In the Net Mirror, we are now on the homestretch. As we look to this last week, and the completion of your work for this special class, it comes with mixed feelings. On the one hand, the semester has been a true roller coaster as we have faced many challenges both individually and together as […]
I don’t have to explain often what a meme image or animated GIF is; we see them flying in social media, we reach for ones to express a reaction or an emotion. But for some time I’ve suggested there is a space to subvert the usual, throw-away and just-repeat-what-exists aspect this media for serious or […]
In the “Net Mirror”, we close our time together with the composition of speculative fiction(s) in order to help synthesize our complex feelings (anxieties ?) regarding our relationship with technology. Each story will grapple with the reality of our data-driven society and the omnipresence of data surveillance. In the process of building unique story concepts, […]
This week we had a great (virtual) class and I can feel the intellectual and creative energy that you all are contributing. I can’t believe we are nearing the end of the semester, and despite the fact that this has been an extraordinarily difficult time, I am starting to realize how much I will miss […]
Our digital & data literacy advocacy work Throughout this course, we have been investigating life online rather closely. We have been examining issues of digital citizenship, participatory culture, networked learning, and identity in the digital age. We have been “lifting the veil” on the realities of the attention economy, the ubiquitous algorithm, and data surveillance. […]
This is the part of this course where we hope will devise a speculative fiction of your own. We’ve watched two of the three films in the Screening Surveillance series and this week are asking you to look at other audio, video, and interactive examples in the Net Mirror Library. Where might you draw as […]
Thank you to sava saheli singh & Chris Gilliard First I want to thank sava saheli singh and Chris Gilliard for spending time with us in the Net Mirror discussing data surveillance last week. Our Studio Visit with them was a truly memorable Net Mirror moment, and we are so fortunate to be on receiving […]
#OER20 As many of you know, this week I had the honor of co-chairing the Open Education Research conference. Originally it was to take place in London, but due to the pandemic, our face-to-face gathering was unfortunately canceled, which was very disappointing for me as I have been working to design and support this work […]
Surveillance Capitalism Thank you to Patricia this week. Via our shared screens, she walked us through her Prezi presentation on the opening chapters of Shoshanna Zuboff’s seminal text on surveillance capitalism. With Zuboff’s tour-de-force analysis, we apprehend that capitalism has now focused on expanding the proportion of social life that is open to data collection and data processing. […]
The understatement of now is that there’s a lot of Big Things to worry about. The new normal is anything but normal. That was why for last week’s “class” where we were not in the same classroom but a virtual video one, we took it as a breather week. And we are still breathing, good. […]