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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Week 7: Mike Plett – Viewings

Highrise and Public Secrets are very immersive sites. I found myself lost for hours in both. (I ran into technical problems while attempting to navigate the Saving the Sierra site, so I didn’t get to really experience it.) The more engaging and accessible of the two was Highrise. This site was beautiful to look at, […]

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Week 7- Derek Yoshikane

I found myself very interested in the Public Secrets project. The statistics were shocking to hear. I immediately thought about how this scenario is probably duplicated in every state in the U.S. The project website design suited the topic, with it’s rigid structure and lack of color. The lack of images in the project left […]

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Week 7: Eckerson

The idea of engaging community presented in this week’s viewings goes straight to the heart of the issues with participatory media. On one hand we saw extremely thoughtful process for community engagement with the Saving the Sierras project, and on the other hand a highly produced project that connected communities and stories across the world […]

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Week 7: Emily Priebe

This week I was fascinated by the way content interplayed with form. Both the Public Secrets project and the Highrise project made incredible use of digital media to display content in a way that reflected the subject matter they were presenting. These innovative presentations elevate both projects.

Moving through the content in the Highrise project […]

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Week 7: Adam King

One notion that really stuck in my mind while looking at Highrise and Public Secrets this week was the idea of media as art, and that even the darkest projects of human misdirection can still be composed into something that is intrinsically beautiful. As a kid growing up just outside of New York City, I’ve […]

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Week 7: Scott Anderson response to viewings

I ran into the problem that creators of these interactive/participatory websites fear the most — frustration.

I began by looking at the site about the high rises first because it contained info I enjoy — history as it’s told with the collaboration of newspapers like the New York Times. As I began to interact with […]

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Week 7: Omar Aldakheel_Viewings

In the two assigned projects this week: “Public Secrets and Highrise” i saw great examples of multimedia that i really would love to do one day. They both present concepts that may have been presented before, but they show them in new creative ways. I thought they were very artistic, despite mostly using black and […]

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Week 7 – Kevin Gaboury

For me, the Public Secrets website felt like a prison.

The motif of the entire website is very angular, which brings to mind the walls of a prison. The design is black-and-white without much embellishment, which seems to reflect the stark reality of incarceration. Many of the women interviewed expressed hopelessness, anger and pain. Their […]

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Week 7: Joel Arellano

Public Secrets is more effective than similarly self-guided sites like Highrise because it leverages the viewer’s imagination. Apart from being an effective way to establish themes of schism, rupture, and worlds apart, the producer’s invocation of Holbein’s “The Ambassadors” offers a lesson in leveraging accessory content and engaging users’ creativity without succumbing to the […]

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