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

Group Members: Carly Cornish, Jake Perry, Nate Reid, Sara Taylor   Link to project: https://xd.adobe.com/view/eb90d36c-4a85-4b28-7aaf-3c4ef611950c-9da1/   Essay Portion:   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 More

There are many ways people can tackle problems using many-to-many solution strategies.   Crowdsource the Job Usually creating films is left for Hollywood, but even movies can be crowdsourced. Britain in a Day is a film in which the footage was gathered from individuals. All of More

Exercise 1 Problem: A Disappearing Language Solution B would be the many-to-many solution to the problem of the disappearing language. This is many-to-many because it puts the preservation of the Passamaquoddy language back into the hands of the Passamaquoddy people. This is a project that More

Thoughts on the Necessity of Smart Appliances   Introduction In today’s digital world, new technologies are being created and released at a rate faster than many people can consume. In many ways, major companies are moving towards our technologies becoming “smart”. A lot of technologies More

In Class https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gHmMbxxD8RWvtsgYGAfs8CTS7xAmNnd8J4M3rEKfG1U/edit?usp=sharing   Group Members: Mike Gecawicz; Carsyn Viles; Maizy Guinn; Sara Taylor; Cevin Harriman; Jake Perry   In Lab: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1teK1wZkbqtfLinSkGOvXCPBz13QF3ThjYE7DTU8Hm7k/edit?usp=sharing Group Members: Sara Taylor, Jake Perry, Nate Reid, Carly Cornish   How did the overall environmental impact of your product compare with another product More

Part One A community that I have slowly been learning to respect and value is the rural Maine community. Coming to college here has shown me that a lot of students don’t have the same survivability and resourcefulness that I learned through growing up in More

The technology I am going to be discussing is surveillance. I learned about surveillance capitalism through the class readings and found the information very startling. Surveillance Capitalism (The Conversation) is the phenomenon of earning profit by taking advantage of various forms of surveillance data taken about More

The physical identity I am going to choose to discuss is age. It looks there’s three main age categories that are talked about on the internet, Baby Boomers, Millenials and now Gen Z. So I’ll choose some media that defy each and then supports each. More

Here is my video that I made for journal 4! It is to raise awareness to animal/pet content on the internet and how wonderful it can be. (: https://spark.adobe.com/video/HJfmw5zvFJy9V   Here is my solution to making this type of positive content more available! I propose More

Donald Trump on Social Media This rather long Wikipedia article meticulously documents and highlights the president’s twitter journey, noting huge spikes in his twitter activity and the fact that a majority of his tweets are fallacies, and many tweets that personally attack people. A lot More

Identifying the Problem One issue I would like to tackle in the world is the over-abundance of what I will call recommendation AI; specifically, artificial intelligence technologies used by Facebook, Google, and Twitter that are used to make suggestions on content/media for users to view. More

Identifying the Problem  One issue I would like to tackle in the world is the over-abundance of what I will call recommendation AI; specifically, artificial intelligence technologies used by Facebook, Google, and Twitter that are used to make suggestions on content/media for users to view. More

Towards the end of the film, Johan starts to discuss an issue about a woman in a Turkish village who was about to be evicted from her home even though she was unable to care for herself. Nuria was generally not listened to by others More

Summarize class resources   The first resource I would like to summarize is from childmind.org. This article presents that studies have shown that depression has increased over time in young teens, as well as suicide rates. The article goes on to explain that the studies More

Discussion: My group may not have particularly discussed the articles in specifics. But I think that some important points/connections that we made were very beneficial to my understanding of the course and my own values. First point: There are people who want to make a More

Part One I don’t remember a time without the internet. I was born in 1999 and we’ve at least had the internet since 2002. We’ve been playing videogames both online and off my whole life. When I go without video games, I’m fine. I guess More