Museums in the Digital Age

It is fascinating to look at the various effects social media has had on our current world. In many ways, it appears that social media has had both positive and negative effects on everyday experiences. It is especially interesting to focus on experiences that are centered around creativity and expression, for example, museums. At a […]

Final Website Reflection

This process of making a website was surprisingly very simple and fun. I think that because WordPress allows us to choose our own template, it was easy to layout the website in an organized way. While using WordPress made the site making process easier in terms of layout, I do think it made it more […]

Creative Project

For my creative project, I decided to video my experience at a pop-up museum in Atlanta. I attended the pop-up museum, Candytopia, which centers around the theme of candy. The museum consists of art made out of candy, and there are a lot of opportunities where one can take pictures in front of set up […]

News Response #4 — Artificial Intelligence

The article I chose to examine is about artificial intelligence (AI). In the article, Seth Borenstein, discusses the world of artificial intelligence. Borenstein talks to various AI coders and explores the different characteristics that make AI robots different from humans. The one characteristic that is highlighted is the fact that AI robots/machines cannot comprehend humor. […]

Research Paper Rough Draft

It is fascinating to look at the various effects social media has had on our current world. It seems that social media has had both positive and negative effects on everyday experiences. It is especially interesting to focus on experiences that require lots of attention, for example, museums. At a museum, people tend to walk […]

Creative Project Rough Draft

For my creative project I really want to demonstrate what the experience of going to a pop-up museum is like. To do this, I will be going to Candytopia, one of the pop-up museums in Atlanta. I plan to take photos of myself participating in the museum experience and maybe of others at the museum […]

News Response #4 – Apple News+

Apple has decided to pair up with the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, the New Yorker, and hundreds of other magazines to launch their own news subscription service, Apple News+. By paying a fee of $9.99 per month, subscribers will have access to all articles from the news sites listed above. The […]

Annotated Bibliography

BUDGE, KYLIE1. “Objects in Focus: Museum Visitors and Instagram.” Curator, vol. 60, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 67–85. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/cura.12183. I believe that this article will be very useful for my research paper. Budge explores how Instagram influences the way museum visitors interact with the art or content in the museum. While many scholars argue […]

News Response #3 App Events

This article focuses on the issues of tracking and sharing user data. It was reported that many apps, including health apps, have been using App Events, a tool used to record and send user data to Facebook. App Events was used on many apps such as Flo Health, a period tracking app, a realtor app, […]

Personal Essay

I have always been a lover of the arts. Everytime I visit a new city I try to find interesting museums to visit. With the emergence of technology, it is really interesting to see how people interact with art and how museums have evolved with technology (specifically, social media). Recently, when I have visited museums, […]