Throughout the course of this big project my rationale has stayed the same, even with all the obstacles and challenges I remained dedicated to making videogrep work on my pc and create a supercut. The primary challenge I faced was one of the risks I was initially aware of. Because I am a still a …

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When I initially wrote my manifesto, I was optimistic in my abilities, but maybe not as realistic as I should have been. At the beginning my goal was to learn and practice Python everyday so I would be able to make my own Twitter bot that would be somewhat interactive. Now that I have read …

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After reading chapter 1 I installed the newest version of Anaconda and read through the tutorials on how to use Jupyter Notebook and Python. All of the files are saved in a folder located within my documents titled “DGST 395” and in that I have different folders for coding files so everything is easily located. …

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Initially I became interested in programming because it felt like the next logical step in a society that is becoming more integrated with technology. For a long time I had several misconceptions on what programming actually was until I took a class during the summer that focused on writing through digital media. That was my …

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Throughout Gibson’s “The Peripheral” many different themes are explored.  These include a variation on the class system, social structure, technological advances, and justice and morality. Morality in particular is a very common theme that is mentioned and implied to various aspects through the novel. This has taken several different forms through the chapters I have …

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Even though I didn’t expect to learn anything new about maps or mapping, working with this module was a pleasant surprise. While the information from the resources on the mapping website from DGST 101 weren’t necessarily new, it was an interesting take on a now daily  necessity I never thought of in that way. Through … Continue reading Reflections on Mapping →

I was very proud of how well our group worked together. We divided the work fairly and communicated often through slack. For instance, while two group members took apart the computer, the other two took pictures and uploaded them to slack so they could all be accessed easily. Even though I missed one day due … Continue reading Reflections on Digital Archaeology →

Previously in class we debated the ethics of purchasing phones and other cheap technology when their cheapness is enabled by exploitation of slave labor. For the purpose of the debate I helped with the back research but the group, primarily the speaker had all the material she needed since she had prior debate experience.  As … Continue reading Debating for Devices →

In this second module I worked with a good friend whom I’ve done previous work with before. We were able to get most of the work done together in about two days however because of our busy schedules we communicated our progress with each other rather than writing about it in a blog post.  In … Continue reading Algorithm Reflections →

To summarize Neuromancer, the group decided to focus on the plot and story itself.  We choose to do this rather than any other direction because there are too many concepts and themes to mention and in many cases every person will decipher them a little differently. For example, one could take notice of the theme … Continue reading Explaining Neuromancer →

Throughout a majority of the book one of the  common and almost subtle themes were good and evil.  For the most part this is addressed while an AI is present or if it’s the subject of a conversation.  Personally, I was under the impression that while the AI weren’t hated, they were necessarily liked either. … Continue reading Responding to Neuromancer →

I have known about steam for several years now and have many friends who play a wide variety of games online. However this is the first time I have ever heard of Twine. After briefly going over it in class it sounded like something I thought was pretty interesting and after reading the article “Twine, … Continue reading Response to Twine →

For this assignment the main focus is audio and putting sounds together to send a particular message.  For this assignment I used audacity and a website called freesound.org as the main source for all of the sound effects used. In audacity each sound will be open as a new sound track, when opening the first … Continue reading Tutorials: Emotions Through Sound →

This first tutorial is on one of the assignments I created for this class.  This particular one is for the writing assigment “Haiku About You”. To do this you first have to be familiar with the rules of writing a haiku.  These poems are short, 17 syllables in 3 lines.  The first and third lines … Continue reading Tutorials: Haiku About You →

When creating the assignments I wanted to do something similiar to the daily creates. The only exception is these require a little bit more effort and creativity.  But not to worry, the level of fun is still there! The first assignment uses video as the medium. The assignment itself can be found here.  To summarize, … Continue reading Assignment Ideas →

For my daily create suggestions I wanted to do something new so it took a little while to let the creative juices get ripe.  What I decided on was one for photography and the other audio.  The one for photography is called “What’s Your Best Meme Impersonation”. In this you would take a picture doing … Continue reading Daily Create Ideas →

The next exciting episode brought to you today by O.L.D. Agency. Vocals by Patrick Boyle, Amanda Thacker and I (Sharla Hargis) with special help from Jacob Hargis. Sit back and enjoy a tale of love, suspicion and…..murder? Tune in to find out.  

Well before we get into the nuts and bolts of this I’d just like to say in the beginning I sorely underestimated this class. I had no idea the projects would be so frequent, the assignments so detailed and I never thought that I would finish learning so much. I didn’t know how to set … Continue reading Summary 15: Final Project and Reflections →