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In an email sent out to the school grad, staff, and faculty populations, the current contract negotiations, and the threat of a strike were addressed. The graduate contact negotiations have been technically public record but many graduate student’s nor the union have shared weekly information until now. This has lead to a separation of knowns by parties occupying physical space together for many hours of the day. This has called to my attention the way Massmail is best way for admin to contact all parties on campus, but the infrastructure for other parties to send massmail takes much more labor and coordination. Lines of internet communication are there for limited even between individuals such as faculty, graduate students, and undergrad students who will interact in person on a daily basis.
This communication breakdown is not a recent phenomena but is exaggerated do to the contrasting speeds of person-to-person conversation and internet one-way communication. The internet communication resembles the authority of the news (one-way communication of facts). Its a complicated form of communication.
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Many news websites would not cooperate even with the internet turned off. I spent a long time plugging in content into the NYT’s structure only to have one wrong click erase all my snarky comments. The first alteration I made took a while…they all took me a while I’m getting better at reading the code.
My alteration of The Guardian home page was a dumping of my most impulsive and angry thoughts which should never be shared out loud. Most of these bitchy comments are what might be found in the comment section of any platform containing the news, but I tried to provide some levity that points back to the unhinged and unproductive nature of the commenter.
The facebook alteration is a little more bitter. I imagined the program actually being designed to truthfully reveal it’s entire infrastructure again in an unproductively grouchy way.
My last two alterations were just efforts at silliness and elegance (and I was struggling to place images in the correct locations in my other attempts so I just wanted a big dog tick to take up space and remove the productive uses of the google search).
I started reading The Guardian for news after they released documents from Edward Snowden. Often in my busy schedule I scroll through the headlines looking for news I can handle that day and news I can not handle (almost like I’m reading Huffington Post) but one banner on the web page always stands out to me.
I realized that the Tip us off banner is incredibly prominent in the lay out of the page. It is meant to be seen easily and accessed easily by any reader. I finally decided to click on the banner to see how easy it is to securely contact The Guardian. Below are the screen captions of contact pages with directions on setting up a secure drop an encrypted email or the pros and cons of mailing them physical packages. Not only does this structure easily engage with a wide diversity of internet users but it also points to a concern of the organization as a whole: privacy and long form journalism. I poked around on CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and my local Baltimore news stations: WJZ and WBAL. Non of them listed any options for contacting with news stories, let alone, contacting with encrypted messaging. Of course the information is probably buried deep in the websites but non of them display contacting them as an integral feature of the news experience.
Part of me wonders if there isn’t some link here between media outlets through their design seem to promote participation in democracy vs. tell you about your democracy in hopes of galvanizing the viewer/reader. Trolls and angry people are perfectly capable of sending hate or threat mail to journalists even in the most obscure publications so they seem to have the tools at hand to contacting news outlets. Is The Guardian’s banner directed at those who normally wouldn’t even contact the news? Is it possible for them to offer this service being a pay-wall-less, non-broadcasting news entity in a small yet powerful nation?
Intersectionality between language, dialectics, Colonialism, Low rider culture, historical geography:
https://www.academia.edu/6137345/Creating_Aztl%C3%A1n_Chicano_Art_Indigenous_Sovereignty_and_Lowriding_Across_Turtle_Island
Projects:
http://www.wiisaakodewinini.com/projects/
Instagram is a medium used by many “self starters” and the platform is functioning to promote quick clicking and fast consumption of images. I wondered if I couldn’t use that impulse to make something else appear in the process. There is not any political content in this story construction but this may be a nice jumping off plat form in the future.
Day 1. I created Beethoven’s 9th symphony using an internet tone generator to help test hearing loss. (my friend Liza couldn’t the tones). Each color in the story was a short video of 7 seconds. Each separate upload to the story is a separate color and note. The song plays slowly if you watch them for their whole duration and plays more effectively if you give into the compulsion to click through quickly.
The first day showed there was a consistent 40 people who were following the song all the way to the end.
Day 2. This day was poor posting time if you want a lot of viewers. I posted Twinkle Twinkle Little Star late at night. the song had a few more notes to it but upon playing the song back for myself I realized the tapping delay was causing viewers to drop off if the playing of the note was not immediate. The color field showed no shift so it didn’t make the delay apparent. So the following story would have to be different.
Day 3 was a stop motion film with no sound. The film is a poem that I animated in charcoal and already existed in film format. I uploaded as many frames I could to see what the limit would be. I reached a limit of approximately 120 images in the story before the app started deleting the first images. The app also reflected that I had slowed it on my phone and it showed glitches that the story had a good hundred photos deleted.
The story now has less viewership now but I’m getting more private messages about the piece.
This App is dating me. And I’m not even using the App. Anyway. This is less about the website imgur and more about add placement on my phone and the way my phone adds correspond to my computer adds.
A number of adds have come up in my phone for tractor trailer hauling jobs. Another add that keeps popping up for me, is for rehab centers. Both of these adds feel like they pertain to conversations I have had but not taken to google.
Questions: How much of the add collection data is related to the specific app? Which platform gleaned the information from my life and funneled it into the wide network of cookies? Am I paranoid? Multiple NPR specials on internet privacy have had callers making such complaints but experts have dismissed the “phone is always listening to you” theory.
The Instagram App is structured for the consumption and construction of quick visual content.
Stories are located at the top of the home page with an icon of your own profile and a blue plus button next to it. The blue plus sign never disappears and is displayed in a way that signals action required. The stories have hidden advertisements that will pop up as stories play. The homepage encourages reflex response liking that can result in liking sponsored content.