As y’all may have noticed by now, I’m not good at coming up with titles. Anyways, the main point of this blog post is to reflect on how the class went over the past semester. I really enjoyed learning about the history of the information age. I also enjoyed the fact that we were able…
For this assignment, I had to create an image and a 2 page essay with an AI generator on a historical topic. As seen from the above images, I chose to focus on George Washington. The art on the right is a famous painting created by Gilbert Stuart. The image on the left is AI…
There was a period of time where early humans believed the Earth was a flat circle surrounded by water. However, by the 4th century B.C., almost all educated people believed the world was round. There isn’t a clear consensus for the first person to figure out the Earth is round, but by the 1st century…
Sources: Pope, Elizabeth Watts. “The When and Where of American Print Culture in the 1700s.” October 6, 2021. Documentary video, 11:18. Accessed February 15, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ4oB9ANPr8. All images were taken directly from the video or were found on a creative commons image search.
The phrase my group got for cave painting pictionary was ‘No water here, move to river in west.” We had another phrase about the creation of the telephone, but we decided to go with this one because it was easier to draw. I sketched a rough idea in my art program and we decided to…
Totally didn’t forget to make a blog post last week. Anyway, I made a meme based on one of the videos for this week.
My two favorite proposed assignments are making some sort of meme or gif, and making our own cave paintings. An assignment I would like to do is taking a look at historical events and see how modern technology would’ve changed it because I think it’ll be an incredibly interesting thought exercise and a fun writing…
Broad Bands– Claire Evans I really enjoy the way Evans discusses the fact that modern computers are only able to exist based on the work of female mathematicians and computers. This chapter primarily focuses on Ada Lovelace and her notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical machine. She then goes on to explain why women became synonymous…
My name is Katherine and this is my main blog. I’m going to be using it for my History of the Information Age seminar. I’m taking this class for two main reasons. One, I needed another 400-level seminar. Two, it seems incredibly interesting and I want to learn about it. I like the fact that…
Thesis: The Industrial Revolution contributed to the gross living conditions in London and Manchester, which in turn, contributed to an increase in plague due to poor sanitation. London was cramped and unsanitary for everyone, especially for the poor. Manchester had horrible slums in the Old Town and the New Town. It was overcrowded and the…