[Air-L] Digital Methods

[Jason Farman]

Hi Amanda,
On the website for my edited book, *The Mobile Story*, I worked with the
authors to come up with hands-on explorations of each of their chapters.
These explorations are projects that you can do with your students during
class time or as assignments. These can be accessed at:

http://themobilestory.com/explorations/

In terms of getting students to explore issues of privacy and
location-tracking, I detail a project I created with my students using the
tracking/surveillance app called Glympse. It was a fun project that got
them to think through the ways that we're tracked and producing
surveillance space with our mobile devices. You can read it in *Surveillance
& Society* here:

https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/misuse

Other projects I employ that get students to think through their mobile
devices include an app analysis, a Jason Travis-inspired photo project,
paper prototyping, and others detailed here:

https://dccmobile.wordpress.com/about/assignments/

Finally, a project that I do with my students is to work through mobile
phone repair to think through both the environmental impact of our mobile
devices as well as the infrastructures that sustain the content on these
devices (which may be lost regardless of how well a device is working as
databases are removed by defunct companies). I detail some of this in my
piece on mobile repair:

http://continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/article/view/275

I'm happy to chat more about any of this if you'd like!
Best,
Jason

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On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:48 AM, Jason Radford <jasonscottradford at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Amanda,
>
> One app I love is Data Selfie <https://dataselfie.it/#/>, it's an
> extension
> for google chrome that shows you your Facebook data and usage (though I
> just saw the announcement that predictions will no longer be supported).
>
> We at Volunteer Science also have a chrome extension
> <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/price-comparison/
> gppbmlnjiobkdgpbcmlobgganlmdjhfh/>that
> shows you when you're getting different prices on different retail
> websites. We're about to release an updated version this week (including
> one for Firefox), so if you see some bugs wait a day or two.
>
> I'd also love to hear the mobile apps people recommend.
>
> Best,
> Jason
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 7:06 AM Amanda Karlsson <
> amandakarlsson588 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear all
> >
> >
> > I am planning a course on digital methods together with two other
> > colleagues and looking for inspirations/ideas for exercises the students
> > can do with their smartphones - it could be tracking various everyday
> > aspects (e.g. time spent on smartphone, mood tracking, sleep etc.) to
> raise
> > awareness on privacy issues and data flow, or it could be recording video
> > diaries, collecting data by using a smartphone... or something completely
> > different?
> >
> >
> > If any of you have experiences of integrating apps/smartphones as part of
> > your teaching - and maybe even recommendations on specific apps/tools for
> > smartphone that you would like to share -  it will be very much
> appreciated!
> >
> >
> > It's a master course in media studies with 60 students so preferebly free
> > software/apps.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Amanda Karlsson
> > MA, PhD Fellow
> > School of Communication & Culture
> > Aarhus University
> > akarl at cc.au.dk<mailto:akarl at cc.au.dk>
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