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Concept Mapping – What’s In An Actor?

November 2, 2017 By Blake Slattengren

Concept Mapping – What’s In An Actor?

This week I dove into my first situated context: precision agriculture in California. Through this process I created an Actor-Network map: This really helped to organize my thoughts around California agriculture and got me to think about several actors and relationships that I need to research further. A big actor that has currently been mostly absent […]

Progress Update: Lots To Do

October 12, 2017 By Blake Slattengren

Progress Update: Lots To Do

This week I want to take a moment to provide updates from the previous week, reflect on where I am so far, and look towards where I am going in the next several weeks. First, I changed my framing question to In what ways does new technology adoption further or inhibit sustainable development? My previous question […]

Finding Focus

October 1, 2017 By Blake Slattengren

Finding Focus

After last week, I had a number different directions I could go with my capstone. Was I going to stay local or focus on a more on international agriculture? What sort of technology or crop, if any in particular, should I focus on? And how would I approach the impacts of the chosen technology? With […]

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