Explore how technology can either augment or amutate the human body and its capabilities.

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https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uIQyXH9Xx7egXa7otP59GgsJxy78KguzwMZ7oStpusE The Muul   Empathize Empathize: Who is your user? Who else will the sourcing, making, transportation, or waste for this project impact and can you mitigate this?   MUUL’s target demographic are users who struggle with nicotine addiction and want a healthy way to More

PROJECT 3: INTERACTIVE MURAL #SEATHIS For Project 3 my group and I decided to look and consider problems/ issues that are going on around the world that we are passionate about to come up with some solutions involving new media and strategies that we have 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

One to Many Genetic fortune telling Genetic fortune-telling is an advancement in which we would be able to know much more about our genetics and children even before they are born. It is able to determine such factors like 10% of what someone’s IQ may be More

Assignment: Pick 3 New Media Strategies from Journal 8 and find at least one project for each of these three strategies. Then explain how each of these three project works, what influence it has, and how it exemplifies the strategy. Use images, URLS etc to More

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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

Maizy Guinn Joline Blais NMD 200 14 November 2019 Speed radar Speed radar signs in a simple view are nothing more than a painted piece of metal with a few sensors and a monitor right, nope. They are a thick aluminum coated in a plastic More

The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces. It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces. It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces. It should use less energy More

I have a soft spot in my heart for the town of Acton which I moved too in the 8th grade after spending my whole life in Missouri. despite spending the majority of my life in Missouri I did most of my growing in Acton More

Group Members Robert Hebert Andreas Sandoval Tyler D’Ambrosio: Reporter John Baker Michael Gecawicz: Leader Thanisorn Jarujinda: Notetaker In the class, our group decided to discuss Surveillance. We raised to fear of 911. The U.S. government is secretly taking control of the media like audio, camera, etc. More

Olivia Burton, David Lavoie, Jake Perry, Claire Hubby, & Maeve Maloney How does AI benefit one’s life?  Some believe does not necessarily “exist” yet. It is technically not advanced enough to be considered artificial intelligence. The direction AI is headed in does not appear positive, More

10-29-19 Artificial Intelligence discussion Group 4 members: Carsyn Colleen Claudio Brody Brett Cevin Notes: No morals or emotions in AI Progression about AI Progression can be dangerous – it cant tell whos who  Becomes confusing and controversial it can value itself over humanity article said AI More

For this Journal I decided to choose movies as digital media because movies have a huge impact on our entertainment, they also can have a big impact on us as a whole. Some people drive inspiration from movies or create an emotional connection with them, More

In today’s world, aging is changing. While older generations stick around for longer, children are being born at an unprecedented and still growing rate. Therefore, this creates a dissonance between the thoughts and ideals of the two end of the generational spectrum. As such, this More

  Originally Snapchat users were only identifiable by user names but in 2016 Bitmoji’s were implemented. Bitmoji’s are designable avatars that reflect you. You have the ability to choose everything from the outfit it wears to the beauty marks for the face. With Bitmojis being More

Journal 4 By: Carly Cornish With all the problems we’ve seen with social media, I wanted to focus on the positives. There are so many negative things about social media, and this world right now. I wanted to remind people how this isn’t always the More

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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

Colleen Gallagher, Maeve Maloney, Claire Hubby, Maizy Guinn, Evan Gillingham, Mike Geriwicks Donald Trump on Social Media Donald Trump tendencies on social emdia seems as an effort to subvert above all. Statiscally, it seems that donald trump will post contriversal retoric whenever there is a More

Colleen Gallagher NMD 200 9 – 26 – 19 Project 1 Draft   Social media and technology have taken the world by storm, nearly everyone has an instagram or twitter, facebook, or snapchat. Even kids who you would think would be too young to have 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

Hari talks about the effects of depression and how they effect cultures across the world. He talks a lot about how having freedom and feeling like you are in control has much better mental health effects than feeling as if you are an underling just More

In this video, near the end Johann Hari’s “Secret to Happiness” he talks about a place called Kotti. In this town, a woman’s rent was being raised and due to the fact that she couldn’t pay it, she was being evicted. She hung a sign More

Last week, we watched the documentary, “Depression and the Secret to Happiness.” In this video, Johann Hari talks about his struggles with depression. He was once depressed for about 13 years. His doctor would prescribe him pills for his sadness, he described them as sort 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

The ending of this video is actually very touching. While the video had started off explaining how Johann Hari realized he was depressed, and that medications weren’t the problem to his solution. He realized that it was his lack of in person social connection. Johann More

This video begins by talking about how youths are becoming more depressed because they’re not receiving the attention they seek. He says that humanity needs tribes and to work together. Ignore the ideas of Margret Thatcher that says :There’s no such thing as society, there More

From what I can remember, the video discussed the topic of mental health, how it originates, and the natural cures to depression and other mental illnesses. Near the end of the video, the narrator tells a story of a woman in a Turkish village who More

This video was a fairly comprehensive look at the state of America’s mental health: to paraphrase, it doesn’t look good. Capitalistic ideology has overtaken our systems of operation on both a national and neurological level. We’ve normalized the mental and emotional suffering of people for 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

At the end of the video, referencing the Kotti community, the woman Nuria said to Johann Hari that she felt that she gained more than just her home and she was able to gain more of a community sense. She expanded her horizons and her sense More

At the end of the film, when they were talking about the women Nuria, Johann Hari explained the situation when she was going to evicted from her home and she said that she was going to kill herself. The whole town came together and created 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

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

A catalyze that start this mental health phenomenon all started with one woman contemplating suicide. Women were given a notice of eviction and put a sign in her window saying she would be evicted in so many days and then she would kill herself. Her More