Disruption: The role of image in communication.

"Photos, once slices of a moment in the past — sunsets, meetings with friends, the family vacation — are fast becoming an entirely new type of dialogue"

After reading this sentence the only thing I could think of was how the evolution of communication to others has gone to a heavy photo base. Things like snapchat, instagram, reddit, and even picture messaging. These are just a few examples, but these mediums use a caption and a photo to convey a message.

A picture can say more.

This photo doesn't necessarily point towards the downfall of reading, but that all the words in this book can be conveyed with pictures in less space. It is similar to the evolution of computer games going from text based adventures to visually stunning adventures that can still engulf the player, but requires far less dialogue. This can also be compared to adapting a book into a movie, all the descriptions used in the book are presented as beautiful scenery that the viewer only needs to glance at to see what might have taken several pages to describe.

Introductory Post for EDUC 6809

Hello all! My name is Sean Harwell and I am from Charleston, WV and I am currently a graduate assistant for Dr. Debra Hemler at FSU. I will be working with her through half of the summer and working with a couple summer camps through WVU and FSU. I am hoping to get better sense of what roles new media plays in our ever evolving world. I am a Digital Media, New Literacies and Learning major and have completed 18 hours worth of courses this far. I have taken EDUC 6810, 6814, 6305 and ONLR 6802, 6804, 6808. For the summer I am enrolled in this class and EDUC 6816.