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… »
Digital Life Makes
Makes that represent or question the role that digital technologies and communication networks play in our lives.
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) • 204 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) • 167 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) • 312 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… »
This GIFfed Digital Life






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 280 views • 7 responses
After you have practiced the GIF making process on a clip of a western movie you like do not care about, now you get to make a similar set using a YouTube clip you select. But the topic for this one has to make a statement or represent metaphorically the NetNarr course theme of This more… »
#SelfieUnselfie






Created by Mia Zamora (@miazamoraphd) • 923 views • 11 responses
The act of identity construction performed online is at once a private and individual performance… but it is also a communal and public activity. A major question comes out of this: What layers of our true selves can be shared in a selfie? What are ways to share an authentic version of the self online? more… »
Five Photo Digital Life Stories






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 178 views • 4 responses
Five Card Flickr Stories is a site for practice creating stories from disparate images. The source of images are from the photo sharing site flickr, all having a tag to create a pool of images. Five are presented to you, and your task is to pick one to start a story. Then you get five more… »
What’s Do Your Pre-NetNarr Twitter Tracks Look Like?






Created by Alan Levine (@cogdog) • 167 views • 3 responses
We make quite a bit of use of Twitter in #Netnarr (see what I did there, a hashtag). How might our activit change over the course of the course? We can take a “before” snapshot using a twitter account analysis tool. Whether you enter #NetNarr as a brand new baby tweeter or a rather wizened more… »