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The site I created: http://switchfootandidentity.wetpaint.com/
                For my project, I created a wetpaint (wetpaint.com) site on music and identity—concentrating on the band Switchfoot. A brief history of Switchfoot (This was actually written in a previous blog of mine): They are a band originally with a Christian foundation and now an American alternative rock band. Started [...]

All the formatting for the Identity and Music page is done. Now, I need to focus on the real, grimy stuff–commentary and analysis on interviews, music videos, and lyrics. I also added the “Outside Readings’ link and need to add commentary and analysis on that as well.
I should have everything done in time. Most commentary and [...]

has gone a long way.
Who knew how complicated the internet is? The tool that seems to be the very center of many aspects of our lives actually started off with technical terms and goals set.
Pg. 797 “The Web does not yet meet its design goal as being a pool of knowledge that is as easy [...]

I thought the boy, Jarish, mentioned in Turkle’s Video Games and Computer Holding Power was interesting. His story is peculiar.
Everything physically described about him and his circumstancees in the physical world make him appear a seemingly hopeless boy with an unsuccessful future. However, it’s revealed that he excels in video games. His skills and techniques in video games [...]

I thought the story was interesting overall. I was expecting something more at the end of the story though.
I was expecting Selden Bishop to somehow find a way to crack the Kimon people or something else revolutionary. But instead, it was pages of him thinking things through and coming to a conclusion that isn’t exactly [...]

I finally started up the wetpaint page:
Switchfoot And Identity
I chose a background that I thought matched Switchfoot–it seemed modern.
All I did was add some photos I found online in the gallery, write the summary of my project, and created links that I will be filling with my research.
I will probably only post a few interviews, music [...]

Switchfoot, a band originally with a Christian foundation, is now an American alternative rock band. Started in 1996 as Chin Up, Jon Foreman, his brother Tim, and Chad Butler were the founders of the current band. Then the band was signed into Re:think records. Because Re:think was originally a Christian giant called Sparrow records, Switchfoot’s [...]

I will be using
“Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space?” by Bill Viola
“The Medium is the Message” by McLuhan
and
“Time Frames” by McCloud
In Viola’s reading, I’ll mainly be comparing how Viola writes about finding questions rather than answers–for Switchfoot said something similar in an interview.
In McLuhan’s I’ll be comparing how his reading is about how the [...]

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