The Internet

Lawnmower man

What.a.movie. I really loved the graphics for the virtual reality programs that they used it was really something. The vision of the internet presented in this movie was definitely representative of the era, portraying virtual reality as a new world, a place one could exist outside of this reality. It…

Research Report 4

The people working at EII, and EII’s mission statement, frame their work as though the internet is a public good and a human right.

“So from food, housing, clothing, shelter — all the skills been stripped from us. It’s like, damn, I got to build everything from the…

Research Report 4: Social Media, For or Against Us?

In interviewing local activists, several mentioned that the biggest problems they incurred while using social media to organize were pushback or lack of action from the platforms themselves. There have always reports of platforms like…

Research Report 3: Who Gets the Follows?

In this report I sought to engage with different organizations and public figures to investigate how they interact with the social media landscape. The results reflect the sentiments of most of the local organizers that I’ve had the chance to interview which…

SpongeBob Memes: Revolutionary to our Generation (Research Report 3)

No television show has had a more significant impact on meme culture than SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob SquarePants was a major TV hit when the current generation of meme-makers were children, it’s comical…

Vine, Why It Failed? And Does “V2” Even Have a Chance? Part: 3

For my third post I tried to do some research about what the most popular Viners had to say about Vine shutting down. So I ended up finding a video made by DeStorm Power back in 2016, who in my opinion was a pretty decent…

Connectivity Lab — Aquila

The third and final approach of the Internet.org is the Connectivity lab, and the creation of Aquila, the…

Express Wi-fi

One of the things that I found most unclear on Internet.org’s website is what exactly Express Wi-Fi is, and how it works. On their…