Portfolio Assignment #7

The presentation on data energy and extraction was interesting and whilst I had a bit of background knowledge on some of the topics discussed the presentation still provided me with new information. One thing I found interesting was that Iceland of all places was the leading miner of…

Portfolio #7

For Zane Griffin Talley Cooper’s lecture and the readings that went along with it, I learned about the labor conditions and environmental impacts behind the technologies that we use. The readings made me realize how much we actually do not know about how the devices that we use get to us or come to be…

Portfolio #7

I learned what supply chain management encompasses this week. I had no prior knowledge as to what that career consisted of, so it was interesting to read about something new. One quote that caught my eye was, “If a fire or a labor strike disables one node in a supply network, another outfit can just as…

Data, Energy & Extraction with Self-Care in the Digital Era

Portfoilio #7

Both Zane Griffin’s presentation and Miriam Posner’s “See No Evil” instilled a real sense of discomfort in me. They both provided an insane amount of insight to the horribly corrupt and often ignored aspects of energy, extraction, and global capitalism. Griffin’s diagram of the “little black box” is…

Portfolio #7

After looking at the PowerPoints from the guest lectures, I learned a little bit. Cooper’s powerpoint was a little confusing for since I didn’t know what bitcoin was before and it was still confusing for me at the end. I think it was just harder for me to understand because of our current learning…

Portfolio Assignment #7

From Cooper’s lecture, I learned about Bitcoin mining. I had no idea that there were data centers full of Bitmain Antminer S9s. Also, Posner (2018) wrote that if supply chains were to become “more transparent”, it may lead to “assimilating a lot of information that companies have become…

Portfolio Assignment #7

The themes and topics for this week were interesting and a reminder of what we are going through at this difficult time. In regards to the topic of bitcoin, it is something I still do not quite understand, but I do know that we might be heading into a world that revolves around that…

Portfolio 7

After reading both guest reader lectures, I have found them HIGHLY relatable. All of the articles that Ms. Gressit-Diaz sent us were super relatable to college students. The discussions about Zoom and Houseparty are so relevant to my own experience in quarantine. Whether it’s happy hour accompanied by…