digital reflection 2

Area 1
From the poster, the two pictures on top are showing two different subjects when talking about digital inclusion/discrimination. The one on the left is a depiction of how various information can be turned into ones and zeros that are then stored away. While the one on the left shows how big data and thick data can go together. For instance, when reading the article the complications of opting out it is shown how hard it is to try to keep one's private life as private. While from what we learned from big data vs. thick data by Tricia Wang we learn that programs that just use big data will not be successful enough unless they know what the local community actually thinks. Finally with the picture at the bottom is showing is how game design and culture can go together. Never alone was built to try and keep a culture's stories relevant as well as entertaining to the modern age. To keep the culture going. This all comes together to show that humans are always trying to know to keep their history alive. For some they want that history to stay hidden while others want it to be relevant while others try to recognize what is relevant and what is actually being missed from other perspectives. All in all, though information on life can have many different effects on people. This depends on who looks at that data and history behind it though.

Area 2
From my perspective information and history will always be there. No matter what nowadays it is almost impossible to stay out of the digital world. When I read about all the actions needed to be taken just to keep some simple information such as being pregnant hidden it is obvious that it is almost impossible to stay unknown. Companies will always want to have as much data as possible in order to better sell to their consumers. It was clever how the makers of never alone were able to keep a bit of their cultural inheritance alive be sharing it to the world as a game that can is both short and entertaining. We have also seen from Tricia Wang that just having data about a population and not information about the people living there can have detrimental effects. Nokia lost out on a massive market as well as their position in the economic niche they had. Data is always out there and it can tell you a history about yourself. If you want to hide some browsing sessions simply use a browser that does not track it. No matter what though with the advancements with the internet it is best to accept that some information about yourself is out there.

Week 13

Level 1
Never alone is an easy platformer adventure game. It was originally made to keep the native peoples of Alaska's stories and culture still relevant. It is about a young girl who leaves her village in search of the cause of what causes the blizzard at her village. Shortly after leaving her village she is rescued by a fox from a polar bear. Throughout the game, you meet a variety of characters from innuit stories as well as solve various puzzles. You can play as either the fox or the girl at times.

level 2
Now the reason this game can be called an easy platformer for two reasons. Reason one is because the purpose of the game is to teach the people about a piece of culture and to help keep the stories of the past still relevant. The second reason is that there exist games such as cup head, undertale, and "the worlds hardest game". If anyone has not played a true platformer than these are probably unknown to you. Undertale is only difficult when in the genocide route anyways. A platform game usually takes hours to days to complete. By compete I mean to get through the main game and not do every single challenge. Platform games are both easy and difficult. In the beginning, anyone can get it done. As one progresses than it becomes more and more difficult.

week 12

Inclusive game design all categories out of 10

Characters can be customized and can be either male or female

The game can be easily played based on its genre. i.e. console games actions make sense by what buttons are pressed and computer games do not stretch your hand to press a button.

The characters can be if preset have cosmetic items that can alter the appearance

graphics do not slow the game down

The game being evaluated.  AQworlds

different items can alter the characters in various ways including changing the gender and race. 10/10

A browser-based game that can be played with just a mouse as well as using the keyboard to type in locations. With new content, each week typing in the map name becomes more important. 8/10

The characters are not preset so this is invalid

Graphics can massively slow down game performance when setting to high in a high populated room as well as actions performed by the in-game characters.

Week 11

1. The critics that I got were mainly on visuals. My rough draft is mainly about topics that will have my voice recording explaining the topics as well as why each one is important. The thing they suggested was to add visuals such as pictures. It was also mentioned that a video explaining about copyright in some situations would also be good.

2. I already have a video in mind for explaining how copyrights work on Youtube as well as post some articles of copyright video removal on youtube. Screenshots that say the video is unvailable.

Week 10

Section 1

The article is mainly talking about how police use social media as a data mine. They first need to get probable cause to use some methods but the methods can be used such as using an automated program to search your personal history on the internet. It then gives an example of how police have been using this new information. When two boys of color were part of a crew and got out of it after a first offense they were tried again of different charges based on nothing more than conflicting eye witness accounts and Facebook likes and photos of who they hang out with. It goes on to describe how programs designed for commercials are now used to predict social cues as well as how geotagging is being used to track people who make the post.

Section 2

Now I am all for the police getting new technology to improve their jobs and in turn improve public order. Recently in non-lethal weapon development, an attachment to a gun would launch a small iron ball projectile at a subject that has resisted a taser or pepper spray was being developed. The officers were trained in how to use it throughout the development process. That said the officers need to understand two things with this technology and that is the lingo that people use in areas as well as how to interpret what is said on social media. To use the information a guide and to watch the area of the suspect closely before acting. Any information on the internet is free to gain nowadays and I see it is fine for the police to look at what people comment on and what sites they visit. 

Week 8 post

Level 1
The article talks about how Facebook sells its users information. It talks more on how this works economically as well as citing many different sources and people that say the same thing. It also shows the information in political views as well. The article says that Facebook sells its information to advertisement companies. These companies then take that information and send targeted advertising directly to the person. Facebook does this by recording every piece of data the user sends out. That includes posts, friends, and status updates as well as how frequent Facebook is accessed. Politically the article talks about how privacy is judged on Facebook. For socialism the rights of the workers, in this case, the users should be protected and for capitalism, the rights of the producers should be protected.

Level 2
In my opinion, the internet nowadays is a database that once you put something out there it is going to be out there forever. Facebook helps this along with its CEO saying that the goal of the site is to make the world more open. Facebook is used by most as a means to communicate with others on the internet but companies use the information that users send out to send advertisement targeted at the individual level. Truthfully Facebook does not need to send this information to anyone. A lot of people online post how to contact each other online and companies can just look at posts that people send on their own. Facebook is not the problem. It is what people define privacy on the internet that is the problem.

week 7

Level 1
The article is about shooting in Fergeson. It also references other shootings of young black people. It mainly focuses on how Twitter played a role in this incident. The article mentions how Twitter as a social media is a way for the misrepresented can show what is happening to them. It also shows how Trevan Martin two years before this was still on peoples minds as well as older events. The article shows how people posted their tweets with the hashtag symbol. How Twitter can show tweets that were tweeted in the past can be recovered. Such as #handsupdontshoot can be searched and every tweet that has that hashtag can be found. It also warns how you need to be in the mindset of the person who tweeted some of them to get the full message behind it.

level 2
In my opinion, the verdict found by the court was wrong. The way that the media has shown people of color has almost never been in a good light is putting it mildly. Twitter is a social media that shows what is happening in real time during this entire event. The fact is with so much information out there it is hard to find every piece of information that is relevant. It is obvious that Twitter and other social media outlets that can allow people to post their thoughts in as few words as possible will always burn strong. Once a certain amount recognizes it then it just keeps going down the hill. The article shows that the way that we see certain objects and people vary on person to person.

Digital Reflections 1

The digital divide is possibly something people never really think about. To better illustrate the point we all know that the internet still needs wires to get the signals to where they need to go. What people do not know is that these wires are a lot longer then anyone imagines. These cable wires literally run on the floor of the ocean. These cable wires determine where and who can use the internet. While growing up in a small town the only way to access the internet was to either have a computer in your own home or get on your smartphone. The school was making progress on having students getting used to using computers. This was happening as I was finishing up high school. In the past, there were papers That I needed to type up but these were rare and I needed to do this once every year. When high school came around students were allowed to take home laptops that the school had provided to work on assignments. Because of how recent this development was when freshman a new class came into the picture to teach kids how to use Word and other programs to help with their homework. I was asked to help with my younger sister out on how to do different things on Word and Google docs such as formating her content per the instructions of the teacher. As I did not hang out with other people much I looked to the internet for recreational activities in my down time such as comics, translated novals, and an old art sharing site called deviant art. I found a lot of great stories, art, and some good games. The only computer in the house was a desktop that three kids had to share. So my time on it was limited as well as unlimited at the same time. My younger sisters did not get into the online scene until the school started to become more digital. I had a lot more acess to the web and also started to understand a lot of different lingo. I did not create any social media profiles though. From what I have heard about them they seem to cause to much trouble. From this, I was pretty much ignorant of many different events that were making head lines online. The art site showed me a wide array of how people express themselves. The site is still up but no one really uses it anymore. From my expereces on the web, the connections that I have made are more incline to the digital divide, net neutrality, and digital social actitism. Seeing all the different ways people express themselves on the web was eye opening for me. I had acess to the internet but I did not really know how much the internet would affect me so much in high school. It changed a lot about how I go online now. The connection to the digital divide for me was the time when my younger sister was doing these assiagments that required the use of a computer years before she would be in high school. I did not have the chance to learn about or do the work she was doing before high school.

Week 6

Level 1
The article was about how technology is advancing and how accessibility is being addressed. With the internet and computers becoming so commonplace people think that they can be used by anyone. Accessibility is being addressed by trying to offer the same content as easily to a disabled person as it is being offered to a regular person. The article talks about how some programs are addressing this problem like Canvas, BlackBoard, and Ally. Some programs scan other programs and collect data to see where the problems are and what needs to be improved. Though it is said that a watchful human eye catches more than what can be caught by other programs. On one side of the argument being that technology is not there yet and it will take a while before these problems are sorted out. On the other hand, though it is expected that within five years most of the problems will be solved.

Level 2
Technology will always be made so that the average person can use it easily first. What comes after are the more well-known disabilities such as blindness, deafness, and loss of function of limbs. This is because of profit as well as reaching as many people as possible. Computers are very accessible. Not much is needed for one to access a web page. What people don't think about are problems that can occur that affects everything about personal life. For example, as mentioned in the article a blind student was successful in being able to sue the school because he was not able to have access to the material online. Nowadays we have many different programs that can read a website for you. As well as a way to speak to a computer in order for it to search for something or type something out such as dragon.

February 12 attendence

Some revisions to have checked of are

1. Make sure the text can be read or said aloud.
2. The text in the right contrast 
3. The web page has all hyperlinks in a different colored texted.
4. Color is used appropriately
5. use borders appropriately

https://www.novelupdates.com/

Three revisions

1. Text size can be bigger when listing novel titles
2. The contrast between white and gray could be better. The gray should be darker
3. Borders around the user interface in the upper right corner 

WSU week 5

Area 1
The article is about content modifications. That is to remove inappropriate content on social media. The article explains where the companies have modification centers outside the country for it to be cheaper as well as centers for it in the country for more cultural reference. What is not astounding for me is the manpower that they put into just editing content. Most of the time it is half of the workforce for the company is focused on this issue. Not only that but a lot of the people who are exposed to the content become affected by it. We all know a picture is worth a thousand words but these are the worst of the worst pictures describing the absolute worst of what people are capable of. Many of these works in the US suffer from at the best of times "trust issues". While others just stop trusting people because of how suspicious they have become. The biggest problem in this job industry is that there is no psychological help for the employees most of the time.

Area 2
Now I laugh at cyanide and happiness. When I first found the comic strip site it was in my second year in high school. The site shows comics that offer some shock jokes. This is the closest thing that I can relate too to the people who modify images from social media. The site got so much hate mail for some of their jokes that they got creative and made a poster out of it. Now we all know that a joke told on comedy central can be funny. That dirty jokes can get a lot of easy laughs. But if someone proactively has to look at images that show the worst of what people have to offer then we will be affected by it. Every experience shapes who we are. It is no brainer that an image can stay in someone's head. This is why mental health should be the first thought of concern when making this into a job.

week four

level1

Submarine cables are internet cables that run across the ocean floor. The article talks about how these cables only help the people that can connect to them. The problem though is that the people not connected to these cables are being separated more and more from the digital world as time moves by. With the digital world becoming more important to the modern man this is extremely detrimental. The people that are not connected by these cables are usually small rural communities. They try to get the school connected but as the article pointed out big companies only give the minimum cable required and students can not access the internet at home to do their homework or school assignments. The problem the companies say to blame for this is lack of money. Just to get the small community connected would cost a million dollars they said. This is just for the buildings and support they would need.

level 2

The ways to solve this is from the smaller companies. As pointed out small companies are trying to bridge this gap. It is better for these companies to do this job than to hope for one of the big companies like AT&T to show up one day. With this literal divide made by the wires, it is best to have some smaller companies to help out. With the smaller companies, they can show people how the internet can help them out. A place that allows public access to the internet for everyone that walks through the door would probably be most realistic. Because these communities have not had the internet before they would think they do not need it. A way to deal with this would be to put it in schools and have it available for public use to slowly change their minds.

blog post week 3

Section 1
The article is about racism or stereotyping on the internet. We all know that nothing sells more than bad news about someone in any information company. The article talks about how people make stories about how race is a big part of the issue. Some people are very familiar with "Why black lives matter" and "Islomicphobia". Many people make site entries as click bait by making the title about race or religion. Click-baiting just to get more likes or just to get the numbers up is becoming more and more of a problem on the internet. Now, most sites have a bias about whatever subject they have on the internet. Depending on how much bias the site shows needs to be kept at a minimum. For filtering content, the site should just filter out comments by saying something along the line as spoiler warning but more fitting for the site so that people are more informed about what was said. If the site is filtering out content than they need to be held fully accountable for giving out false information.

Section 2
I thought that the article was nice. It brought out a lot of information about how people of color and religion want to make more of a change on the internet. We all know that racism and stereotyping happens in almost any form of media. I find it reassuring that this group is helping to get peoples stories out into the open so that people can listen to them. It is so important to have your voice out there. With more people speaking up the more influence the message has and the bigger the audience it reaches. Change may be slow but it will always come when people just step up and talk.

WSU week 2

The article offers a large amount of information on how the US can manage the internet. Mainly about what can and cannot be put on the internet. It started out explaining why this needs to be clearly stated by talking about the 2016 election when the Russians were using fake news on social media platforms to get Donald Trump elected to the presidency. The US needs to have a firmer policy on how to manage the web based on what the article mentions. The main problem that is the most important is ownership of what one puts out there. Mainly copyright infringement, intellectual property, and artistic property. Youtube a very famous social media site constantly has to issue copyright infringement messages on some of its videos. If the US had a better grasp of the situation than a lot of the videos that were taken down would still be up.


I believe that the internet has been constantly changing as people have gotten more and more familiar with it. Meaning as we continue to make improvements to how we carry data we have constantly improved on how we can use the internet. With these improvements, it is now at the point where problems are occurring. Because we did not set up a firm structure on how to operate the internet it was first becoming a common thing we now must make the decisions on how to run it now. With all of these social media options it is now at a point where just getting something trending can have a snow ball effect. The first thing that should be done is have the internet be the same for everyone. The internet by its definition today is diverse. Think about how many blogs, animations, and commercials are on it. From making this one decision we can build up in a positive we. A foundation if you would need to be simple and not complicated.

WSU week 1

Area 1
In our language and how we interpret the language as well as construct it, we see metaphors. We do not know that they are there but if we pay attention to how we speak then we can start to see them. For some examples think  I'm feeling up and the future is better. We are interpreting that up is good and that looking ahead is also good. Being metaphorical is not enough though. We also need to have context to better understand what is being said. If we just said to "go sit in the corner" we would not know exactly what it means. For some, they could be saying it to get out of other peoples ways or they could be saying it as a way to punish a small child.

Area 2
We may speak a lot of stuff in metaphors but context to understand the metaphors is just as important. Just as we said up is good with "I am in high spirits" means we have context to go on. Feeling happy can have the effect that you feel lighter on your feet and that you can look ahead. People that act happy are usually standing straight as well as speaking with eye contact. Social behavior in people also shows that you can stare someone down. Meaning that the person averts their gaze and does not feel as good. Metaphors express this based on the context of how people act when feeling these emotions.

An introduction.

Hi, my name is Robert Cook. I am taking this class as a U-core credit. I want to become a veterinarian later on. I like reading and being able to do stuff. I do not like having a lot of free time though. I am from La Conner Washington and this is my second year in college. Though because of running start and a transfer from skagit I am a junior. I had five dogs and three cats back home. The reason I want to be a veterinarian is that I have always been around animals. The last time I checked my sister had three snakes, two lizards, and a small dog. Funny considering that my mom hats snakes as well as mice. The mice may be dead but still, she does not want them in the house.