When I read Why Media Spreads, I thought of a particular example of spreadability that I learned about during a project in History of the Book last year. I did a hypertext site on WH Auden’s “September 1, 1939.” This poem, although published in October of 1939, spread widely after 9/11—it was passed through email…
Today’s reading focused on the term “spreadability”. According to the authors, “spreadability” refers to any set of “technological resources” that make it easier for us to circulate content (Jenkins et al 4). From my understanding, this means that content with high spreadability would have the potential to reach more people, more easily. Another term that…
Since I’ve just hit level six hundred in the popular video “Overwatch” I’m highly inclined to discuss the topic of video games. “Overwatch” is a team based first person shooter game released by Blizzard Entertainment back in 2016 and has won a ton of awards and will be the main example in this article….
Poetry is a form of written/literary work. It is constantly evolving and adapting in the modern world. Spoken word is a form of performance poetry. I have been interested in spoken word since I first found out what it was in high school. I sat in my Creative Writing II class and my teacher introduced…
When I first saw this blog prompt the first thing I thought of was memes. The definition of a meme is: “an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media” (“Meme”). Keeping that in mind, I thought of “spreadability”,…
The short story has been around for millennia, and the way it is distributed and circulated has changed. At first it was the switch from oral tradition to written text. Now, with the invention of the Internet and digital technologies, short stories can take on almost limitless forms. A short story can be a digital…
My personal career goal is to become a writer for movies and television, but honestly, I’ll settle for anything visual media related. This is what inspired my ideas for my second digital media-based project. For my remix project, I’ve deceived to create a compilation video using clips from television shows, movies and interviews focused on…
I’ve always loved fiction, especially young adult fiction, and the circulation, delivery, and spreadability of young adult fiction has changed especially with the digital revolution. “Why Media Spreads” talks about the spreadability of media with technology and how the circulation of said media has changed, as Vivian mentioned, to a “top down bottom up” instead…
Well, we’re here again. In their introduction titled Why Media Spreads, Henry Jenkins, Joshua Green, and Sam Ford describe a hybrid form of circulation, “…where a mix of top-down and bottom-up forces determine how material is shared across and among cultures in far more participatory (and messier) ways.” (1). This mix of forces can be seen throughout…
I was initially drawn to prose poetry because of the way it intersects the power of language and the beauty of poetic techniques. As described by poets.org, “While it lacks the line breaks associated with poetry, the prose poem maintains a poetic quality, often utilizing techniques common to poetry, such as fragmentation, compression, repetition, and…