Writing my technology literacy narrative was a grounding process for me because I had never seriously pondered the entirety of my relationship with technology. Whenever I thought about my use of and relations with technology, I had always taken for granted the fact that technology was so readily accessible, both in terms of its physical …
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The technology literacy narrative depicts the growth of my relationship with technology and how it has become integral in my daily activities. In writing my narrative, I wanted to start off the piece by talking about my very first encounter with a technological device which was a cellular flip phone, a rather rare object you …
But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. —–John Berger Ways of Seeing In my technology literacy narrative, I discussed how technology has influenced and challenged our ways of seeing, our ways of communication, and thus our ways of life. The different “rhetorical situations” between conventional media and new media prompted me to …
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When I started writing my Technology Literacy Narrative, I compiled a list of ways I have used technology. I was not surprised at the number of ways in which I use computers and the internet, but initially I did not consider how they affected my personality. On Friday morning, working on the 7th floor …
In this post, I answer four questions to start brainstorming some ideas for my technology literacy narrative. Some of the ideas from these answers have been integrated into the narrative … Continue Reading →
I think I first came into contact with computers early in grade school. I remember having computer class and playing various different basic games on the old Mac computers. Many things seemed to come naturally but I am not sure why or how they did, as I had never really used technology before in that …
While I was writing this narrative, I found it especially helpful to attack each of the four thought questions for five minutes to figure out what I actually had to say about the topic at hand. From these questions, I discovered that a one-word summation of my experience with technology would be, “anxiety.” While I …
This photo is a combination where the bottom half depicts a plant pot on tile while the top is a view of a sunset and a lamppost towering high in the sky. The distinction I tried to make with these two halves, is the juxtaposition between digitally animated objects vs an actual landscape. Essentially, the …
