Paper 1 Brainstorm

L. Christie Linger
Dr. Barnes-Pietruszynski
Eng 303-01
24 July 2010
Project 1

Project 1 Brainstorm

For the first paper assignment I find myself being slightly confused, however as usual, I will talk myself through it.Only this time the brainstorming will be in the form of a blog entry. This should be interesting. I know I am to examine my level of engagement with digital culture and my role in developing the digital culture. I should start there.

My Engagement with Digital Culture

Blogs are one way that I engage in digital culture. Blogs are ways I personally and now academically engage. My first interaction with digital culture was video games. Well, not games, one game. I played Super Mario Brothers. I could talk about that game. I remember Tamigotchis. They were little hand held video games of a sort. You took care of a baby. Or Giga Pets where you took care of a pet. Tamagochis and Giga Pets taught me how to take care of things. They taught me basic nurturing skills. In school we played the computer game Oregon Trail. That's an academic digital culture example. I use to use Myspace. I wrote journal entries, commented on pages, etc. I currently use Facebook, You tube, and email. I use Google everyday, academic research, personal research, and to find just about anything I want to know. Ok, so when I started this brainstorm I thought I didn't engage in digital culture very much. I thought I would have nothing to write about looks like I was WRONG.

My role in Developing Digital Culture

Whenever I post something to blogs or social networking sites I expand what is on the Web. When I turn something in to Turnitin.com I am expanding on an academic database. Maybe I contributed in the context of Supply and Demand. I "demanded" the products so they were supplied. When consumers get things they always want something new and better when they get bored. All of the demanders are what have caused digital technology to expand so rapidly. I'll need to work on this aspect of the paper.

Layout of Paper and Research

I think it would be interesting to start with the way I engaged with digital technology as a child and progress to now. It would be interesting to show how my engagement increases as technology increases and expands. It would also give the appeal of a sequence of events.

As for research I can look for information about how the things I will talk about affected digital culture.