When I read the title, “Writing for Algorithmic Audiences,” I got scared. Math? I thought. I chose this major to get away from math. Why is there math? But I should have known Dr. Lang wouldn’t subject me to that kind of thinking. The phrase algorithmic audience is used “to capture the tension between human…
8: Spreadability in the Publishing Industry
I was interested in the idea that Kes and several others have mentioned in their blog posts of “top-down” and “bottom-up” forces that impact the spreadability of a text, or its ability to be circulated (Jenkins et al 4). As a publishing and editing major, I was particularly interested in thinking about how these concepts of top-down and bottom-up forces…
5: The NRA and Parks and Rec – The GIF Battle
I was scrolling though my FaceBook feed one day when an article caught my eye. It was a Buzzfeed article titled: “”Parks and Rec” Stars Slammed NRA for Using a Leslie Knope GIF.” I love the show “Parks and Rec”, and wanted to see what this was all about, so I clicked on the link….
4: Twitter Poetry
For my genre profile project, I decided to focus on the contemporary craze of Twitter poetry. Twitter poetry is a subgenre of digital poetry (much like what Molly Aiudi talks about in her post about hypertext poetry) as well as a subgenre of a rising form of writing known as Twitterature. Twitter poetry focuses on…
Genre’s Purpose
In the past, genre was simple and easy for me to define. It was nothing more than a word to represent categories for books: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, genre fiction, etc., and music: rock, pop, metal, country, etc. However true that definition may be, it does not even begin to cover the entirety of the meaning…
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: Considering Audience in the Digital Age
Keira’s post about social media got me thinking about audience, especially in light of Writer/Designer’s first chapter. Due to the digital nature of social media, it often seems to have a wider, more uncontrollable audience than something in print. For example, many of us have been told—or, in most cases, lectured—from a young age that…
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…