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I have always thought of video games as a waste of time. I grew up with an older brother who in my opinion I considered a video game addict. I saw how video games became a distraction and took over much of his time.  Today there are over 174 million gamers in the United States and … Continue reading »

I will always remember my childhood education when my class and I would take trips to the library. A few times out of the year, my teacher would assign us to rent out an autobiography book and write a paper on the person. We obviously assumed all of the information was accurate based on the … Continue reading »

Games have always been a great alternative to learning something. I remember being a young child and enjoying learning something through the process of playing a game rather than reading about the subject. Not only was it interactive but also very entertaining. Today video games have become an alternative way of learning real life experiences and dilemmas. … Continue reading »

  Being a college student I am constantly given assignments to write a paper on a certain topic that I may have never even heard about. Rather than worrying, my first reaction is to Google the term. This does not only apply to me, but to most college students. Thankfully, everything is found on the … Continue reading »

Today, written texts are one of the most popular ways of communicating with others. It can be seen in emails, texts, letters, or simply through the social media. Written texts range from formal texts, informational texts, or through statuses in the social media. The use of the internet continues to grow each day. More people … Continue reading »

  Richard A. Lanham, author of The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information, explains how society has gone from a materialistic society to a more informative one. Lanham’s main point in his first chapter is that we are not living in an information economy, but rather in an attention economy. … Continue reading »

  Quintilianus, a Roman rhetorician, wrote the twelve- volume textbook concerning rhetoric known as  Institute of Oratory. His work primarily deals with the theory and practice of rhetoric. He defines rhetoric as “a good man in speaking”. He doesn’t refer to rhetoric as something that only serves for the purpose of politics and persuasion for … Continue reading »

Socrates, a philosopher of Athens, is considered to be one of the wisest men of all time.  Today most of his teachings come from the dialogues of his most famous pupil, Plato.  The Phaedrus, written by Plato, is a dialogue between the main protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus. One day Lysius, a renowned orator, gave a … Continue reading »

Danah Boyd, the author of “A Blogger’s Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium” defines blog from a variety of perspectives. A blog can be defined in numerous ways which makes it difficult to understand the actual meaning since it has been conceptualized by the media, researchers, tool developers, and practitioners. She interviewed a total of … Continue reading »