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13: My Portfolio

As part of Kathleen Blake Yancey’s definition of a portfolio in “Portfolio, Electronic, and the Links Between,” she states that a portfolio should showcase a “collection of work” (130). My portfolio would collect the three major projects that I have completed for this class, the reflections for each, and some of the blog posts that…

11: Algorithmic Audiences and Content

My sister has a food blog and an Instagram related to it that I thought of as I read this article. I don’t use Instagram regularly, or check any blogs other than hers—neither do my parents, who were, when they first looked at the Instagram she set up for them to follow her and like all…

SCP (Secure Contain Protect) Transmedia Storytelling

I think it’s safe to say that I have truly never thought about transmedia storytelling before in my life, and definitely have not looked at it as a technique that can be used as a form of marketing and tool for prolonged fandom. In the Origami Unicorn, Jenkins writes, “any given product is a point…

2: Fork Knife Teeth: Food Blog with a Purpose

I spent a lot of time this summer helping with the food photography for Fork Knife Teeth, my sister’s food blog. I’m partial to it because the recipes are good, because of my time holding up large pieces of white paper to reflect sunlight for a better shot, and because I think it looks nice,…

2: The Designs Behind ITX

The first thing a visitor sees when they navigate to ITX’s website is “you”. This is a popular marketing ploy, because, of course, addressing the target audience directly by pasting a giant YOU to a homepage is sure to get their attention. ITX is an Information Technology company, so their marketing goal is to be…

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…

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: The Magic of Multimodality

As a creative writer, I was well aware that language is key when creating any kind of text. Rather it be a short story, poem, or article, word choice is extremely important. It determines how the writing is received by the reader. However, after my review of Multimodality and how it works in Kristin Arola’s…

1: Multimodal Projects and Social Media

When I think about multimodal projects I often forget about social media, specifically my own social media. I have Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook but, as Okkerse addressed in their post, The Complexity of the Digital Text, I don’t think about how everything I post on there is a multimodal project that I went through the…