824 Posts Tagged "netnarr"

Kean University 2021, The Network

Introversion amidst Lockdown

hgatica on April 15, 2021April 16, 2021

For the final week, I wanted to set my focus on the effect of COVID-19 on introverts, as I feel I relate to this topic the most. To do so, I spent some time focused on reading For introverts, the COVID-19 lockdown has an upside. “Could the online teaching and learning space be the buffer that introverted students needed in order to quietly get on with the job?” That question stuck out to me the most as I’ve read through. […]

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Admin … Oye.

teacheng on April 13, 2021

Brenna Clark Gray said, “Our institution is in the middle of a discussion about adopting a new technology, and it’s very clear that the folks in charge thought they were just purchasing a logistical solution to a problem.” This is also the main idea as to what Hugo’s piece entitled, Students Are Pushing Back Against Proctoring Surveillance Apps, is really all about as well. Jason Kelley spoke about in great detail how one university and institution after another is petitioning […]

Kean University 2021, The Network

AI E I O…and on that farm

teacheng on March 29, 2021

In an old skit from Writer and Comedian, George Carlin, he talks about how the world has become one big technological “club” and if a person was not a member of “Big Business” or part of a “Mega-Corporation” that person was not part of the “club”. In fact, most Americans don’t qualify to become part of the “club” Carlin spoke about. Only about one percent of the entire American population actually qualifies to be a part of the “club”. It’s […]

Kean University 2021, The Network

Power Balance

hgatica on March 26, 2021

Ruha Benjamin’s Catching Our Breath: Critical Race STS and the Carceral Imagination does an excellent job in discussing the many racial inequalities that can coexist with developing technologies. It was a point that was brought up before with AI face-scanning and criminal record analysis, but this particular argument is framed around the “proliferation and intensification of carceral approaches to governing human life.” One quote that caught my attention was by Everett Hughes, who asked “Why didn’t sociologists foresee the explosion […]

Kean University 2021, The Network

Achieving Justice

teacheng on March 23, 2021

As I began to watch the video, “Viral Justice: Pandemics, Policing and Portals,” I wasn’t sure if I was part of the target audience. At first I wasn’t really sure who the actual audience for the piece would be. But then I further listened to what Ms. Benjamin had to say I could totally feel that I was in fact part of the group of people her words were meant for. I have always been a firm believer in building […]

Kean University 2021, The Network

Coded Gazes

hgatica on March 19, 2021

I’ve watched both video for next week’s discussion on Artificial Intelligence, Race & Technology, and there is a lot to unpack and discuss for next class. We’ve already made mention of the bizarre growth technology has on what we can do and operate, and it’s showing signs of not stopping. I think as a society we’ve gone far enough that the rate of growth is too far ahead, and at a rapid pace that we cannot properly regulate, I’ve made […]

Kean University 2021, The Network

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 […]

Kean University 2021, The Network

Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben

teacheng on March 9, 2021

I have to confess that I did my very best to control my ire doing many parts of the presentations for this week’s discussion. First, if we start talking about what the future will be like while describing children as, “whiney little humans,” it is borderline counterproductive. Those “whiney little humans” Ms. Tufeki spoke of will one day be running, programming and controlling the software she speaks about in the piece. So, from my perspective, insulting the group that will […]

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My Relection Does Not Have a Smudge

teacheng on March 2, 2021

I found this week’s reading, “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves,” as an incredibly helpful guide to tackling the world of, what I like to call, “online appearance.” The authors of the piece took great lengths to research and explore each of the apps and tools dedicated to making sure that users look their best. Introspectively speaking, I too am guilty of using online tools to hide and mask […]

Kean University 2021, The Network

Digital Archives

hgatica on February 26, 2021

(I’m hoping I got this right) This week’s reading is Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs, and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves, specifically chapter 4. In this chapter, author Jill Walker Rettberg discusses the concept of digital archives, how our phones and technology have gotten so advanced enough to the point where the act of preserving something can be automated. In a way, as I’ve stated before, the identities of a person is now blurring […]

Kean University 2021, The Network

I’m Tired

teacheng on February 23, 2021

As I began to read this article, the deeper I got into the more William Shakespeare popped into my head. To me no line better reflects the opening ideas of this article more than when Shakespeare had Casius say to Brutus in the play, Julius Caesar, “And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.” Zoom has given us […]

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Seriously Tired

hgatica on February 20, 2021

For this week, we’re asked to think more critically on the effect Zoom has on the immediate level and the kinds of ramifications it can have long-term for everyday life. To facilitate thoughts and discussion, I’ve read The Zoom Gaze by Autumm Caines and Why We’re Exhausted by Zoom by Susan D. Blum. To put it bluntly, I’m tired. Not out of boredom, but of direct points made by both authors. We cannot deny the effect Zoom has had in […]

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Comic About Teaching: Zoom Mutterings

dogtrax on February 18, 2021February 18, 2021

I find it fascinating how pretty much universal this is: a presenter/teacher talking out about the technological things they are doing as the Zoom crowd waits for whatever comes next. I’ve even found myself apologizing to my students to narrating what I am doing to get things ready for class when we are on Zoom. I always imagine my students having a chuckle about it at my expense. Which I don’t mind at all. The mute button is … right […]

Open Participants 2021, The Network

Turning Collaborative Poem Into Song (but it ain’t no Shanty)

dogtrax on February 17, 2021February 17, 2021

The other day, I wrote about a collaborative poem that folks in #ds106, and #clmooc, and beyond had contributed to. With 106 lines in its construction, the poem has now become a place of possible remix. I had joked at one point at trying to write a Sea Shanty with some of the words (ie, TikTok trend) and yesterday morning, after watching a bunch of YouTube videos of the recent Shanty trend, I was pretty confident that I could remix […]

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Whisper into the future

Wendy Taleo on February 15, 2021

In this week in the Net Mirror (#NetNarr) Professor Levine is encouraging the use of audio to capture our thoughts. Here I'm playing with audio and using the screen capture feature on Android (Samsung 10) that allows for multiple things: capturing my voice, capturing system sounds, screen annotation, video thumbnail. This would be a very cool way to tell a story using a multimodal approach.This is a cross posting for #WalkMyWorld where I came across the "I Miss My Bar" […]