This is the class blog for the Understanding New Media course in the MA in Media and Professional Communication Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Metropolitan Campus, Spring 2014
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Windows and Mirrors (4-6)
These chapters talk
about how we can take online media to the next level. Bolter and Gramola
discusses in detail the ways to make online media appealing to the people. Attractiveness is an important feature even
in the computer world. Just as a girl with more beauty is likely to become a
model and get more attention, the same way a website with better features and
user friendly tools is likelier to get more popular and famous with the
public. It also important how the
authors point out that the websites should be user friendly and enable to make
the user understand what he is doing. Making too many complex features may lead
to complication for the user. I thought that the authors discuss a very valid
point, although this was kind of known to me as I when you think of it as a
computer user, you would go for a one that was appealing
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