Artist’s Series: Crowdfunding art
Introduction to the Infinity Mirrors In 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario launched a crowdfunding campaign to buy a new work of art. This new form of funding raised questions, concerns and praises for the future of museum funding. From March to May 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) hosted a solo-exhibition of Japanese-born […]
Opinion: Why I Deleted my Instagram and Haven’t Looked Back
One day in December 2018, in the throes of the tail end of my first semester of graduate school, I examined my iPhone’s Screen Time application. This new iOS app had been introduced not too long ago, just earlier in the year. What I saw left a knot in my stomach. I couldn’t believe it! […]
Understanding your Right to Know – FOI 101
September 28 is celebrated as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) and the week around this day is sometimes commemorated as Freedom of Information (FOI) Week. As part of FOI week this year, the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) where former Digital Tattoo Project Coordinator, Bryan Short is now […]
Freedom of Information as Activism
Bryan Short, a former contributor to the Digital Tattoo, spent the last year working for the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (F.I.P.A.). During Right to Know Week this year, the UBC iSchool hosted F.I.P.A. for an introductory workshop that teaches the fundamentals of requesting records from public bodies. In this blog post, Bryan […]
Unveiling the New Digital Tattoo Site
Have you noticed the Digital Tattoo website has a new look? Can you tell the difference? Over the summer, we decided the Digital Tattoo website needed a new look. We wanted to make it easier to navigate and find the great resources and materials available on the site. This was the main goal of our […]
A Failed Instagram Experiment.
Back in the summer, I had what I thought was an excellent idea. I would open a new Instagram account and, for one month, try to live life like an influencer. I hoped it would be an experiment that shed some light on the impact living a public digital life could have on a person. […]
The Weakest Link(edIn): How I fixed my LinkedIn in a few simple steps
I first created a LinkedIn account in 2012. Like many people with many social media accounts, I created it and then left it dormant for years. I would update it sporadically; perhaps changing a phrase or two, but never giving it the full-on rewrite it needed. I knew it was a bad representation of who […]
Book Review: Invisible Women
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Caroline Criado Perez (2019) Digital Tattoo Rating: 5/5 1 2 3 4 5 Leave it on the shelf Give it a skim An informative read Would give to a friend A must read!!! Very few books horrify me. There was a horror […]
IPAC Winnipeg 2019: Good Government in the Digital Age should be about the User
Digital is not just about technology. It’s about how we think! – Hillary Hartley, @hillary This quote by Hillary Hartley from her keynote at the 71st Annual Conference of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) in Winnipeg, Manitoba illustrates the importance of technology, good government and the digital ecosystem to everyone, including students! […]
Back to School Safety
Ah, September. The beginning of a fresh academic year. Hopeful students both incoming and returning will be flocking Canadian campuses over the next few weeks armed with new notebooks (electronic or otherwise) and reinvigorated aspirations for the coming twelve months. It’s an exciting time of year, but it’s also a time of year when it […]
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