This article talks about the editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's goals for the coming year. It focuses on the balance between the print edition and the online newspaper. It emphasizes the growing trend towards multimedia authorship. This is a good source because it distinguishes between the multimedia author and the print author. It is also reliable because it was written in The Washington Post. This will be a good reference for my project as I can talk about how the print writer has been forced to adapt to the ways of the multimedia author due to public demand.
"Technology in Education." New Horizons for Learning. Web. 16 Feb. 2010.
This website has a large database of articles that reference multimedia authorship and technology in schools. Included is an article which references my subject. This article is titled "Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe of Student Writing?" Unlike other resources, this website has fewer limitations due to its vast collection of articles regarding technology in education. This is going to be a great reference for my project as it has a specific case study that I can cite.
"Text Messaging, Chat Abbreviations and Smiley Faces - Webopedia." Webopedia: Online Computer Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms and Definitions. Web. 26 Jan. 2010.
This website is basically the largest index of text/ chat abbreviations used on the web. It chronicles abbreviations from A-Z. "With the popularity and rise in real-time text-based communications, such as instant messaging, e-mail, Internet and online gaming services, chat rooms, discussion boards and mobile phone text messaging (SMS), came the emergence of a new language tailored to the immediacy and compactness of these new communication media. If you have ever received an instant message or text message that seemed to be written in a foreign language, this Webopedia Quick Reference will help you decipher the text chat lingo by providing the definitions to more than 1,200 chat abbreviations." This will be great for my final project as I will need to reference examples of how the multimedia author has been changed due to cultural changes.
Overall, it looks like your on the right track. You might be able to expand upon how each site or article will help with your final project.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tyler. Supposedly we were told to be more informative as to the specifics of how each article will help us with our project.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a really cool subject that you're researching.