166 Posts Categorized "Kean University 2018"

Digital Alchemy and Networked Narratives course at Kean University in 2018 taught by Alan Levine (see all Kean University Alchemists)

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Does T-Mobile Redline Newark, NJ?

Marissa on April 9, 2018

This class was interesting because we discussed an unfamiliar concept: redlining. Redlining is the practice of marking an area to call it out, usually as a place to avoid. The concept was introduced with a discussion of undesirable neighborhoods, and we were shown a redlined map of Newark, NJ from 1939. I was interested to learn that even in 1939, areas in Newark were considered undesirable places to live, and I would love to understand why in more depth. From […]

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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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Divided by Redline

richardsonpatrice3029 on April 9, 2018April 9, 2018

The person that I had the questions for didn’t respond but my audio will be recorded down below. Clean water game This week we learned about Redlining.. Redlining is the practice of denying services, either directly or through selectively raising prices, to residents of certain areas based on the racial or ethnic composition of those areas. What I choose to observe through my redlining observation was the phone company that has cell towers available in my area . It really puzzles […]

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Getting Lost In Gaming

tiffany627568933 on April 9, 2018April 9, 2018

It’s been a hectic few weeks for me and playing catch up is stressful but I’m almost there. This week I wasn’t able to make it to class because I had some personal things that came up. So when it comes down to the discussion of game play types and the elements of games I am a little on the confused. But from trying to understand the post of this week 10 weekly break down for what was done in […]

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Gaming Narrative !

dasp18 on April 9, 2018April 9, 2018

Here is the gaming narrative I worked on. Last week in my weekly Egypt mentioned how wwe posted questions to the student in the egypt class, working ontheir gaming idea project. We asked questions and hped to get a response. Due to the students being on their spring break, I did not get the opportunity to get the questions answered, but in this “podcast” type of narrative I explained why I chose this game idea to look at, and how I […]

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Gaming the System

helterskelliter on April 8, 2018April 9, 2018

*Much less fun than it sounds~ Painting the Town Red This week, we talked about redlining–basically denying services either directly or indirectly to residents in certain areas of a city or town based upon the ethnic makeup of the residents. More specifically, we talked about the idea of digital redlining and how online algorithms can play a part in the contemporary implementation of redlining practices. In order to learn more about digital redlining and how it works, we watched a […]

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Redlining and Audio Making pt 2;Week 11 Blog

Vanessa's NetNarr Blogs on April 8, 2018April 8, 2018

For this week, the class of Netnarr seemed more complete then last class. The in class assignment was very tricky especially for the undergrad. In my experience, I was completely lost in what to do and how to do it. I am very grateful towards the grad students for stepping out of their way like always and helping us out. We started the class of by watching video in redlining which is refusing loan or insurance to someone in a […]

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Mapping Things Out (Redlining)

dasp18 on April 7, 2018April 7, 2018

This week we looked into digital redlining, and even looked into how a few game board maps were designed to replicate certain cities or countries. I chose to look specifically at the pokemon game board. I looked at it specifically in Newark, because this is a major area near my school. It also has a good overlapping pattern to follow, which we would later use when have to match up this map, with the ma of Newark, NJ. Using the website H5P […]

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Game Story ; Week 10 Blog

Vanessa's NetNarr Blogs on April 3, 2018April 3, 2018

I want to start this blog off by saying that last class in netnarr was so exciting and fun! Although only half of the class was present, that did not stop us from learning and playing games. We started the class by viewing a video where it teaches the watcher about three types of games which are, plan, practice, or improvised. We discussed about the differences between the three and also gave out examples for each one. Also, we got […]

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Trying different games, woohoo!

tiffany627568933 on April 3, 2018April 3, 2018

For my internet archive game I chose to do pac-man because I feel as though that game is something that many people are familiar with, but don’t really know the background on it. When researching pac-man I learned about what it means when the ghosts turn blue. i knew that when they are colored it means that they can kill you but I didn’t know that when you get to the energizer balls the ghosts turn blue so you can […]

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(Limited) Pac-Man & The Atarisoft Nightmare

Justin G. on April 3, 2018April 3, 2018

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Pac-Man_1983 Pac-Man is a very simple game on just about every game console imaginable, including: Android, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, BlackBerry, Channel F, Commodore 64, FM-7, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, Intellivision, iPhone, MSX, Neo Geo Pocket Color, NES, Playstation 1, 2, 3, and 4, Nintendo 3DS, Palm OS, PC-6001, PC-88, PC-98, Sharp X1, TI-99/4A, VIC-20, Wii, Wii U, Windows Phone, Xbox 360, Xbox One ZX Spectrum and probably my toaster. And I’m sure […]

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