Introduction

Hi! My name is Maddie Baum. I'm a Junior from Piedmont, California. I'm a Communications major with minors in Marketing and EDP.  I'm on the Women's Lacrosse team at DU - Go Pios! I love to be in the outdoors, spending time with my friends and family, hiking, photography and skiing. I find EDP to be an incredibly interesting way to apply a creative and artistic perspective into the digital world. I would love for the work that I create while pursuing my EDP minor to allow individuals to interpret my work in different ways. Art is how human imagination is expressed and I believe that it is incredibly important to incorporate this in all of my work. I am a digital artist in the works, as well as an avid social media user. I enjoy using Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Snapchat. I really enjoy photography, so I typically incorporate the photos that I take in my social media usage. My goals for this course are to explore the various cultures that we are exposed to every day both locally and globally. I want to be able to critically understand how digital media and the technology that we are so accustomed to shape our everyday lives. I think that it is important to understand how our technology usage today both positively and negatively influences our lives, especially for how reliant we are on it. It will be interesting to learn about the progression that we have made in the digital world through learning about the history of emergent practices.