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Task 12 – Speculative Futures
Describe or narrate a scenario about a document found a generation into a future in which “progress” has continued. Your description should address issues related to drones and elicit feelings of embarrassment. The bill is tattered. Obviously crumpled up and thrown away before someone fished it out of whatever refuse it was a part of…
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Task 11 – Detain/Release
The detain/release game is incredibly conflicting, which I think is a testament to how well put together it is. It’s so difficult making each decision, and the game forces one to balance a variety of conflating factors, from your fictional position as the judge, the recommendation of the prosecution, the defendant’s statement, and the algorithm’s…
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Task 10 – User Inyerface
On reflection, I feel as though equating the User Inyerface game and the concept of dark patterns difficult. While the game itself demonstrates a few design principles that certainly are employed by dark patterns, many of its components are outright user-hostile. But I would posit that there should be a distinction between web design that…
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Task 9 – Golden Record Networking
It’s been a long time since I took an introduction to networks course, but I do recall this what we’re seeing in here Palladio is a bipartite graph. What does that mean for our purposes? It means every edge connects a curator to a track. There are no edges between tracks, nor are there any…
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Task 8 – Golden Record
Voyager Record, Etching, 7-28-77. NASA/JPL-Caltech Further curating the Voyager Golden Record is the embodiment of the “what can we afford to lose?”/”what can we afford to keep” conundrum. For this purpose of this task, lets pretend that I have been tasked with the responsibility of cutting the tracklist down prior to Voyager’s launch in…
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Task 7: Hypermediafication of what’s in my bag?
I initially struggled quite a bit with this task. How could I mode-bend a photo of my bag’s contents into something else? I initially considered creating a recording of myself telling the story of why each object is in my bag, but this didn’t feel like sufficient “bend” for the mode that I was…
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Task 6: Emoji Story – can you guess?
Creating an emoji summary of my media was a challenge, for a number of reasons. I will be impressed if anyone can get it, not because the title is obscure by any means, but because my emoji translation requires some creative interpretation. In crafting this emoji translation, I initially attempted to rely purely on words.…
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Task 4 – Writing and Potato Stamps
Handwriting As a remote, tech-adjacent worker – 99.9% of my writing is done via typing. I have aspirations of filling pages of notebooks with journaling, organization, and planning, but I’ve never managed to make it stick. The most I write these days is in birthday and Christmas cards. As such I found the mechanical aspect…
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Task 3: Voice to Texting My Rambling
Dictation This hello, this is a test dictation test wow this isn’t very good so I’m gonna tell the story about all the Ramen. I’ve eaten around the world like many people in the early 2000s I became kind of infatuated with David Chang the famous American chef I need to show on Netflix called…
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Task 1.7 – What’s in my bag? Let me show you.
For this task, I chose a bag whose contents I have carefully curated and refined over the years. It was once my father’s, and held the family’s passports as he corralled us through international travels. Like many of my parent’s belongings, particularly tupperware, I have somehow managed to unconsciously appropriate it. I too, use…
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