This Make is opportunity to learn how to make an animated GIF from one of the Screening Surveillance short films using the Giphy Gifmaker. The process of choosing a segment of less than 10 seconds makes you focus on a key scene. The captions you add can add commentary or suggest an alternative narrative. In more… »
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Face Matching to Art Works






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 119 views • 2 guides
Google launched the Arts and Culture App as a means to connect people with a vast amount of art work: The Google Arts & Culture platform hosts millions of artifacts and pieces of art, ranging from prehistory to the contemporary, shared by museums across the world. But the prospect of exploring all that art can more… »
Baiting The Ad Followers






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 91 views
Most of us have had one experience where it seemed like advertisements follow us between / across sites. It feels creepy for a few seconds, then we click on. Can we document this better? Think of a product you likely would not typically look for. Do a few searches in google and maybe amazon. Click more… »
Your Personal Map of the Internet






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 203 views • 6 responses • 3 guides
Many of us spend hours per day on the internet. Do we have a map or a model in our head? a physical metaphor? Do we know where we are in it? One response to Kevin Kelly’s Internet Mapping Project Kevin Kelly’s Internet Mapping Project asks people to draw and share they way the see the more… »
Give a Twitter Account A Bot Voice






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 166 views • 1 response
Use a Google Spreadsheet to make any twitter account you own (your own or a second character account) to regularly tweet out messages formed by random combinations of words. Our goal is create an ongoing conversations with our own accounts or others in #netnarr. An intent of this make is to explore the influence we more… »
Conjure Your Digital Alchemist Mentor






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 311 views • 5 responses
Dealing with the depth and vagueness of the dark internet can be overwhelming. What if you could summon a mentor, a digital alchemist, that might guide you towards the light? Imagine a coffee shop name “Arganee, filled with experienced alchemists who have figured out their own ways of transforming the internet darkness into shards of more… »
GIF A Scene in the Digital Alchemists Coffee Shop






Created by Rebeg Maestro (@rebegmaestro) • 434 views • 4 responses
This Make is opportunity to learn how to make an animated GIF from any YouTube video using the Giphy Gifmaker. As an experiment it’s interesting to see what portion of the same clips people will isolate from the source video to create a message in a GIF. In #NetNarr we seek out wisdom from the best more… »
A Meme To Counter the Internet Darkness






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 362 views
This mission is part of the activity for a 2019 NetNarr class where we will be looking at meme images to maybe be more than just for laughs, that we might be able to craft a message to counter some of the internet darkness. Start at the imgflip Meme Generator. This site provides along the more… »
Digital Redlining: The Newark Game Board






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 335 views • 10 responses
Can we make inferences, connections about the distribution of modern digital services Newark compared to the historical redlining maps? What can we say about digital redlining here? If this was a game, what does this board suggest about the way such a game is played, who makes the rules, who has to play? To explore more… »
Digital / Gamed Life Sound Effect Story






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 275 views • 6 responses
Create a short story with no dialogue or narration, using only sound effects and music. The goal here is to express a story about our course theme of This Digital Life or about our current topic of Games and Gaming. Your story should include 5-10 different sounds, and at least one used as a “background” more… »