Monthly Archives: February 2016

Introduction This composition evaluates the webtext by Benjamin, Licastro, and Belli. While the limited nature of this web composition does not allow me to address all the issues in the work under review, I will allude mostly to the technical design and … Continue reading →

In separate studies on impacts of media multitasking, Lui and Wong (2012) and Reddy Sumathi (2014) claimed that heavy media multitasking helped individuals to adapt the brain to simultaneously manage information from multiple sources. Specifically, Lui and Wong noted that … Continue reading →

This phrase is a mimicry of the popular feminist rallying cry “the personal is political.” Political is seemingly an indispensable term that is associated with different things. Unlike its feminist connotation, I use “the design is political” not as a manifesto. Rather, … Continue reading →

In explicating the basic material, numeric and computational principles of new media, Manovich posited, amongst many other views, a kind of relationship that exists between the digital culture and the human culture. These two cultures or layers, as he called … Continue reading →

Most authors, in an effort to affirm digital literacy, tend to dwell on how the goal of digital literacy is to help students communicate the information they have through the various forms of multimedia. To the extent that this is … Continue reading →