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Tag Archives: Evolution and Trends

The Future of Social Networking Sites

This is the final paper for the Master of Communication, Digital Media program’s “Evolution and Trends in Digital Media” class, taught with enthusiasm by Ken Rufo. The assignment was to project the future of a chosen medium two, five, and ten years into the future. By the time I was finished prognosticating social networking, I’d [...]

Précis: The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present

This is another short paper for the “Evolution and Trends in Digital Media” class. I chose this book because it came out during my undergraduate studies when I was first being exposed to the Orality and Literacy concepts that Walter J. Ong and others had developed. Havelock was recommended to me by the amazing Charlie [...]

The Unrise of BeOS

I wrote this paper as an assigned topic for Ken Rufo’s “Evolution and Trends in Digital Media” class for the Master of Communication, Digital Media program. I chose this one because I had purchased a PowerComputing Mac clone during the period when they shipped with BeOS as well as MacOS, and I had followed the [...]