ENGL 303: Multimedia Writing

WEB JUNKIE: PostSecret - art or therapy?,

Brings musicians together in a music project community.

This site suggests that the idea of online anonymity is becoming more and more misleading. While Internet users may be under the pretense that their identities are anonymous, advancements in technology have made it increasingly easy for other users to discover the true identities of the seemingly anonymous. Furthermore, identities are even more easily revealed when Internet behavior becomes questionable under the law. Therefore, as stated in this article, Internet users should behave under the assumption that their personal information is accessible if needed for legal proceedings. Even though sites may offer users anonymity, this does not free users from all responsibilities.

This article describes what is considered right or "cool" texting and the etiquette of texting

This site discusses the negative impact os social networking sites and how the lack of security on the websites can become problematic.

This article offers an interesting description if the evolution of text messaging and how it has become increasingly beneficial. The article also describes how the structure of text messaging has changed with the development of more advanced cell phones.

A web page dedicated to the sort of tattoos people have, and why they chose those images.

A study of one style of web-based literature, and how it contrasts with the work that it is based on.

An article that looks at what Fan Fiction can offer an author creatively and offers some tips and tricks as to how to get started.

Summary: American youth are awash in media. They have television sets in their bedrooms, personal computers in their family rooms, and digital music players and cell phones in their backpacks. They spend more time with media than any single activity other than sleeping, with the average American eight- to eighteen-year-old reporting more than six hours of daily media use. The growing phenomenon of "media multitasking"-using several media concurrently-multiplies that figure to eight and a half hours of media exposure daily. Donald Roberts and Ulla Foehr examine how both media use and media exposure vary with demographic factors such as age, race and ethnicity, and household socioeconomic status, and with psychosocial variables such as academic performance and personal adjustment. They note that media exposure begins early, increases until children begin school, drops off briefly, then climbs again to peak at almost eight hours daily among eleven- and twelve-year-olds. Television and video exposure is particularly high among African American youth. Media exposure is negatively related to indicators of socioeconomic status, but that relationship may be diminishing. Media exposure is positively related to risk-taking behaviors and is negatively related to personal adjustment and school performance. Roberts and Foehr also review evidence pointing to the existence of a digital divide-variations in access to personal computers and allied technologies by socioeconomic status and by race and ethnicity. The authors also examine how the recent emergence of digital media such as personal computers, video game consoles, and portable music players, as well as the media multitasking phenomenon they facilitate, has increased young people's exposure to media messages while leaving media use time largely unchanged. Newer media, they point out, are not displacing older media but are being used in concert with them. The authors note which young people are more or less li

This article studied how students, professors, and graduate instructors feel about using multimedia in large lecture halls. Over half of the students reported that multimedia in the classroom stimulated their interest in the subject. This article explains how more and more technology/multimedia is being used to teach students.

The Sims 3 website forum page

The Sims 3 Expansion pack press release

Uses Collaborative writing to make several points. On pages 301 - 305, author makes some comments about authorship (how it began and how it is today and how it works in collaborative writing). I haven't read the whole thing yet.

This is about editing. I'm very interested in this topic.

This is about new media and writing.

This is a good website that introduces Multimedia Writing. It gives tips on how to write for Multimedia and the history behind it. This is a good starting place to get us thinking about what multimedia writing exactly is.

The introduction talks about multimedia writing and editing, two things I'm very interested in.

This website is the weather channel online. It gives hourly,weekly, monthly weather according to locations. Also, this website branches out into aspects of ourlife affected by wather such as driving, health, outdoor activities, sports, etc..