Television’s Invitation to Participate: 3 types of invitation: A) overt invitations, where a TV show obviously invites a viewer to become involved B) organic invitations, where a TV show assumes that viewers are already actively engaged and incorporates evidence of … Continue reading
I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop. By ALEX WILLIAMS “As image-editing software grows in sophistication and ubiquity, alterations go far beyond removing red-eye and whitening teeth. They include substituting head shots to achieve the best combination of smiles, deleting problematic … Continue reading
You Are a Cyborg Cyberfeminism, says Sadie Plant, director of the Centre for Research into Cybernetic Culture at Warwick University in England, is “an alliance between women, machinery, and new technology. There’s a long-standing relationship between information technology and women’s … Continue reading
Key Words: 1) Multitasking – shifting focus from one task to another in rapid succession. 2) Mobile mesh network – having cell phones connect directly to one another, rather than routing signals through cell phone towers. 3) Metadata – information … Continue reading
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