Pixton Comic With Project

Digital Story- The Codes of Gender

Digital Story Proposal

Proposal- Writing it on internet safety and facebook and what you post on websites like it. How posting certain things on social media can be bad and how it can carry into real life. Particularly in the world of sports, and in real life.

-Another topic I want to include is cell phone/ internet addiction. All you see during the day is people staring at their phones instead of actually interacting with people. It is a problem that is all over the place and needs to be addressed in some way.

·      It will be easiest to include this in the story because I can use pixton to illustrate this by people just staring into their smart phones and not interacting socially.

-This relates to our discussions on internet safety and what we put online. There are things that people put online that they regret or that someone can use against them. The safety of what we put on the internet is the main issue that the project is based around.

-I want to possibly blog about the story and maybe use pixton to create a digital artwork out of the project. I want to create a narrative out of it and possibly use two mediums to express this with pictures and words.

-We used pixton in class to already create a story so I am someone acquainted with how to use it. I will just be using the characters given to me by the web site to create the story.

Bibliography:

Liu, Alec. "5 Ways to Stay Safe on Facebook." Fox News. FOX News Network, 4 Oct. 2010. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2010/10/23/ways-stay-safe-facebook/

Cunningham, John, Clayton Neighbors, Nicholas Bertholet, and Christian Hendershot. "Use of Mobile Devices to Answer Online Surveys: Implications for Research." Grasselli Library Database. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Nov. 2013.

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.library.jcu.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=adc94830-a30c-4da6-95bc-763492e54415%40sessionmgr113&vid=10&hid=127

Piper, Robert. "Your Cell Phone Is Not Part of Your Body -- You Can Let It Go." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 24 Sept. 2013. Web. 08 Nov. 2013.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-piper/cell-phone-addiction_b_3937062.html

Discussion questions based on video games

1. What impact do you believe video games have on society?
2. Do you think they negatively affect the youth of America?
3. What is your opinion on violent video games?
4. Do you think video games affect social situations?
5. Do you believe video games can be used for good and in issues of social justice?

Individual Part of Digital Media Project

Our event is a series of events which are around the Edward Snowden NSA leaks about the NSA spying on the online activities of people in the United States. The main point about our project is around the idea should we keep our privacy or should we give it up for safety. This revolves around the idea of digital media and social justice because it is our privacy that is being invaded and it isn’t a thing that most people in America want. Most people think that what happens on a persons people computer is totally private and only for their eyes. More recently, there is the issue of the NSA tapping Google and Yahoo databases, and the overseas fiber lines. All of these leaks have come as startling news to people and come back to the ideas of social justice and digital media, which is the protection of our privacy and rights online.

There are two articles I have found revolving around the NSA.

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-spying-phones-20131029,0,3235295.story#axzz2j4iPs543 - This article is from the LA Times about how the US is spying on its allies by collecting data of online activity in other countries outside the US.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html This article is about the NSA collecting data on Yahoo and Google for the protection of US Citizens.

This creates a debate on is less privacy good for more safety or is it the other way around

Blog Post

This weeks post continues on the N.S.A. and all of the digital surveillance. This time the controversy is over the NSA and the surveillance of data overseas. This is according to the documents leaked by Snowden that the government is able to look at things over google fiber and yahoo's browsers from overseas. This is possible if the wires that go through the ocean are tapped and are accessed from an outside source. The fact that the government is able to do this is strange because it isnt just dealing with what is a domestic thing. This is just happening outside of the borders of the United States which is crazy because the government is dealing with data that isnt even inside the United States. Personally I dont believe that this data should not be collected because it is not on domestic soil and is outside the country, where we shouldnt even be monitoring the data. I believe if there is any data collecting it shouldnt be outside of our country. This goes back to the idea though that there should not be any spying on the personal data of a person, because we are entitled to our privacy.

The article that I used is: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/technology/nsa-is-mining-google-and-yahoo-abroad.html?_r=0

Questions based off Prosperity Without Growth

1. Do you believe a capitalist economy can be self sustaining forever?
2. If so how do you believe this is possible?
3. How much do you think government should be involved in the economy?
4. How do you think social structure affects economics?
5. Do you believe a less materialistic society would be happier?