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S20 Portfolio 7

Ernesto Escobar in Digital Media & Society Spring 2020

May 3, 2020

Portfolio Assignment #9

This week's guest lectures were interesting but some of the topics kinda flew over my head. Both the lecture Feeling Fails — Mediated Sentiment and Social Change and the readings provided alongside it covered concepts that I just could not get fully invested in. I understood the core…

Parco Chow in Digital Media & Society Spring 2020

Apr 15, 2020

Portfolio Assignment #7

The first guest lecturer presentation given by Mr. Cooper about data, energy, extraction: what, when and where digital stuff is, concisely teaches me the cybernetic thinking (also known as black box thinking) through the examples of smartphones and bitcoin. From what I learned in the…

Harrison Nussbaum in Digital Media & Society Spring 2020

Apr 6, 2020

Maintaining Communication

What stood out to me in this week’s material is the level of social we are still capable of maintaining online even throughout this time of crisis. While battling a global pandemic, people are finding ways through the use of social media, and video chatting to stay connected…

Kara DeSouza in Digital Media & Society Spring 2020

Apr 6, 2020

Portfolio Assignment #7

This week I’ve learned to think about the digital space as more of a corporeal entity. Cooper’s lecture really impressed on me the physicality of the internet. It, in its composition, is not ephemeral like a cloud but is finite in scale. His next section about the black box really tied…

Nijer Cheyenne Reaves in Digital Media & Society Spring 2020

Apr 6, 2020

Portfolio Assignment #7

Posner’s article on supply chains aimed to explore how vast amounts of information are passed through commercial networks and what moral implications exist for this sequence of processes. Posner asserts that software and practices that companies use, like SAP and “black-boxing,” that…

Wahana McMillian in Digital Media & Society Spring 2020

Apr 5, 2020

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…

Katie Sun in Digital Media & Society Spring 2020

Apr 5, 2020

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…

Will in Digital Media & Society Spring 2020

Apr 5, 2020

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…

Daniela Villalobos in Digital Media & Society Spring 2020

Apr 5, 2020

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…

Clara McMahon in Digital Media & Society Spring 2020

Apr 5, 2020

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…