<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>On the topic of whether or not Social Media is Geography-Specific and is a legitimate source of information, I believe only one of the two to is true. Although one of the goals of social media is to connect and relate with people who are outside of your demographic, it can be seen that social media is…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Date: Sunday, October 14th</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>What I did: I watched a visual album by Beyonce called Lemonade and a read two articles, </span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>What Do the Teens Know About this Tweet That We Don’t? And How Instagram threads became Wikihow for Gen Z. I then w…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Date: Sat, Sep 29</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>What I did: I watched the black mirror episode, Nosedive. I read the two articles, one on wikipedia and the other on Instagram. Finally, I wrote a response on how my reality is constructed.</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Time Spent: 1 hour for…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I believe that I was born in a very unique time when the social constructs that shaped my life had changed and evolved as I grew older. As a child, I remember the time when social media was practically non-existent in people’s lives especially compared to today. But as a college student in 2018, social media has b…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Date: Sunday, September 23rd</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>What I did: I worked on my rhetorical analysis of an artifact.</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Time Spent: around 6 hours</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Intensity: I worked very efficiently after making a draft and…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The artifact that I chose for my rhetorical analysis is a Political Cartoon. The cartoon is a drawing of two elephants dressed in suits that are on top of the white house. Only the very top of the white house can be seen as the rest is submerged underwater. At the top right of the cartoon, there is a time period of…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Labor Log 3</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Date Saturday, Sep 15</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>What I did: I watched the black mirror episode called the Fifteen Million Merits. I wrote a response on visual rhetoric and elements in the episode as well as connecting it to the Contrapoints’ v…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>In the episode of Black Mirror, there were many uses of rhetorical rhetoric but I found that two were most impactful in supporting the main idea of the episode. The first example of visual rhetoric I found in the episode was the monochromatic color in practically everything surrounding the protagonist’s life.…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Date: Friday, September 7th</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>What I did: I watched the two youtube videos by contrapoints on “What is wrong with capitalism?” I also found an online article about “Personality Tests” and analyzed how this article demonstrated visual rhetoric as mentioned by Hocks and the gra…[Read more]

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The online article I read called “What Personality Tests Really Deliver” by Louis Menand is about the functions and history of personality tests, the most famous one being the MBTI test or “Myers-Briggs Type Indicator”. The article starts off with a  lengthy background on how and why the MBTI test was created…[Read more]