{"id":1055,"date":"2021-10-26T08:34:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2021-10-28T13:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T17:34:44","slug":"week-10-october-26-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/26\/week-10-october-26-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10: October 26 &#038; 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s Due Next?<\/h2>\n<h3>This Week<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday (today): Keyword <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/readings\/infrastructure\/\">Infrastructure<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thursday<strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>Response post to \u201cInfrastructure\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Near Future<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Write\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/assignments\/short-response-papers\/\">Short Response Paper<\/a>\u00a0#2: Technology using\u00a0<em>All You Need is Kill<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Edge of Tomorrow<\/em>\u00a0for Sunday, October 31\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New!<\/strong>\u00a0Add a paragraph on the cover page that explains how you used feedback provided for your first short response paper to write this paper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What\u2019s Coming Up?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Be sure you\u2019re able to access Apple TV+ (either through free trial or paid subscription) to watch\u00a0<em>Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson<\/em>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/episode\/auto-tune\/umc.cmc.4nweb4l9c5pec75va165ot8wv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode 1: Auto-Tune<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Begin thinking about how you\u2019ll use ArcGIS StoryMap to visualize the definition of a keyword of your choice from KMS and\/or our class coverage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Tuesday, October 26<\/h2>\n<h3>Opening Discussion<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Anything happen recently that makes you think about any of the keywords we&#8217;ve discussed or addressed in class?<\/li>\n<li>Thanks for your mid-term feedback last week. I&#8217;ve taken some of the suggestions to heart, and I hope you see that in some of the future activities.<\/li>\n<li>What do you think about the role Facebook is alleged to have played in the events leading up to January 6?<\/li>\n<li>How might any of our keywords provide ways to understand how Facebook is engaged?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/1048543513\/1048646310\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Infrastructure<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>What are some examples of infrastructure?<\/li>\n<li>How does infrastructure relate to media studies? To rhetoric? To communication?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some Characteristics of Infrastructure<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rendered largely invisible<\/li>\n<li>Revealed most often in the moment of an infrastructural glitch<\/li>\n<li>Focused on the material conditions of production and consumption<\/li>\n<li>Often obscures forms of power not otherwise recognized<\/li>\n<li><em>Public utilities<\/em> in the post-industrial information age become <em>utility publics<\/em>: the prosumer (producer + consumer) becomes the capital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em>Edge of Tomorrow<\/em> &amp; <em>All You Need is Kill<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Consider the relationship between technology and humans in these passage from <em>All You Need is Kill. <\/em>Then work to answer this question: <strong>Does <em>Edge of Tomorrow<\/em> paint a similar picture of this relationship between human and machine? Why and how? Or why not? Try to provide evidence from specific scenes in the film.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Work together in small groups to collect your ideas, and we&#8217;ll report out after about 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To fight them, we use machines to make ourselves stronger. (p. 11)<\/p>\n<p>They simply hunt with the relentlessness of machines. (p. 11)<\/p>\n<p>I bore the burden of endless battle like the killing machine I&#8217;d become\u2014a machine with blood and nerves in place of oil and wires. A machine doesn&#8217;t get distracted. A machine doesn&#8217;t cry. A machine wears the same bitter smile day in, day out. It reads the battle as it unfolds. Its eyes scan for the next enemy before it&#8217;s finished killing the first, and its mind is already thinking about the third. It wasn&#8217;t lucky, and it wasn&#8217;t unlucky. It just was. So I kept fighting. If this was going to go on forever, it would go on forever. (p. 79)<\/p>\n<p>I was a precision fighting machine without processing cycles to span on extraneous information. Rita and anything more complicated than run\/parry\/dodge would have to wait. Whatever her intentions, her attacks were deadly real. (p. 150)<\/p>\n<p>If I flipped the switch on, the reflexes burned into me through 160 loops would kick in, taking over my body like a robot in a factory. (p. 155)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Short Response Paper #2<\/h3>\n<p>Each response paper should address the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why did you select the keywords you did? Why are they useful to interpreting the media?<\/li>\n<li>How does the keyword help you better understand the media?<\/li>\n<li>What questions does the media leave unanswered in relation to the keyword?<\/li>\n<li>What aspects of the keyword remain unaddressed or unengaged in the media, if any?<\/li>\n<li>If you don\u2019t apply this keyword, how might your interpretation of this media differ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Assignment<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Read\u00a0<i>All You Need is Kill<\/i>, then watch\u00a0<i>Edge of Tomorrow<\/i>\u00a0(it\u2019s important to do this in order)<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Use at least two keywords as a critical lens in a response to the film (but feel free to use the text to help you talk about the film): Choose from technology, data, network, infrastructure, and agency; or select other keywords related to identity from KMS.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Write your response and submit it as a Word or PDF document via the Blackboard assignment entry.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><em><strong>New:<\/strong>\u00a0Include on your cover page a paragraph in which you explain how feedback on Paper #1 helped you improve this paper.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Thursday, October 28<\/h2>\n<h3>ArcGIS StoryMaps Presentation<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Led by <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.richmond.edu\/bios\/jmadron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Madron<\/a><\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;ll reference this page during class: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/arcgis-storymaps\/albums\/storytelling-tips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Storytelling Tips<\/a><\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll also see the Nine Tips to Great Storytelling story embedded below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/429bc4eed5f145109e603c9711a33407\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500px\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nNotes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>ArcGIS StoryMaps emerged from Esri, focused on digital storytelling (not as much about maps, which is the focus of Esri)\n<ul>\n<li>StoryMaps <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">login<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Click Sign In<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;Your ArcGIS organization&#8217;s URL&#8221; &gt; netID and password<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Lots that can be done with ArcGIS StoryMaps, especially related to portfolios and career preparation, documenting trips<\/li>\n<li>StoryMaps are linear, although there are allowances to explore and divert (helpful when we define something)<\/li>\n<li>Not a media dump: telling a narrative<\/li>\n<li>Can be used for lots of different purposes and approaches<\/li>\n<li>Key approaches\n<ul>\n<li>Identify your target audience (not &#8220;everyone everywhere&#8221;)\n<ul>\n<li>How much knowledge will you target audience bring to the story?<\/li>\n<li>How can you make your story relatable to your target audience?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Define 2-3 key takeaways (i.e., do some planning); simplicity is key<\/li>\n<li>Define your goals and metrics for success (clicks, engagement, learning)<\/li>\n<li>Create content inventory list (media heavy; get your media together, and switch up your media a little)<\/li>\n<li>Draft an outline or &#8220;storyboard&#8221; your project &#8211; check for flow, story or logic gaps, linearity<\/li>\n<li>Hook your audience at the very beginning: graphic, image, statement &#8212; like an abstract in a research project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Keep the audience in the StoryMap (use external links sparingly)<\/li>\n<li>Good use of slideshow is to pause the narrative and dive into a specific aspect or segment of the story<\/li>\n<li>Keep maps to a minimum unless maps are the focus of the project or assignment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Sample Outline<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Audience: Dean&#8217;s Office<\/li>\n<li>Purpose: Fund a class trip to Italy<\/li>\n<li>Key takeaways\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Explore new culture<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Impact on studies at UR<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Financial\/funding requirements<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Italian outreach and partnership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Key Graphics\n<ul>\n<li>Pictures of specific destinations and activities in Italy<\/li>\n<li>Statistics showing the impact of trips abroad<\/li>\n<li>Pictures of other students who&#8217;ve studied abroad before<\/li>\n<li>Map of location<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Some Options<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Cover design<\/li>\n<li>Navigation bar (yes\/no)<\/li>\n<li>To add stuff, click the &#8220;plus&#8221; sign<\/li>\n<li>If you add a heading, it will automatically get added to the nav (if selected)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>APA In-Text and References Citation Format<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the Purdue OWL&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/owl.purdue.edu\/owl\/research_and_citation\/apa_style\/apa_formatting_and_style_guide\/general_format.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">APA Reference<\/a> pages for assistance<\/li>\n<li>Apply for references used in your Short Response Paper #2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>References Examples<\/strong> (don&#8217;t forget hanging indentation):<\/p>\n<p>Levina, M. (2017). Network. In L. Ouellette &amp; J. Gray (Eds.), <em>Keywords for media studies<\/em> (pp. 127\u2013129). NYU Press. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/j.ctt1gk08zz.44<\/p>\n<p>Liman, D. (Director). (2014).\u00a0<em>Edge of tomorrow<\/em>\u00a0[Film]. Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p>Sakurazaka, H. (2011).\u00a0<em>All you need is kill<\/em>. (J. Reeder &amp; A. O. Smith, trans.). Haikasoru\/VIZ Media.<\/p>\n<p>In-text Citation Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to Levina (2017), &#8220;some quoted materials&#8221; (p. 128). \u00ab\u00ab<strong>\u00a0preferred<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>And then there&#8217;s this summary of the chapter (Levina, 2017)<\/li>\n<li>Or there&#8217;s paraphrase of something from a specific page (Levina, 2017, p. 128).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keyword Infrastructure Thursday:\u00a0Response post to \u201cInfrastructure\u201d Near Future Write\u00a0Short Response Paper\u00a0#2: Technology using\u00a0All You Need is Kill\u00a0and\u00a0Edge of Tomorrow\u00a0for Sunday, October 31 New!\u00a0Add a paragraph on the cover page that explains how you used feedback provided for your first short response paper to write this paper. What\u2019s Coming Up? Be sure you\u2019re able&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/26\/week-10-october-26-28\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166655],"tags":[201597,203658,68219,999,68052,68223,68222,5851,811],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-notes","tag-all-you-need-is-kill","tag-apa","tag-edge-of-tomorrow","tag-facebook","tag-infrastructure","tag-jan-6","tag-machine","tag-storymaps","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}