This week I decided to simply supply my thoughts on several quotes that I found interesting in this weeks reading “Program or Be Programmed” by Douglas Rushkoff. Rushkoff, speaking of our current technology states, “The people programming them take on … Continue reading
Chapter three of our reading talked about choices that seem to be more or less forced on people every day because of the digital age. Rushkoff believes that being forced to make all these choices restricts people and that “a … Continue reading
Talking about remixing in class recently has been really interesting to me. Listening to Girl Talk and artists like him was really interesting, and at the same time you do have to wonder about the legality of it. Can something … Continue reading
“Communication” in “today’s culture” is “being redefined by multimedia”. “Orenstein truly expressed it saying that each “tweet” is a “tacit referendum on who I am” (2). “It’s allowed us to be consumers of information, but on our own terms” … Continue reading
Technology is something that has evolved so much in the past decade. Data miners have the ablity to find out things about me that I don’t even know I’m putting out there. “While you and your friends might … Continue reading
I found this video very interesting. The documentary addresses the strict copy right laws that exist today. They use the term “remix” to address that you can edit videos to form a type of mix to incorporate videos. ”open source … Continue reading
Here’s a pretty neat project form the creative minds of Matt Ceo and Ben Scott. Hope you all enjoy it! http://storify.com/Ben_Jamin17/viva-la-social-media-2
“The Library of Babel” talks much about the Hexagonal infinite library which never ends, and compares it to the universe. There are five shelves of each of the hexagonal walls “each shelf contains thirty-five books of uniform format; each book … Continue reading
America is the land of the free, with multiple forms of media, and news stations, there is nearly no holding back to what you can say. In countries such as Thailand, if you say a bad word about the president, … Continue reading
In chapter 2 of Ambient Findability, Morville suggests, “trouble is that we don’t care enough about waylinding (let alone signs) to insist on doing the job properly” (28). I never realized that directions played a crucial element between life and … Continue reading