Experiments in digital creation.

Last week, I found the workshop for our verification quests very helpful and successful. Reading my peers’ draft helped me to realize what I could do better as well as receiving their feedback. It’s always interesting to look at my peers’ writing, especially in seeing their writing style and what they’re interested in writing about. Again, it’s always super helpful to see what…

Those Are My Seeds and That’s My Land Monsanto may not be a household name, yet its products most certainly are. From MiracleGro to RoundUp, Monsanto has worked its way into every part of the agricultural world, including your mother’s garden. Almost every farmer is familiar with Monsanto and the role it has played in…

The past couple of weeks, and especially the past two days, have been filled with a lot of HTML and CSS work. I’ve been working on both the Verification Quest and another project that I chose to use HTML for. The learning difficulty referenced in the LoFi Manifesto is certainly rearing its head, although more…

Diving into the inner-workings of the Jim Carrey clone scandal (if we can even really call it that), is becoming so interesting to me. It was a very simple story to me at first. Someone claimed to be Jim Carrey due to his poor botox and unforrtunate plastic surgery results and the internet as it…

Verification Quest: Covid’s Lab Leak Conspiracy Springtime calls for blue skies and sunshine. Birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, and the weather is a cool 60 degrees Fahrenheit. People walk outside getting their daily exercise, restaurants are filled with customers ready to eat, and grocery stores are fully stocked with products ready to sell. Society…

Diving into the Jim Carrey Clone/Alexis Stone Mask Situation – Liam Justiniano The internet is such a fun and exploratory world. Makes us laugh and makes us cry, but more and more recently it’s just gotten confusing. I’m sure if you were on any online spaces on March 1st you saw the infamous Alexis Stone…

by Abbey Smith Back in February of this year, acclaimed actors Matthew McConaughey and Timothee Chalamet sat down for an hour-long interview. These two actors have been in many acclaimed films, Chalamet having multiple Oscar nominations under his belt and McConaughey even having an Oscar of his own. The two actors discussed many topics, mostly pertaining to film. If you…

Week 9 Before I dive deeper into my explanation of ableism in online spaces—and how it is often allowed to run rampant—I want to heavily acknowledge what good technology and the internet has done for disabled individuals. From things like speech technology to online services to better functioning wheel chairs, technology and the internet has…

Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg leave us with a somewhat calming line in the final section of Verified. The authors, when speaking about the emergence of LLM technology, state that “they just know the sort of things people say about the subject, whether they’re true or not” (220). In some sense, the authors are right…

Chapters 8-9 of Verified were quite interesting, especially from Chapter 8. I’ve always been interested in the mechanics of propaganda, or anything related to it. It’s mind-blowing just how susceptible our minds are to something that on the outside is blaringly false. Something I think I should consider more often is how shorter videos are more likely to be false, or intending to misinform…