Computers and Writing

Chapter 13
Chapter 13 discusses how corporate development relies on technology and how they use cool to influence their image. Business depends on making a profit and technology has become a crucial way to market their products and become apart of popular culture. Rice uses H.P.’s vision for the future, demonstrating a technical Utopia called [...]

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Chapter 11
Chapter 11 gives us an overview about a new literary movement after WWII. The Beats, as they called themselves, were a group of disenfranchised writers that weren’t happy being apart of American Literature in the 1960’s. They created a new form of expression out of rebellion. Television and radio were new technological [...]

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Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else’s work and presenting it as your original idea. Remixing is different because you actually piece together someone else’s work and change it up with your own creative spin then present it as new again. Plagiarism is different than remixing, because remixing uses work that is familiar on purpose [...]

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Chapter 6
Rice makes the argument that culture has a range of meanings just like cool. It is relevant to our personal thoughts on history race religion, media, and our adaptations. The mainstream borrows from many sources and provides connections through emotions and thoughts. Rice looks at the role of African American culture and the [...]

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Jeff Rice Intros the book Writing About Cool, a textbook which models examples of hypertext and how writing it is influenced on the World Wide Web through pop culture.
Chapter One
Rice defines “cool” as a perception, thought by many as rebellious, independent of society’s rules, and popular thoughts contained by the mainstream. He provides some history [...]

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I chose to write about Jack the Giant by Greg Montano.
I love art and many of the choices when viewed seemed very depressing. The title caught my eye and I gave it a whirl. The presentation is set up of eight images, and viewing the site here at UTA provided no sound so the [...]

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