the Epic Reads logo, which…
2: The Design Choices of Spotify
One of my most-used apps is Spotify, a major music streaming service. I mostly use Spotify to listen to music on my way to work, so I’m most active on the app version of Spotify. The Spotify app is pretty simplistic. Different music categories such…
2: YouTube’s Homepage
YouTube is the main way most people view online video. Given that, the design of the homepage does not do a good job of reflecting that. The biggest thing on the page is an advertisement for a channel on the site. It is centered at the top so it is the first thing a viewer…
2) Rhetorical Design Choices: Goodreads.com
On goodreads.com, “users can add books to their personal bookshelves, rate and review books, see what their friends and authors are reading, participate in discussion boards and groups on a variety of topics, and get suggestions for future reading choices based on their reviews of previously read books.” I first discovered goodreads last year when…
1: Video Games are the new norm of storytelling?
Video Games are inherently more interactive than other forms of media, such as e-books or other forms of digital publications. Geoffrey Rockwell speaks to video games as a media, stating they are some of the most effective “uses of images, animations, and environmental sound to create a fictional world characterized by navigation”. If this isn’t…
1: Gaming: a Possible Future for Multimedia Education and Study
Like Ashleigh, I take a great interest in the ways in which multimedia learning can change the classroom and help students. Ashleigh stated in her post that she believes “differentiation of content presentation format and response method is key for supporting a classroom of diverse learners” through all ages of education. Now, education is not…
1: The Apathetic Youth and the Affect of Multimodal Projects
It really is amazing to see how far we have come with technology and how we as humans learn and adapt to it. During the reading the word that resonated with me was “Multimodal” the ability to use images and texts to make a point. The ability of the internet really allows students, well everyone…