Downey’s “Technology and Communication in American History”
After reading Downey’s Technology and Communication in American History and completing the in class activity, I feel that my knowledge regarding the Information Age has …
Downey and Final Assignments
It was really nice to really dig deep for each of the chapters and portray them as a source of media. I was happy that […]
Downey reading and the politics of technology
I thought a rather interesting portion of the reading of “Technology and Communication in American History” by Gregory Downey had much to offer. Whilst there was much about the impacts of technology and its history in the United States, the impact politics had very much interested me. For instance, one passage early on in the …
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Reflections on Downey Reading
As a whole, reading Downey really highlighted to me the progression of technology for each category and how it affected the people. As new technology rises, people’s habits and behaviors change. This includes the example of living rooms changing and more households had access to television (38). People went from the fireplace being the gathering …
1/19 Assignments/Timeline
My two favorite assignments are creating oral histories and creating a propaganda campaign. I think oral histories are a really important thing in the digital age because we have the opportunity to record exactly what people are saying, and it would give us a lot more insight into how oral histories are a big part […]
My Favorite Assignments and a Brief History of My Time at COAR
My favorite assignments that others have proposed are the propaganda campaign and the podcast assignment. I would like to do the podcast assignment. I have a couple of ideas on how this assignment could go. The podcast could cover different topics in each part, so one episode per part. Each group could take over an episode for each part and talk about a topic we learned about in that specific part. So, for example, for…
Assignments and More
My thoughts Out of the possible assignments that we have […]
Week 2 Blog Post
My two favorite proposed assignments are making some sort of meme or gif, and making our own cave paintings. An assignment I would like to do is taking a look at historical events and see how modern technology would’ve changed it because I think …
1/18 Timeline/Assignments
My favorite potential assignment is the fake propaganda idea. I think this allows us room for creativity both in building our countries and in using different types of media. Another one of my favorites is the cave painting assignment. That and the live tweeting historical events I believe would be fun to do. One thing …
Assignments of Interest
There have been many ideas proposed for how we are to go about the coming projects in this course but there are a few in particular that really stuck out to me. I personally would like to tweet out historical events live, I think it is a medium that most of the class would be …