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Week 1: The Information Age

April 9, 2019

This course immediately caught my eye when I was registering for classes last fall since I had taken Dr. McClurken’s U.S. History in Film class that same semester and greatly enjoyed it. The overview and definition of the Information Age itself was fascinating–I never considered it could go as far back as cave paintings. My […]

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Timeline: Jacob Riis and FDR’s Fireside Chats

April 9, 2019
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What’s left in InfoAge?

January 19, 2021

Thursday, April 11 — Timeline entries are due Send me your Gmail address if you haven’t already Post your own timeline with your entries on your own blog. Submit that link on Canvas under the Timeline assignment Copy your timeline entries from your timeline spreadsheet to the class timeline spreadsheet (which I’ll invite you to …

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Week 11

April 9, 2019

Konnikova, Maria, and Maria Konnikova. “How the Internet Has Changed Bullying.” The New Yorker. June 19, 2017. Accessed March 30, 2019. https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/how-the-internet-has-changed-bullying

This week we discussed o…

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Timeline- Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Data Breach

April 9, 2019
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Katherine Johnson Timeline

April 8, 2019
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Timeline

April 8, 2019
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Week 11 Blog Post – Telecommunication

April 8, 2019

Week 11 Blog Post We read many interesting articles this week regarding telecommunication, cyber-bullying, and the dark web.  The History of Telecommunication infographic that we read for Tuesday struck me as interesting for many reasons.  One reason being that it gave me some facts that I felt the need to double check.  The first fact …

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Timeline

April 7, 2019

My timeline entries included Dorothea Lange’s photojournalism during the Great Depression and WWII Navajo “Code Talkers”.

For my entry on Lange, I focused one of her most iconic photos, Migrant Mother. This photograph was commonl…

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Timeline Entry: Hays Code Documentary

April 7, 2019

Link to permanent page including my bibliography:

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