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Art 80F is a class that teaches students the basics of digital media. It appears to focus on helping students build a website to showcase their portfolios for their varied majors. The class will also focus on various issues surrounding ethnicity and race, and as a result it satisfies the ER general education requirement.
Transdisciplinarity Of Listening
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You can find a few ideas about Sustainable designed in architecture that I learned after speaking to my father, Javier M. Molina, by clicking the link. Click HereGroup Presentation
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You can find my group presentation at this link. PresentationMy Critique on Coleman's Hello Avatar
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You can find my thoughts on Coleman's Hello Avatar at this link. Critique Revised Paper: Click HereRichard Sherman and His Public Persona
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You can find my thoughts on how Richard Sherman's persona has evolved since his famous interview here. Click Here Revised Paper: Click HereAnnotated Terms
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- Reality: In my mind reality is something that can be see and felt by the human beings senses without the need for other tools. As opposed to say virtual worlds that need to be accessed by a computer or some sort of other device.
- Emoticon: I see emoticons and short visual expressions to show our emotions simply through a virtual world. I see emoticons as an avatar for our emotions in the real world, that we send into the virtual realm to represent them. Emoticons are emotional self portraits if you will.
- Simulation: A simulation is attempt to recreate reality in a virtual world often with a purpose of teaching for increased performance or quality in reality. A common use of simulation is to try harmful practices such as combat without actually having to engage in the danger live combat actually gives.
- Technological Wizardry: This term basically means that technology is so new and it can seem like magic to somebody who doesn't know how to use it. Also, since the amount of minority members in the tech field is so small the process of creating it can seem like magic because they have not been given the opportunity to properly study it.
- Multiplicity: This word appears to mean limitless, or endless meaning there are infinite solutions to something. In this case multiplicity is being used to describe the amount of creative and educational possibilities technology can provide to under privileged individuals.
- Stereotype: Although Nakamura explains a stereotype as a machine used for image processing, I believe the popular notion of the word is too powerful to change. Stereotypes are common misconceptions made about certain groups of people that are often deemed harmful and racist. When the word stereotype is mentioned this is what comes to mind and I feel that the meaning is strong enough that I could not look at it any other way.
- Internet Industry: The internet industry refers to all the tech Giants and businesses that focus on web development and connectivity tools. Two examples would be Google and Yahoo. Race comes into play with the Internet industry because they are an ever expanding Industry that can really help bring minority groups into the forefront of technology.
- Digital Divide: We live in a world that is growing increasingly dependent on the internet and connected technology. That being said not everyone has access to the internet and the digital divide refers to the fact that there is a massive divide between the people who have access to the internet and technology and those who don't.
- Pop Culture: Pop culture is kind of like a zeitgeist, meaning that it changes with time. Pop culture includes things like superheroes and music. Pop culture in one decade is very rarely the same in the next.
- Blog: A blog is a sort of online journal that is made public for people to read. People use blogs to show their feelings and attitudes towards certain things in their lives. Many people including myself, don't really care to read other people's live stories, but I understand why people do it.
Practitioners
- Beth Coleman: Beth Coleman wrote Hello Avatar and she is currently affiliated with the University of Waterloo. She currently contributes to critical media and game studies. Currently she is studying human narrative and digital data.
- Mark Hansen: Hansen is currently associated with the Columbia journalism school, he has worked with both electrical engineering and data. He has also previously worked at the New York times R&D lab.
- Steve Henn: He was recently hired by NPR to be a tech correspondent in Silicon Valley. Henn has not really worked with technology, but he is an award winning journalist, very well distinguished even before joining npr.
- Glenn Greenwald: is an American political journalist currently residing in Brazil. He's contributed to numerous papers including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He is very distinguished being named a top 100 global thinker in 2013 and won a Pulitzer Prize for public service.