Author Archives: Kimberly Jones

Everyone have a great Summer. ReflectionPaper- Final

My revisions for my infographic image was keeping the font size uniform for the entire image. All the captions are font size 40, and the text is font size 31. I also made all the opacity is of the line … Continue reading →

For my inspirational image the message I wanted to convey was we don’t live on different worlds whether its a male dominated world, a world that runs on money, or a world with just one race of people, and what … Continue reading →

I have changed my culture jam to Exxon Mobil. A  Texas oil and gas company who uses a type of drilling process called Fracking. Fracking has been a controversial issue because this process has lead to environmental concerns, such as … Continue reading →

For my culture jam my initial idea was either the AARP organization and try to display how the elderly are treated or something with Absolut Vodka. I had a hard time figuring how to make it work, so I decided … Continue reading →

What I noticed from my info-graphic example was each section had a sub-heading that went along with the topic of the overall info-graph. The font of the text was uniform in its size from the top to the bottom. Line … Continue reading →

For my infographic image I came up with the idea to use recognizable traps meant to catch animals to represent the TRAP laws that is associated with abortions. I drew a bear trap, box trap, mouse trap, net trap, Venus … Continue reading →

“The subversive imagination of anti-road protest and Reclaim the Streets”  I was very intrigued by this reading, especially with all the creative ideas the protesters came up with to display their version of a detournement and culture resistance. From the new … Continue reading →

The two readings “Détournement/Culture jamming” and “Cultural Resistance: The arts of protest” connects to the creative détournement project  because both articles gives us an idea of how to create our very own détournement. In the “Détournement/Culture jamming” article it explains how  altering … Continue reading →

Beginning Passage – First Paragraph on page 43 ‘The nineteenth century also saw the emergence of utopian communities, of which perhaps the most famous is Robert Owen’s experimental community in Scotland called New Lanark. There, he established a model factory … Continue reading →

Langdon Winner’s “Do artifacts Have Politics?” I picked the first paragraph on page 129, but the part that really stood out is located at the end of that paragraph where it says: “The roots of unavoidable authoritarianism are, he argues, deeply … Continue reading →

Abortion My paper is about the effects of the restrictive laws place on abortion, and the planned parenthood organization. I struggled with  coming up with a solution that would be on the scale as the example given in class and … Continue reading →

  Part 1 “Anti-homeless spikes: Sleeping rough opened my eyes to the city’s barbed cruelty” By Alex Andreou My photo is of two benches. On the right is of a wooden bench and the left is of a metal bench.  In “Anti-homeless … Continue reading →

“How a whistleblower brought down Chicago Police chief” “In response to the demand for further accountability, Emanuel asked for McCarthy’s resignation on Tuesday this week. He also introduced a new task force that will aim to improve misconduct investigations and … Continue reading →

Bartleby, The Scrivener: A story of Wall Street by Herman Melville What does Bartleby want? I believe Bartleby wanted to live out his life the way he saw fit without having to explain himself.  Bartleby wanted several things, such as … Continue reading →

Social Issue Paper My process consisted of writing out about a basic guideline of my paper with a intro, body and conclusion. For majority of my sources I used the JSTOR database. My three topics are environmental justice/racism, transgender in schools, … Continue reading →

Social Justice Exploratory Project For the structure of my paper I will begin with an abstract stating the three topics I will be writing about. The topics are environmental racism, Transgenders laws,  and Abortion. I will begin by writing a … Continue reading →

I made a connection with both Stephen Duncombe’s “Learn from Las Vegas” and Thomas Frank’s “Why Johnny Can’t Dissent” to Neil Postman’s “The Judgement of Thamus.” Postman discusses the conception of winners and losers. There are three quotes that I … Continue reading →

Meet My New Roommate, Technology

Neil Postman’s, “The Medium is the Metaphor” “Physical reality seems to recede in proportion as man’s symbolic activity advances. Instead of dealing with the things themselves man is in a sense constantly conversing with himself. He has so enveloped himself … Continue reading →

For my Tech-Lit Narrative paper, I plan to elaborate and give more examples of how the dynamics changed among my family. I stated that it changed, but I didn’t say how. I would like to incorporate some of the readings … Continue reading →

Neil Postman. “Media as Epistemology”                    “The concept of truth is intimately linked to the biases of forms of expression.” (Page 22)   Literally: This quote means depending on what type of … Continue reading →

Meet My New Roomate, Technology Incomplete

In “From Tools to Technocracy,” Neil Postman once again begins the chapter with the work of another author, Karl Marx, to establish his argument that technology can be a catalyst to determine how certain events develop within a society. It … Continue reading →

In “the Judgement of Thamus,” Neil Postman uses Plato’s written work about King Thamus, as groundwork to break down how technological advances impacts a society, and how it alters that society on a social and intellectual way. The narrative is … Continue reading →

Hello, My name is Kimberly Jones. This is my first semester taking this course. This is not my first time at City Tech. I have received my Associates degree in Liberal Arts & Arts from City Tech as well. I … Continue reading →