*** Image 1 Source: Iris Huang, @irisspace Image 2 Source: Iris Huang, @irisspace Image 3 Source: Carol Lan, @carolbluelan For more on: visual rhetoric Hariman, Robert, and John Louis Lucaites. No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Chicago, Ill.: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011. Lee, Eunji, Jung-Ah Lee, Jang Ho Moon, … [Read more...]
Social Media & Networked Social Movements: Kitchenware & Occupy Wall Street)
Annie Brockett, Violet Degnan and Sarah Mellin Here are the readings: Juris, Jeffrey S. "The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 597 (January 2005) Castells, Manuel. "Occupy Wall St: Harvesting the Salt of the Earth." Networks of Outrage and Hope: … [Read more...]
Shrinking Messages in a Shrinking World
In Microstyle, a book about how to write effectively online, Christopher Johnson claims that we are in the "age of the Incredible Shrinking Message" (1). The internet allows for endless amounts of information to be produced, transmitted, and viewed at any given time. In this age of information overload, the focus is no longer on the information, but how the information is … [Read more...]
