What’s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keyword Flow Thursday: Response post to “Flow” Near Future Next Tuesday: Reply comment to “Flow” post; read keyword Gaze We’ll also watch Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson: Episode 1 – Auto-Tune during class next Tuesday, November 23 What’s Coming Up? Short Response Paper #3: Convergence is due Friday, December 3 (this is a… Read more »
An assemblage is a collection of components that make up one thing. It can be categorized by the stabilization and the materials used to make an assemblage. For example, in order to make a Youtube video you need to have a multitude of things to make it. You first need an idea, then something to record on, lighting, device to… Read more »
What’s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keyword Assemblage Thursday: Response post to “Assemblage” Near Future Next Tuesday: Reply comment to “Assemblage” post; read keyword Flow What’s Coming Up? Continue thinking about how you’ll use ArcGIS StoryMap to visualize the definition of a keyword of your choice from KMS and/or our class coverage Tuesday, November 9 Assemblage Focus Areas Immanence over… Read more »
Agency within our modern-day technological and media atmospheres revolves around the concept of connection between action and effect. Technology and platforms are reliant on human interaction to gain information which can then be allotted as future actions, thus it can seem like personal privacy is limited in this day and age. When I think about agency within technology, I first… Read more »
In Media studies, agency refers to the level of human autonomy available in an increasingly technological world. As discussed in class, human and technological agency in a digital world is, in reality, conjoined. Meaning, the technology is reliant on human agency to make meaning while human agency is also manipulated by that meaning. According to a 2018 Pew Research study,… Read more »
I think that a coherent definition to what agency is, is ambiguous, as simply put, it can be the “dozens” of things that are happening after a simple action. An action could be searching something in google, following someone on a social media, etc.; agency can be anything that involves submitting an action towards the “gain” of something else. Whereas… Read more »
What’s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keyword Agency and ancillary reading Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People Thursday: Response post to “Agency” Near Future Be sure you’re able to access Apple TV+ (either through free trial or paid subscription) to watch Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson: Episode 1: Auto-Tune What’s Coming Up? Continue thinking about how you’ll use ArcGIS… Read more »
The basic definition of Infrastructure is having a foundation to support the function of a system. For example, wifi. In order for us to use our computers or phones, we need to be connected to the wifi. Everything we do involving technology is surrounded by wifi and we need it in order to get anything done. If we didn’t have… Read more »
Keyword author Lisa Parks postulates that modern media infrastructure is more than simply the wires, cell-towers, and satellites that make up our ability to connect. While this technology is obviously a necessity, companies’ invisible structures such as their capital are constantly shifting and are dependent on user information and demands. Specifically, Parks suggests that although the internet used to be… Read more »
What’s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keyword Infrastructure Thursday: Response post to “Infrastructure” Near Future Write Short Response Paper #2: Technology using All You Need is Kill and Edge of Tomorrow for Sunday, October 31 New! Add a paragraph on the cover page that explains how you used feedback provided for your first short response paper to write this paper. What’s Coming Up? Be sure you’re able… Read more »