INTERESTS

As I was looking through my peers websites I noticed that a lot of us have similar motivations for taking Computers and New Media. Most of us want to learn how different forms of media are influencing our society and how we as producers/consumers can influence the degree of impact.

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MUSIC

It comes to no surprise to me the amount of people that use applications such as Spotify, Soundcloud, YouTube, etc. to listen to music. I think that music is a form of "warm" media, in between what Marshall McLuhan defined as hot and cold media.  I found that I shared similar music participation to almost everyone in the class, but provided below are some more specific examples.​

• Amandeep Bhal​

  • ​http://students.cse.tamu.edu/amandeep.bhal92/

• Ashton Binkley​

  • ​https://sites.google.com/view/ashtonbinkleycsce445/assignment-1

• Gerardo Vasquez​

  • ​https://gvzq.github.io/csce445-a2.html

 

TV/MOVIES

I found that most of my peers use Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Go to watch TV shows or movies. For example, Hayden "Smitty" Chandler​​ (http://people.tamu.edu/~hschand/) and I both watch Westworld. I found this to be an interesting choice because the show discusses elements of new media that we have discussed in class, i.e. narratives.

 

TEXT

I found that most of us in the class use our phones as the preferred medium to read and access text. I saw that a lot of my peers use there phones to access emails, texts, articles, GroupMe, Reddit, etc.

•  Hayden "Smitty" Chandler​​

  • http://people.tamu.edu/~hschand/

• Grant Wilde

  • http://students.cs.tamu.edu/gwilde1/cnm/cnm.html