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Blog Post #4: Sonic Walk

My sonic walk went really well. In a way, it was really peaceful, just meandering around campus and listening closely to things I’ve never really paid any attention to. During that time period though, it was pretty difficult to record sounds without also recording people talking without their permission. The way I’d overcome this was…Continue Reading Blog Post #4: Sonic Walk

Blog Post #3

For my photo manipulation, I chose a photo a friend of mine took of me at the Franklin Park BLM protest in 2020. What I mainly wanted to highlight, aside from my general disdain of the police, was how they presented themselves at a peaceful protest. Thousands of people came out to march together peacefully…Continue Reading Blog Post #3

Blog Post #2: Two Possible Topics for Project 1

Truth be told, I’m having a bit of a difficult time choosing potential topics for this project because there are so many topics out there to choose from. I’m still getting back into the swing of being a student and thinking critically in an academic context, and the broadness of the prompt is a little…Continue Reading Blog Post #2: Two Possible Topics for Project 1

Blog Post #1: Multimodality and Multimedia

We’ve spent the past few days wrestling with two relatively complex terms: multimodality and multimedia. After reading Kress’s Where Meaning is the Issue, the most glaring observation was able to make was what constitutes a ‘mode’. According to Kress, ‘modes’ can be understood as the actual tools one may use to create a multimodal work;…Continue Reading Blog Post #1: Multimodality and Multimedia