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11.05 Blog Post

Formulate and defend a position on the benefits and liabilities associated with an object, concept or process that has become digital, relative to its pre-digital existence. Your position must include an interdisciplinary perspective. A process that has been around...

10.29 Blog Post

Contrast the digital representation of an object or concept with the “natural” object. What is gained? What is lost? When things are represented digitally they are no longer what they started off as but rather a translation of that thing. There are lots of benefits to...

10.22 Blog Post

Demonstrate the process of digitization as it applies to text and sound, including the tradeoffs that must be considered in the process. Digitization refers to turing something from real life into numbers so a computer can understand, store, and send it! Digitizing...

10.15 Blog Post

10.15 Blog Post Recall the creative process, social environment, and visionaries involved in the journey to the digital world we live in today. The journey to today’s digital world wasn’t a straight line of technical breakthroughs, it was a layered creative process...

10.08 Blog Post

Explain the advantages and limitations of a digital representation in a historical as well as modern context. Before responding to this prompt I felt I needed to better understand what it was asking, therefore I did some research on what digital representation...

09.24 Blog post

09.24 Blog Post Classify objects or concepts (from 3400 B.C. to modern) as digital or not digital. Objects and concepts that are classified as digital are those that can be communicated simply through 1s and 0s. Anything else would be considered analog. Digital:...

09.17 Blog Post

Clearly explain the essence of what it means to be digital For something to be digital means that it is entirely made up of 1s and 0s. In class we we’re given the example of a light switch on a dimmer. Flicking the switch on or off represents a digital system,...