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 »
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 »
What’s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keyword Network Thursday: Response post to “Network” Near Future Read All You Need is Kill and watch Edge of Tomorrow by Sunday, October 24 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… Read more »
Culturally, technology is a keyword that is often misconstrued and misrepresented. Keyword author Jennifer Daryl Slack asserts that technology is seen largely as a “measure of progress” and the “promise of a good life”, when in reality this result is dependent upon its “intentions… and relations of power at stake”. Because it is in our nature to be attracted to… Read more »
Technology is something that has been improving for years. We started off small and then eventually it became something that we use in our every day life. It is what has taken over so many of our every day items. I feel as though technology has made us humans so much more lazy. There are are refrigerators that have a… Read more »
What’s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keyword Technology and “It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder” Thursday: Response post to “Technology” (feel free to use the Vox article as an example if that’s helpful) Near Future Sunday, October 3: Submit Field Experience Report on the Çudamani performance as a blog post – see assignment for details What’s… Read more »
The term new media is all relative to the generation that is using it. For our generation, new media can be shown as technology or even as social media. For example, whenever Apple releases a new iPhone or the new MacBook, it is essentially new media. The old media is large desktop laptops and landline phones when the new media… Read more »
Although Blackboard is available to us, we’ll be using this course site for the majority of our course work. The rationale for using a blog as a course site is that technology and new media are among the “keywords” we’ll be using as critical lenses to study and understand media, culture, and identity. We’ll use the very technologies we’re seeking… Read more »