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My first reaction as I was watching this video was “I HEARD THAT IN THE CARTOONS I WATCHED GROWING UP.” I never really had no idea where it had come from so hearing a piece of the original song from 1969 was quite enticing. Never had I ever heard of these men below. It comes […]
Morris Article Internal Light Out of place Logic Missing? Bodies Randomness External How cannonballs were used Motivation: Artistic, Practical, Political (Audience) Who’s behind the camera Morris Process Internal investigation a) Count b) Shadows/Light c) Rocks – movement Site a) Maps b) Diary c) Can see that not much has changed Conclusion a) Always look at […]
For me Wikipedia has always been a place of quick reference for things I haven’t quite heard about; however, I’ve never actually evaluated the content on the page. For this reason I am going to evaluate the English page on the Cuban missile crisis. This is a topic I have much knowledge about after doing […]
The manipulation of photography is a problem that has been on the rise recently for the past few years. Technologies have permitted us to alter and change the features of a photo. By doing these things, this can completely change the meaning of the photo resulting in a false understanding of the viewer. Magazines have […]
Scavenger Hunt Discussion – Teacher strike: will find any article with the words teacher and strike – “Teacher strike”: will only find articles that have the specific quoted phrase – By using more search options, it is easier to narrow down the search depending on what type of piece is being searched for – Command-Shift-4 […]
As for everything I look up, I began my search on Google… Its always been reliable to me so why not now? Quickly I found that Google provided me with results I wasn’t looking for. After that I moved on to Google Scholar, in which I found the first target of the scavenger the hunt […]
How does Google get its results so quickly? “Spider” crawls through the web Pre-conceived Index: compiles massive index of all the words it has seen/found (includes numbers) Pre-ranked Pages: a “voting” system decided by “Higher-ranked” webpages accessing pages. Title of webpage, boldness, etc are indicators of importance for webpages. Past search engines would show top […]
Prior to using Proquest, the only experience I had using databases were for my research paper such as the database JSTOR or Google Books. Proquest has definitely surpassed my expectations of an online database. It is easy and simple to use, especially with its advanced search. Many databases have a complex search engine which is […]
Positives & Negatives of Digitization Positives: Accessibility Communication LOCKSS – system of keeping multiple copies of a digital copy Democratization (can also be negative) Manipulability – virtual repair Time Negatives: Scale – flood of information, expectations Authenticity? Loss Trust “Bubble” Selection (bias) Distance – experience physical vs digital Responsibility – online interactions vs face-to-face interactions […]
A File Structure for The Complex, The Changing and the Indeterminate by T.H. Nelson was quite an interesting piece. On the first page Nelson mentions Bush’s Memex in relevance to the goal they were trying to reach at the current time. I found it interesting that Nelson says the uses of the file are so […]
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