Life Cycle of a Digital Medium Project

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This assignment asks you to trace the life cycle of a digital medium, beginning with the various elements that go into the technology, the manufacturing process, distribution and consumption, and finally, how that medium is recycled or disposed of. This is a mini-research project, so finding out the necessary information for each of these stages will take some time.

Once you get all of the necessary facts, your final project can take many forms. You may turn in a write-up explaining the various stages of your chosen devices or your project might take a visual form like a video, an interactive visualization, or an animated Google Earth flythrough. There is no minimum length for this assignment; what matters is quality and thoroughness of how you explained the life cycle of your medium.

You must cite all of your sources and each phase of the life cycle must be backed up with a reliable source. Please cite all sources using APA, MLA, or Chicago style.

Your project must be posted to the appropriate BB Forum by the designated due date.

Below is the rubric for this assignment:

  • Shows which elements/minerals go into your chosen device
  • Discusses the social conditions under which those minerals/elements were mined
  • Shows how and where the device is manufactured
  • Discusses the social conditions of labor
  • Shows how your chosen device got to the store, how/why it is purchased
  • Shows how your chosen device is recycled or disposed
  • Uses at least 3 reliable sources
  • Project is well crafted or well edited
  • Offers an interesting and insightful perspective on the life cycle of your technology
  • All elements have been turned in fully and correctly

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Explanation & Answer

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OUTLINE

1. INTRODUCTION
2. BODY
3. CONCLUSION
4. REFERENCE


Running Head: DIGITAL MEDIUM

Digital Medium
Name
Instructor
Institutional Affiliation
Date

DIGITAL MEDIUM

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Digital Medium refers to a physical material for example hard disk or DVD used for
storing data digitized in the form of text, graphics, audio or video files. (Van Dijk, 2014).
In this research, the physical medium to be discussed is iPhone 4
Manufacturing
The Apple Company produces iPhone 4. It does fabless manufacturing where it designs
and sells the product in one country but manufactures it in another. Apparently, the organization
outsources the fabrication of the iPhone to China. The fundamental components of the iPhone
such as processor chip, retina display, and camera all come from other companies like Toshiba,
Sony, Sharp, and Foxconn (Van Dijk, 2014). These companies practice fabless manufacturing
explaining why almost everything in this industry takes place in China.
The primary materials used in its manufacturing include:
Glass – The specific glass-oriented item integrated is better describable as
aluminosilicate, it is inherently useful in the modeling shell of the product. Verily all the applied
technologies existing on ...


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