65 Posts from April 2018

Kean University 2018, The Network

On Digital Redlining

Justin G. on April 18, 2018May 9, 2018

My Game Designer Audio Report: https://soundcloud.com/georjust/justin-george-game-designer Week after week, I explain the following to my Uber/Lyft passengers calmly: -Surge (extra fares) is not something a driver determines. -Surge is determined by the amount of demand in an area. -Drivers can see surge on a map as “heat” spots, with red indicating a greater demand/higher surge pricing. They still complain that it costs too much. Oh well. But the way that Uber has “painted” my city and the cities around me, […]

Kean University 2018, The Network

bots the matter with you?

haileyjcarone on April 17, 2018April 17, 2018

breaking! this past week, it has been reported that yes, bots were on the rise again on twitter... except they weren't russian bots - this was the work of kean students!and i'll be the first to admit that i think everyone did a great job with living double lives in their own twitter as both a tired, politically distraught student and a persistent, politically distraught bot! the purpose of the bots were to create conversation, but to ask the questions […]

Kean University 2018, The Network

Don’t Talk About it, Bot About it

Stephanie Jones on April 16, 2018April 16, 2018

This week I got to experience Bots 2.0 meaning, I got a second go 'round with the whole bot experience. And I must say that this time was much better, well, that is not exactly true. This time I was more comfortable with the entire experience. Plus Alan gave us a specific direction for this year's bot activity. In my Twitter DM I found the following message: Your #netnarr botversarion position to promote is we need to be better at […]

Kean University 2018, The Network

Bot-ulism

Katherine on April 16, 2018April 16, 2018

Last week in class we ventured into the world of bots. We started by looking at some exemplary bots, from the famous experiment ELIZA to the works of poetry-generating bots. We concluded with an exercise where we created our own Twitter bots to tweet about a given topic. I found the topic of bots both fascinating and challenging, even a little nostalgia-inducing. I’ve had a soft spot for robots and artificial intelligence ever since I saw a documentary about real-life […]

Kean University 2018, The Network

Bot Life for life

tiffany627568933 on April 16, 2018April 16, 2018

Well this week was definitely an interesting but odd week all together. I learned that you can create a bot that can send out tweets or information in general for you without me having to type it up myself. I learned that bots are basically a whole different entity that sends out its own information. All I had to do was set it up and it did everything on it’s own. I find it really weird because it acts like […]

Announcements, Netnarr in 2018

Week 13.0: Exploring Electronic Literature

Alan Levine on April 16, 2018January 17, 2019

What is Electronic Literature? What is the difference, overlap with “regular” literature? What kinds / genres appeal to you as a form you might want to create?

Note: As a reminder, we do not meet in person this week; this work is mostly a reading and exploration assignment, a week …

Kean University 2018, The Network

Bots & Whatnot~

helterskelliter on April 16, 2018April 16, 2018

Beep-Beep-Boo-Bot: Revisiting Bots So, at this point in my exploration of the digital humanities, I’m not unfamiliar with bots. In fact, I’ve written about them at length before. More, I’ve written about the ethics or lack thereof of bots here. This isn’t to say that I’ve, by any means, said all there is to say about bots, just that I have thought about them and their functions in detail before. And, more, as far as interacting with and creating bots, […]

Kean University 2018, The Network

Digital Bot Press!

dasp18 on April 14, 2018April 14, 2018

This picture is a clear reflection of how I see certain things as of now. Exploring digital bots and how they operate was this week’s #Netnarr challenge. Bots are sort of changing and shaping the new form of communicating between human to human, and “bots” to humans. it is often hard to even detect anymore within in the web what could possibly be written by bots, and what was created by humans. Our first exercise in our bot adventure took […]

Open Participants 2018, The Network

Play/Read Student Interactive Fiction/Games

dogtrax on April 12, 2018April 12, 2018

Here are some Interactive Fiction stories by sixth graders that you might enjoy reading. The best way to view/read the stories is to go full-screen option. Also, since Larry asked, here is an old blog post with screenshot tutorials on how to create these stories in Google Slides. Thanks for reading and celebrating student work! Peace (this way and that), Kevin

Open Participants 2018, The Network

Trading Privacy for Profit When You’re the Product

dogtrax on April 11, 2018April 11, 2018

Processing 06 flickr photo by crstnksslr shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license Funny. This post is NOT about Facebook. But it could have been … We had a disagreement brewing in the kitchen the other day. My wife and I, and our three boys (the oldest, in college, and the youngest, in middle school). The whole family. The dog watched. We were arguing about privacy, and technology, and the split between my wife and I (we both try to […]

Kean University 2018, The Network

Bot or Not

richardsonpatrice3029 on April 10, 2018April 23, 2018

Bot or Not? Bot are things that comes from the computer basis machine and to be not a bot means the material comes from a actually person. We played this game in class to see if we can see if the poemsbot or not poems were made from a bot or not. My results sucked the first time leaving me with a score out of 1/5 so I played again because I wasn’t satisfy with my results and got a […]

Announcements, Netnarr in 2018

Week 12.0: Bot, Not, What?

Alan Levine on April 10, 2018January 17, 2019

Computers can be platforms for software agents that “acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency.” More specifically Chatter Bots are ones that “convincingly simulate how a human would behave as a conversational partner.”

Marrying responses of software agents with greater amounts of artificial intelligence (mining …

Kean University 2018, The Network

Audio Audio Audio and Some Redlining too

tiffany627568933 on April 10, 2018April 10, 2018

This week’s class and activity was definitely something different but interesting all the same. We discussed redlining, which deals with different companies discriminating and denying services to people of certain geographical areas. I find that something to be very unfair because everyone should have access to the same types of services regardless of where they live. When doing my make bank based on transportation, I realized that the low income area I focused on how multiple ways for transportation and I […]

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redlining & remixing

haileyjcarone on April 10, 2018

this past week, during our exploration of games, we've focused a lot on the concept of remixing, which is an important element to recognize in such a unique class as this. a few weeks ago, we put questions into the padlet we shared with Maha's students in Egypt; unfortunately, we didn't receive responses, but that didn't stop us! instead, we created the supposed answers to those questions, and put them together to form a mock / imaginary interview, speculating on […]

Kean University 2018, The Network

redlining & remixing

haileyjcarone on April 10, 2018

this past week, during our exploration of games, we've focused a lot on the concept of remixing, which is an important element to recognize in such a unique class as this. a few weeks ago, we put questions into the padlet we shared with Maha's students in Egypt; unfortunately, we didn't receive responses, but that didn't stop us! instead, we created the supposed answers to those questions, and put them together to form a mock / imaginary interview, speculating on […]