Author Archives: meganknudson

Matthew Ingram, an award-winning journalist, has spent the past fifteen years writing about business, technology, and new media as a reporter, columnist, and blogger. Ingram contributed an article titled “TwitterSpin:What Happens When Politics Goes Real Time” in Businessweek Magazine. The … Continue reading →

An article, “Are We Becoming Cyborgs?”, written by Serge Schmemann, was recently published in the New York Times. Schmemann, writer and editorial page editor of the International Herald Tribune, the global edition of the  of the New York Times, interviews … Continue reading →

Megan Knudson English 138: Professor Bjork 11/16/12 Little Brother   Black Screen Silence. Screen fades in from black to hazy scene of chaos. Setting is China Town San Francisco. People are screaming, running, and pushing one another out of the … Continue reading →

Little Brother Chapters 11-20   The second part of Little Brother, Chapters 11-20, is dedicated to both the aftermath of the terrorist attack and to Marcus’ four-day imprisonment. What I found most important about these chapters of the novel is … Continue reading →

    Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who also serves as co-editor of the weblog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and supports the Creative Commonsorganization, a non-profit … Continue reading →

The article, “The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptain Revolutions” discusses how Twitter plays a key role in amplifying and spreading timely information across the globe. It details the networked production and dissemination of news … Continue reading →

“Writing Style for Print vs. Web” By Jakob Nielson Written: June 9, 2008   Jakob Nielsen, is a leading web usability consultant. He holds a Ph.D. in human–computer interaction from the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen. From 1994 until 1998 … Continue reading →

  Playing on the original magazine title, Newsweek, Newstweek is a device  for manipulating news read by other people on wireless hotspots. This article on Newstweek was researched by Danja Vasiliev and Julian Oliver.   Vasiliev’s research and practice aims are … Continue reading →

  Henry Jenkins has been a prominent figure when it comes to aspects of media and pop culture. He is currently the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California and has written and … Continue reading →

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 →