Term paper topic

For the topic of my term paper I would like to choose the uprising of the smartphone in our technology-driven generation. It has affected the way we communicate with others, our social relationships, and our sense of space and place within the physical world. Communication with the world around us can now sit in our pocket and be readily available at our fingertips - and we are the guinea pigs of this smartphone phenomena.

Term Paper

I think a good idea for my term paper would be on a term called platform agnosticism: the notion that viewers do not care about the medium in which a message is received. For example: people watch movies on ipods instead of on the big screen or on a television set. Why is this? What effects does it have on commercialization of certain technologies? How can this help evolve technology? What other ways is this idea evident besides just with T.V's, big-screens, and ipods? Is this result of technological advancement good or bad?

Term Paper Topic

I would like to write my paper about how people are completely dependent upon computers and the internet. The computer has completely changed the way the world works and with internet everything a persons needs to know about anything is available always no matter what time of day or for the most place what location a person is located. As the computer was created it was made to make typing papers and doing simple mathematics much easier. Now the computer is an amazing machine. It learns off the person using it.Also, with web pages being created daily it seems like there always a new site being created for people to interact with other people with out actually being social. This is creating a major problem with how people are growing up and learning basic social interactions.

Term Paper Proposal - Mike Lagrosa

I would like for my term paper to focus on the video game industry and how it has evolved rapidly. Both PCs and consoles now offer features that enable users to communicate, thereby changing the way people interact with one another. These features are often considered to be standard in the gaming industry today, but a few years back they were considered to be new-age.

Danielle Reedy term paper

I would like to write my paper on the way we communicate today using new technologies. I would look at social networking sites such as myspace and facebook but I would mostly like to focus on the artistic side of this new way of communicating. For this I would like to look deeper into youtube, mostly focusing on collaboration channels like vlogbrothers, 5awesomegays, 5awesomegirls and 5awesomeguys. I would also look at communicative art projects like post secret, where people can communicate anonymously but artistically.

Class Scribe Jack Martin

Today in the begining of class we discussed our term papers. Next week we need to have an abstract of our paper submitted to the blog. It needs to be one page long and the final paper is due the week after on December 8.

The next thing we did was watch McCluhan's Wake which discussed Marshall McCluhan's life and his 4 Laws of Media. McCluhan's 4 Laws of Media are:

1. What will this thing enhance?
2. What will this tool obsolesce?
3. What will this tool retrieve from the things you lost?
4. How will this tool reverse on you when it is pushed to its outer limit?

After listening to Marshall McCluhan's descriptions of his 4 Laws of Media we went over our own examples. We discussed cell phones, skyscrapers, and cars.

Term Paper Topic- Brian Panebianco

I would like to do my paper on Locative Media Art and how youtube effects it and how it is used in it. Youtube can make a Locative Media project make more sense and make it more interesting.