Micco Brisker

Blog Entries:

  • Racial Digital Divide in 2019 (Final Project)
    Micco Brisker Professor Jia COMM 385 5 May 2019 Digital Divide in 2019 (To Watch My Short Video Explanation Click HERE) As the digital age has evolved, digital inequalities have emerged alongside well-established social imbalances which inflames enduring racial, educational, and class divisions. Imagine attempting to board a moving train from a platform 50 yards…
  • Future Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Muller & Bostrom)
    In Future Progress in Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Expert Opinion" by Vincent Muller and Nick Bostrom, they survey hundreds of researchers with an expertise in the study of artificial intelligence to determine the direction of our future with A.I. The study, published in 2016, mostly consists of survey questions, results and evaluations. Muller and…
  • Cultivating Humanity Towards a Non-Humanist Ethics of Technology by Peter Paul Verbeek
    "Cultivating Humanity Towards a Non-Humanist Ethics of Technology" was written by Peter Paul Verbeek in 2009 and asserts that the technologically mediated character of our daily lives has important ethical implications. In ethics, the question is ‘how to act’, but in our technological culture, this question is not answered exclusively by human beings. Verbeek takes…
  • The Personalization of Politics: Political Identity, Social Media, and Changing Patterns of Participation
    The Personalization of Politics was written in 2012 by W. Lance Bennett, a professor of political science and communication at the University of Washington, offers a framework for how collective action occurs and is incentivized through social media, particularly Twitter. Social movements like Occupy Wall Street, which reverberated throughout the world, was largely organized on…
  • Global Computing Online Social Networks and Global Women’s Empowerment by Ineke Buskens
    "Global Computing Online Social Networks and Global Women’s Empowerment" was authored by Ineke Buskens and published by Viewpoint magazine in April 2017. Buskens is a Principal Research Fellow with the Gender Tech Lab where she developed a research project on gender Ideologies and ICTs - learning to appreciate human diversity through digital innovations. Buskens argues…
  • Technology and the Future of Mental Health Treatment by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
    Technology and the Future of Mental Health Treatment by National Institue of Mental Health is a report written by staff writers at the National Institute of Mental Health in 2017, so it is fairly recent. The authors explain how technology has opened an entirely new avenue for mental health support services and data collection. NIMH writers…
  • TEDxObserver-Robin Dunbar-Can the Internet Buy You More Friends?
    In his TEDx talk, Can the Internet Buy You More Friends? Robert Dunbar discusses the normative perception of the internet and social media compared to the reality. He explores the cognitive limits of the human brain and how it relates to the global village of the internet and human social groups overall. Robin Dunbar argues…
  • TIME: Top 25 Most Influential People on the Internet
    On June 28, 2018, Time Magazine published an article about the top 25 most influential people on the internet, which they assessed by looking at their global impact on social media and their overall ability to drive news. This was the fourth edition of Time's top 25 most influential people on the internet. The first…
  • Robot Mediated Communication by Susan C. Herring
    In "Robot Mediated Communication" by Susan C. Herring, there is a significant amount of human interest placed on the abilities of robots to acts as intermediary for communication. This transforms traditional CMC and has become its own category, but the essential feature of communication is equally emphasized, “The most important component of communicating through a…
  • Netflix Original Series "Explained"
    In the Netflix series "Explained" the narrator introduces the level of impact and influence eSports has on the world today. Gamers from all over the world travel to a disclosed location multiple times throughout the year to participate in tournaments for hundreds of thousands of dollars. In 2017, 173,000 people attended the Counter Strike tournament…
  • Computer Mediated Communication: Impersonal, Interpersonal, and Hyperpersonal Interaction by Joseph B. Walther)
    In "Computer Mediated Communication: Impersonal, Interpersonal, and Hyperpersonal Interaction" by Joseph B. Walther, he lays out the fundamental groundwork for CMC discussion. The paper was written in 1996, so he makes a few novel predictions about our interaction today. Walther argues that media sometimes facillitates communication that surpasses normal interpersonal communication levels, offering a new…
  • Rich Media/Poor Media: The Impact of Audio/Video vs. Text/Picture Testimonial Ads
    In "Rich Media/Poor Media: The Impact of Audio/Video vs. Text/Picture Testimonial Ads" by Osei Appiah in 2006, there is a clear distinction made between the effects of modality on users. The research provides insight into the vividness effects of media modality and why it is important to browsers evaluations of commercial web sites and online products.…
  • User Experience: A Research Agenda (Marc Hassenzahl & Noam Tractinsky)
    In "User Experience: A Research Agenda" by Marc Hassenzahl & Noam Tractinsky, they explain user experience in the field of human computer interaction (HCI) and interaction design. The main objective was to collect a series of original, high-quality empirical papers on various (mainly positive) aspects that go beyond the purely cognitive and task-oriented aspects of…
  • Social Psychological Aspects of Computer-Mediated Communication (Kiesler, Siegel & McGuire)
    In "Social Psychological Aspects of Computer-Mediated Communication", Kiesler, Siegel & McGuire explain why social psychological research may contribute to the understanding of electronic communication and technological change in the world more broadly. Published in 1984, the authors considered the social psychological impact to describe issues raised by electronic communication and hypothesize its future outcomes.  Kiesler,…
  • "Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the Year 2020", Harper et al.
    In “Being Human: The Human-Computer Interaction in the Year 2020”, Harper et al. explain the knowledge of what the future might be in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In 2007, the two-day forum brought together academics from the fields of computing, design, management science, sociology and psychology to debate, contribute to, and help formulate the agenda for…
  • Effects of Interactivity: A Meta Analysis, Yang.
    In Effects of Interactivity: A Meta Analysis by Yang and Shen, the effects of web interactivity were analyzed across 63 studies which satisfied some of their research expectations and provided meaningful results about objective and perceived interactivity. They define interactivity as technological attributes of mediated environments that enable reciprocal communication or information exchange, which afford interaction…
  • BBC Short Video Introduction, The Medium is the Message
    At the beginning of this short BBC video, the narrator posits the question, "has technology changed us?" She exclusively focuses on the controversial conclusion reached by philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLunan, which is the medium is the message, using his book The Medium is the Massage as her primary source of reference. She admits…