NMD 200
EXERCISE 1: WHICH IS THE NEW MEDIA SOLUTION? For each of the following capstone ideas, identify which solution embodies the “many-to-many” principle, and explain why in one or more paragraphs. Be prepared to read your answer aloud in the next class. PROBLEM: A DISAPPEARING LANGUAGE More
Project 2 – Valuable vs Wasteful Tech Within a Community A community I really value is the community in Carrabassett Valley where Sugarloaf mountain is located. This community is especially important to me because it has managed to stay very localized and secluded, More
Surveillance Research First source: “The goal is to automate us” Google decided that it would digitize and store every book ever printed, regardless of copyright issues. Or that it would photograph every street and house on the planet without asking anyone’s permission. “it is easier More
Most of these images were taken from either Facebook, Reddit, or Instagram. I tried to stick to memes as the main format for my images because I felt like there would be a lot of them and I wanted consistency throughout the images for More
1. Pick a real community that you value–maybe it’s a city like Bangor or Portland, maybe its a small lakeside or coastal town in Maine, maybe it’s your favorite National Park. Explain why this community means something to you–why you value it, what about it More
INSTAGRAM REDESIGN Brody Lycan INTRO A couple decades into the age of the internet, we are truly starting to see some of the effects the newest technologies are having on human beings. The creation of the internet allowed for billions of individuals to access More
ARTICLES Donald Trump on Social Media -Really interesting to go through and look at the history of Trump tweets and how much he relied on Twitter to access the public and communicate his thoughts and methods. -Showed how he would use far right ideologies More
From what I remember, the secret to happiness/story about Kotti was about the community coming together to stop a woman from killing herself because she was getting evicted. The people stood up to the police, and kept protesting until Nuria the woman was allowed back More
1. Summarize at least 4 class resources, whether video or article, in a short paragraph. Cite references for each paragraph at the end of the paragraph in parentheses, using URLs where possible. (4 paragraphs) A.Depression and the Secret to Happiness | Johann Hari: Johann More
READINGS: The People Behind Your Tech Addiction Are Now Trying to Curb It Miles Schneiderman Important Quotes: “Center for Humane Technology understanding that smartphones are designed to capture and keep attention. Most people don’t understand how they are being manipulated by their smartphones. More
“The Internet has changed the way we make decisions. More and more, it is not individual humans who decide but an entangled, adaptive network of humans and machines.” (W. Daniel Hillis 229) This quote is particularly interesting to me, mainly because I grew up More