Two A.M. Thoughts

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  • Process Post #12: Questions, comments, concerns? How about a comment?

    Comments. You can find or hear them almost anywhere. Under your posts on Instagram; under that YouTube video you watched a couple days ago; from the hairstylist you see every few months; or behind your back and you may not even know. Now those are just comments in general, but I’m here to look at…

  • Process Post #11: Two A.M. Thoughts takes on social media?

    Transmedia storytelling is a “process” as Henry Jenkins (as cited in Kevinbrittenylauren.wordpress.com, 2013) would call it. It’s a process in which elements of content—in his example, a fiction—are spread across a variety of channels and platforms. The goal? To create a “coordinated” experience for the audience. This process works beyond storytelling as well. For instance,…

  • Process Post #10: SEO 101: The basics

    SEO is one of those fancy-sounding acronyms I keep hearing about, but I don’t know much about what it is. Yes, I know it stans for search engine optimization… but what does that mean? Well, I’m going to find out. What is search engine optimization? Search engine optimization (SEO) is a means of understanding and…

  • Process Post #9: Yum, digital breadcrumbs

    For content creators, you could say that analytics are the key to knowing and growing your audience. But for the audience? Well, that’s a different subject. For audience members, analytics means that our every movement, action, and choice is tracked. Pod Academy (2016) notes that most, if not all, the applications we use require our…

  • ChatGPT and the classroom: Are you in or are you out?

    It’s March 2023—almost a full three months into the year—and it seems like every academic and student (and their dog) has brought up artificial intelligence (AI) in their conversations and discussions. Whether it be in the form of chatbots, facial recognition, or smart assistants, artificial intelligence, or AI, has formed a strong presence in today’s…

  • Process Post #8: Two A.M. Thoughts: AI-generated edition

    ChatGPT comes up in discussion with almost every class I go to, every instructor I talk to, and every conversation I have with someone. Though to be completely honest, I’ve never used it before. I’ve only seen and heard what it can do through others. So, what is it? What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is an…

  • Process Post #7: Time to build our literacies… ASAP

    I remember discovering the worlds of YouTube, vloggers, and social media influencers all the way back in middle school. At the time, the internet seemed harmless. To me, it was a space for people like influencers to have fun and a space for viewers like me to be entertained. Little did I know that there…

  • Process Post #6: A print to web story

    It is crazy to think about how far the ‘webpage’ has come. As Erin Kissane (2013) notes, much of the designs that we find on our computers and on websites are based on and borrowed from print work. From print to the web If you look behinds the scenes into a webpage created on WordPress…

  • Process Post #5: My website, my digital garden

    Two A.M. Thoughts is for me to enjoy. Don’t worry, it’ll be here for you too, but this is my space to build for me and my thoughts. Digital gardens Tanya Basu’s (2020) article for MIT Technology Review discussed this idea of the “digital garden”—the reimagination of your typical blog into a creation of your…

  • Process Post #4: Who’s watching?

    What is the public? What is a public? These are some interesting questions asked this week, and they’ve got me thinking. Who knew that there was a difference between the public and a public? I sure didn’t, but here we are. The public As Warner (2002) explains, the public refers to people—people in general. When…

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