Grief in the Age of Facebook

Q1: Do you agree with the "memorializing" policy of faceook?

Q2: Do you have any friend who has died but someone else still use his or her facebook account?

Growing Older in the Digital Age

Q1: In your mind, which year brings different meanings for you? No matter it had been or in the future. Why?

Q2: Do you think some of the blessings on your website (like facebook page) from your friends are without sincerity? They post the blessings just because the website or the email would remind them that today is your birthday.

We Shall Overshare

Q1: Please imagine that there is no internet in our life. What will the world be?

Q2: If you accept every requests of making friends on your facebook page? Why?

Virtual Humans

Q1: Do you want to make a real virtual person looks like you and do everything for you?

Q2: What problems will come out if virtual humans are legalized?

Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites

Q1: In what situation, you will put items into cart instead of buying at that time?

Q2: If you see an advertisement which you are familiar with when you are looking for some information, will you click on the advertisement?

13th - The Pants that Stalked Me on the Web

Q1: Do you like to shop at stores and try on the clothes or you just like to shop online? Why?

Q2: Do you always be attracted by some ads? Which kinds of ads will attract you?

12th - Cave On Sale Old Navy : Cool Clothes For Identical Zombies

Q1: If there are two restaurant you have never been, one is non-decorated but the price of dishes are very cheap and the other is beautiful decorated but the price is high. Which one you will enter to try their dishes?

Q2: Do you agree that most of things sold by Ikea are more expensive than other furniture store?

11th - Swoosh!

Q1: In your opinion, what makes these new symbols be swoosh?

Q2: Do you think these new icons may be misunderstanding between different countries?

Coporate Names and Products Creep into Everyday Language

Q1 : Which nouns you use very often but they come from a product names or corporate names?

Q2 :  Do you think it is proper to use these new words in formal articles, compositions or books?

Globalization vs Amerianization

Q1 : In your mind, is there any different between globalization and americanization? Why?

Q2 : What object motivates the globalization?

Left for Dead by MTV, Music Vedios Rebound on the Web

Q1: Is there any music vedio impressed you a lot?

Q2: Do you think the music industry impact not only us but also the society?

Description of Five Podcast

NPR : Ask Me Another (How To Be Black)
I think this podcast is like a show. This podcast use a very funny method make it alive. There are four guests chatting and playing something interesting with the audiences. The audiences enjoy the show and join their games and the songs. One of the hosts make songs at the show and play guitar. The third show, there is a popular guy join the show. The audiences laugh and applaud during the shows. It is fifty minutes long with three different shows. At the end of every shows, the hosts would give the audiences the next show's information. It makes the audiences look forward to the next show.

NPR : Climate Connection (Spain Runs Europe's First Commercial Solar Plant)
There are two speakers in the podcast,one is man and the other is woman. They dicuss something about solar plant. They tell the informations of solar power using the method like telling a story. They broadcast some voice files during their speaking to explain their idea. The speakers tell us how does the solar plant work and how will it influence our environment. They tell us the summary of that and then, it may induce the listener's notice. It is about four minutes and thirty seconds. I think it's enough and clear.

NPR : Pop Culture Happy Hour (Time Travel And The Right Way To Be Pushy)
There are one main host and three guests to discuss the topic. They chat during the podcast and share their experiences. The same thing, they would have different comments and ideas, they discuss and talk about their own point of view. They also give listeners some information we can search for the topic. They analyze some idea about the topic. It is a long podcast, it is almost forty-six minutes.

NPR : Planet Money (A Fomer Crack Dealer on The Economics of Drugs)
There is a host and a guest talk in the podcast. They chat and share experiences. They also broadcast a voice file and songs during the talk. They keep giving us real events and the time of happening. It makes the podcast more fun and  convincing. It is twenty minutes long.

Indiana Public Media : Earth Eats (Hot Chicks And Cold Chicks, Getting Creative With Booze )
There is only one host and one guest of this podcast. At the beginning of the podcast, they are talking about the real food and green living. They also broadcast some musics and some voice files to make it alive. The voice files are like a host outside to give a visit someone and record something important of the topic. Then, the outside-host come inside with the host and the guest dicuss about the contents. Also, they all go ouside to find something interesting. They also really do something during the podcast making. This all methods make the topic more fun and alive. This podcast is thirty minutes long.

APA and MLA Resources

Q1: Which kind of work you will prefer to use APA? And which kind of work you will prefer to use MLA?

Q2: APA formatting mensions that your essay should include four major sections: the Title Page, Abstract, Main Body, and References. Which part you forget very often?

This is Your Brain on the Web

Q1: When you read an artical, will you drop some words and sentences and choose what you want to read or just read every words? Is there any difference between online reading and paper reading?

Q2: Once a professor like Mr. Hepler give us the reading homework but it is online reading, you prefer to read it on the internet or print it out? Why?

The New Literacy

Q1: Do you agree that writing will help you remember and organize? Why?

Q2: How do you think about on-line writing?

Digital Information and The Future of Reading

Q1: Which kind of book would make you fall asleep? How do you solve this problem?

Q2: Do you think that digital information will replace books someday?

Fourth Reading - Head to head - print photographs

Q1 : How to make sure that you will not lose your pictures? 

 

Q2 : Which camera do you prefer to use at an very important moment? Digital camera or film camera?

Third Reading - This photo is lying to you?

Q1 : " The camera never lies." What's your opinion of the sentence in the artical without the author's explaination after it?

Q2 : Do you agree to modify pictures or make synthetic pictures with the photo programs?

Second Reading - How to Write an Incendiary Blog Post

Q1 : Do you think if you read the first sentence of a paragraph, you can know what it want to say in this paragraph?

Q2 : What kind of reading you think is incendiary?

First Reading - Stop Relying on Bloggers for News

After reading the artical.....

Q1 : Do you think the information exist in public media is correct? And how to prove it?

Q2 : Do you like to use blog to search the information which you want? Why?