Looking forward to more presentations on Thursday. We will have less time per presenter, so please plan accordingly (7-10 minutes)…

Internet Privacy & You Working blog 

Big Brother: 9 Ways You’re Being Watched We’re pretty much already transparent in so many ways. But, is it really a bad thing?Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: advertisers, big brother, cameras, capitalism, companies, dave eggers, government, grandparents.com, homeland security, link, next … Continue reading →

Here is scholar who embodied the spirit of “cognitive surplus.” Wadewitz spent countless hours editing and vastly improving Wikipedia. If you haven’t read her piece that I posted to links (or bibliography) titled “What I learned as the Worst Student in the Class” you may be interested to check it out. Here is her obituary: […]

I have created a Facebook group called Going Transparent where we can chat about my live streaming and vlogging. To join the group go to the Facebook.com enter Going Transparent in the search box. Here is the link to the group https://www.facebook.com/...

Watching Each Other: Foucault’s Panopticon and Confessional in Online Sharing I. Intro a. Thesis: The internet, especially social media, can be read as Foucault’s confessional-turned-panopticon, in which people expose and put into language (text, pictures, videos, music) their experiences and … Continue reading →

If I were what I read, I'd be a Stephen King novel, paperback on a coffee table

If this goes through.. I an going to cry of joy.. 2months of something eating my computer and all its information alive. No blogging or vlogs, or emails.. On the semester where one of my classes is graded on this blog .-. Pleaseeee work. The next ...

Instead of TruYou–might it be anonymity? Check out the tech trends of 2014 and see what you think… See you tomorrow! Tech Trends 2014

http://www.telescopictext.org/text/t4hHzQh8c2TZ3

There’s the link to what I believe will be my final project.  I’m currently working on another piece that is a bit more story-like and I’m sort of thinking about using that one instead.  I’m not entirely sure yet. 

Honestly, this platform is a lot more difficult that I initially anticipated.  I discovered that it is a lot easier to write the whole thing out first rather than type as you go along because your thoughts tend to just a bit jumbled up and such.  I’m probably going to share this on tomorrow, but like I said I don’t think I’m going to be using this one as my final project, it was just a bit more experimental than anything.

I’m also working on my final paper to coincide with my final project.  I’m working on word but I’m not entirely sure what platform I want to use for this either.  I would like to make it very interactive with link and pictures and such but we’ll have to see!

Tentative Thesis: The internet, especially social media, can be read as Foucault’s confessional-turned-panopticon, in which people expose and put into language (text, pictures, videos, music) their experiences and stories, the process of which makes them subject those experiences to social discourse, … Continue reading →

Inspired by The Circle, my final project will focus on the rise of social media in the past few years, its cultural impact and if there will ever be a time where social media will die out. I aim to address social media’s importance, especially with the younger generation and how social media has transcended beyond a […]

I took today’s daily create challenge from ds106: Create your own Book Spine Story. Here’s the result!

This article explores the use of social media as a way to motivate/shame yourself into meeting a goal, like losing weight, monitoring your spending, or quitting smoking. The author looks at one man who lost weight by tweeting his caloric intake, … Continue reading →

We’ll share our project ideas and beginnings and sign up to present. Please come to class with your technology and prepared to show and tell your group about your project. How Did They Make That? Hope you had a great Easter break! See you Thursday…

This short blog post appears to be part of Richard Joyce’s blog for a course at Bowdoin, and, similar to this blog, he’s thinking through some of his own thoughts in relation to what he’s read. The thrust of his thinking … Continue reading →

I’m not too sure how to link articles or hashtag research. I see them on facebook, but how do you link your research other a works cited page?

I do not own a kindle. But I saw my friend reading a James Baldwin piece on her tablet. She kept complaining how she could not get the pages right, but it was easy to carry a tablet in her purse and I had to admit, the device was pretty cool. But I could feel […]

I googled myself. Unsurprisingly, only a few things showed up. Some silly Myspace photos from high school and a link to my facebook page. That just proves that I do not expose myself to the internet too much. I was considering a career on Youtube, but now I think better of it. I value privacy […]

Since I intend on writing a research paper, the tools I’ am considering are ebsco host, Jstor, and googling other things. There is a lot that I wish to say bout this topic, but I intend to back it up some by doing research.

I was thinking that perhaps researching the concept of privacy might be a good topic to write about. We read The Circle, and it emphasized a lot on privacy as something bad. A question for me is: what si privacy and What Are the factors of privacy? I intend to also conduct research on social […]

Last year, Because I said I would, a website that helps people post a commitment they are making, posted the above video on YouTube, featuring Matthew Cordle confessing to drunk driving the wrong way on a highway and killing a … Continue reading →

I know I’m a little late on this, and I haven’t really kept up on posting with this blog, but I AM excited for this project.  I want to do the creative option. I haven’t really talked about it in class because I have bounced ideas back and forth in my head trying to figure […]

An interesting read about humanities research, the academy, and the ways in which the accessibility and openness of the internet begins to deconstruct the Ivory Tower. Kee reflects on his experience in the 1990′s, breaking into the academy through publications … Continue reading →

Rajagopal’s essay considers the relationship between information and knowledge through a Foucauldian framework. This was a complex, dry argument, so I’m going to try to communicate what I understood, and what I might continue to think about. In the knowledge/power … Continue reading →

That’s what keeps the humanities alive! Share your Research Have a great break and we’ll do some sharing when we return on the 24th!

I was sent Michael S. Rosenwald’s “Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say,” and Steven Poole’s “The internet isn’t harming our love of ‘deep reading’, it’s cultivating it” by a friend who I’m going to … Continue reading →

For my final project, I decided to research on the light side of the digital age and how great things can come from the digital era. I’m still deciding whether to use the tool Pixton or not. It depends on … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on my final project.  Like I said, I was going to use the platform telescopic text… and boy is this stuff difficult! It makes you think in all different and distorted ways.  It’s difficult, because you can’t really write as you’re going along. I think that what may be best is to write the whole thing out, then type is out and make almost like a tree with it.  I’m not sure yet… it’s all so experimental but I’m enjoying it so far!