GROUP: CARLY CORNISH, JAKE PERRY, NATE REID, AND SARA TAYLOR THE PROBLEM: Humans have had animal companions for thousands of years. Today still pets are a staple in family households. Many animals, however, are still facing abuse. Shelters and other animal charities are doing the More

Strategy #1: Mobilize People Project: Pokemon Go   There’s a problem in this world where people are sitting around and playing video games and not getting the physical activity they need.  So a company called Niantic created a free game for anyone with a smartphone More

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

 1. For my journal 7 post I had stated that the community I value the most is my hometown, the town of Orono. My two technologies I would keep are cameras and social media, specifically Facebook.  I wasn’t able to find much information on the More

iPhone: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P_CQsxoH8TgCdIPnNrnQT2jv-H6MJ06VzFqoJHnkJVU/edit?usp=sharing   Galaxy Phones: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1teK1wZkbqtfLinSkGOvXCPBz13QF3ThjYE7DTU8Hm7k/edit?usp=sharing

This may seem odd to some people but the community I value the most is the Town of Orono.  I have lived here my who life and so has my dad so we’ve been here a combined nearly 75 years.  Ever since I was a More

Through our group discussion we seemed to have various opinions about surveillance.  No matter where we are and what we are doing we are always being watched/listened to.  This obviously has some positives but also has several negatives.  People should absolutely have their right to More

Identity: Race   Unsupported: Supported: The first thing that comes to mind when I think about altering yourself and creating a version of yourself that you can’t physically create is the bit-moji feature on snapchat.  This allows users to make an avatar of themselves that More

There are lots of people out there that struggle with mental health.  And it is only getting worse.  My friend (Marshall U Grad) and I, are working on a community where gamers who have issues with anxiety and their mental health can come together and More

Instagram Redesign Nate Reid   The big problem in today’s world everyone is talking about is the addiction to social media and their smartphones.  Where people might be mistaken is that this is only a problem for young kids and teenagers. But it has gotten More

People especially the young generation of people are becoming more and more depressed and the main reason for that is that these people are not getting the attention they want.  These people have a feeling that they don’t belong because they see people with large More

Technology: Smart phone and TV. Over use of these products may cause people to become addicted to this type of technology which isn’t necessarily healthy.  It can lead to mental health issues as we have read about in the articles.   Smartphone: Emotional- The apps 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) I chose this quote because I’ve seen the internet and social media change More