The New Media Dictionary is a collaborative work created to thoroughly define the vocabulary found in the world of New Media. This dictionary has been designed as an interactive, easy to navigate site, allowing people of all demographics to learn and share our content.
Our site elaborates on important terms in a simple but extensive way. We supply users with all of the necessary information for comprehension, equipping them to be experts on each word. After using the NMD, they can successfully recognize and apply the terms!
This multimedia project was part of my ENC3416’s Final Portfolio; a project which allowed me to connect my passion for gender studies (especially studying the portrayal of feminism) and the knowledge gathered from a course focused on new media studies. I was inspired by the current social media trends in which social campaigns such as the #MeToo movement are promoted and messages of all sorts are shared within a broad, diverse audience. As a feminist myself, I always wondered if these trends were indeed promoting feminist ideals of equality, women empowerment, and other essential ideals or rather having a negative effect on the female user sector. This project allowed me to conduct research and use my own experience as an active social media user to understand the effects and relationship of new media and feminism.
Author’s note
Frida once said, “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away,” and I believe we can all agree that she was indeed correct. More than a century ago, a group of women fought at the Seneca Falls Convention for gender equality and basic rights of women. Ever since, the rights of women have been changing, slower in some parts of the world, faster in others. But the important thing is that change is happening and every year, a larger number of young girls are given the opportunity to study, follow their dreams, and strip away from traditional gender stereotypes. Technology is also rapidly changing; it is slowly becoming part of everyone’s lives. It is influencing children, teens, and adults with both positive and negative messages.
My goal is this work was to merge these two ideas, new media effects and feminism in an attempt to identify the portrayal of feminist ideas and its role within audiences. I would like to thank Mr. Malesh for nominating my work and most importantly, for believing in me. Feminism is important and it affects us all.
November 14: Project Proposal November 21: First Draft December 5: Finished Capstone Project
Technical requirements
Multimodal web text
1200-1500 words
6-10 secondary sources
About this assignment
The goal of this assignment is for students to conduct research based on their own interest in new media topics to create a multimodal webtext. Some examples of this particular medium for academic writing include these texts we have read from the publication Kairos.
If you imagined your Unit 1 project as something that could be submitted to the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives, you might imagine this project as something that could be submitted to Kairos.
Possible approaches to take
During Week 12, you will submit a Project Proposal to identify your research goals, potential sources, and plans for your project. This proposal will allow me to give feedback on the appropriateness and feasibility of your potential project, and provide guidance on how to successfully achieve your goals.
Students have some freedom in the purpose and topic of their project, based on your own research interests. The project must be based on scholarly research on new media topics, but there are several avenues you can take to get there.
For example:
You may choose to create an autoethnography of your own new media writing practices. Examples:
Don’t let those above categories limit you. There are dozens of other ways students may research and write about reading and writing in new media environments. Any sources, topics, or assignments that we’ve done this semester that inspire you to explore your own research question are also fair game for this project.
Requirements and Scoring Criteria
Length of 1200-1500 words
Rhetorically-effective integration of multimodal elements
A clear and focused purpose related to reading and writing in new media environments
Meaningful transitions and connections between parts, a logical organization of ideas
6-10 credible sources integrated meaningfully and cited with hyperlinks
An appropriate combination of rhetorical appeals to the emotion/values (pathos) and logic and intellect (logos) of the audience, while writing in a voice that is fair-minded, knowledgeable, and appropriate in tone (ethos)
A language style that is appropriately professional, clear, and fair
Evidence of careful sentence-level editing with few grammatical and/or mechanical errors. The sentence structure is varied and the words are carefully chosen.
The embedded video is the introduction to a multimodal presentation: a narrated PPT file, with embedded videos utilizing Snapchat filters, virtual backgrounds, and animated bitmoji. It was created for the Technology Literacy Narrative project for ENC3416. Here is a link to the full project: Memory Lane, Lili Sevilla’s Technology Literacy Narrative
I was able to work with two types of media: the virtual snapchat filters along with the PowerPoint. It was very hard to compress and put it in the right size to be accessible for canvas and everyone.
This narrative is very important to me because it got me into seeing my own memory lane. I kind of forgot all these technology platforms I used to use. Where I am now it can be hard to look back and appreciate what made you who you are today – VHS, accelerated reading program, Messenger Live. The pandemic and at home research is giving me the liberty to continue my pre-med studies at home and still be English major.
The way I incorporated New Media in this assignment was by creating a website. Though I used a platform that helps you achieve a finished product, I can say that I am the one that created it. I can say that I am very proud of the website that I produced. The only experience I have with blogging is on websites intended for that purpose, websites like Tumblr and Blogspot, so this was completely outside of my realm of pre-existing knowledge.
This blog was created for ENC3416, for the Technology Literacy Narrative Project. I decided to create blogs with images and videos. I hope you enjoy reviewing it as much as I enjoyed creating it.
I have never used an audio software before or done any audio recordings so this was entirely new to me. This was not executed in any way that I wanted it to because I was originally planning a video, but didn’t have enough time to get all of the footage and editing done that I needed (since I’ve never used any software for this before it’s taken me hours to do a simple edit). I switched to just audio to save time but still ended up having to redo this project 3 times because the audio software I was using wouldn’t save the file correctly and I lost all of my work. I was going to add a lot more to this than there is but unfortunately was unable to do so.
Utilizing a popular social media app like “Instagram” was kind of tricky, making sure the post is cohesive, and show a whole narrative in chronological order was kind of a struggle. I think that the page came out the way I wanted it to. Each post includes multiple photo and video clips. Explore through each one to listen to the narrative.
I usually use PowerPoint for presentations, so utilizing Microsoft Sway was new to me. There could have been better ways to execute my media. Microsoft Sway doesn’t offer many templates or customization. I also would have liked it if I could input some audio, but I did my best with what I had.
First Draft: September 5 Finished TLN: September 12
Goals of this Project
Our first project in ENC3416 is designed to explore and reflect on ways technology has shaped your writing and literacy experiences so far. By writing a narrative, you will tell your own story about your life as a student and writer and choose how you want your classmates and instructors to see who you are. Because this is a reflective narrative, you will learn more about yourself as a writer and critically reflect on your past writing experiences by using the concepts that we discussed in class.
This focused approach to a literacy narrative asks writers to tell the story of how you developed the current literacy you have with the technology you use. This project allows writers to take control of how your audience of instructor and classmates perceives you, and lets me know where you’re coming from, what you have already learned, and what technological literacy you hope to develop further.
Another goal of this project is to experiment with writing in mediums that are “new to you.” This narrative may take any medium that you choose, as long as it includes some media that you haven’t used for academic writing before. We’ll look at examples of technology literacy narratives created as short films, animated videos, and web-written texts.
What you’ll need to do
We will begin planning this project by exploring the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. The DALN is an archive of personal literacy narratives that serves as an excellent record of the stories of literacy from people of all backgrounds, ages, and experience. By searching the DALN for literacy narratives on technology, you will explore some of the discourse about technology literacy and the ways that other writers have told their story.
By the time you start planning this project, you’ve already begun reflecting on the writing and rhetoric in your life. In many of our Canvas assignments, you’ve talked about your early experiences with computers, with online writing, use of smartphones for communication and expression. You’ve also discussed your present relationship with technology. Any of these might turn into the story you tell in your TLN.
Make sure you don’t just tell your readers about technology. Instead, make it a narrative that has details that create a concrete vision for your readers. What specific moments in time illustrate the development of your technological literacy? How can you use these moments to illustrate a meaningful point about technology for you?
To conclude your narrative, look to the future and significance of technology on your life moving forward. You might conclude by addressing these questions.
What role do you see technology playing in your life and future? How do you feel about computers and the role they have and will play in your future?
Do you think your writing will change based on new technologies? If so, how?
Requirements and Scoring Criteria
In order to successfully complete this assignment your project will need to meet these requirements. Here’s how they will break down in the final score.
For each requirement:
A = Extraordinary work, more than fulfills the guidelines B = Clearly above average work, more than meets the guidelines C = Average work, solidly meets the guidelines D = Below average work, serious attempt to fulfill requirements but does not fully meet the guidelines F = Substantially below average work
Here is what is required for the final draft:
Requirement
Points
Critical reflection on your past technology literacy experiences
20
Use of a medium that is new to you
20
A clear purpose that indicates to readers why your story matters
15
An easy to follow organizational approach
15
Specific, vivid, engaging use of language that makes the story come alive, demonstrating attention to word choice
15
Work that demonstrates an effective writing process, including discovering of ideas, drafting, revision and proof-reading
