134 Posts Categorized "Kean University 2021"

Digital Storytelling course at Kean University taught by Mia Zamora and Alan Levine (all blogging at the Net Mirror 2021 site)

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cue deletion of my Facebook account

ganeldye on March 18, 2021

If you’re anything like me, you probably experienced several mini freak outs while watching this interview. Information I consider valuable and critical as shared by ___ about the state of internet surveillance and how far from the truth we really are. It comes as no surprise that our information is being looked at and viewed for other purposes, but the biggest take aways from this interview are as follows: Our needs are being exploited for money andThe companies buying have […]

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The More I Understand, The Less I Know

thesunthatruns on March 18, 2021

So, let’s start off this blog post on a path of honesty and discovery; I was very, very lost when it came to trying to comprehend, analyze, and connect with the video and reading for this week. A fair comparison would be that I was the Flyers just getting absolutely dunked on by the Rangers. (What a game! This season is yielding such prime content for Weird NHL!) I’ve also been feeling really weighed down by the current events in […]

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SPYING ON YOU

blueknights on March 18, 2021

In the video, Zuboff explained the concept of surveillance capitalism, how it has diverted away from the actual significance that it used to be, disseminated across sectors, and affecting everyone who does not understand the new logic behind it. Talking about it, Zuboff concluded that surveillance capitalism is now a new form of capitalism that is more dangerous than capitalism itself. This kind of capitalism exploits people and does not even allow people to have a clue about it in […]

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Surveillance Capitalism

krock5228 on March 18, 2021

Surveillance capital is one of the biggest changes that we have gone through over the last two decades. With the evolution of technology has come the evolution of how companies will use our information to make money off of our presence online. We live in a society today where most people leave a considerable footprint online, and they are all being captured to help companies take in a ton of data from many different people and build their presence around […]

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The GIF is the Message?

Prof Alan on March 17, 2021March 17, 2021

After this week’s Studio Visit with sava saheli singh we invite you to take the creative challenge of creating your own GIF message from a scene in one of the Screening Surveillance short films. Can you find a pivotal scene in the plot or something that speaks to you strongly about life in a surveillance culture. Follow the instructions in the NetNarr Make Activity GIF a Key Scene of a Screening Surveillance Film to generate your own GIF message. Can […]

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Finding a Path through Surveillance Capitalism

M.E. O'Neill on March 17, 2021

This week, I’ll be attempting to lead us through Shoshana Zuboff’s article “Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization” and her video interview with Channel 4 News “on ‘surveillance capitalism’ and how tech companies are always watching us.” For both my blog and my pathfinding activities, I’ll be focusing mostly on the article, but I’ll occasionally make references to the video, as well. I’d like to start by deciphering exactly what Zuboff means by the term […]

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Stages of Change

agently on March 17, 2021

Shoshana Zuboff’s discussion of surveillance capitalism leaves the tech user feeling stripped of dignity. As it turns out, the “lack of knowledge” that has led to a casual approach to issues of privacy online has immense consequences that many of us don’t understand the half of. Zuboff says that this lack of knowledge is the continued hope of big tech companies that are profiting off our ignorance. By increasing their rights to privacy and stealing ours, they create a self-sustaining […]

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Big Gaps, Big Data, Big Problems

jessielb928 on March 15, 2021March 15, 2021

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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sava sahi singh

mzamora on March 15, 2021March 15, 2021

A “Screening Surveillance” discussion with filmmaker sava saheli singh Equity Unbound is pleased to invite you to another Studio Visit with special guest sava shaheli singh who is both co-writer & co-producer of “Screening Surveillance“. Screening Surveillance is a short film series that uses near future fiction storytelling based on research to highlight potential social and privacy issues that arise as a result of big data surveillance. Each film raises issues in our understandings of trust and surveilled relations. Join us on March […]

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Attention

mzamora on March 15, 2021March 15, 2021

Thanks to Sun for an insightful and interactive pathfinding session on the Attention Economy. And double thanks for choosing to use the digital interface tool called Miro which I have found to be very useful in current research collaboration, interactive workshops, and also editorial collaborations. You never know what you might be working on for your future thesis inquiry, and it is good to have this initial exposure to tools that might facilitate your own research vision. Here are the […]

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Another Statistic

hgatica on March 12, 2021

Once I came out of Shoshana Zuboff’s Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization, I started to piece together all that I know about online surveillance and connected it with so many other readings we’ve done this semester. I’m happy to say that I’m starting to understand where everything fits into the bigger (uglier) picture). Surveillance in an online space has been discussed heavily in our semester. What started off as tools that could have helped […]

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Behind the Scenes of a Like on Facebook

vickbwrites on March 11, 2021

I do not know the correct term for the feeling I have after seeing an advertisement that relates to my search history. It does not irritate me as I know everyone that uses technology experiences this. I am not sure if I was going crazy at the time. Still, I can recall having a conversation about a particular item, and low and behold, the next day, I am swarmed with advertisements of that item while scrolling through Instagram. I am […]

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It’s not just Big Brother.

ganeldye on March 11, 2021March 11, 2021

Okay, so Zeynep Tufekci’s TEDTalk gave us a lot to talk about as far as artificial intelligence and it’s use to influence human behaviors over the internet. In the talk, she first talks about online ads and the intent behind their use, which of course we all can guess is to make us buy more stuff…but it’s apparently more than that. And it’s clear to see as Tufekci explains that these online ads that keep popping up track whether we’ll […]

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Al-go-with-the-flow

thesunthatruns on March 11, 2021

Click the link below to check out my reaction paper to Zeynep Tufekci’s TED Talk, “We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads.” https://docs.google.com/document/d/13oTKoHeK0QYxsO6SP96JodNbEIu3_MMu7SS4OJh7L9o/edit?usp=sharing (Please listen to this while you read the paper to really enhance the meaning and nuances I tried to explicate.) If you’re worried that there’s something missing, fret not! Tonight’s pathfinding material looks a little different, and is going to be staying a surprise under wraps until class time tonight! See you then!

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Building Algorithms with our Online Data

krock5228 on March 11, 2021

The Ted Talk from this week was eye opening to say the least. I always had an understanding of how companies use algorithms to lead us to certain pages or to target ads more specifically to us, however, some of the examples that were used by Zeynep Tufekci. She mentions early on the science of “persuasion architecture.” The example that she used was candy and gum in super markets at the eye level of children so that they pester their […]