Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Welcome MSSM!



As you watch the video above by spoken-word artist Prince Ea ("Can We Autocorrect Humanity?"), comment on anything that seems important to you, familiar, or something you might do yourself. If you can make connections with the images we looked at from Eric Pickersgill, that would be especially great, and I know you will see them!

Remember: there are no right or wrong answers! The idea is to make observations and think about what has meaning to us.

If you're unfamiliar with the concept of "Live Tweeting," it looks something like this:



22 comments:

  1. This is going to be awesome!

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  2. It's so hard to stay connected and not be disconnected!

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  3. It's funny I'm looking at my phone well trying to watch this.

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  4. That seems like a lot of time to be engulfed by a phone... that's one fourth of my life.

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    1. I really struggled on our trip to know when to take a photo and when to just be happy and remember. Remind me to tell you about the adventure that Garrett, Bailey, and I went on at Windsor.

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  5. I can't believe how much of this I missed simply by typing.

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    1. Yeah... I found it a bit stressful responding because I just wanted to listen

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  6. No cell phones allowed on the Bahamas jterm ;)

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  7. Completely agree! But, I'm also guilty of it :(

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  8. I do like his rhythm and free style. I feel like society auto correct's itself.

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    1. What do you mean "society autocorrects itself"? I personally think he wants society to recognize it's downfalls, which I believe we will in time as a semi "adaptation" if you will.

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    2. I agree, Abby. I think that technology is our primary evolutionary adaptation and that we are currently in a point where we are being pressed hard to physiologically and psycho-emotionally handle the pace of our technological advances - but we can do it!!

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  9. I always forget how much digital conduct "codes" dictate our lives. #TBT shouldn't restrict us.

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  10. I loved the use of visual rhetoric today. It's one of my favorite things to do and I think it's totally underused!

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  11. Excellent and timely video - observation so important in science, but what are we observing outside of the tiny screen?

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  12. Thanks for the awesome lesson Dr. B!

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  13. I had to prove I'm not a robot to write on an electronic forum. Irony- it always finds a way...

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  14. Expression of self has changed. Now we express ourselves too frequently and unnecessarily, and feel the need to share and tweet out our every thought and inner machination. But yet, in the face of all this sharing of thoughts, we are socially mute. So many people around us, so many opportunities to socialize. But we ignore them to update our profiles; simple, shallow, and basic representations of ourselves that we can mold to our will and use to mitigate our weakness and flaws.

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    1. I wonder, though, is there also something to be said for being able to build avatars to explore safe spaces?

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