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Projects like PostSecret are perfect examples of using user generated content and ideas to create a space that can foster discussion, creativity, and promote a sense of healing or community. When the PostSecret blog started in 2005 I never would have thought that it would still be going almost 9 years later, but not only […]  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 […] It is ever-increasingly clear that our very severance from the digital world is dificult, if not impossible. But the most interesting part about this fact is that most people would not even be able to distinguish all of the things that are actually digital in our world. Gere suggests “In a world dominated by […] In “The Good Life” project there were some interesting aspects. I thought the website with the text side by side in Spanish was great. Most of the times I like when I just switch the whole site from one language to another but here it worked to have both because the words look almost the […] Each project we viewed this week would fit nicely in a high school curriculum resource page. Some of the interviews in the La Buena Vida project offered up interesting points of view about American influence. The project seemed more about public perception of the U.S. The validity of the things being said rested upon who […] A Database is not a Strategy I’m amazed at the skepticism folks have about Big Data despite their enthusiasm for data silos of every conceivable form of human experience. An archive is an accumulation of historical records, a site for the storage and retrieval of data- it is a resource, not a message strategy. […] There was something about the PostSecret website that I really loved, and I just couldn’t quit looking through the content. There is something so intriguing about seeing these little artifacts, the way they are written, what they are written on, and what they say that reveals so much about somebody, and yet at the same […] The websites for this week reminded me of Digital Media‘s core assertion that digital culture isn’t dependent on technology alone, but is rather a manifestation of social patterns. Something I found curious while exploring Week 8’s material (particularly the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank and La Buena Vida) was that although these sites make far less […] Ahhh, finally some categorical reference points! La Buena Vida’s ability to filter through responses by selecting which questions were answered is a tool that could benefit so many of the projects we’ve looked at this semester. Imagine if David Lynch’s Storytellers Project had used some sort of itemized talking points to unite different stories? It […] The Post Secret website was interesting because it was much lighter in terms of trying to promote an altruistic cause. When I first started reading it, it reminded me of the Missed Connections ad that was circulating around Facebook last week. They’re both forms of information that serve to say something that the person would […] |
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