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For my final extra credit assignment, I attended the film Kiss Me, Stupid by Billy Wilder: the final Billy Wilder film showed during the Emory Cinematheque screening series this year. I personally found the film to be particularly sexist when looked at from a progressive, 21st century point of view. I found that the film, … Continue reading Extra Credit #3

Over the course of the semester, I made several changes to my website; most importantly, I made my website an interface for all my classes at Emory, not just ENG 101 as it was previously. I wanted to make this website my own, in order to demonstrate my work and progression as a writer and … Continue reading Final Website Reflection

Uber: How To Literally Navigate a New Sphere of Digital Media I am 19 years old and I do not know how to drive. I grew up in New York where most people don’t have cars and don’t need to drive anywhere because of public transportation. Now, more and more, this is becoming the norm … Continue reading Research Essay Final

Final Project: https://www.instagram.com/humansofuber_/ Artist's Statement/Explanation: For my creative project, I decided to create an Instagram page based of off the Humans of New York Instagram page. Over the course of a few weeks, I took twelve Uber trips and recorded my conversations with drivers, with their permission of course. I then screen shotted an image … Continue reading Final Creative Project and Artist Statement

Introduction: I am 19 years old and I do not know how to drive. I grew up in New York where most people don’t have cars; instead they rely entirely on other forms of transportation. Now, more and more, this is becoming the norm everywhere with the invention and proliferation of ride share applications such … Continue reading Research Essay Rough Draft

For my Annotated Bibliography Rewrite, I edited my MLA citations and expanded on the reasoning behind why I chose each source. I additionally added another source that I initially left out from my annotated bibliography: this will help explain why I chose two articles from 2014 initially. Dervis, Kemal. “Is Uber a Threat to Democracy?” … Continue reading Annotated Bibliography Rewrite

Thus far for my creative project, I have decided to conduct informal interviews on my Uber and Lyft rides. I have created a guideline for some questions I may ask, but for the most part, I want the conversations to flow authentically. The following are some guiding questions I am using to conduct my interviews. … Continue reading Creative Project Rough Draft

For my Extra Credit #2, I attended a lecture titled "The Domestic Interface & Queer Time in Gone Home" by Audrey Anable. The purpose of her lecture was to "tie up loose ends from her book" mainly in the discussion of the interface of Gone Home. She stated that her book Playing With Feelings left … Continue reading Extra Credit #2

For my creative project, I am thinking of interviewing Uber and Lyft drivers throughout the month and compiling them into a "Human's of Uber/Lyft" Instagram. I feel as though the deeply impersonal nature of Uber leaves us, as the passenger, to forget that each driver is a person with their own life and story. Hopefully … Continue reading Creative Project Proposal

“APPENDIX TWO: RIDEHAILING BEYOND UBER Meet Lyft, the Younger Twin.” Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work, by ALEX ROSENBLAT, 1st ed., University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2018, pp. 217–220. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv5cgbm3.13. Alex Rosenblat’s “APPENDIX TWO: RIDEHAILING BEYOND UBER Meet Lyft, the Younger Twin” addresses the competition within the rideshare industry, emphasized … Continue reading Annotated Bibliography