October 31, 2009 – 6:27 pm
This blog post is a report on the standards for designing successful web pages. Jesse James Garrett’s book on The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web focuses on the five planes of user-centered design where proper implementation is important to engaging efficient user experiences. These five planes are: Strategy Plane Scope Plane read more »
October 25, 2009 – 6:33 pm
Computers & Communication Feenberg’s interest in computer technologies emerged from his work in online education at the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in the 1980s. He also studied computer mediated communication in France when working on a project to introduce computer conferencing to the French Minitel System. He said this attempt was unsuccessful due to a read more »
October 25, 2009 – 3:30 pm
Preface In the Preface of Donald A. Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things, he explains his inspiration in writing the book. While taking a sabbatical year at the Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, England, he discovered a very poorly designed infrastructure- some faucets would require the handle/knob to be turned left for warm water, whereas read more »
October 21, 2009 – 1:43 pm
I’ve been sick in bed for the past couple days and decided I wanted to use Twitter from my laptop instead of my iPhone- you know, to spice things up a bit. Well, Twitter FAIL!! I definitely need to submit this to failblog.org
October 18, 2009 – 7:12 pm
This video poses the question, “Is social media a fad, or here to stay?” I believe that it’s definitely here to stay. This video was an amazing look into how our reality has been altered by the presence of new social media. The part in the video where it showed that Generation Y & Z view read more »
October 18, 2009 – 6:50 pm
You’ll find below a listing of coursework that is relevant to the M.A. New Media Studies as separated by department. Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse, http://condor.depaul.edu/~wrd/ WRD 513: Semiotics An introduction to semiotics, or the study of “the sign”—a theory of meaning that is concerned with anything intended to or interpreted to stand for read more »
October 18, 2009 – 5:34 pm
Madden, Fox, Smith, & Vitak have compiled a Pew Internet report detailing user awareness of their digital footprint. With the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies, a person’s name, address, and phone number just scratch the surface of what really comprises personal information. In a time where people are voluntarily authoring personal content (thoughts, pictures, videos) read more »
October 18, 2009 – 3:42 pm
Neal and Russell-Bennett wish to unveil the value in which users of social networking applications consider such applications to be. For example, what makes one application more worthy of recommendations than another? What is it that a user values more when determining the notoriety of certain applications? Neale & Russell-Bennett wrote of how only 3% read more »
October 11, 2009 – 8:58 pm
Multimodality Kress and Leeuwen introduce this piece by explaining how monomodality (the use of one mode of communicating ideas. i.e. books with only text, paintings with only one form and one medium, etc) had great prevalence in Western Culture, but is beginning to reverse as the dominance of multimodality (the use of multiple modes of communicating read more »
October 10, 2009 – 10:46 pm
Introduction: The Double Logic of Remediation In the introduction of this piece, the authors point out that digital technologies and new mediums are becoming increasingly prevalent in modern society. In fact, their prevalence is getting to the point where keeping up with and maintaining these technologies is hard to do. Also in this introduction, Bolter read more »
