There's a Will & There's a Way

I think something relevant across all classes, digital literacy, and all fields is attention. No matter where you look, keeping your attention is key to success. If your studying, you have to focus - keep your attention. If you're making a tiktok video, you have to keep your viewers attention in mind - make sure it's not too long and drull that they move on without completing the video. However, what comes into question is how current media, sources of entertainment, and people's attention retention is being altered. A common trend thats remained relevant for last two years is under your "main content" (the content with information/audio) you include a clip of a benign mobile app to hold viewers attention. This became a staple practice for content-creators when uploading smaller clips of their podcast, small edits, and it only spread more widely when it was used as means to upload clips of movies and tv-shows to avoid copyright and automated piracy software. This...

This blog is made in dedication to the insurmountable, indomitable, and unrelenting Dr. Vrooman. Well more specifically for his Social Media & Society course work that requires me to do so, but nonetheless will this blog be made. This first blog will be made in an analysis of what makes a blog scholarly and how this blog can do so. The first step in doing so would require a definition of the word "scholar" and "scholarly." According to my very trusted and irreperable source, Google.com, a "scholar" is "specialist in a particular branch of study, especially in the humanities; a distinguished academic." Next we have the definition of "scholarly" as "involving or relating to serious academic study." So according to these definitions, in order for me to be labeled a scholar I must be a distinguished academic (which I feel I am, but the burden now falls to me to prove to you) as well as this blog be related to a "serious...