Entry 7

It is very important for writer to be a good typography, because the most valuable resource you have as a writer is reader attention. Therefore, to be a good typography can help you engage readers, guide them, and ultimately persuade them. Besides, the more you appreciate what typography can do, the better a typographer you can become. From this reason, we can figure out that typography can catch the readers’ attention that writer most care. The second reason is that a good typography can impress reader very well. As we all know, a brilliant work can leave the deep impressive for readers after they finish reading. Then, if you do typography well and the work is easy for audience to follow and understand, your work must have half success. In a word, typography is very important for a writer.

Entry 6

   Compare with the video lecture, the infographic gives audience information more direct. It is obvious for us to figure out that the lecture has 5 stages as a spiral and it develops step by step. What is more, the infographic also states a main phrase for every stage. For example, the first stage is “make me care”. About the video lecture, there are more details in there, and the speaker also gives us some movie clips to prove his statement. Besides, in the video lecture, speaker uses his own experience that is related to every sub point. As for me, infographic is easier for me to comprehend. The video lecture is lasted 19 minutes. At beginning, I can pay attention to video, but I feel tired to get information from the video later. The infographic can pass the information directly, and it also can save time. Although the infographic is easy to get information, I am still more enjoyable on video lecture, because it has more details and some movie clips that attract me a lot.

Entry 5

Directions:

For the infographic essay assigned to your group (only do one essay, do not do all of them)

1)       Outline the infographic essay

1.       The introduction is about beer’s and coffee’ s digestive processes and effect

2.       The body part shows the beer’ and coffee’s good influences, bad influences to brain and the best time to drink these two things.

3.       The conclusion writes about the main different influence of beer and coffee.

2) Provide the Rhetorical Situation of this essay

Purpose To show the different influence of beer and coffee to people’s brains

Audience People who like to drink coffee and beer

Stance objective and neutral

Genre Compare and contrast paper

Media/Design Text, infographic, picture

3) While you are only outlining the essay--not writing it word-for-word--you can still get a feeling for what this essay would look like. How is the infographic different from the traditional essay you outlined?

The traditional essay pays more attentions to text, and gives information by a lot of words. Different from the traditional essay, the infographic has fewer words and sends information by some vivid pictures. It is easy for us to know what the author says, and also can raise readers’ interests to read.

4) Strengths and weaknesses of the infographic: what does the infographic do better than the essay? What does the essay do better than the infographic?

Strengths: infographic is easy for reader to get and find information in pictures, rather than to read texts word by word. Besides, in compare and contrast paper, infographic can compare information and data more directly.

Weaknesses: Infographic just have fewer words, so it will eliminate some details. Besides, author explains less in the infographic; sometimes, readers cannot understand just by fewer words and pictures.

5) How does this qualify as an essay and not a series of pictures?

I qualify it as an essay, because it has main point that what the beer’s and coffee’s influences to people’s brains; has clear introduction, body and conclusion, and also compare the influences directly and expressly. Therefore, I think it is an essay, rather than a series of picture. 

Entry 4

    This article is far away from articles that I read usually, because it includes a lot of infographics to send information more interesting and vivid. The author who writes this article talks about his experience about music. The special word that he uses for his experience is revolution, and he also adds some impressed picture to express his feelings. Different from general articles, the author not only writes in text, but also uses some data and infographics to send information more clearly. It is helpful for us to read it and get information easily. However, there are still shortcomings in this article. Too many colors in there make me feel uncomfortable, and I cannot focus my attentions for a long time. Infographic is a good way for the author to send information, but it still should control in some aspect, rather than may make readers feel tired to read it.

Entry 3

This author teaches us to use data miner’s guide to romance in this article. There are three steps that mentioned in journal for us to follow and find a statistically significant other by Valentine’s Day. First of all, we should hack our vocabulary. The author gives us a lot of words that includes our location, interests, and something else. It is helpful for us to find people who are in the same place and have similar interests. Then, the second step is to reverse-engineer our photos. Through photos, we not only can find someone who catches our eyes immediately, but also can analysis people who are straight or gay, and author just gives us some tips. The last step is to optimize for our target audience. Like the author says, if you want to lure everyone, you will end with nobody. Therefore, you should have clear attraction to lure target audience. For example, you can tout your legs, if you are a lesbian. In a word, this article gives us a special way to find a lover, but I still like the way that let nature take its course.

Entry 2

   The first time I read these two articles, I do not find there are some relationships between “Safety Pin as Signifier” and “Web 2.0 to Social 3.0”. Then, I read them in detail, and they have some similarities. First of all, punk and web both have experienced the development of a longer period of time. At the beginning, punk is regarded as a style of exuberant ugliness, and most people do not like it. At that time, about web 1.0, it only can provide information, with not much people use it. However, with the development, nowadays, punk and web have a great progress. What is more, a growing number of people use and like them. Secondly, punk and web influence other things a lot. For example, punk affects the way of making movies, TV shows and something else. Web also influences people’s communication, information exchange. Last but not the least, Punk and social 3.0 not only become the worlds of avant-garde culture and mass entertainment, but also they are the labels in the present era.

Entry 1

      From Web 2.0 to Social 3.0, what is the main difference? In the journal, the author points the main difference is that software supports synchronous collaboration, but sites only support asynchronous collaboration in the Web 2.0. To put it simply, in the Web 2.0, we only can send a text; receive a reply; repeat in a sites. However, in Social 3.0, not only do we can do things that in the Web 2.0, but also we can engaged doing something inside an app or in a Web page. It is a big deal in the information era.

     Social 3.0 also make a contribution to our study. In Web 2.0, I only can send a text about my thoughts in the sites. Sometimes, it is difficult for others to know my real meanings, and they often misunderstand what I want to do. However, with the help of Social 3.0, I can take part in the synchronous collaboration. For example, we make group presentation PPT in Prezi.com. In this site, we can do it together and clearly, as well as we can save time, because we need not do it one by one. Therefore, Social 3.0 shows a new step in the information era.