As an ultimate example of how digital rhetoric can affect our normal lives, the following link explains how an Egyptian couple has named their newborn daughter Facebook in appreciation of the role that the social networking site played during the revolution.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/egyptian-father-names-his-daughter-8220facebook-8221-after-revolution/342
It's sad, this child will have to live with her parent's poor decision for the rest of her life.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Electronic monuments
After listening to the guest speaker (though I disagree on one or two points he brought up), I've come to the conclusion that Electronic Monuments are only unique or different, in that you can more easily juxtapose ideas with the electronic monuments than you could with physical ones. Normally if someone tries to associate ideas in a physical monument that are not normally associated, it winds up being a "piece of modern art" who's point is lost on most people looking at it. It becomes easier to blatantly make your point or comparison in an electronic medium, where you can put an exact image or sound that represents your ideas to most everyone, rather than having to interpret certain symbols in a particular way.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
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