Cave Painting Pictionary
It was fun playing cave painting pictionary today! My group and I had the phrase: “How to play cornhole.” When deciding how to best represent …
Killer Squirrels and Cornhole
The cave painting assignment was a really fun one! It was so interesting to see how people portrayed messages and what symbols they used. On Tuesday, we drew phrases, and my group got the phrase “Meet me at the Bell Tower”. At first this phrase seemed simple enough, like we just would draw people at the Bell Tower, right? Well, then Grace and I started to realize that portraying “meet me” might be a bit…
Cave Paintings Process
We basically had two topics which were the telephone and an empty river/ going to a full river. We let a coin decide which one […]
Cave Paintings
Thinking about and creating “cave paintings” through drawing makes me consider the different types of things we communicate and the depth of communication based on what type of technology is available for use for communicating. If you did not have paint, you could draw in the dirt, but it would be likely that the messages …
Telephone and Telegraph!
I am so glad that we finally got to this point of the class. I have been so interested in learning more about the Telephone […]
Coffeehouses
I really enjoyed the discussions we had this week on coffeehouses. I like the idea of coffeehouses and wonder what they would look like if …
Coffeehouses & The Postal System
I thought this week’s topics of coffeehouses and the postage system were really interesting. Prior to this class, I had no idea about how impactful both of these settings had on communication and the exchange of ideas. I thought it was also interesting to discuss the juxtaposition between modern day […]
Blog #4- 2/3/23
Thoughts on Dolphins Being Thrown on Tables I really enjoyed this week’s discussion on coffeehouses and the origin of the printing press and postal system. I particularly liked the references to dolphins being thrown onto tables, it made for a pretty entertaining class. In regards to the material we had to look at this week, […]
Coffeehouses
I found the TED talk about coffeehouses very interesting. I think it is imperative to discuss this topic in relation to social changes within our society. Nowadays, people typically go to coffeehouses to work or spend time with friends, not to talk to random people. I do think that the modern ‘equivalent’ is a bar […]
Coffeehouse Discussion!
Today, was a very interesting discussion on Coffeehouses and how they were significant in the history of the information age. I like how before coffeehouses […]