Scenario Prompt This week’s task involved writing a scenario based on a prompt generated through a version of Situation Lab’s (n.d.) game, The Thing From The Future. Describe or narrate a scenario about a pill found a few years into a future in which society as we know it has come apart. Your description should …
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Task 11: Detain/Release
This week’s task involved engaging with a simulation called Detain/Release (Porcaro, 2019), which involves taking on the role of a pre-trial judge and ‘ruling’ on 24 simulated cases. Rulings are based on simulated defendant profile, scaled AI risk assessments, and prosecution recommendations. I attempted the simulation twice, as my connection failed towards the end of …
Task 10: Attention Economy
This week’s task involved playing the online game User Inyerface (Bagaar, 2019) and reporting back on our experience. I found this task to be both fun and frustrating, and in many ways, reminded me of an escape room challenge in the form of web page. The game managed to subvert my expectations a number of …
Task 9: Network Assignment Using Golden Record Data
This task involved analyzing a network based on each class member’s song choices for Task #8: Golden Record Curation using Palladio, a data visualization tool (Stanford, n.d.). Analysis Given that I have very limited experience with network visualization, let alone Palladio, the video tutorials by Systems Innovation (2015) were a useful primer to become more …
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Task 8: Golden Record Curation
This week’s task involved curating 10 musical tracks from the original 27 that were included on the Voyager Golden Record. Listed below are the tracks that I’ve selected: Reflection When approaching this task, I was reminded of Dr. Smith Rumsey’s recorded talk at Brown University (2017), which addresses the preservation of digital information in the …
Task 7: Mode Bending
This week’s task involved changing the semiotic mode of our week 1 task. I’ve opted to redesign my original task by creating an audio-driven trivia game using Twine. During the game, users are invited to guess the items in my bag based on the sounds that they make. Twine Game: Play ‘What’s in My Work Bag’ …
Task 6: Emoji Story
This week’s task involves describing the title and plot of a movie, book or TV show using only emojis. Using the built-in emoji keyboard on my iPhone, I’ve shared my attempt below. Reflection Did you rely more on syllables, words, ideas, or a combination of all of them? I found myself relying more on ideas …
Task 4: Manual Printing
This post explores the manual production of a potato stamp to print a five-letter word. This exercise provided an opportunity for me to consider the time, labour, and resource costs involved with producing text in a way that pre-dates the mechanized printing process. Production With Juniper’s (2015) video as a guide, the process of carving …
Task 3: Voice to Text
For Week 3 of the course, we are tasked with sharing a five-minute unscripted anecdote using a voice-to-text tool. In doing so, I’ve decided to describe the events of my day on January 25th using the built-in dictation functionality in my phone’s notes app: OK I’m trading this audio notes using the text to speech …
Task 1: What’s In My Bag?
Hi everyone! My name is Chris Rugo (he/they) and I’m a white, non-invited settler based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Ontario, where I live, learn, play and work. In my professional life, I work full-time as support-staff at Humber College, where I support e-learning and digital fluency initiatives offered through the library. This includes developing online resources and …