Computers and Writing

Chapter 13
In Chapter 13 Rice deals with cooltown and computer technology. Websites nowdays are used for personal use such as homepages. Hewlett-Pakard, a computer manufacturer, has this image where the world is connected with machines. They call this cooltown. In this environment everything would be operated through [...]

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Chapter 11
    Chapter 11 begins by discussing “The Beats”.  They were a group of writers that started their own movement in literature.  The chapter discusses Jack Kercuac’s, one of the members of the “The Beat”, spontaneous writing.  Spontaneous writing is when sentences change from one idea to another without having a transition.  It contains a [...]

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          Our group came up with the meaning of remix as acknowledging someone else’s work and reusing it by altering it.  Plagiarism is purposing using someone else’s work as one’s own without giving them credit.  How does one remix without plagiarism?  One must acknowledge who you are using and obtain a license.
Chapter 8
     Rice discusses in [...]

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 Chapter 6
Rice concludes chapter six by explaining how appropriation effects African American artist on a cultural, economic, and political level.  On a cultural level it affects how we view other cultures and gives us a lack of knowledge.  The economic level effects African American’s by depriving them of the money they deserve for the original [...]

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Chapter 1
In chapter one, Rice discusses the meaning of cool in everyday terms and the online term. In everyday terms ‘cool’ means something or someone that is popular and doing the right trends. Online ‘cool’ is used to attract young audiences. A major question to consider in this chapter and throughout the book is [...]

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“She is Me” by Erin Morris I chose this project at first because I thought the pictures were really cute. When I started reading the poem I foundit had a real deep meaning to it. The poem is mostly directed towards the female audience. It tells about how on the outside most women look really [...]

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