Digital Lanugage Arts

I thought  “We who spoke LOLcat now speak Doge”  was very interesting. I found the concept that we can piece together discrete, abstract elements to form meaning completely fascinating. Even though the meaning of these things might change over time, most people are able to grasp the content of what is being displayed. I also found this internet art piece interesting:  http://internetpoetry.co.uk/image/177088807858 . In addition to it being "relatable content," the piece is particularly powerful. The caption and the image come together to form some form of shared meaning that everyone can understand. By themselves, it could mean anything, but the combination of these uses language and shared experiences to form meaning.

I scraped a bunch of Trump's tweets from twitter and put them through a text to voice software to generate an audio representation of them. https://soundcloud.com/aansh-shah-403292121/trump-tweets/s-GpmqK

According to Lev Manovich, digital media and language share a few similarities; namely, both are composed of discrete units. Language is broken up into words — each unit combined together forms meaning; digital media combines single, decomposable elements to actualize meaning. For example, in the Long Rong Song, the sounds that we hear are discrete pieces of language; each sound has a word that corresponds to it but does not have any meaning. Through the visuals that we see, a form of digital media, we assign meaning to it. We piece together each image and word we see and create some meaning from the discrete elements. Another particularly interesting medium is the relation between artificial intelligence as a digital media and language. In the Listener, a user can communicate with an AI and engage in conversation. The AI is trained using language itself; each piece that makes up the language is broken down into discrete elements and used to train the algorithm for the AI. Hence, th