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New Media and Digital Culture
Her Film Analysis
I wrote the paper about Spike Jonze's use of color to display the different moods in the film. He used the colors red, blue, yellow, and occasional white. Each of these colors represented something special. Red was for love. Blue was for heartbreak, yellow was for confusion, and white was for neutrality.
The movie Her by Spike Jonze was a film showing an alternate future universe where human to human communication was through technology. We see Theodore fall in love with his AI operating system and becomes deeply in love with her.
The Marvel App Project
This was a project during the semester where we we designed an app for students at CCU. This app was supposed to offer a solution to an issue on campus.
For my app, I designed a parking app. This app allows students to reserve a parking spot in all of the parking lots on campus. The students can reserve a spot for the length of their classes.
A brief history of the Smartphone
The Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman talks about the new universe where humans are becoming more and more detached from society and are more focused on their cell phones.
Lightman discusses the distraction caused by the cell phones.
In Tools of the Mind by Carr, discusses technological advances that mimic parts of the mind and how they have helped us advance as a human race.
In Google Knowing by Michael Patrick Lynch, he writes on how much google knowing has became the go to way to obtain knowledge. In the beginning of the essay, he asked himself 4 questions that he had to answer without the use of Google Knowing or the internet.
Michael Patrick Lynch in Our Digital Form of Life starts off discussing about a new world where people insert "cell phones" into their heads. These would allow the user to not even have to think about anything. The chip is a Google search bar, contact book, reminder all in one. Files can be shared with the snap of a finger. It would allow the sharing and access to millions of information simple.
Technology Mindfulness
I averaged around 3-3/12 hours on my phone a day and around 90 pickups.
I learned how to monitor my phone usage more and strive to step away from my phone with the certain meditation and exercises done in this project.
This was a semester long project where we tracked our phone usage and what apps we favored.
Outsourcing Memory Covid-19 Instruction
This section of the class was right when the school shut down for Covid. This drastically changed the semester for us all.
In Mastering Memory by Abby Smith Rumsey, Rumsey talks about how our brain is an empty attic and we choose what we can put it in there. She focuses on what our brain holds onto and forgets overtime.
Digital Societies
In the text "People would rather be Electrically Shocked" by Nadia Whitehead, we see points brought up about how people do not like being left alone with only their minds. Several tests were run on undergrad students called "thinking periods"
They were placed in rooms with minimal furniture and no tech devices. The tests mainly came back with people not finding enjoyment. The students were then were tested in their own homes but similar results came back. The last experiment was to put the students in a lab with a button that would shock them. More students would rather have been shocked.
In the two different beliefs in the text "Is Technology Making People Less Sociable?", we see the arguments for and against technology making us as humans less sociable. Larry Rosen agrees with the idea that it in fact is making us less sociable. In his piece, "Yes: Connecting Virtually Isn't Like Real-World Bonding" argues that we as humans have become filled with the anxiety of missing out on things when we do not check our phone.
Going Dark
In the Bored and Brilliant podcast, the speaker has neurologists come on and speak on the problem of smartphones ruining our boredom. Smartphones have games, social networks, internet, etc that can stimulate our senses when we are becoming bored.