Reading 1: Activism in the Social Media Age This article is about how the impact social media has on political engagement in our country. The large focus of the article was based around the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag. The hashtag recently turned five years old and it was one of the first large movements that created political …
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Week 12 Reading Response: Journalism and Surveillance
Reading 1: Capturing Police Brutality? There’s an app for that. This article is about how one citizen witnessed an unjust police encounter and recorded it on his phone and then was wrongfully ambushed to destroy the evidence by the police. This lead to him hiding the memory chip in his mouth to later then sell …
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Week 11 Reading Response: Identities
Reading 1: On Fake Instagram, a Chance to be Real This article is about Instagram and the perception that most people make their life out to be on their accounts. This branches from wanting to make life something it’s not which is stemmed by the media. The article also talked about finstas as a portion …
Market Research Activity: October 21
Market Research The three competitors of my proposed calendar and productivity app are: Google Calendar Productive – Habit Tracker Productivity – Daily Tasks Analysis of each application: Google Calendar: Splash Screen: The splash screen is a calendar page with the number 31 on it to represent a date. It is a very simplistic design that …
Com 481 Assignment 2: Week 10, October 21
Social Justice Reading 1: Homeless ‘Journeyman Hacker’ Launches Eco-Friendly Mobile App This article is about the journey of a New York homeless man who chose to accept two months of coding lessons from a stranger rather than a sum of money. With this experience he was able to rather quickly release his app called, “Trees …
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Com 481 Assignment 2: Week 9, October 14
Week 9 Reading Response: Mobile Sensing and Location-Based Technology Reading 1: Wikicity – Real-Time Location-Sensitive Tools for the City This article/excerpt is about the WikiCity project that is about real time mapping in a city demographic. The application allows users to create their actions on better informed basis using real time map changes. The goal …
Com 481 Assignment 2: Week 8, October 6
Week 8 Reading Response: Social Interaction Reading 1: Connect, But Alone – Ted Talk This Ted Talk discussed our use of mobile phones and how they affect our daily lives. When we are bored or unfulfilled or dealing with an emotion we don’t want to we gravitate toward sour phones to distract the attention and …
Com 481 Assignment 2: Week 7, September 30
Reading 1: Building Mobile Experience – Discovering What to Build (Chapter 3) This chapter of the books focuses on how to build and generate what is right for the market and the process of doing so. Developing and designing the actual application or product is the easy part where as the part that takes the …
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Mobile Life Field Research and Research Proposal
The subject I chose for this project was one of my good friends Juniper Kleinsmith. Juniper is an elementary education major who is currently managing 17 credits, a job, and a position in her sorority. I wanted to choose someone for this project who I feel embodies an average student here, so I could develop …
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Assignment 2 Reading Response: September 23
Mobile Gaming Reading 1: Mobile Games and Entertainment This section of the book was about mobile gaming, somewhat of the history behind gaming and mobile video entertainment. In the late 1990’s Nokia was the first phone company to embed a phone game into their phones and this then launched mobile gaming. Mobile gaming started gaining …
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