Megan Knudson’s Blog
Hello and welcome to my site, Modern Society’s Internet Culture! I am a senior, majoring in English at Santa Clara University. This is my site for my English 138: Internet Culture class. On my site you will find my blog, which discusses a spectrum of issues that are focused within the topic of the progression of technology and the relationship modern day society has with it. Each blog post is dependent on the material/subject our class focused on for that specific week. I have also included links to three of my projects for the class, which are listed below with a description describing what each is about. Enjoy!
Cultural Hypertext: Aside from class discussion and blog posts, we also created projects to dig deep and better understand the internet as a community, or a culture. In my Cultural Hypertext project, I focused on WritersCafe.org: The Online Writing Community. I chose to focus on WritersCafe.org to show just how diverse Internet cultures are. This site allows members to share their own creative writing, whether it be short stories, poems, etc., with others and gives them the opportunity to receive feedback on their work. The community provides an assortment of genres and writing groups that each member has the opportunity to join. Visit my site about WriterCafe.org by clocking on the above link “Cultural Hypertext” to learn more about the online writing community!
Tactical Hypertext: I took the opportunity to focus on a more controversial topic for my Tactical Hypertext project. In this project I focused on SB 48: The FAIR Act, a law that was passed ordering to “amend the education code to require schools to integrate factual information about social movements, current events and history of people with disabilities and LGBT people into existing social studies lessons” for grades K-12. To learn more about this issue and see what my stance on the issue is, visit my site by clicking on the above link “Tactical Hypertext”.
Analytical Hypertext: This project was a group project, which discusses the various ways people can be tracked with unseen surveillance systems. These types of tracking devices do not provide visuals (ie: pictures, live footage) to the surveillor or the person being surveilled, but provide them with information. The project includes a machinima video, made through Second Life, that showcases the unseen surveillance systems discussed on our website. Check out our site under “Analytical Hypertext”.