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Lesson Plan: Using Siri to Teach the Ethics of Digital Labor

The rapid rate by which technology replaces and outdates itself has been measured since 1965 by Moore's Law, which dictates that the amount of transistors within an integrated circuit (microchip) doubles approximately every two years. Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, has predicted that the viability of his projection will cease...

Machine as Organism: Technology, Biology, and Collective

The constant increases in technological capacity, prevalence of automation and machine assistance, and the advancement of bio-tech, artificial intelligence, and medical technologies, expedite the tendency to view the issue of human subjectivity through a dichotomy of man/machine. This framing pre-inscribes a frictional relationship between man and machine, as if machines...

Tinkering With Pedagogy: Experimenting With Technology at the DWRL

At the start of last academic year, the Digital Writing and Research Lab assigned two research imperatives: data visualization and wearable technology. While data visualization is ubiquitous in most forms of media, and serves an already established and crucial role in empirical research and its dissemination, the affective affordances of...

Lesson Plan: Perspective API – Rhetorical Metadata, Pathos, and the Future of Internet Moderators

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Lesson Plan: Thyncing about Technology & Emotion

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Workshop Recap: Audio Recording and Editing

Last Friday, The DWRL hosted one of its bi-weekly digital literacy workshops, where staff members can increase their digital literacy and ascertain useful skills for the digital world we live in. This last week's workshop circled around audio: from genres of audio, strategies for using audio, finding audio that is...