Rudra Venkatakrishnan ENGL 1101

Reflection for Podcast                Working on this podcast ended up being an interesting project that primary challenged the way I presented my argument. In my podcast I was a Gamemaster who was speaking from the present about the implications of a seemingly unethical decision he made regarding giving a contestant on a high prize money game show an unfair advantage. I attempt to explain the rationale behind that decision in the end as a reflection of the event as a past memory and also incorporated what the Gamemaster was thinking in the time of the actual moment when the character Sanjit was the contestant answering the million dollar question. Through Sanjit’s dialogue and introduction, he is established as a character who comes from rough beginnings and has lived an extremely adverse life financially. I subtlety wrote in the dialogue that he spent his childhood in an orphanage to imply how little family he h...

Authorship is the idea that anyone on the web can post and publicize anything they please for sharing purposes and labeling someone as an author assigns credibility or blame to a person if what they write is correct or not. However people who write anonymously on wikipedia I believe are not authors because they do not publicly reveal their names even though they write content for the purpose of sharing the information with anyone with a computer. I also believe wikipedia has made the internet too public in that anyone can write whatever they please and even though there are people who correct the mistakes, inevitably there will always be at least a couple of mistakes that change the meaning of the information, and thus the credibility of the internet. In addition, in other countries such as China where freedom of speech is restricted, unbiased information on certain topics related to the government is impossible to find due to internet search restrictions. I believe that what google di...

An author is anyone who produces something written for the purpose of sharing with others. Labeling someone as an author has the implication that the person wishes to share what he/she has written with the public whether its for entertainment, education, or an opinion on a certain topic. One question that came to mind when I was reading the "Everyone is a Author " section is that when were the blogs "dragged to the courts" as mentioned? Also do teenagers or others who writen blogs with poor English writing convention count as authors? The document on public displays of connection argues that sites such as Linkedin are meant to be used as a way to expand one's network. People in today's age want to establish what is called a "reputation" and I agree with this fact because that is what going to school and working in jobs are for. People want the professional recognition from other professionals in the work subspace and feel that Linkedin and ...

Some questions that came to mind while reading are: What is the evidence that suggests that typing on a computer is worse than hand writing something in terms of retention? And did the production and sales of actual books decline significantly in the computer digital age? The readings were objective in that they did not criticize the constant use of computers in today's age, but rather discussed the positive and negative aspects of the technology. For example, I agree with the fact that typing keystrokes is not as effective for retention as hand writing it because people don't need to think that much about what they type. There is a backspace button that simply removes whatever we don't want to write, but with pencil and paper, or even pen, the mistakes are physically harder to remove, and thus one must put more thought into what they communicate on paper. However, I disagree with the fact that typing something significantly decreases the quality of writing. I believe t...