Author Archives: Simone Haylett

Final Reflective Paper

We’re at the end of the semester FINALLY!!!!!. Of course I’m joking but I hope everyone learned something this semester, and hope to see everyone again next semester. Have a great summer. finalletter Simone H

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Creative Detournement

Infographic: Culture jam: Inspirational: This creative detournement project was one of the toughest projects to finish throughout the course of this class. My process throughout this project was quite stressful and obsessive. For the infographic i had to find a … Continue reading

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Response 15

So I’ve spent hours and hours trying to come up with an idea for this inspirational piece and execute it on pixlr. I wanted to create a piece that could have many interpretations. I chose to do a piece on … Continue reading

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Updated Culture Jam

For my culture jam i revamped my idea and decided to hijack a popular website with videos that end up all over Facebook, Instagram and, Twitter. These videos often feature violence, nudity and sexual content masking it as hip-hop culture.

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Revised Issue Paper

I decided to redo my issue paper based on the feedback from Prof. Leston hopefully I fixed my errors. issuepaper-edited

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response 14

For my culture jam I chose not to use the GIMP program, i used Pixlr instead. I was going to stick to my original draft plan, but then I starting thinking about something I’ve argued repeatedly in class. So I’ve … Continue reading

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Infographic

Honestly, I was really frustrated for days on this infographic I was being very critical of my work. I’m interested in any feedback anyone could give me.

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Response 13

To be honest I didn’t have the time to sketch out anything so this is what i have. Infographic: This infographic contains pie charts on the Reported rapes and rape offenders in America in 2010. I chose to use these … Continue reading

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In Class Assignment 4/13/16

The articles “Beautiful Trouble” and “Cultural Resistance: Arts as Protect” connects to the creative detournement because they explain both the term itself and culture jamming. The creative detournement technique basically takes images from popular media and puts a new creative … Continue reading

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Response 10

“Do Artifacts Have Politics?” – Langdon Winner “At issue is the claim that the machines, structures, and systems of modern material culture can be accurately judged not only for their contributions of efficiency and productively, not merely for their positive … Continue reading

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Issue paper

issue-paper final-Simone The topic of my paper is Rape Culture: The Sexualization of Girls and Male Sexual Violence. The easiest part of this paper was probably selecting the topic from my exploratory paper, from then on i had difficulty finding … Continue reading

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Response 9

Part 1: This picture was taken by the Jay St-MetroTech Station at the corner of Willoughby Street. I picked this particular spot because homeless people often have to move from place to place to find somewhere to sleep when they … Continue reading

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Response 8

“How a whistleblower brought down Chicago police chief”                                  “It took a lot of courage to even seek me out confidentially, it’s something that could put their job and their life in serious jeopardy” Literally– The quote means that in … Continue reading

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Response 7

“Bartleby, The Scrivener” by Herman Melville, What does Bartleby want? In the passage by Herman Melville ” Bartleby, the Scrivener”, Bartleby is a copier that continues to reply ” i prefer not to” when asked to do various tasks by … Continue reading

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Social Justice Paper

social justice paper. Simone These are the topics that I settled on writing my social justice paper. Feminism: The Sexual Revolution’s Effects on Women Body Image: The Media’s Impact on Male Body Image and Self Esteem Rape: The Sexualization of … Continue reading

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Response 6

First I apologize for the lateness of my post I’ve been working hard on looking for sources and lacking sleep. So far I’ve decided on three topic areas 1. Feminism – How the sexual revolution has harmed women 2. Body … Continue reading

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Response 5

“Learn from Las Vegas” Stephen Duncombe In the passage “Learn from Las Vegas”, Duncombe relates the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas to politics and the ideas of Progressives. Duncombe uses Las Vegas as an example of how the architects … Continue reading

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Response 4

                              “For although culture is a creation of speech, it is recreated anew by every                       … Continue reading

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Final Tech- Lit Narritive

Final tech lit narrative

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My Revision Plan

For my essay I plan to first finish and answer all questions according to the original assignment. Then I will take into consideration Prof. Leston’s suggestions and try to address any issues. After that I plan to read over the … Continue reading

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Response #3

Neil Postman’s, “Media as Epistemology                                   ” Changes in the symbolic environment are like changes in the               … Continue reading

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Tech-Lit Draft

This is a draft it is not finished. I am sorry i didnt submit it before class.  tech lit narrative. SimoneH

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Response 2

In Postman’s second chapter From Tools to Technocracy he goes deeper into the idea that technology changes culture and the way people see the world. The progression of this idea is broken up into three classifications tool-using culture, technocracies and … Continue reading

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Response 1

In the first chapter of Neil Postman’s Technopoly he gives a background into what he means behind the term. The first chapter contains a story called The Judgement of Thamus found in Plato’s Phaedrus. Thamus is a king of a … Continue reading

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Intro to Language and Technology

Hello, My name is Simone Haylett, I prefer to be called by my first name only . This is my first year in City Tech. When I started at City Tech,  I was a Liberal Arts and Sciences major but … Continue reading

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