Click on the link below to listen to my mini-podcast for the Critical Comparison of Texts assignment, entitled “Recon-figured” . Credit to Bridghet Wood and Hanna Rudelich for voicing Allison Landberg and Emily McArthur, respectively.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BVNQmvftuHK9J3oZCgdZNmBIHjt47lAR/view?
Works Cited
Landberg, Allison. “Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Bladerunner.” Cyberspace/ Cyberbodies/ Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment, SAGE Publications, London, 1995, pp. 175–187.
McArthur, Emily. “The iPhone Erfahrung.” Design, Mediations & the Posthuman, Lexington Books, Lanham , Maryland, 2014, pp. 113–125.
Image for poster from scientificamerican.com
Hi Naomi!!
This is such a creative way to approach the assignment! I really liked how you opened the podcast by asking Siri to compare the two texts and by having Siri immediately respond by saying, “want me to search the web?” Following that response, you very cleverly turned instead to “Allison Landsberg” and “Emily McArthur” (awesome voice acting btw ????). I thought this moment did a great job at exemplifying McArthur’s discussion in “The iPhone Erfahrung,” shifting from relying on a digital assistant to consulting real, human thinkers and displaying the difference between trusting real sources rather than the non-objectivity behind Siri’s algorithms and answers.
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