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/vi... 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 -- Jason Farman, Ph.D. Director, Design Cultures & Creativity Program Associate Professor of American Studies Faculty Member, Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland, College Park http://www.jasonfarman.com <http://www.jasonfarman.com> http://twitter.com/farman New Book Out Fall 2018: Delayed Response < http://jasonfarman.com/delayedresponse/ <http://waitingforword.com>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:48 AM, Jason Radford <jasonscottradford@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@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,
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