Computers and Writing

In Chapter 13, Rice discusses the web and how it has affected the progression of cool. He cites the HP concept of  “cool town.” Cooltown was a promotional idea that HP came up with that had some interesting commentary on technologies future role in society. This was an exciting vision where people were all equipped with the technology they needed to [...]

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Chapter 11 opens and trains its focus on the 2 very particular members of “The Beats;” Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. After World War 2, this “group of Disenfranchised young writers” got together to “rethink their relationship with to American culture, to media and technology, and self-expression.” These two writers in particular created some very [...]

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During our group discussion we decided that remixing is the act of taking something that already exists, and using part or all of it to make something new, and giving credit to the creator. Plagerism is the act of taking a work, changing it or keeping it the same, and taking credit for it as [...]

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In Chapter 6, Rice makes some interesting distinctions as to the origins of cool. While So many icons of cool are white(I.e. James Dean), many of the earliest icons of cool are African American. Dizzie Gillespie and Count Basie are two perfect examples of this. Those guys were cool. Even today, many people still have [...]

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Chapter one
This chapter was a chapter that begins to define the word “cool.” It begins to bring in the idea that cool is all about being young and hip and exciting. It is used to attract those who are young at heart, and young in body. Teenagers are the target of cool. People are also [...]

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I know my Dad always used to tell me that talking to me was like talking to a brickwall. I don’t honestly know why he told me that, but while looking through these projects, this photo by Heather Cheetham really stuck out to me. The title of her photo is “Brickwall” The emotion that black [...]

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