Assignments: Research

R2 Reading Response

Conveniently, each reading itself exemplified that which it described. Chater and Loewenstein’s The Under-Appreciated Drive for Sense-making described how “Curiosity may, of course, be unsatisfied if we are unable to perform the relevant action …, in which case we would expect the

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R2 Reading Response

Conveniently, each reading itself exemplified that which it described. Chater and Loewenstein’s The Under-Appreciated Drive for Sense-making described how “Curiosity may, of course, be unsatisfied if we are unable to perform the relevant action …, in which case we would expect the

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R2 – Response to Readings

The X, Y and Z of digital storytelling: Dramaturgy, directionality, and design  (2015) This article didn’t explain itself fully or provide a comprehensive description of the axes of storytelling, especially the Z axis for which the authors had particular admiration.

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R2 – Response to Readings

The X, Y and Z of digital storytelling: Dramaturgy, directionality, and design  (2015) This article didn’t explain itself fully or provide a comprehensive description of the axes of storytelling, especially the Z axis for which the authors had particular admiration.

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R2 Reading Response

How Stories Deceive This New Yorker article offers a digestible example on how a good story can be powerfully persuasive and albeit, deceptive. Which leads me to an broader question: How can we better understand the intentionality and morality of storytellingWe

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R2 Reading Response

How Stories Deceive This New Yorker article offers a digestible example on how a good story can be powerfully persuasive and albeit, deceptive. Which leads me to an broader question: How can we better understand the intentionality and morality of storytellingWe

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R1 Storytelling with Data – Irene Alvarado

Notes on our readings for week 01/21 Storytelling -the art of telling stories- has been around, as some of the authors point out, forever. But that doesn’t mean that stories have been present everywhere and at all times. In fact, not

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R1 Storytelling with Data – Irene Alvarado

Notes on our readings for week 01/21 Storytelling -the art of telling stories- has been around, as some of the authors point out, forever. But that doesn’t mean that stories have been present everywhere and at all times. In fact, not

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R1 Reading Responses

Data Culture If the quantification of society fails to address the more nuanced areas of human life, could the production of data itself ever be considered a creative act? Can data ever be…artistic? This is a valid question because as

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R1 Reading Responses

Data Culture If the quantification of society fails to address the more nuanced areas of human life, could the production of data itself ever be considered a creative act? Can data ever be…artistic? This is a valid question because as

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R1- Response to Readings

Contemporary Data and Storytelling A common distinction made in our readings was between the possible outcomes of our increased access to data. According to Schmidt and Slaney, all of this information is either going to be humanity’s savior or ruin. The

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R1- Response to Readings

Contemporary Data and Storytelling A common distinction made in our readings was between the possible outcomes of our increased access to data. According to Schmidt and Slaney, all of this information is either going to be humanity’s savior or ruin. The

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R1 – Response to Readings

“Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative” by Richard Delgado (1989) I was particularly taken the way in which this article manipulated the way I felt about the situation every time it presented a different point of view.

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R1 – Response to Readings

“Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative” by Richard Delgado (1989) I was particularly taken the way in which this article manipulated the way I felt about the situation every time it presented a different point of view.

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R1 – Response to Readings

Response to “Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative” by Richard Delgado: Fascinating creatures humans are. We are all the same species, and yet we live with both personal and institutional racism. Why is this so? Is this something

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R1 – Response to Readings

Response to “Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative” by Richard Delgado: Fascinating creatures humans are. We are all the same species, and yet we live with both personal and institutional racism. Why is this so? Is this something

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R1

As we move towards an increasingly technological society, more and more people are using data to quantify and understand their lives and the world around them, commonly through the use of micro stories (images and text )and mega stories (collections

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R1

As we move towards an increasingly technological society, more and more people are using data to quantify and understand their lives and the world around them, commonly through the use of micro stories (images and text )and mega stories (collections

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