Sense & Scale

A site to explore cultures, cities, and computing at varying senses and scales. Updated by Ar Ducao, with content from classes at NYU, MIT, CUNY and more.

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Announcements For your reference, Monday’s midterm planning agenda has been added to the “Diversity” menu. Agenda Assignments Read/listen/watch, take notes, and be ready for in-class timed exercises & discussions on:  Please also create a first draft “Works Cited” in the Google Doc for your paper. Make sure it addresses the items…

Announcements

For your reference, Monday’s midterm planning agenda has been added to the “Diversity” menu.

Agenda

  • News (20)
  • Timed Exercise (30)
    • Upcoming exercises will have 1 question on the reading, and 1 question to help you with progress on preparing the midterm.
    • The midterm-related question won’t be that intense so as to give you more thinking time…
    • And there won’t be a bonus question.
  • Templates & Rubrics (30)
  • Discussion (30)

Assignments

Read/listen/watch, take notes, and be ready for in-class timed exercises & discussions on: 

  • The first five chapters of Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde: “Notes from a Trip to Russia,” “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” “Scratching the Surface,” and “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.”
  • Who Killed Vincent Chin? (film, NYU login required)

Please also create a first draft “Works Cited” in the Google Doc for your paper. Make sure it addresses the items under the “Works Cited” section in the Midterm Grade Sheet.

And: which current technology issues come to mind from your reading? Please find a news item about a relevant technology to the newest tab in D&T News Items 2023.

Our next class is on TUESDAY, not Monday.
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

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