In deciding what to pick for my contributions to the class timeline I wanted to pick two events that changed the world and Information Age. Without a doubt, Alexander Graham Bell and Martin Cooper accomplished both of these. Bell and Cooper revolutionized the idea of communication. The telephone helped people connect regardless of geographic location […]
In “The Future of Truth and Misinformation,” an article by the PEW Research Center, a question was asked about what we think will happen in the next ten years with regards to allowing accurate information to be spread rather than misleading “unreliable, sometimes even dangerous, and socially-destabilizing ideas” (Anderson and Rainie). I personally believe that …
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1041-1045 Contrary to popular belief, the first movable type was not invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439 but was invented nearly four hundred years earlier during the Ch’ing-li period of China’s Song Dynasty. The first movable type for printing was invented by a commoner named Pi Sheng, and each block was made of moistened clay […]
For my contributions to the class timeline, I added two posts. The first entry is about Project Xanadu and the second entry is about afternoon, a story by Michael Joyce. Full disclosure, I could not get my timeline to properly function unless I built it off of the existing template (with template entries) or unless […]
This week I led class discussion with Jasmine and Kyle. Although Thursday’s class hasn’t happened yet, Tuesday’s discussion went well. I didn’t expect the class to discuss much because the topics concerned citations. However, the class was really involved in the discussion trying to state why their favorite citation method was better than others. Majority …