Image Reproduction in the Digital Age

One of our class's recent reading was on digital image reproduction, covering aspects such as both copying and manipulation. I for one have first-hand experience with issues relating to the topic. My favorite internet forum had an incident roughly one year ago when one of the members posted a generic image of a Toucan to the forum. Unknown to him, it was copyrighted. The owner(s) of the image somehow found out one way or another and were understandably displeased. They had the forum shut down from public viewing until moderators were able to go in and delete the offending post. This incident helped show me that some companies take their intellectual property very seriously and that stealing from them can have major consequences.

My Story board

Four our class's second assignment, we were supposed to make a storyboard that represented our daily life in some way. We were allowed to use any medium as long as it was edited in photoshop. I ended up using a digital drawing made in a manga-like style, which was fairly challenging for me as I had never attempted this artstyle before and have only a small amount of experience with drawing using a computer. Anyway, this is what I came up with:

Manga Guide to Databases

For one of our classes's assignments, we were told to read the Manga Guide to Databases, an odd yet effective way of approaching teaching us this topic. At first, I'll admit I was a bit dubious of the concept even though I occasionally read manga for fun. How would a manga teach about a topic? However, as I started reading, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the manga did a genuinely good job at getting its point across. It had a fairy similar in role to Navi from The Legend of Zelda teaching two medieval characters (and by proxy the readers) all that they needed to know. It used the "tell them what you will tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them" method of teaching, and by the end I felt as if I had a basic understanding of the topic. While I don't think that this type of teaching can replace traditional methods, it's still an unique and fun way of imparting information to the reader.

Hello and welcome to my blog. This blog is more my DTC 356 class at WSU titled Electronic Research and The Rhetoric of Information. Expect me to be updating this blog multiple times a week with posts revolving around both our textbook and contemporary topics related to this class.