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Problem. (Statement.)
The last version I submitted for my thesis abstract: While the accessibility of media tools today easily allow us to share stories with others, storytelling in contemporary culture largely indulges in...
View ArticleNew(ish) Considerations…
Back to school. Back to thesis. I honestly didn’t actively think about thesis much this summer, but in wrapping up my Design for Mindful Interaction class from earlier in the summer, it seemed like...
View ArticleThe role of the designer
Last week I reread Khoi Vinh’s Conversations with the Network. He talks about how digital media has affected the role of the designer and says that designers are now not just transmitting messages but...
View ArticleWhat is at stake?
I went to a couple of sessions at NYU’s Re-Thinking Literature conference last week, thinking that maybe I’d gain some insight on storytelling at large. I might have confused myself further instead,...
View ArticleMeaning.
Yesterday, I announced to Jeannette that “meaning” was a new keyword for thesis. “Isn’t that kind of a big one?” she said. So I’ve decided to dissect it a bit here. In Paul Elliman’s The World as a...
View ArticleDeath of the Author… and Storytelling?
Yesterday morning, I woke up compelled to reference Roland Barthes’ Death of the Author to my working problem statement. He writes: To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to...
View ArticleSpeaking of storytelling in contemporary culture… #roofbreakup
So I’ve decided I need to bring the “fun” back in my thesis. And also, I need to be more in tune to contemporary culture if it’s what I’m talking about. So back to making time for the blogs, etc. I...
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Selfie is the word of the year.
Oxford Dictionaries has named “selfie” the word of the year. The word’s usage showed a “phenomenal upward trend” this year, and it meets the criteria of having “cultural significance” and reflecting...
View ArticleYouTube Comment Reconstructions
Sketch comedy troupe Dead Parrot created this reenactment of a YouTube comment war between two fans of English-Irish pop boy band One Direction.
View ArticleRIP Saeed Huda
Last week I received a text from a good friend in DC asking me if I had seen the news about Saeed. I hadn’t, and I expected her to tell me that he had won some award or something (he worked at the...
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