Library & Information Studies 201: The Information Society
We live in an information-rich world. We have easy access to the Internet, which allows us to access and share information across national and geographic borders almost instantaneously. We communicate in a variety of networked media, about a variety of subjects, with a variety of people, and for a variety of purposes. Information communication technologies (ICTs) grow increasingly “smart” and can do more work that humans used to do. In this course, you will learn to research, analyze, and discuss complex issues and arguments surrounding important moral, political, social, and historical questions as they pertain to information and ICTs.
Design Fiction Presentations
Lucy gonzalez
EchoLens
Set in a near future, the story explores how a technology designed to combat misinformation and social conflict instead reshapes reality itself, filtering what each person experiences as truth.
Arden MacLaren
NeuronSync
This is a fictional sales pitch about a nonexistent brain-implanted microchip called NeuronSync. The idea is that this microchip could track every aspect of your health as well as give you information about other people’s health.
Sammi Heckel
A.I. Retail Assistants
This fictional article details the role out of a new A.I store assistant for an imaginary retail store called Clothing Galore. This piece dives into the features of the robot, as well as what it will mean for low-skilled human labor.
Design Fiction Video Presentations
Created by Elsa Voss
RealSIMS
This fictional news report covers a “design fiction” video game, “RealSims,” that users took too far.
SPINS Presentation
Mercy Salzwedel
AirPods Pro 3
I was really interested to see the impacts of AI on communication technologies. When I found out about Apple’s new translation features in their AirPods Pro 3, I was fascinated to learn about what it could do.
Olivia Fernandez
A Culture War on Wheels
This presentation discusses the controversy of Tesla’s Cybertruck using the article, “A Cultural War on Wheels,” by Joseph Bernstein. I spoke about the Cybertruck’s design and its relation to the theory of technological determinism.