Sydney Brooks ENGL 3360

In the "When Writing Becomes Content" article, we read about how writing and content can be used in tandem but do have a difference in format. Dush also mentions the importance of how professionals who are in the world of English take care to not fall behind on the importance of content as the rhetoric of the world seems to be changing. In "Writing as extended mind: Recentering cognition, rethinking tool use" we read about how writing and technology can have an equal impact on one another. Overstreet also discusses that we, as digesters of anything written need to include our extended minds. Meaning that we not only use our brain but that our internal processes and experiences can help challenge our current understanding to make way for new beliefs.  The question that Lexi raised today in class of the problems that could arise from putting a paywall behind free information was really interesting, but I also really understood Adam's point of how that censorship w...

Week 1: Choosing What Wolf to Feed In the video that we watched, The Data Explosion | The History of the Internet, Part 3 from the channel SciShow, the man leading the discussion said that “The citizens of the internet get to decide what our priorities are, and we get to choose what kind of internet we want to be a part of – now and in the future.” We talked in class about the history of the internet and had a really great discussion on who truly has the ability to censor people who are using their platforms for some negative things, and I love that we talked about this same point as a class. Though there is a lot of garbage, negativity, and just plain stupid things to be found, we are the masters of our own devices and can choose what we do with the internet. We may not be able to censor those around us, but we can pick for ourselves what we consume and change our personal algorithms. It reminds me of the analogy that I’ve heard multiple times on the wolves, and the loudest one is...