“Much like many other online identity practices on social networks, the spatial self is based on a highly curated depiction of the individual.” (Schwartz, Raz, and Germaine R Halegoua. “The Spatial Self: Location-based Identity Performance on Social Media.” 17.10 (2015): 1643-660. Web. (Warning: Link may require a VCU account)) The spatial self is basically how…
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Inquiry Nugget Series: Ep 2, Intimacy
I don’t want to end the semester with my series unfinished so I will do just that, finish them. “Moon (2000) found that people showed more resistance to giving out emotive information about themselves to a computer compared to less emotional content” (Jordán-Conde, Zayira, Mennecke, Brian, and Townsend, Anthony. “Late Adolescent Identity Definition and Intimate…
Inquiry Nugget Series: Ep 1, Audience
“The imagined audience defines the social context”. This quote is from “It’s complicated: the social lives of networked teens” by danah boyd, 1977. The author writes her name in all lower case therefore, I will respect her choice and do the same. It is impossible for any individual to be able to address all audiences.…
Medium and Messages Nugget
“Every message is, in one sense or another, a simulation of some idea. It may be representational or abstract.”(“Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, “Personal Dynamic Media”) This is an interesting statement that the author made. Based on this idea, a message can be sent from one person to another that represent what they are thinking.…
A Little Extra Spicy Nugget
“THE TECHNICALITIES MATTER A LOT, BUT THE UNIFYING VISION MATTERS MORE.” (Ted Nelson, Computer Lib / Dream Machines) Unlike my last nugget, I will try to keep this one short and simple while still trying to add meaning. Notice how the author mentions “unifying vision”. No single person can change the world. One man may…
The Importance of Dreams Nugget
“THE TECHNICALITIES MATTER A LOT, BUT THE UNIFYING VISION MATTERS MORE.” (Ted Nelson, Computer Lib / Dream Machines) This is so true! Did anyone actually knew how computers work before they used it? I saw a computer for the first time when I was around 8 and I did not question what made it work,…
Mankind’s Limited Augmentation (Nugget)
“The entire effect of an individual on the world stems essentially from what he can transmit to the world through his limited motor channels. This in turn is based on information received from the outside world through limited sensory channels” (Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework by Douglas C. Engelbart). At this point, Engelbart is…
Robotic Nugget Invasion, Chapter 2 “Mankind’s Revolt”
Essex, Mike. A man arm wrestling a robot. Digital image. Koozai. Koozai, 28 Feb. 2013. Web. 3 Sept. 2015. This post will be based on the same nugget I did in my last post but this time, after reading my colleges’ works. “However, many problems that can be thought through in advance are very difficult…
Invasion of the Robotic Nugget from J. C. R. Licklider, “Man-Computer Symbiosis,”
Dunion, Gary. Robot Army. Digital image. Bright Green. Bright Green, 4 May 2011. Web. 3 Sept. 2015. Nugget-A small piece of a larger work. “However, many problems that can be thought through in advance are very difficult to think through in advance. They would be easier to solve, and they could be solved faster, through…
Nugget From “As We May Think.”
Nugget – a section of a reading “It is the physicists who have been thrown most violently off stride, who have left academic pursuits for the making of strange destructive gadgets, who have had to devise new methods for their unanticipated assignments. They have done their part on the devices that made it possible to…