{"id":76,"date":"2025-02-25T20:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T03:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zhu540\/?p=76"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:33:11","slug":"linking-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zhu540\/2025\/02\/25\/linking-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Linking Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

1: <\/span>https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/golden-record-curation-task-8\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I responded to Natalie\u2019s blog on the Assignment 8 \u2013 the golden record curation task because of the similarities her response to the assignment was to my original. In her assignment she speaks about her process of breaking down the list of original songs to first omit vocals, second omit offensive sounds and then picked them according to specific terms \u2013 \u201ccheery, friendly, lively, light, welcoming, or calming\u201d (Keizer, 2025. It made me connect back to Smith\u2019s (1999) article on the goals of digitization. That there are many challenges of accurate preservation with digitizing something \u2013 it is not a neutral process. In my original take on this task \u2013 I also viewed it as finding what would be best suited to appeal to all extraterrestrial life, I picked songs that were enjoyable and light. However, after reading through the assignment details and Smith\u2019s work, I changed and rearranged my choices to best reflect myself, my heritage and what was completely subjectively appealing. Smith criticizes the notion that curation through digitization guarantees neutrality (1999). He reflects that choices will always be subjective and personal \u2013 even within the confines of the original sets we are choosing from.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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References:<\/p>\n

Keizer, N. (n.d.). <\/span>Golden record curation (Task 8).<\/span><\/i> University of British Columbia. <\/span>https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/golden-record-curation-task-8\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith Rumsey, A. (1999, February). Why digitize? Council on Library and Information Resources. Retrieved February 25, 2025.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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2: <\/span>https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/etec540blois\/second-week?authuser=0<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Patrick\u2019s work on the Language Task was very interesting to me. In his assignment, he pulls quotes from the readings and videos that resonated with him and responds to the assignment by partially questioning the intersection between language and technologies. I find this idea very intriguing \u2013 how technologies can really shape language in ways we can\u2019t foresee. We both zoned in on bilingualism, that difference in language can, \u201cchange how [we] see the world depending on which language [we] are speaking\u201d <\/span>(<\/span><\/i>Boroditsky, 2011, p. 65). Patrick\u2019s question for this poses the chicken vs. The egg problem \u2013 which comes first, language or thinking? The answer likely lies in-between. Boroditsky\u2019s work offers compelling evidence for showing how much language can shape our cognition \u2013 perceptions in space, time and objects. Patrick\u2019s question about technologies makes me reflect on the other \u2013 the ways that extraneous forces like technologies have continued to impact language we use. That \u2018lingo\u2019 from popular memes videos amongst young students seems to spread and dissipate fasters and faster. As we lean more into globalization and an interconnected world \u2013 I wonder if language will continue to shape our cognition in the same ways it has before. Or if emerging technologies will push deeper into shaping the language we use to think.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Boroditsky, L. (2011). How Language Shapes Thought. <\/span>Scientific American<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>304<\/span><\/i>(2), 62\u201365.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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3: <\/span>https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540dj\/2025\/02\/16\/an-emoji-story\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

David\u2019s Emoji Story task appealed to me as I found many similarities in the ways we approached the assignment and struggled through it. David describes how he first tried to translate the media directly \u2013 but later leaned towards the beauty of a partial simplification. This is the idea that this assignment conveyed to me as well, how print has been a remediator of oral communications and illustrations, and how we can follow that process back with these emojis (Bolter, 2001). Bolter argues that this digital age we live in coincides with the prominence of visual culture. It is such an essential skill in today\u2019s workforce to constantly distil information into smaller and smaller chunks. That prose and narrative are left behind, we aim to communicate more quickly, more effectively to a bigger and bigger audience. David and I both struggled to complete this task at first \u2013 reflecting on Bolter\u2019s argument that text and media are competing and refining each other. But ultimately we both abandoned the idea of translating the media \u2013 instead transforming and integrating our ideas with the nuances of the medium of Emojis. David\u2019s task makes me question \u2013 as visual medias continue to evolve will narratives continue adapting? Or will it just be pushed further to the sidelines?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

References:
\nBolter, J. D. (2001). Writing space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print (2nd ed.). Lawrence Erlbaum.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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4: <\/span>https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/veltri540\/2025\/01\/12\/task-12-speculative-futures\/<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Isabella\u2019s narrative, like mine, tapped into some of the most pressing issues of our time \u2013 mental health, struggles with democratic decision making and educational priorities. What the utopia promised was to rid society of any of these problems. The floating cities and AI-driven policies of this world implied a level of technological advancement and assumed universal access to wealth and decision making. This would go against historical patterns of large advancements concentrating wealth and power within elite groups (Allen, 2017). The narrative leaves out how economic structures were redistributed to ensure this utopian access \u2013 leaving the probability of such a place in question. The similarities between our narratives follow this idea of a pre-determined, singular vision of the future \u2013 with little room for possibilities. Dunne & Raby (2013) argue that future planning must be debated and redefined constantly \u2013 rather than pre-determined. It can be deeply <\/span>intoxicating to believe that our problems can both be solved and pushed away forever. After completing the readings and going through many of these narratives, it leaves me critical that utopias can exist at all. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Allen, R. C.<\/span><\/b> (2017). <\/span>Reboot for the AI revolution<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>Nature, 550<\/span><\/i>(7676), 324-326. <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/550324a<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2013). <\/span>Speculative Everything<\/span><\/i>: <\/span>Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming<\/span><\/i>. Cambridge: The MIT Press. <\/span>https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/book\/28148<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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5: <\/span>https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/etec540\/weekly-tasks\/attention-economy?authuser=0<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tatiana\u2019s experience with userinyerface differed from my own only in the fact that she was successful with completing the \u2018game\u2019. I really enjoyed reading her post and reflected that her use of subtitles within her web text really helped me identify main ideas and absorb the information faster. I particularly enjoyed how Tatiana used Brignull\u2019s work to analyse her experience as their idea that small, accumulated manipulations can create significant barriers was ideally lined with her experience (Brignull, 2011). Her frustrations with the language ambiguity of \u2018light\u2019 and \u2018bow\u2019 really highlights how uncertainty can be weaponized to increase failure \u2013 conditioning users to see friction as part of the experience. While her post focuses more explicitly on the emotional tolls of dark patterns \u2013 mine focused more on the broader technological manipulations normalized within large tech companies today. I found Tatiana\u2019s post more personal and therefore more pleasant to read into as I felt it was both an analysis and a narration of her experience.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

References:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Brignull, H. (2011, November 1). Dark patterns: Deception vs. honesty in UI design. A List Apart. <\/span>https:\/\/alistapart.com\/article\/dark-patterns-deception-vs-honesty-in-ui-design\/<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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6: <\/span>https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/quinn540\/task-7\/<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Quinn\u2019s Mode Bending task really intrigued me with its sensory and interactive literacies. It encouraged active participating and exploration with the information in a way that was also super fun! This work aligns well with Pe\u00f1a and James\u2019s (2024) model of transmediation \u2013 shifting content from one representation to another. They suggest that shifting between semiotic modes can enhance cognitive engagement (p. 1614). By having users interpret audio and interact with the digital elements \u2013 Quinn\u2019s approach helped create a more experiential understanding of his content. However, he does express the tradeoff\u2019s in terms of time and efficiency. As well, with gamification across educational systems on the rise, I often wonder if I am exacerbating the problems of impulsivity and inattention amongst my young students by planning lessons this way. I try my best to strive for a balanced approach \u2013 including faster and engaging lessons but also ones that take time and rely on more traditional literacies. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pe\u00f1a, E., & James, K. (2024). A framework of transmediation.\u00a0<\/span>Convergence, 30<\/span><\/i>(5), 1610-1624.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/13548565231220325<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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