Media Strategies: DIY, Crowdsource, Mobilize Projects: Arduino, Patreon, Pokemon Go DIY: Arduino has in the last decade given the power of robotics and practical coding to create a wide variety or projects and inventions into the hands of average people. A single starter Arduino kit More

Disappearing Language: Solution B made the most sense despite it’s less professional design as it puts the preservation of the language in the hands of it’s speakers and their family. While a dictionary is stagnant and lifeless, the accounts of living Passamaquoddy are active and More

(I realized looking back that my Journal 7 was kind of abysmal and didn’t work with this project at all so I’m choosing a new community and tech to talk about and will be going back and changing my Journal 7 later to reflect that) More

  (New Version) A community that will always be near and dear to my heart is my home town of Scituate Massachusetts. A modern technology that has impacted the lives of the townsfolk recently for the better was the construction of a brand new middle More

The LGBT+ community has always had a strenuous relationship with media, particularly TV and Video Games, for a long time in how they are represented. There are good times: (From Left to Right, Scorpia from She-ra the Princess of Power, Dorian from Dragon Age Inquisition, More

Video Games have been a common place media in the modern house hold for a generation. Ever since the take off of the Atari 2600 in 1977 the medium has grown and evolved at an astounding rate over the past four decades. But all this More

In class this past week our biggest topic was probably the discussion on complex AI and the ethics of its development. This talk has formed and left me mulling over one major question, is it even possible to develop AI ethically? In order to talk More

Facebook and Isolation: How do we fix it? Facebook: Fixing What Could Be Great There are 7 Billion people in this world and we are alone. Or rather that is how it always often feels. As it was eloquently put in the video “The Secret More

The video Depression and the Secret to Happiness discusses the true source of the massive depression epidemic sweeping through the western world. It pins the cause not on chemical imbalances in our brains but our collective isolation from each other and the abandonment of therapy More

1: The Ledger of Harms is a document compiled by the Center for Humane technology compiling the broad categories in which the adverse and under reported effects of the Internet and Social Media fall into. These categories are defined as the effects on our: Attention, More

The People Behind Your Tech: 1: 98% of Children today in the US grow up with some form of smartphone/tablet/computer to access the internet 2: Psychologists are debating whether or not over use of technology can be considered addiction 3: Concern about this supposed addiction More

I notice that more of my time is spent in words and language— because that is the currency of the Net—than it was before. ( Brian Eno p. 126). Words have more power than actions on the internet because only one can travel well. Before More