Week 9_Summer Hatfield

Ok, so I have to admit that I have not really played any sort of video or online game since Super Nintendo was the newest thing. Its just never really been my thing. I’ve always preferred classic boardgames in which you interact with other people in the real world vs a virtual one. That said, […]

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Week 9: Grace R Morrissey – Relationship status: It’s complicated

As much as we are seduced by the idea of an equal marriage between professionals of all stripes working the new media and fans/participants/users in the online space, the reality of the relationship might be more complicated.

Interdisciplinarity means a broader base of creative perspectives for a project but this broader base can also just […]

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Week 9: Game on; I lose

Under my guidance, climate change has destroyed the earth and Fred has become sustenance for a very determined wolf. Clearly I fail at games!

My lack of skill aside, Games for Change is a great site! It’s an excellent example of gift economy incubating games for release into the capitalist economy AND a site […]

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Week 8 Private: Joel Arellano

Prometheus

The most valuable point I’ve taken from Gere is how digital culture has made it faster and easier to run through different possibilities. As I’ve reflected on various phenomena in digital culture throughout the term, I’ve frequently returned to this idea as an explanatory model. Take, for example, the most fundamental complaints about digital […]

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Week 8: Steven Wheeler – Response to Viewings

During our last in-class session, Dr. Zimmerman remarked that our struggle with projects like Witness and EngageMedia may stem from the fact that we are not their primary audience or, to use a term coined by Umberto Eco, “model readers.” This observation may seem like a truism to some, but it’s one I’ve been slowly […]

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Week 8 – Kevin Gaboury

This week’s examples of database projects had varying levels of complexity, from the simplistic and beautiful Post Secret Archive to the multifaceted Hurricane Digital Memory Bank.

I found La Buena Vida’s reliance on man-on-the-street interviews to be somewhat boring and predictable. The site resembled another project we looked at this term, The Interview Project, with […]

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Week 8 Brett Harmon on Databases.

I feel glad that we had to look into digital databases this week because I feel like sometimes projects like these can be looked over and dismissed quickly just because they are the collections of information and stories. When in fact databases are treasure troves on information and the chronicling of stories from everyone that […]

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Week 8: Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

Aftermath of the Peshtigo fire

Stories of disaster have an appeal. There’s a fascination in the forces of nature – something that reminds us that no matter how advanced a civilization, the primitive, raw fury of a storm, fire, flood or earthquake can destroy the indestructible.

As a kid, I was fascinated with […]

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Week 8: Grace R Morrissey – Digital Putty

Nothing hints so strongly of the potential for participatory media sense making as an archive of raw data. It’s like a lump of clay just waiting for a pair of hands (or the digital version thereof) of those so inclined to give it definition (spin /angle) in an infinite number of ways.

“Rawness” is the […]

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Week 7_Summer Hatfield

This class has really made me think a lot about connections and how we make them and with whom. The other day as I was listening to the news on the radio there was a man from the Philippines talking about his job and the difficulty he is finding with doing his job following the […]

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