Tag: technopoly

  • Being Digital: Robots Replacing Humans

    Being Digital: Robots Replacing Humans

    Students from Professor Howard Good’s Being Digital class created one minute visual interpretations of a technological ideology. For the fall 2015 semester, the students had a choice of many multimedia options, such as stop-frame animation, traditional animation or simply a video. In a dystopian technologically-infused world, we will see no problem with replacing our organic-based…

  • Being Digital: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

    Being Digital: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

    Watched Over from Annie March on Vimeo. Being Digital students Patrick Angehr, Annie March and Russell Hartman analyze the impact of technology in modern society through Richard Brautigan’s poem “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.”   For more Being Digital videos: Kate Bunster and Francesca Caccavale explore the implications of technology in medicine. Kelly…

  • Being Digital: Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind

    Being Digital: Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind

    Being Digital Project – Kelly Seiz from SUNY New Paltz on Vimeo. Being Digital student, Kelly Seiz, uses charcoal drawings to interpret E.E. Cummings’ poem “Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind. For other Being Digital videos: Kate Bunster and Francesca Caccavale explore the implications of technology in medicine. Kevin Ha’s humorous take on the smartphone war. Being Digital…

  • Being Digital: Students Explore Implications of Technology in Medical World

    Being Digital: Students Explore Implications of Technology in Medical World

    After reading Neil Postman’s “Technopoly,” students in Howard Good’s Being Digital class were inspired to create videos which tied in the author’s theories of modern technology advertisements and the issues surrounding them. Kate Bunster and Francesca Caccavale explore the intrusion of technology into the medical world. Produced by: Kate Bunster and Francesca Caccavale. The Invasion of…