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The second Blog I took a look at was Instapundit. Instapundit is a heavily right wing biased blog written by Glenn Reynolds who is a law professor at the University of Tennessee. He uses a lot of advertisements on his page which I’m guessing is to make money. He has Amazon links and links to … More Mentor Blog #2

The blog that I’m looking at today is the Daily Kos. The Daily Kos was created in 2002 by Markos Moulitsas to voice his own political views, but now it is an outlet for a huge amount of people due to its popularity. I liked how it has a rolling meter of different metrics and … More Mentor Blog

The first blog that I checked out was Sade’s blog. I loved the way she set her page up and her content was actually interesting and relatable and was something I wouldn’t mind reading during my own time. She writes about different issues students deal with and how to over come them. Her posts are … More Blog Tour

As one of the most controversial topics in the United States politics, gun policy is still being aggressively debated with people on both sides of the issue. With the staggering amounts of mass shootings in our country in the last couple years, politicians have begun to propose ways to stiffen the wide open access to … More Topic Blog- Politics (Gun Control)

When looking into different topics for our final project, I thought about how I could find a topic that would not only be very open-ended, but also allow me to research and learn valuable information that I can take outside of the classroom. When it comes to being open-ended, I don’t think there is a … More Topic Blog- Politics (Education)

We currently live in a world where we can connect with people on the other side of the world in the matter of seconds, have access to a plethora of information, and can even express ourselves though a small device. Living in the Internet Era has helped push humanity to a different level with innovations … More “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” Post

Summary: In the article, “Annoying Ways People Use Sources”, the author Kyle Stedman writes about mistakes writers tend to make while citing sources, using quotations in their essays, and how to correct them. Stedman begins the article with a metaphor comparing reading confusing/annoying parts in essays to having a car in front of you in … More “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” Notes

Summary: In the third chapter of “seeing Ourselves Through Technology”, Jill Rettberg writes about the different types of visual self-representation throughout our daily lives. She states how by looking at one part of a social feed or picture only shows the viewer part of the story, and to further understand you have to look at … More “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” Ch. 3 Notes

Summary: In the second chapter of ” Seeing Ourselves Through Technology”, Jill Rettberg opens up the chapter writing about filters and the different meanings the word holds. She starts out with literal filters that separate different things and allow you to take what you need from it, and goes on into other types of filters … More “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” Ch. 2 Notes

In the first chapter of “Seeing Ourselves through Technology”, Jill Rettberg writes about the history of self-portraits, the different types of self representation throughout history, and how they are different in the Internet Era. This chapter really gave me an enlarged view what I’ve always thought about subconsciously. Self-representations are created and used by everyone … More “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” Ch.1 Notes