“Reading” Cybercultures & Popular Cybercultures
How do we make sense as we travel through a tangled web? Typically, everyday, we make our way through the internet, whether it be at home, work and now even, on-the-go. The growth of the internet is...
View ArticleWhy do you have to be so ON all the time?
In this new technology driven era, the phrase “stay connected” means something different entirely. With the introduction of Smart Phones and tablets, such as iPads, people are connected to one another...
View ArticleChapter 9 and 10
What if you could never disconnect from technology? What if you were truly never completely alone? This is the daily life for thousands of young people out there who live their lives, daily “tethered”...
View ArticleWho do you think you are?!
People have used the internet as a means to create a new identity. Don’t like you name? Change it, you can be anyone online. Don’t like where you lived? Change it, I’ve always wanted to have a British...
View ArticleOh to be young again…
Your phone just buzzed. You have a new text message. But you’re in class, you can’t check it now. But what if it’s that cute guy who asked for your number a few days ago. Maybe he just asked you out to...
View ArticleMedia Free For All
Everyone has an opinion and majority of everyone would love to share it with others (I’m looking at you, Mom). The internet has given users or as the book, Spreadable Media, labels them “producers” the...
View ArticleWikinomics
In the age of paperless everything it only makes sense that now our resources are becoming paperless as well. The online encyclopedia site, Wikipedia.org has changed the way we get and produce our...
View ArticleDandelion Media
We have all heard the phrase, “what goes around comes around,” but what about, “what goes around stays around”? Which means, when you put anything online or in the media, it spreads instantaneously....
View ArticleWide Open Spaces
When we think about the term ‘cyberspace’ the first thought may involve rockets or tang, but the term actually means something quite different. While this isn’t a tangible device is it something that...
View ArticleChapter 2 – Spreadable Media
Everything over the internet is exchangeable and we are all, as a whole, contributing to a greater conversation. In chapter 2 of Spreadable Media Jenkins talks about how everything on the web is...
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