I have been working hard to build out my story by creating a world in which a worldwide pandemic has changed how people live their daily lives. I have had a lot of fun conceptualizing and imagining what a world would look like with drones to ensure that social distancing guidelines are upheld, and a […]
I am really excited about all of the creativity we are going to be able to explore with our “Black Mirror” episodes. I know with the group we have, we are going to have quite a few exciting possible stories to go over with each other in class. I think we could all use a […]
The Data Detox Kit truly encapsulates what it is that we have been talking about all semester long. When I reflect on the meaning of this class, I interpret it as a look into ways where we can reduce our online footprint and be more present in our everyday lives. I am actually somewhat familiar […]
First and foremost, let me say I am so happy to be back and not sick! It was definitely a rough couple weeks for my family and I, but we are from the other side of it now, and I could not be more excited to be coming back to class and see all of […]
The IRL podcast was a perfect listen for everything that is going on the world in the current moment. It really starts fast and furiously jumping into the “vaccination debate.” We are at a point in society where we are hyper opinionated when it comes to the idea of vaccines. Now, I’m not here to […]
Once again, I would like to open my blog by touching upon the current state that the world is in. I hope you are all doing okay and taking proper precautions in these trying times, and I am as bummed out as the next to not be able to have our normally scheduled class meetings. […]
Lauern Schiller hosted Dr. Sofia Noble on her podcast “Inflection Point” to talk about the idea of algorithms living within search engines we use in our everyday life that are skewing the results that turn up over particular searches. Dr. Noble argues that we have come to view search engines in the same way we […]
This week, the reading and the video that we are focusing on this week has an enormous amount of relevance in our current culture. The reading “Users in Content” explains how there is now so many other ways to produce and consume news content then the out dated model of a newspaper or a newspaper […]
The readings that Madea chose for this week are so in tune with society today, and what some of the pitfalls of social media. For those who have been in class with me for a semester plus know how much stock I put into the idea of being authentic and real, no matter what space […]
This article was a great, in depth discussion on participatory culture. When you first hear “participatory culture,” it sounds fairly straight forward. However, when you do a deeper dive, as we did when reading this article, you see just how complicated and dynamic it can truly be. I know due to the nature of the […]