{"id":14,"date":"2024-09-08T02:55:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T02:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dgst101.alysonhardy.net\/blog\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2024-12-03T22:45:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T22:45:38","slug":"digital-engagement-post","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dgst101.alysonhardy.net\/blog\/digital-engagement-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Engagement Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DGST 101 Class<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During my time after college, my online identity will express my creative and artistic side. As well as display my professional ideas and interests. I want people to be able to look at my identity and see who I am. I want this site to reflect what I have learned as a young adult in college. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Domain page contributes to my identity by utilizing my online tools to broadcast my innovative ideas. This platform space will be used for this coursework, but I will add new personal projects after I graduate. Personal projects include videos, photos, and designs. One distinctive idea that I have for this domain is to create a space for my artwork and other projects that I am proud of. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Alyson Hardy. I am 20 years old and currently a junior at the University of Mary Washington majoring in Communication and Digital Studies. Here you will see projects that display my art, photography, graphic design, and video production. This website will contribute to my identity by utilizing its tools to broadcast my innovative ideas. My digital space will express my past and current work from high school to college, as well as blog posts that are designed to contain smaller assignments within my college classes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of photography, I love to capture the presence of nature because I find that being immersed in nature, or simply observing it, aligns your spirit with something greater, calmer, and fuller. I also find joy in capturing people and animals. In my free time, I love to sketch out animals, patterns, and military vehicles using just a simple HB pencil and black ink. I use Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro to edit my videos and photos. You will discover that my blog posts are mainly my smaller written projects that I am proud of. A new page of achievements is coming soon as well as my resume. I hope you enjoy viewing some of my work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want my website mainly to act like a portfolio to show off some of my photography photos, artwork, and graphic or digital designs. I also have videos from my video production class that will be displayed on my main domain. If I wanted to I could create logos or even more digital designs to display on my website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My landing page will display a customized header that I will soon make. I will use Canva to design my header as well as my favicon. My header will support my ideal digital identity by using the words photography and digital designs because that will allow my viewers to understand what my page is all about. As well as showcasing part of my design skills and what my viewers can look forward to throughout my page. There is an about me that is more towards the bottom of my landing page to let anyone know more about me. There will be three or four added pages. Those will display my photos, digital art, videos, and some of my sketches. On each of those pages, I will add many photos and give a brief explanation of what I captured. Somewhere on my landing page, I would like to add contact information and more about my experience and skills with art. I will use the tools of Canva, WordPress, and various Adobe products to continue to create my website. All of my added pages will support my ideal view by broadcasting my skills and art. I am looking forward to progressing my website to meet some of my goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked Microsoft Copilot, \u201cShould AI-generated works be considered art, why or why not? In response, it said, \u201cWhether AI-generated works should be considered art depends on how we define art and creativity.\u201d It then states the arguments for and against AI-generated works as Art. Some arguments for AI-generated works are innovation, human input, and creativity. On the other hand, the arguments against are lack of intent and originality. I found it interesting that AI doesn\u2019t have an opinion itself but instead gives reasons to both sides of the argument. My opinion is that since AI doesn\u2019t have the human touch then why should we allow it to create art? However, I do see both sides of the argument that it can help produce unique works of art that would be hard to create with traditional practices, but I believe that it lacks the creativity and critical thinking abilities that human artists bring to the table. Microsoft Copilot concluded that the disagreement about AI-generated art is based on personal opinions and feelings rather than on facts. The perception of AI-generated works as art varies among individuals and cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that AI is trying to mimic human art and what it produces seems to be more straightforward because I don\u2019t see the creativity. I asked Chat GPT if it was creative and it said that it could only mimic creativity. I found an additional source that aligns with my opinion that art comes from the human mind itself. An article titled, \u201cThe AI Art Debate: Is it still art if it isn\u2019t expressed a human (and does it matter)?\u201d stated, \u201cHumans create art as a reflection of their own lives or their perceptions about life. The very act of living as a human, experiencing and expressing as a human, and dying as a human, is unique to humanity itself\u201d. This article simply elaborates that humans produce art that is from their own experiences and AI does not have the knowledge, emotions, or creative mind that humans do. AI designs art based on what it is told to do, while humans have the creativity to design unique art. I also like the quote from the same article, \u201cThe experience of an organic being cannot be dumbed down to mere numbers and data in hopes of mimicking the experiences of human life and emotion\u201d (\u201cThe AI Art Debate: Is it still art if it isn&#8217;t expressed \u2026\u201d). I believe that art&#8217;s true meaning comes from the element of human minds and that AI can\u2019t compete with it. AI is useful in some aspects, but art shouldn\u2019t be one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Works Cited<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Search Microsoft Copilot: Your everyday AI companion<\/em>, https:\/\/copilot.microsoft.com\/. Accessed 19 September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe AI Art Debate: Is it still art if it isn&#8217;t expressed &#8230;\u201d <em>Ludo.ai<\/em>, 13 November 2023, https:\/\/ludo.ai\/blog\/the-ai-art-debate. Accessed 19 September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recording Tips:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/dgst101.alysonhardy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Recording-Tips.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Friday I had a special guest who came and spoke to my class about recording tips for my upcoming audio project. I decided to create my own podcast and share those tips with you! The tips include finding a quiet location, record with a high-quality mic, and test and playback before you record. I hope you all enjoy it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to choose the Disney movie WALL-E. The 2008 Pixar film WALL-E depicts a dystopian future where humans have become addicted to technology and lost touch with reality.<br>The humans in Wall-E are shown to be mindless consumers. They also trashed the planet with all different kinds of waste which seems like they don\u2019t care about Earth and don\u2019t seem to know much about it. Many of the younger humans are taught by robots. They may look like normal humans, but their bodies aren\u2019t as strong. They don\u2019t seem to make their own decisions and use their minds for anything individual. Humans in this movie are overconsuming technology and are constantly on hover chairs since they have issues walking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The movie revealed that the ship\u2019s humans have become incapable of walking on their own because of the hover chairs they constantly float around in. The human-to-human contact is non-existent because everyone has become programmed to spend their days looking at the same virtual screens. The conversations that I saw were over their screen during virtual conference calls. It\u2019s hard not to see the humans in Wall-E look so disconnected from their physical lives and each other. The thought of this film makes me worried for our future. There are a lot of the movie&#8217;s predictions about the future that are similar to our current reality. Around 40 minutes into the film is an example where it shows humans relying on &#8220;smoothie-like&#8221; food, which corresponds to the meal replacement products designed for convenience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the present, real-life increase in artificial intelligence (AI), Wall-E\u2019s plot feels like a warning about the direction humanity could take. In my opinion, if we become too reliant on unnecessary tools it could decline our problem-solving abilities, critical thinking skills, and create a sense of dependence on technology even when not needed. In small limits, technology has the power to help humanity rise to new heights, but if we grow familiar to letting robots do all the work for us, we risk losing total control of our lives and detaching the physical connections that help us thrive in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s Friday morning of October 18th and I wake up from the sound of my roommate&#8217;s alarm coming from her iPhone at 8 am. I reach for my phone to start answering people&#8217;s texts and scrolling on my social media apps. As I get ready for the day, I check the weather on my iPhone to know what to wear. Next, I go to my computer to check emails and see that my professor changed my class from in-person to Zoom. I then joined my class on Zoom using my laptop. After my class, I got hungry so I used my microwave to heat leftovers. In the afternoon, I used my college\u2019s computer lab to edit a video using Premiere Pro. During my last class of the day, I watched my professor\u2019s slideshow on a screen that was projected and took notes on my laptop.<br>Throughout the day my Amazonfit band notifies me of text messages, phone calls, heart rate, weather, the time, etc. After my class, I finished editing and used a desktop computer to submit my assignment and a hard drive to save it. At three o&#8217;clock my GPS helped me get to my next location, the mall, and then back to my apartment. After getting back I used my building&#8217;s washer and dryer to clean and dry my clothes. Afterward, my roommate and I filmed a video using TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finished the night by watching a movie on my Roku TV and a Netflix show on my computer. Lastly, at 11 pm I turned on my sound machine and a large fan. My sound machine plays audio recordings of whatever sound I want. They usually have multiple sound options to choose from and more volume control than mechanical machines. As I close my eyes I am awakened by yet another alarm coming from my roommate&#8217;s iPhone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#8- My Tips on Video Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/dgst101.alysonhardy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Eng-8.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I share my tips for getting started with video projects in this educational video. Those mention recording location, trustworthy mics, easy software to develop in post-production editing, and more. I hope you all enjoy it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/dgst101.alysonhardy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Digital-Engagement-9.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Description:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main idea behind my digital creativity visual project is to inform my audience about the growing and harmful concern of TikTok. Children are now growing up on technology and this social media app impacts their mental health and well-being. A lot of its users are starting to live in a virtual world rather than the real one by scrolling for hours on end. I used the digital tool Pexels to download AI-generated videos to visually aid my audience in feeling the emotion behind my very heavy topic. I also used music from Kobalt, which is a music company that offers a variety of services for artists, songwriters, and publishers. Clipchamp was my chosen software to edit. I decided to, at some points, use Clipchamp to sync my words with what I was displaying in my videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work Cited<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aloise, Amaris. \u201cAlgospeak: Jailbreaking the Marketplace of Ideas | Vanderbilt JETLaw.\u201d <em>Vanderbilt University<\/em>, 8 March 2024, https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/jetlaw\/2024\/03\/08\/algospeak-jailbreaking-the-marketplace-of-ideas\/. Accessed 16 October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting on this class, I realized that the biggest topic I learned was artificial intelligence (AI). I previously did not know much about AI besides the fact that it is currently taking over people&#8217;s jobs and that it can be sketchy how much they know about everything. My opinion on AI has changed completely since this class. Since I didn\u2019t have much knowledge of AI, I didn\u2019t have an opinion on it, but now I do. I think that we can utilize AI in good and bad ways. I have a lot of passion for art and I don\u2019t believe that AI can be as creative as a human being can be. We had an in-class discussion about creativity with AI. I believe that it relies on previous human entries which limits its ability to innovate beyond existing patterns. When I asked AI to draw me a picture of a tree it produced a basic drawing of a tree that a child can create. Furthermore, when I asked my roommate to draw a tree she added more details that made the tree look real. To add to this my roommate is not an art major or an artist. This shows how humans can be more creative than AI. Now on the other hand, I think AI can be good to predict when we will run out of natural resources and give ideas on how to recycle better. One of the group presentations at the end of this course spoke about how we are quickly going to run out of our natural resources. By asking AI questions regarding our resources we can take more action towards recycling throughout the country. Lastly, I also reflect on another digital culture that I used a lot in this course, and that is digital tools. One would be Canva which I used to create my favicon and header for my image project. I also used Clipchamp to edit both my audio and video projects. Those tools helped me produce my research in a fun way to capture my audience&#8217;s attention. In conclusion, I learned a lot about the different digital cultures and those two are the ones that stuck out the most to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting on this class, I realized that the biggest topic I learned was artificial intelligence (AI). I previously did not know much about AI besides the fact that it is currently taking over people&#8217;s jobs and that it can be sketchy how much they know about everything. My opinion on AI has changed completely since this class. Since I didn\u2019t have much knowledge of AI, I didn\u2019t have an opinion on it, but now I do. I think that we can utilize AI in good and bad ways. I have a lot of passion for art and I don\u2019t believe that AI can be as creative as a human being can be. We had an in-class discussion about creativity with AI. I believe that it relies on previous human entries which limits its ability to innovate beyond existing patterns. When I asked AI to draw me a picture of a tree it produced a basic drawing of a tree that a child can create. Furthermore, when I asked my roommate to draw a tree she added more details that made the tree look real. To add to this my roommate is not an art major or an artist. This shows how humans can be more creative than AI. Now on the other hand, I think AI can be good to predict when we will run out of natural resources and give ideas on how to recycle better. One of the group presentations at the end of this course spoke about how we are quickly going to run out of our natural resources. By asking AI questions regarding our resources we can take more action towards recycling throughout the country. Lastly, I also reflect on another digital culture that I used a lot in this course, and that is digital tools. One would be Canva which I used to create my favicon and header for my image project. I also used Clipchamp to edit both my audio and video projects. 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