Monthly Archives: September 2012

Teens Luv Social (Media) Life

Posted on September 30, 2012 by meganknudson

Danah Boyd’s  has done extensive research on youth and their relationship with social media. Boyd, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, wrote the article “Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life” which … Continue reading →

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Archi-culture

Posted on September 27, 2012 by meganknudson

Response to Andrew Keen’s “Digital Vertigo” “Social media is the confessional novel that we are not only all writing but also collectively publishing for everyone else to read” (23).   Andrew Keen, author of “Digital Vertigo: How Today’s Social Revolution … Continue reading →

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Remixin’ Within Society

Posted on September 24, 2012 by meganknudson

September 23, 2012   We live in a world infused with commercial culture, yet we rarely see how it touches us, and how we process it as it touches us (7).   Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Harvard Law … Continue reading →

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Culture and Technology: Not Distinct, But Linked

Posted on September 21, 2012 by meganknudson

  In the excerpt from An Introduction to Cybercultures and New Media, by Pramod Nayar, the author discusses the affects of our modern day Internet culture and how it continuously expands and changes, positively and negatively, the world we live … Continue reading →

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Post 1: Fruitloop Feminism

Posted on September 18, 2012 by meganknudson

Fruitloop Feminism I decided to create my first blog discussing, well, another blog, named Fruitloop Feminism. I chose this blog for a multitude of reasons. The very first reason is solely because my best friend’s older sister, Claire McGovern, writes … Continue reading →

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