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Welcome to Taytu Star, meet your Blogger! I’m currently blogging from my birthland, Ethiopia. Get to know the different aspects of what makes me who I am, through the lens of many different social media sources!! The monument that stands tall in the middle of Addis, is the monument of the man that stands tall… Continue reading Hello, or should I say Selam!

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Looking back on the content of this semester, I wanted to see if there was something that drew me in enough to revisit it and go a little deeper. I kept finding myself thinking back to the concept of making a physical map representing the internet and the apps and

Hello everyone! I am a sophomore at UMW currently double majoring in Biochemistry and Communication and Digital Studies. Most of my experience with the kind of projects we might be doing this semester came from Creative Coding, which I took last semester. I’m pretty proud of a lot of my project from that class, and …

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When looking at this assignment, the one thing that kept coming to mind was music. I feel as though for many people, music is simply something to put on in the background. With that being said, there are also plenty of artists that tend to lack high quality lyricism and

Generally speaking, our lives are on the internet. It is as simple as that. Unless you are Amish, have been homeless your whole life, or live in an underdeveloped or Third World country, chances are there are traces of you online somewhere. For many people, a lot of this online

We live in an age where information is easier to access than literally ever before. We no longer have to travel miles like Abraham Lincoln to simply get a book we haven’t read before. We have the ocean at our door and all the knowledge on the planet at our

Growing up in the 2000s has created a much different childhood through early adult experience than ever before because of the vast advancements in videogame entertainment technology. Games are becoming both more complex and immersive, to the point that one can get completely lost in the character, world, and story-building

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Each individual person has a different idea of what the internet is, as we all access it for various, differing reasons. While one person may be extremely deep in the hole of social media, posting, commenting, and sharing on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, others may spend hours researching across the

Is it a place to learn and educate? Is it somewhere you can share and discover? Is it both revolutionary and overwhelming? Are there upsides and downsides? Is it’s impact ultimately beneficial to the entirety of mankind? I believe that the answer to all of these questions, put simply, is

Advancements and innovations in technology sounds like an exclusively positive thing. How could a great technological breakthrough cause any harm? Something I found really interesting about the reading was this idea of improved technology and better services actually having negative side effects. For example, emails and made up online usernames

Based on the tone and messages of both stories, from my understanding, Bradbury is fearful. Of what, though? The easy answer would be technology, as both The Veldt and There Will Come Soft Rains explicitly show terrifying scenarios that revolve around this idea of incredible technological advancements. But, I believe

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