You are WRITING THIS OUT to equal a 3 minute video. I WILL BE MAKING THE VIDEO.
Stage 1: Topic Selection Video
For stage 1, you will choose your topic and create a short 3-5 minute video to share through a cloud server in the discussion forum with your classmates. See additional tutorials in the classroom for making, uploading and sharing a video.
You will then post a short 2-3 sentence reply to 2 classmates’ proposals in the discussion forum.
Instructions
Choose a specific technological artifact (or interconnected set of artifacts) or form of technology whose impacts, biases, and political properties you can study by observing firsthand how people in the world use it. Your choice should be a primary source, some form of immediate, firsthand technology that you can observe directly. It should be original and unique, chosen from the categories below, and not be simply something like a smartphone.
Once you have chosen your topic, create a 3-5 minute video describing your artifact, why you are interested in examining it further, and some of your thoughts about why this is an appropriate topic for a class on technology and culture. In your video, please make sure to cover the following questions, and feel free to include additional thoughts as appropriate.
- What are you planning to study?
- Where is it located? If a digital form, where are its creators located?
- Why is this technology interesting to you personally?
- Why is it an appropriate choice to talk about its impacts, biases or technological politics? Please see the readings and other assignments from Week 3 to help you figure out how to talk about this question.