My name is Jeremy Lerner, and I'm an English major. I'm a senior, so this is my last semester at the University, and probably the last time I'll live in Michigan for an extended period of time. And that makes me pretty sad.
Along with reading both fiction and non-fiction, I like reading and watching plays. Music is good too - I like to make it and listen to it all day, for the most part. Movies feel like a waste of time, unless they're super funny or make me feel like it was the most dramatic thing I'd seen until that point.
I've never been too savvy with the true mechanics of digital media. The more specialized it gets, the more intimidated I become by how so many details spawn so many more. Even though this class is not tech-based, I feel like in confronting the web directly, I will inevitably learn a lot in the topic that intimidates me most. (Except for Math, but I've given up on that.)
Michael Wesch uses his web video to make a point about how the web works. In this way, he shows he is keenly aware of his audience, his audience's knowledge, and the critical time and place for this video to be most effective: online for a modern audience to find. By emulating a computer screen and relaying information across channels familiar to the computer user, the video makes the very points his text "narrates." Like his text says and shows, the web is a huge place which humans must create bridges within in order to navigate it efficiently. He links from page to page countless times with both speed and efficiency, showing how the internet is governed by both its huge size and the human need to access what is desired immediately. In this way, the rhetoric of the video accurately paints a picture of the scope of the web.
Along with reading both fiction and non-fiction, I like reading and watching plays. Music is good too - I like to make it and listen to it all day, for the most part. Movies feel like a waste of time, unless they're super funny or make me feel like it was the most dramatic thing I'd seen until that point.
I've never been too savvy with the true mechanics of digital media. The more specialized it gets, the more intimidated I become by how so many details spawn so many more. Even though this class is not tech-based, I feel like in confronting the web directly, I will inevitably learn a lot in the topic that intimidates me most. (Except for Math, but I've given up on that.)
Michael Wesch uses his web video to make a point about how the web works. In this way, he shows he is keenly aware of his audience, his audience's knowledge, and the critical time and place for this video to be most effective: online for a modern audience to find. By emulating a computer screen and relaying information across channels familiar to the computer user, the video makes the very points his text "narrates." Like his text says and shows, the web is a huge place which humans must create bridges within in order to navigate it efficiently. He links from page to page countless times with both speed and efficiency, showing how the internet is governed by both its huge size and the human need to access what is desired immediately. In this way, the rhetoric of the video accurately paints a picture of the scope of the web.
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