Open Participants 2019, The Network
Adventure awaits …
Adventure awaits …
114 Posts Categorized "Open Participants 2019"
Unaffiliated, but definitely not unconnected, individual digital alchemists (see a list of all Open Alchemists)
Open Participants 2019, The Network
Networked Narratives: Oh, This Dystopia
dogtrax on utopia banished flickr photo by kr428 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license Networked Narratives hosted a Twitter chat the other while folks were watching this video — We’re Building a Dystopia Just to Make People Click on Ads by Zeynep Tufekci — and so I popped the video into Vialogues for slow viewing and commenting. Thanks to Karen and Terry for jumping in with me, so I didn’t feel so alone in the digital landscape of manipulation engines and algorithmic […]
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The dark side
Karen Young on I will miss all or most of the in class activities since I am on the dark side of the planet, while it is still early evening for all of the students at Kean University. So I was unable to participate in either the Twitter chat about Zeynep Tufekci's Ted Talk or the vistual chat with Chris Gilliard.But I am also in the dark about many of the technologies used to surveil us (I've just made surveillance into a verb-sorry!) […]
Open Participants 2019, The Network
Even humans are welcome
Even humans are welcome
Open Participants 2019, The Network
Infinite hay … the best jam
Infinite hay … the best jam
Open Participants 2019, The Network
Combining GIFs Together in Digital Alchemy Experiment
dogtrax on This morning’s DS106 Daily Create call for “making stuff” was to merge a name with a famous person with the name of something else. Betty White Cake was the example (chuckle). I wanted to do Edge of Darkness, with the U2 guitarist. And I wanted to merge two animated GIFs — the Edge with a dark scene — but I didn’t know how to do that. So I learned how. I searched the Net and re-discovered Animated GIF Maker (which I have […]
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Reflections so far…
Karen Young on I think sometimes it takes a course like this to wake me up from my complacency. Maybe it's not complacency so much as the idea that I expect the world to treat me the way I treat others (or hope I do). I am going to be polite, I am going to try and do what is right according to the way I was raised and I will try not to hurt anyone. I know, for example, that much of […]
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Epiphany | Apopheny | Whatev-eny
tellio on I was not happy with my work, my making, my…doing of late. And then Bob Ross takes a ‘deliberate accident’ and makes it into a happy accident when he prophesizes, “We don’t make mistakes. We have happy accidents.” Serendips, an accident in my brain, a happy pen stroke. Let’s have a happy accident, an epiphany apopheny. The source of this river of sublime generosity is the kleckograph below here and from Simon Ensor‘s link here: I “blot” a poem from […]
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Digital Palimpsest: Words Lost to the Night
dogtrax on Here’s a poem that emerged rather unexpectedly from a daily alchemy prompt through Networked Narratives. It began here with some silhouettes and a call for wondering who shadows might be. I wrote a poem and layered it on top of the prompt image itself: #dda248 #netnarr I am Obscure … pic.twitter.com/PcRyIbAJso — KevinHodgson (@dogtrax) February 1, 2019 Notice how Wendy took that and went a step further, layering another piece on top of the layer. #dda248 #netnarr Lost ideas / […]
Open Participants 2019, The Network
The far side of YouTube is an odd place
The far side of YouTube is an odd place
Open Participants 2019, The Network
YOU and The Way Social Media Tells the Story
dogtrax on My wife and I have been watching the television show, YOU, for the past few weeks, creeping out on the storyline. Besides shouting at the television for all the narrative holes in the plot (there are many) and for characters not seeing the obvious, it’s been sort of fascinating to watch how social media is baked into the fabric of the show of obsession. This isn’t the first television show to necessarily do this — use social media and technology […]
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Do You Know of Dark Patterns?
dogtrax on This video by Nerdwriter (whom I support via Patreon) seems like it could connect with the inquiry now being done in Networked Narratives around technology, surveillance and agency. Dark Patters are “crappy user experience that intentionally makes it difficult to do something ” that hurts the company. In other words, intentional design to thwart our own agency as a user. This is a fascinating look at this concept. Be alert out there … Peace (into the light), Kevin
Open Participants 2019, The Network
Following the duck
Following the duck
Open Participants 2019, The Network
You never know who’s watching
You never know who’s watching
Open Participants 2019, The Network
Kick out the jams!
Kick out the jams!