Davidson College Fall 2018
It is not uncommon for two friends to carry out an entire conversation using nothing but gifs. With the preference towards gifs seeming only to grow, are gifs the superior… Read More
Due to the lossless, polysemic, and compressed nature of GIFs, the image format has gained tremendous popularity across many online forms of communication. In 2016, more than 1 billion GIFs were sent to over 100 million active users every day. So what’s going on behind the scenes that creates these GIFs and have led to …
(My intentions are not to disagree or argue with the article’s points as they have opened my eyes to issues I had not even considered until now- I am only describing what I have understand as typical use of gifs in conversation) Digital minstrels are obviously problematic, and to be honest I had not been […]
In its most general form, Blackface is the act of a non-Black person playing a black role. The act of Blackface is almost always accompanied with the donning of black makeup to “darken up” performers in theater productions. However, Blackface is much more than just dark makeup used to enhance a costume. Its origins, minstrel…
I’d like to admit that I have in fact been fooled and frustrated by the Instagram posts designed to trick the audience with a picture of the loading screen. (This picture is an example of the pictures used for said posts- do not wait for it to load as it never will.) But these type […]
I think what I find most concerning is that I’m not concerned, but I’m aware that I “should” be. I’ve become so used to the idea of government surveillance or corporate advertising that it seems unavoidable. This section of Feed though felt a little too similar to our current lifestyle. Maybe it’s because I’ve been […]
World War II: US vs. Germany The Imitation Game: Alan Turing vs. German code Cold War: US vs. USSR The Creating of the Internet: Wizards vs. Netizens, Government vs. Hippies Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet and the military context of the internet’s history reminded of a movie I […]
“‘We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products… We have no interest in how they were produced, or what happens to them’ – he pointed to his daughter – ‘what happens to them once…
Numerous moments in Feed inspire connections to today around the byproducts of technology that make its existence so bittersweet. Perhaps the most resonating consists of Titus’s fleeting moment of (accidental) analysis of the painting he examines while waiting in the hospital. While the segment has a variety of implications, its similarity to our detachment from …
Big Brother. A phrase commonly used to describe the constantly increasing amount of surveillance of us by the government and corporations. These institutions can figure out every aspect of our lives extremely accurately without that much digging. Simply by monitoring our use of technology in our daily lives, companies like Oracle and Acxiom create profiles …
