I struggled with the assigned content for this week’s readings. I didn’t struggle specifically due to the visceral nature of some of the content, which I chose to avoid, for the most part.…

Thank you all again for an extremely engaging Monday night class! A special thanks to our facilitator Nelson for the excellent work! As you dig into the readings for Week 7, you may…

In today’s interconnected world, social movements have discovered new paths for mobilization and activism through digital platforms. Our exploration of this week’s readings reveals the profound impact of digital technology on movements such…

Coursework Points My Assessment Blogs 25 I should have posted 6 reading responses but I only posted three! There are 11 of them, so they’re worth about 2.3 points each. So 6.8 points…

I focused on the National Government readings first because a lot of them are about network analysis and topic modeling, which I really want to learn better. My first professional job was for…

I mentioned in class that the first criticism of my thesis was that it was using a survey. Surveys, in the view of the critiquer, could never be decolonial. I also had us…

Taking photos of loved ones and storing them in online repositories like Apple Cloud is something we all intuitively do today. But did we do this 25 years ago? Now imagine digitally recording…

I have always been an end-user regarding digital products like Google Maps, Amazon, email, Wi-Fi, and the Internet. Not surprisingly, I have never paid careful attention to data before. Even though I understand…

I want to note that I’ve now caught up on all of my assignments for this course, so I feel much better about my time this semester. In any other course I would…

I was going to facilitate for this week, so I did not write a blog post. However, I didn’t end up facilitating. I am sharing my abbreviated reading notes here so that I…