Manovich offers an artistic definition of a database and a few specific applications of the data structure, but I want to discuss the fundamentals of the technology alongside very popular sources of databases and the ethical, and slightly nerdy, importance of databases — the qualities of which carry physical affects and digital applications that require computational …
As we look into bots in class, the first company that comes to mind in regards to artificial intelligence is OpenAI. Backed by Elon Musk, and many other funders like Amazon, OpenAI is a Machine Learning research company whose goal is to catapult our current intelligent technology far beyond its current level. What’s crazy is …
In class we are discussing internet trolling and the ways in which certain anonymous statements should be judged on the internet. The LATimes article highlighting the use of the word ‘lulz’ reminded me of the phrase it was often used in, coined by trolls in the early online world: ‘doing it for the lulz.’ Of …
“an intervention into the practice of making GIFs” Fandom Example: Counter-Example: Fandom GIFs are used to highlight a specific scene from a particular show or movie and generally are either an important scene or have some sort of underlying emotion that conveys importance. An example of this is a scene from Bee Movie where Barry …
GIFs are short, animated images which offer the meaning a video would but without the audio or size of a video file. We learned in this article that although most can be funny, others can also be used or categorized to spread racist, hateful, or hurtful imagery. I found a neat article by Mashable, however, …
After learning about the impact of a data center on the environment through its power usage I considered what may develop from data centers as a resource in the future. It turns out that not only are data centers cornerstones for cleaner energy for big corporations, but Apple is pushing to be one of the …
For class we read a selection of text “The Challenge of Absent Presence” from Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance which discusses the public use of private artifacts in an open, public atmosphere. Thinking about the space in which people access and communicate information got me thinking about Facebook. Particularly the access users …
I just finished watching the movie “Snowden” – a dramatic retelling of the years of Edward Snowden‘s life leading up to his 2013 dump of government files verifying that the NSA and federal agencies around the world have been gathering data without consent for years. The movie itself over-dramatizes the situation, because it’s a Hollywood …
