Gabriel Rodgers - Digital Media

Good evening, my friends. The time has come to encapsulate all we've covered and to say farewell, sadly enough. I'd like to thank you for coming with me on this journey, and we've got one more stop - the reflection and the explanation of my term paper, Psalms Behind the Screen.  Much of what I've taken away from this semester has been minutia, adding to a generalized knowledge with specific facts. I entered this knowing much of the topics, like how the internet has affected this generation, for instance. I've had first hand experience with the generational divide, being an elder millennial and on the cusp of a digital immigrant. Modernizing hasn't been easy for me. For instance, last semester I took Broadcast Graphics, which taught me After Effects, an Adobe product that created moving graphics. This was brand new - I had been using Photoshop CS2 for 15 years, and here's this whole new world. Anyone would have a hard time, and without the dedication and elas...

 Greetings, my friends, and Happy Easter, Ramadan, Passover and Spring Rites! What a great year when all of these things are occurring at the same time. We're rounding the corner of the semester and looking at home plate. Today we're looking at Copyright and Intellectual Property from a digital perspective, so let's dive right in. Ah, Limewire. I, too, joined those who didn't understand what in the world was going on back then. It wasn't until the push to shut down Limewire and Napster that I really became informed about copyright law and how it was beginning to interact in the digital world. The facts are there - the struggle over how to deal with digital download and intellectual property has been around for a while . Both of those articles have been around since 2012 and 2014 respectively. In fact, all the readings are a tad outdated - the other two are from 2012 as well. And ten years has changed the game somewhat. The law still  hasn't appreciably caught u...

 Good rainy afternoon, my friends! So I misspoke last week - the two subjects of A Networked Society were similarly titled. We'll be talking about Copyright next week. This week, we're looking ahead into the future. We're going to look at where we're going digitally. The future is full of a dualistic knowledge - that on the one hand, the UN Assembly declared the internet as a basic human right and that we're moving into a digital age in which every aspect of life could be conducted with a virtual component. On the other hand, there is still a significant portion of the world without access, who may still be in a pre-industrial era. Indeed, even those that do possess access may have very slow access ( source ) or censored access. ( map ) This interrupts the ability of the digital world to evolve, though unfortunately these deficiencies are not surprising.  We look forward into the future of science fiction when it comes to the digital world - working remotely except ...

 Good morning, my friends! I hope you've had a productive week. We're narrowing down towards the end of this semester, and with my Polestari's festival in about three weeks, I'm hoping that the weather calms down. We're looking towards another cold snap, which is unseasonably late. Global warming, am I right? Which leads me (albeit somewhat sideways) towards this week's topic. When we were given this topic, I wasn't sure what it meant. After studying the readings, I have to say I'm fairly certain it deals with Social Networking Sites (SNSs) and their impact on society, which is tangential to other topics we've had, but this time we're going to center in.  I'm an OG internet boi, which isn't quite the dinosaur age, but I remember the early days of Myspace and Live Journal. I wasn't one of the original UseNetters, but some of my friends were. I've watched social networks evolve and change, and their implicit commentary on how societ...