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Deandra Drysdale
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Dec 17 2020
Final Project
The Nightcaller App. — The Nightcrawler App is a worldwide app that serves as an emergency service aid to help stop isolated crime in its tracks or prevent it from even occurring at all, be an outreach for victims of assault, sexual assault and harassment, rape, and ultimately reduce the amount of police brutality related …
Nov 25 2020
How are we becoming interconnected with technology biologically?
One way in which we are becoming interconnected with technology biologically is the way we now rely on our devices to pick up the slack of our own memories; to store them in a database and also remind us. If you were to ask a random person how many of the contacts on their phone …
Nov 04 2020
Why are maps important? What societal information can be learned from them?
Maps are important for many reasons. One of them being that without maps I wouldn’t know how to get to a majority of the places that I travel to without having to think much about it at this point. Without maps taking public transportation would be extremely confusing or probably would be obsolete altogether, as …
Nov 04 2020
How does the internet work? Why is it successful?
I would say that the internet serves as a virtual time capsule, only it can be accessed anywhere, at any time, by anyone. The difference being, in lieu of having access to only your personal information, you have access to virtually anyone’s information, and said information isn’t always so easy to get our hands-on. The …
Oct 11 2020
Midterm Presentation
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1um8walNJAfAkF_zCs16chWS819H-qnonPPRq5ne0YiQ/edit#slide=id.p
Sep 30 2020
How has wireless technology changed how we think of public vs. private spaces?
Wireless technology and social media have allowed us to make public and private spaces, our own spaces. With the popularity of streaming services rising over the last decade, it’s very easy to do things like enjoying our favorite films and music whenever and wherever we want. Ezinearticles.com says, “…Without doubt, mobile telephony offers enormous advantages and …
Sep 23 2020
Crowdsourcing
Wired.com says, “…It seems like every day there are new products and services being launched that are leveraging the power of the crowd to do something…”, and I think there’s something to be said about the way crowdsourcing is used in social media through influencer and celebrity culture. Oftentimes the people with the biggest platforms …
Sep 16 2020
Are the tools of digital media impeding or expanding our knowledge?
I feel like digital media has definitely made us reliant on our numerous devices to ‘remember’ things for us. For example, if I were to ever forget my friend’s birthday, I could easily check my calendar if I ever logged it into my phone, or check one of their social media accounts where birthdays are …
Sep 02 2020
networking
Networks can come in lots of forms whether it be a network of people, ‘networking’ in the sense of getting to know people who will get you in connections with more people; like social networking where people network over social media websites. In order to network, or have a system of interconnected things and people, …
