Monday, April 9, 2018

Journal Entry 4: Davis: Ch. 4-5 (Sara Loughran)


For each chapter, I used Group 4's tool, the mind/atom map, while still using the method of our own group, which was the geological timeline. I basically took the broadest concepts of what each chapter was about to put in the "core", and the inner ring was the different "layers" that branch off of the core. For these layers, I narrowed down more of the key concepts and ideas, mostly things having to do schools of thought or groups that people could belong to. And the last outer ring was the branches that go off of each layer, making everything more and more specific. This is where I put a lot of the key people that had an impact on the schools of thought or concepts in the layers, or general key aspects, objects, or ideas that are at the core of each concept.

If this was to become a real time app, I think it would work by entering each word/concept and the app would create a visual display of the geological timeline based on the ranking you give each point. You could enter sub-points under each point and they would branch out into their own sub-layers. Basically, it would generate a visual of the geological timeline based on what the user entered.


Chapter 4



Chapter 4 took a lot of the recurring themes of religion, myth, and technology and how they connected, and put them in the context of America and some ideas, philosophies, or politics that originated and/or had some connection to America.



Chapter 5


Chapter 5 explored religion and technology again, but this time it was more in the context of fringe religions and/or cults. Particularly in the case of Scientology, and somewhat in the case of LSD, it was showing the more negative or possible sinister and/or dangerous things that people have done or used when trying to link the mind, schools of thought, and religion, with science and technology.

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