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Ch 12: Pandemic Take Aways, Kean University 2021, The Network

Culminating Community as A“gen”t Z

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For the last blog (which really is the last blog this time, I promise), we end off this semester by recognizing a relationship between a generation and the CO-VID 19 pandemic. A TED Talk by Darcy Dixon highlights the impact of this tragic and life-changing pandemic and how the Gen Z has been affected a little differently than everyone else. But how can this be fixed? Dixon begins with discussing the strong sense of community and how it’s a “vital […]

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Ch 11: #Againstsurveillance, Kean University 2021, The Network

Us vs. Them

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In a world where internet has taken over the majority, if not everyone’s lives, there is still discussion about privacy. Privacy on a platform where once something is put up, will most likely be available for people to see (depending on who they are of course). Tracy Zhang led the research and writing on the article Students Are Pushing Back Against Proctoring Surveillance Apps, presenting information that focuses on how huge populations of university students fighting for their right to […]

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I Can’t Breathe…

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Ruha Benjamin from Princeton University discussed a sensitive but unfortunate reality that has become more real now than ever before. Science and technology is at an all-time high now, especially with the constant innovations of various technologies being used to understand humans better. But the question arises, are these creations helping or hurting the society it’s being made for and becoming part of? Her article Catching Our Breath highlights the studies of science and technologies with critical race theories and […]

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The Coded Gaze

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This week’s blog is all about MIT graduate student Joy Buolamwini’s journey and realization in the world of algorithmic bias. One would assume that bias can only occur with sectors such as jobs, education, etc. but unfortunately, with the need for software’s comes the issues of skin color and the lack of inclusion. Buolamwini worked often with robots and different forms of technology to bring about convenience for certain parts of life. However, while on the search of technological convenience, […]

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Ch 9: Surveillance Capitalism, Kean University 2021, The Network

Big Gaps, Big Data, Big Problems

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Shoshana Zuboff really honestly and bluntly talked about the dangers of surveillance capitalism, which is this week’s new post-pandemic university concern. She has done several talks, interviews and articles on the surveillance capitalism and how with the big data, comes big problems. Surveillance capitalism is a huge issue today, what will all the obsession and widespread addition with social media and internet usage. And I use those terms because it’s true. Would be able to manage if we didn’t have […]

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Artificial Intelligence Is Making Us Artificial

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For this week, instead of an article, I am going to focus on a Ted Talk. A Ted Talk spoken by Zeynep Tufkeci, a speaker who highlights the unfortunate events of modern-day society as a result of artificial intelligence. It is not creating havoc within the human world, but it is making a dystopia out of what could be a utopia. The world was always messy, but now the exposure is at a whole other level. With the help of […]

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Ch 8: The Attention Economy as Dystopia, Kean University 2021, The Network

Artificial Intelligence Is Making Us Artificial

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For this week, instead of an article, I am going to focus on a Ted Talk. A Ted Talk spoken by Zeynep Tufkeci, a speaker who highlights the unfortunate events of modern-day society as a result of artificial intelligence. It is not creating havoc within the human world, but it is making a dystopia out of what could be a utopia. The world was always messy, but now the exposure is at a whole other level. With the help of […]

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Ch 7: Seeing Ourselves, Kean University 2021, The Network

Automated “Me”

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Remember those days when people actually took out the time to write things and not just have technology do everything for them? Yeah..it seems like ages ago. To be honest, I miss those days. When each of us had that excitement to write down in our diaries what we had done, or put an effort on our minds of a memory we wanted to talk about. But now, that sense of effort is gone. Not only with communicating with each […]

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Mirror, Mirror On My Zoom

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People don’t only have mirrors in their bedrooms, bathrooms or hallways. Honestly, people will make anything a mirror, to ensure that they (before anything else), look good and presentable to the other people. One would think that with the pandemic and a tiny amount of in-person interaction compared to before occurring, appearance wouldn’t be the thing everyone is still concerned about. But actually….wrong. Our faces can only be seen fully on the platform of video communication, and if masks are […]

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Heads or Tails?

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The reality of the internet has finally come to light this past year. With the global pandemic, no one really noticed the flaws, perks and various angles of the internet. But so much has happened and some of it had been calmed, instigated and balanced with the help of social media and information at your fingertips. This week’s blog post focuses on the good, bad, ugly and the detox that’s needed after dealing with this technological platform day after day, […]

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Connect in a Time of Disconnection

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Virtual connection is definitely not the same as an in-person connection. So why would it be useful? Maybe for conferences with attendees that can’t physically attend…that would be the best reason right? But what about when the whole world gets caught up in a diseased and deadly storm, when gestures of love and intimacy are now a double-edged sword, when breathing freely in a crowded place can possibly be a death warrant? What then? Does virtual connection bring people together […]

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Share the Care

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This week’s reading was very interesting and ironic. It seems as if caring has only been kept for certain people, not everyone. Why not? It’s not something to selfishly possess, it needs to be distributed equally to everyone, regardless of race, religion, political beliefs, etc. Gabriela Saldanha’s The Post Pandemic University and the Caring Gap really emphasized on how much of a difference there is between paid “professional” work and unpaid “caring” work. It doesn’t seem to be just a […]

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A Step into the Unknown

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Back to blogging, back to familiar territory. NetNarr is not a class I thought I would take. To be honest, I registered as a last minute course. Being a Bachelors in Elementary Education, I was keen on taking a graduate course in multilingualism for school but then a week before the semester started, I was made to realize that it was definitely not the course for me. It would force me to revisit things that I was over with; emotionally […]

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