Computers and Writing

Summary of Chapter’s 13-14.
Chapter 13-Rice discusses that thus far, cool has been used to describe technological innovation, this chapter, however, Rice begins to examine how cool and corporate development merge on the internet resulting in a futuristic, Web-based writing process starting with a concept known as cooltown.
Cooltown, named by computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard, is a [...]

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In chapter 11, Rice discusses “the beats”; white, male, educated writers who started a new movement in American literature rethinking relationships to American culture. Although there were several writers, Rice only talks about two, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs and how they rhetorically created alternative forms of expression on views such as the relationships [...]

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ReMix and Plagiarism are two different things. A remix is the act of recombining audio tracks from a recording to produce a new or modified track/song. Plagiarism is the act of taking someone elses work or idea and using it as your own. The difference between the two is the remix does give credit in [...]

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In chapter 6, Rice argues that cool is a “culturally constructed” term formed by religions, media, literature, government, ect. Rice also states that cool originated within African history, most likely starting with the slave trade. Rice wants us to learn how cool “is as much a culture phenonmenon as is any other factor.” Rice talks [...]

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http://neovox.cortland.edu/studio/studio_06/studio_06.html Apology by Anthony O’malley I picked this project over others because my friends tell me I apologize too much for things that sometimes I have no control over. The poem talks about an apology to someone who has once cared for someone. I was drawn to this poem for it’s title but as I [...]

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