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Final Reflection

Katherine on May 1, 2018May 1, 2018

Well, I made it to the end of the semester… Overall, I think I fell short of my goal for this class, as I missed several assignments and blog posts, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t gained something valuable from the Spring 2018 Networked Narratives experience. If I had to condense it into one statement, I’d say that I gained a deeper understanding of the Twitter platform. Hosting a Twitter chat about empathy games and learning to create simple Twitter […]

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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 […]

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Red-Onlining

Katherine on April 9, 2018April 9, 2018

In class last week we learned about the concept of digital redlining (see Dr. Chris Gilliard’s work on the topic), and we were asked to create an interactive map of Newark that compared its historical redlining zones and something tech-related. I chose to compare the redlining zones with free Wi-fi points, and my interactive map can be found here. It was hard to draw any meaningful conclusions from my map comparison because it seems there aren’t many free Wi-Fi points […]

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My New Little Alchemy Habit

Katherine on March 19, 2018March 19, 2018

Hello everyone! I hope your “Spring” break was restful and pleasant, or at the very least productive. In the last class we had before break, we started our discussion on games, particularly digital or video games. The discussion was fruitful, with everyone sharing at least a couple games they enjoyed. The most interesting thing I noticed during the in-class conversation was a widespread feeling of conflict between enjoying games and guilt about wasting time. I guarantee this conflict is the […]

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The Internet and Games

Katherine on March 6, 2018March 6, 2018

Well, hello! Sorry for the radio silence on here. We’ve reached the beginning of March, and that means it’s the beginning of our section on Games, which Justin and I will be moderating. It’s tempting to think only of video games when we discuss games in relation to networked narratives and online culture, but for my post today I’m going to discuss two other ways that the Internet facilitates gaming: Art Roleplaying Games and Fan-made augments to traditional table top […]

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Eponymous Topic and the Internet

Katherine on February 12, 2018February 12, 2018

So, as you can see, this NetNarr blog is called The Wunderkammer. You can also see that some of my work for the NetNarr class (like my DDAs and one of my entries into the Digital Art Referencium) has involved the same term and concept. <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-lang=”en”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”><a href=”https://twitter.com/netnarr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@netnarr</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/dda150?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#dda150</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/netnarr?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#netnarr</a> A raccoon skull (and other goodies) from my wunderkammer. <a href=”https://t.co/9V7MLi9ktw”>pic.twitter.com/9V7MLi9ktw</a></p>— Katherine Marzinsky (@KMarzinsky) <a href=”https://twitter.com/KMarzinsky/status/963217158917455878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>February 13, 2018</a></blockquote> https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The wunderkammer (wonder room), or cabinet […]

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One of my Favorite Things!

Katherine on February 4, 2018February 4, 2018

Hello all! The previous week was a good one for digital alchemy, what with all our Twitter adventures and in-class research. During our Twitter Chat, I got the chance to talk, or tweet…, about one of my favorite things: digital art! I was tickled to see other users talking about DeviantArt (for those that don’t know, my thesis is focused on DeviantArt communities), and I loved that I could share a bit about my activities there and some of my […]

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New Beginning

Katherine on January 21, 2018January 21, 2018

This week has been a busy one! Along with the new semester beginning, I also had a root canal, visited some friends, and started lessons with a new student in my private tutoring “business.” Because I knew I’d have so much going on, I made sure to get my set-up and DDAs done during our previous class. I went back into some of the older DDAs (at the time of class) and completed them, and then I did the in-class […]

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A New Adventure

Katherine on January 16, 2018January 16, 2018

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog for the Spring 2018 Networked Narratives class. It’s also the same blog I used for the previous iteration of the course, but no one needs to know about that… I had some health trouble last semester and had to take a medical leave of absence, but now I’m back and stronger than ever! I’m looking forward to learning and writing with everyone, and I’m psyched to see this class getting underway for more […]

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Letter to my Alchemist/Course Reflection

Katherine on May 4, 2017

Dear Tycho, It was a pleasure to host you during your visit to New Jersey. I couldn’t have asked for a more interesting person to share my home and academic life with, as much as you may refuse to believe it. I’m not sure how bad the racism was back in Arganee, but for someone like me, the opportunity to make friends with a Chimera alchemist has been a dream-come-true. I’d also like to thank you for your kindness and […]

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On Building A Better World

Katherine on March 21, 2017

The other night I had a nightmare that I accidentally hit a young man with my car on the way to school. I accompanied his family to the ER waiting room, where the young man was declared dead. The dream was disturbingly vivid, and the characters were fleshed out to upsetting proportions. When I told my stepmother about this dream, she said it indicated that I felt out of control about something in my life. I’ll admit, I have been […]

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A Jar of Salsa

Katherine on February 21, 2017

A lot of my personal interests and projects have happened to coincide with elements of this Digital Stroytelling/Networked Narratives course, and this week is yet another entry for the list. A friend and former coworker of mine from the Writing Center (she has since graduated and begun her teaching career) have been planning to make a podcast for quite some time, and this weekend we finally met to cement some details for it. We’re calling our project A Jar of […]

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Original Species: A Colorful Kind of Transmedia Generative Literature

Katherine on February 10, 2017February 10, 2017

Since we talked about netprov this week, and we’ll be talking about fan fiction next week, I figured this would be the perfect time to share a passion of mine, which kind of exists in the juncture between those two genres: original species. Original species communities tend to crop up in online visual art communities, most notably DeviantArt, but the generative literature they engender spans a variety of mediums. Just to clarify, when I use the term “generative” here, I […]

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Royal Flush: 5 Card Flickr Stories

Katherine on February 7, 2017February 7, 2017

Worry (My 5 Card Flickr Story) Inspired by these five images: Worry, I scrawl on the chalkboard. Awash in the scent of stale coffee and stale sentiments, I stand before the group, vulnerable as the Vitruvian man. What if you ran that stop sign on Main Street? What if you hit a pedestrian and forgot? I wait on the dog-handler praise of our therapist. I count the scuffs on the linoleum tile. “Worry…” the therapist muses, tapping her pen against […]

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Finding the 4 Elements

Katherine on January 31, 2017February 2, 2017

First off, let me share my photos: Fire: Literal: Symbolic: Air: Literal: Symbolic: Earth: Literal: Symbolic: Water: Literal: Symbolic: Some of these were harder to find than others, and for two I actually had to go back into the archive of pictures I’d previously taken. These were Fire Literal and Earth Literal. Fire Literal is the image of a sunset I took during the Fall near Stockton, New Jersey, and Earth Literal is a cute, little slug friend I found […]