First Blog Assignment

Montes Carrasquillo
First blog report
Question #1 – Digital Communication – What implications do Internet technologies have on contemporary forms of communication?
Internet technologies have many implications for contemporary communication. For example, I am a student at Temple University School of Communication and of the Theater Arts, and our student class blogs have been a big part of the overall class assignments. For example, I take a film class in which we are studying experimental film. Part of the overall lesson is to make a class blog using some sort of common free blog site. I chose Tumblr because I was introduced to it the semester beforehand. The task is to post responses to reading that are given out mostly on what is called Black Board, a website that Temple students use for their homework and to engage other students and even the teacher through email. Our other task for the class blog involves posting contemporary experimental exercise films that we make ourselves using some of the latest artist techniques such as synaesthetic. We also combine different layers of visuals and audio so that they are superimposed on one another using an A, B, and C method of layering. Each student has their own individual blog and we can follow each other’s progress and make comments on each other videos. So can the rest of the Tumblr community.