Technology and Creative Expression

 

Satisfy below instruction A *** academic essay describing your digital society and your design ideation of your currency, or certificate, and its role in a fictional or actual society: This paper must be: • doublespaced, a 12pt, font with one-inch margins • Contain both a cover page and list of references • Use correct citation in the MLA format (More here at: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/) • Describe the design process of your currency, the society it reflects and how it will be used in this society • Reference at least three peer-reviewed papers or articles (Edward Castronova on virtual economies is a good reference james: For your second assignment, think of what you would want to purchase, or barter for, in a virtual or actual world, and research and design one denomination of an alternative currency for trade, showing images of its front and back. To explain your design choices as part of an academic essay, you will describe how this currency (or certificate) will work in this virtual or actual system, and how you conceptualized your typography and images to reflect this form of trade. Have some fun with this, and think about how people exchange value in different ways, and what you would find of value in your present life. In this course, we have talked about Edward Castronova’s ‘synthetic economies’ in gaming, building social reputation as part of trust networks, bartering goods as part of building social capital, and Toronto dollars for sale in St Lawrence Market to ensure that money is kept within a particular market as part of a closed system
There is a name of the money, a place on the money check below, if you need to describe the name of the bill (i.e. Canadian Tire) 2) the central cameo of person who represents its value 3) a serial number 4) the denomination (how much it is worth) 5) images of the country or place where the bill is from (optional) 6) a text description of what the bill symbolizes and what it is redeemable for – a dollar, a chore, or a virtual or actual good 7) a signature of the treasurer who validates the value of the bill 8) and a URL for more information about the currency (optional)
writer has to make sure that what he write is related to gift economy
Some of you have asked the difference of the gift economy vs the market economy- this site has some great articles: https://www.tikkun.org/from-exchange-to-gifting-part-one-why-we-need-to-find-our-way-out-of-scarcity/
3. Review the readings and videos of Edward Castranova and Charles Eisenstein from Lecture 6 carefully to help you conceptualize your currency design for your iconography, and to write your essay:
Edward Castronova — “Be A Gamer”
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxBloomington-Edward-Castrono: 10 minutes

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Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZkQv25uEs: 13 minutes

 

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