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  • Movies and New Media: Mockingjay Part I [Spoiler Free!]

    I fell in love with The Hunger Games much later the most people. I believe that you can only be a fan of one Sci-fi/ fantasy series. Mine is Harry Potter, so I had a hard time even accepting that I liked the Hunger Games, but I did. I’ve only read Mockingjay and that’s because Read more

  • Take all my Software for Free

    Take all my Software for Free

    I was perusing Twitter this morning and came across this article on The Verge. Microsoft will offer the mobile versions of its Office software for free. The article is great but the finish is what caught my attention: It’s a bold move from Microsoft, but also a defensive one. Microsoft’s competition will now have to look Read more

  • The Key to this is Monopoly

    New Media Studies is a very broad field of study; its students could end up just wondering through different classes without really creating a coherent set of skills for themselves. In order to avoid that, my professor challenged us to critically examine our plans for our time here at DePaul and present them creatively, by drawing a map. Here’s Read more

  • Inequality within an Information Ecology

    Ain’t gone be no conflict. I’m the only one who bought the iPads so I’m the only one who gets to make the plan. This is what my mother said when I asked her what conflicts she foresaw arising from her regulation of my brother and sister’s iPads. I was interviewing her because I was Read more

  • Book Review: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

    The reason I thought I should share my love for this book on my blog is because the characters, like many of my peers, are steeped up to their eye balls in new media. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is about a young man, Clay, who gets a job at a 24-hour bookstore, only the store is Read more

  • So… Jeff Rice came to lecture about Beer?

    Last week, Jeff Rice from University of Kentucky visited DePaul’s Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse to lecture about his coming book, Craft Identity. It’s all about social media and society told through the lens of craft beer. Rice is really seriously into craft beer. I noticed immediately that Rice is heavily influenced by Marshall Read more