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Class-time Thoughts & Brain⚡ing
By Natalia Downer Blog Entry#1 12/09/2022 “Why Digital Writing Matters” The introduction to “Why Digital Writing Matters” ties in closely with this course. It highlights and stresses digital collaborative work where students, young adults, or anyone digitally savvy, from all over the world, work together to achieve a common goal using digital spaces to reduce…
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Black Bassheads
Dubstep as the sound for the sonically innovative or the musically colonised? An essay written by Dominic Ramsay The identity I feel most comfortable describing myself as is a creative Black person. I purposely choose those words in that order because while I am quite proud of my ethnicity and the racial history…
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Corruption in paradise: Jamaica’s best resort
The word “Corruption” is nothing the politicians have not heard before in their line of work. One would say the Jamaican people are drowning in continuous lies from the government, the same people they have voted for. This corruption has brought an increase of mistrust among the citizens, and gang violence is at an all…
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Jamaica’s most vulnerable: sexually abused children.
Often times sexually abused children are bound to silence in an effort to reduce futher harm from their perpetrators. Could this be the start of major mental health issues in Jamaica? Children are sometimes classified as the young minds of the future; this may suggest that the future of Jamaica is in jeopardy as it…
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Brainstorming: The Voice of God & How It Is Portrayed Through Jamaican Christianity
By that logic, Christians are supposed to be loving, kind, respectful people, right? Hm. On the surface it seems legit, but when you really think about it, how many Christians you know are actually loving and respectful?
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Brainstorming: Afrofuturism and Language
By Kandice Thompson How Do We Reconstruct Blackness? Afrofuturism’s fluid ideology is a space where the cultural can meet digital as our imaginings of the future are inherently tied to the development of technology. Maybe we imagine a societal collapse heralded by such technology and “progression”. Will we be going back – Sankofa anyone? We…
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welcome to digital reality
“There is no order in the world that can exist or hold together, including an empire, without a founding story. Now the question for academia in the twenty-first century is, will you make space within it to be able to write a new foundation?” – Sylvia Wynter Single ideas becoming a group mission. Letters blooming…
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mapping a way
Using mapping software, we are charting how […] functions in Jamaica. “know we a di future/ cyaa’ defeat we.” —Jahshii Here we explore….
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