Over the period of this course I have become very cynical of the ability of Twitter Bots to create change. I feel most bots end up becoming an art piece more than anything else, which is good but not always the ideal outcome. So for the finals I created a…
Human is an app that makes it easier for people to become video activists. Over the last decade there has been a huge increase in the number of videos where people have documented a crime or an injustice happening in public. This is a direct result of proliferation of a…
Blockchain technology is basically a way to maintain records in public using cryptography and open source algorithms. How that happens is unclear to me, I don’t fully understand the concept of blocks very well and how cryptography plays a role in all this. I also don’t understand what exactly are…
So in the Dynamic Web Development class, I would like to make an app that I personally wish would exist. Although I suspect many designers would want this when its built. The concept of the app is simple, it lets users make a collection of the color palettes and typography styles…
There is a lot of unrest in the world today. It feels like things deteriorate a little further everyday, for the weak, the poor and the marginalized sections of our society. But it is not the first time that this is happening. Twentieth century was one of the bloodiest of all.…
Ok so the story is about an internet company, called the Circle, that has unified all the virtual identities of everyone in on unified identity, linking your social profile, credit cards, passwords etc. This has become the most powerful company in the world. The protagonist of our story is Mae,…
Here is the link to the article: https://points.datasociety.net/fake-news-is-not-the-problem-f00ec8cdfcb#.ebcq7wwta — Ok to the author starts by differentiating between fake news and biased news that pushes its own propaganda. Its a difference between shades of lies I suppose but it is a big difference. Fake news is when there is out-right lying, things that…
Here is the link to the article: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win — Ok, psychometrics is a thing, it is data-driven psychology. It focusses on measuring psychological traits such as personality. Personality specifically is broken down into five personality traits known as “the big Five” or OCEAN, these are: openness (how open you are to new…
Here is the link to the article: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0128692 — Ok, so the objective of this paper is to prove that economic indicators can be built in a cost-effective way using publicly available social media datasets. This can be done by extracting some behavioral patterns from social media data and relating that…
Here is the link, page 105-115: https://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/innovation_in_international_development_v7.pdf — What does UNICEF mean when it says innovations and specifically what does the head of their Innovation Unit, Chris Fabian, mean by the word innovation, in context of UNICEF? Well it, among many others I am sure, means these three things: Planning Agile. How…