Nic Does History

With our recent discussions revolving around misinformation and fake news, I wanted to make my timeline contribution relate to those topics. I decided to do the launching of Alex Jones’ Infowars because I feel that it really represents the negative aspects of the Information Age that we have discussed in class. I also took the […]

I chose Johannes Gutenberg for my historical figure because I’ve always been interested in him and his role in spurring on the Reformation. It ended up being difficult for me to find much information on his personal life (childhood, education, activities outside of his work) so it was a bit of a process putting together […]

Of all the types and aspects of technologies we have covered so far in this class, these are the ones I am the least familiar with, so it was equally interesting and perplexing for me to learn about. I’ve never participated in gaming culture, so the first readings gave me a lot of insight into […]

I decided on the march(es) from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 for this assignment because I felt that it was a big enough event that it would have had a lot of attention on Twitter had that been around at the time. I went back and forth on which person’s perspective to tweet from; MLK, […]

I really enjoyed doing this assignment because of how much flexibility we had to be creative with it. In our propaganda group, the social one, I had the news article to write and was surprised by how much research I ended up putting into it. Working with my group mates, we decided to make our […]

I chose this photo because I’ve been to the mission in Santa Barbara several times and I wanted to try and see what it would have looked like back in its earlier days. This project was much harder than I expected it to be, partly because it was difficult to do the mission and the […]

I’m really looking forward to our discussions on the telegraph and Morse code this week. My existing knowledge of this technology is limited, as I haven’t spend much time studying the period in which it was created. I had no real understanding of how it all works before I watched the videos on Morse code. […]

Even just glancing through the past assignments for this course, I could tell that the material we are going to cover offers many fun and unique opportunities to present what we learn over the semester. One of the assignments that caught my attention was live Tweeting past historical events. In high school, I did a […]

The perspectives on the history of the Information Age offered by Winston and Kline differ largely because Winston puts the start of the Information Age back in the 1800’s with the telegraph, whereas Kline argues that the 1940’s and 50’s groundbreaking theory that what drives machines can also explain what drives humans “set the intellectual […]