STRATEGY 1: CROWDSOURCE THE JOB PROJECT: GoFundMe GoFundMe is currently the most trusted online fundraising site out there. What’s really nice about GoFundMe that I’ve seen a decent amount of in the past couple of years is that it allows communities to come together to More

PROBLEM: A DISAPPEARING LANGUAGE Ian Larson wanted to help preserve the Passamaquoddy language from extinction. SOLUTION A Create a task force from a select group of Native American language experts, and ask them to write down a dictionary of words and their definitions. Enter these definitions into More

My community for my Journal 7 was my hometown of Topsham, ME. The technologies that I felt had the most noticeable impact on my community of choice were Facebook / Facebook Marketplace, and the numerous amount of old, local Saw/Paper Mills. The tech footprints are More

The community that I personally value the most at this moment in time would have to the town I was raised in for the majority of my life, Topsham, Maine. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always appreciated the healthy balance of rural and More

Life Cycle Assessment Members: Evan G, Brett S, Jordan J, Andreas S, Thanisorn J  

Technology: Surveillance Questions / Concerns: Should citizens of the U.S. be concerned about their privacy? Does all of our data collected via surveillance safely contained / who has access to this information?     We are currently living in an era where social media has More

Identity Category: Gender (Unrealistic vs. Realistic representation of the human body in videogames)   Unrealistic vs. Realistic Portrayal of Videogame Protagonists: Instead of individually captioning each photo, I feel it is acceptable to comment on the appearances as a whole since they mostly share the More

When you hear the word “Social Media,” the mind often instantly thinks of the usual suspects that are the major social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter. I would describe these companies and platforms as the pioneering powerhouses of social media. These platforms earned More

After 6 months of protest in Kotti, a disfigured man in his early 50s by the name of Thunkai arrives at Kotti. Kotti helps out around the village and is very kind so the villagers take a liking to Thunkai. Thunkai is a very kind More

Jordan Jawdat NMD 200 19 September, 2019   1. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=174&v=YoowH0mIuiA) “Is the internet changing the way we think.” I found this video very interesting because it’s a question I’ve pondered from time to time myself. Is the internet changing how we think? The people at More

List: iPhone, Snapchat, Instagram Ledger of Harms Problems:  iPhone – The presence of a smartphone, even when off, can reduce cognitive capacity by taxing the attentional resources that reside at the core of both working memory capacity and fluid intelligence. Even the mere presence of a smartphone More

I notice that I correspond with more people but at less depth. I notice that it is possible to have intimate relationships that exist only on the Net and have little or no physical component. I notice that it is even possible to engage in More