I did some searching to see how much information I could find on myself. The first thing I did was a street view of my house to see if it had our cars or personal decorations in it. The image had not been updated since 2012 so it wasn’t current, but I could see the…
Category: DGST101
Final Project
My final project is surrounding our data and how it is tracked, in addition to what we are agreeing to when we use these apps and services. This includes scenarios where we know we are being tracked (like my Life360 app, which the sole purpose is to track others) and things that we may not…
Analogue Appeal
Is there an example in your life where you prefer the analogue approach instead of a digital solution? I took some major time to think about this one, and I honestly think that my answer is no. There is nothing that came to mind when I was thinking about this. Maybe because I just haven’t…
Disinformation, Digital Literacy, and the Digital Revolution
For my Week 10 reading, I decided to go over the article, Facebook is having a tougher time managing vaccine misinformation than it is letting on, leaks suggest (Links to an external site.) Facebook has a massive audience. “As of May last year, the “most active” civic groups in the United States “have been the hundreds…
Making a Video Game
Help our monkey friend find some nanners by making his way through the maze. Be careful though, touching some of the maze walls will send you back to the starting point! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/712763700/ When we were assigned a project to make a video game, I was worried that I wasn’t going to be able to produce…
Rebuild the Internet
When I think of the internet, I think of it as a large ecosystem. This led me to the final idea of creating the internet in an ocean setting, showing how each type of animal or plant reflects a certain part of the web. Below is a breakdown of how I represented various parts of…
Terms of Service Parody
Please carefully read and acknowledge that you understand the Terms of Service presented below. We don’t want to hear any “my daddy’s a lawyer” BS when you lose your precious account for violating the terms and want to spend your time and money suing a social media app LOL 1. Your Relationship With Us Welcome…
What is the Internet?
What is the internet? I see it as a database. It’s where everything about our world’s facts and opinions exist. However, it’s also a plaything. It’s not only used for business related items like school and research. It has games, tv and social media that is used for fun too. It’s hard to say exactly…
The Web 20-30 Years Ago
Synopsis of Small Pieces Loosely Joined: The way I interpreted this reading was that our perception of reality has been distorted due to the internet and how the internet isn’t its own thing, but a collection of everyone’s thoughts and ideas. For a lot of people, the internet is a way of life. From communication to…