Computers and Writing

Chapter 13 explores the way corporate web-sites use technology to influence consumers to purchase their products. Citing Marshall McLuhan’s book Understanding Media, Rice points out two media types: hot and cool. Hot media requires little participation from the audience, while cool media requires “so much participation that they force media forms to participate in each [...]

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Chapter 11
Feeling constraints from traditional forms of expression in writing, the Beats, a group of writers in the early 50s, created an innovative form of writing rhetoric due to the advancements in technology.  In chapter 11, Rice explains the different concepts beat writers used to illustrate how we can incorporate these techniques into writing cool [...]

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Plagiarism and remixing, or sampling, are two entirely different concepts. Plagiarism is using someone else’s original work and calling it your own. In plagiarism, the originator is not given credit for the work they did, but instead the person who copied their work is hoping that no one will notice they have taken another’s idea. [...]

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At the end of chapter 6, Rice argues that since white culture has appropriated black culture, cool can have a negative connotation meaning oppression at the cultural, economic and political levels.  Rice begins by explaining cool is culturally constructed from different sources such as government, media, religion and literature.  Then Rice explains that cool orginated [...]

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Chapter 1- The Cool Media
Chapter 1 defines the history and definition of the term cool itself. Rice describes it as an expression of rebellion or independence. This interpretation of cool is often represented as an image; James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Snoop Dogg have become icons that illustrate cool. According to [...]

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After viewing verious projects on NeoVox I chose to write about 12/8/80 a poem by Lisa Petracca. I was drawn initally to the colorful background image. Also, I liked the content of the poem. While I was reading, I thought about the people that had an impact in my life that had passed away. Also, [...]

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