Key Terms and Main Ideas Digital self-representation is a cumulative reflection Digital self-representation is influenced by cultural filters Artists are generally the first to create art and tools that respond to and reflect the current culture Gender and race, specifically sexism and racism, affect general reception of personal digital content. -Break while I watched a few pregnancy time…
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology Chapter 2: A Post
Marleigh V. D. Bonnie Robinson ENGL 1117 35&53 10 March 2019 Friends, let’s take a journey through my recent Instagram stories. Yesterday, I posted an ask asking for “weird music”. Five of my followers delivered, with everything from a sea shanty to binaural beats. My favorite song was a sort of elecro-funk song, sent to…
“Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” Chapter 2 Notes
Key Terms and Main Ideas Filter: A process in which something is removed Filters can get worn out over time, thus filters can and must be changed out or improved Filters are often taken for granted Technological filters supposedly ‘limit’ our creativity and expression; such is the case with scrap-booking apps. ‘Emotional Contagion’ experiment- a Facebook experiment that…
“Imagining the Blogosphere” Post: A Gothic
The computer turns on with a crank. Steam pours out. It fills the your mouth, resting just above your tongue; it clouds your eyes. You force those eyes to stretch open even as your eyelids flutter against your will, so desperate are you to see the moment the screen ceases to be dark and suddenly…
“Imagining the Blogosphere” Notes
Key Terms and Main Ideas 2/3 of public blogs are abandoned, 1.09 of which only have one post (Perseus Development Company, 2003) The whole of blogs are like an “iceberg”- huge, with only a small part of the whole easily seen Blogs are not a community as they are so often idealized to be; instead, there are few conversational…
“Annoying Ways People Use Sources” Post
Dating Spider-Man” It’s like dating Spider-Man. You’re walking along with him and he says something remarkably interesting—but then he tilts his head, hearing something far away, and suddenly shoots a web onto the nearest building and zooms away through the air. As if you had just read an interesting quotation dangling at the end of…
“Annoying Ways People Use Sources” Notes
Key Terms and Main Ideas Readers get frustrated by writers who incorrectly implement sourcing guidelines. The platform on which an author’s writing is presented and the audience the author anticipates to be reading the writing will alter the appropriate forms of using citations. It is in poor following of convention to present a quotation or dialogue without first introducing…
“Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” Post
The most recent posted picture on my Instagram account is of myself and my family after a particularly rousing game of “Settlers of Catan”. My Instagram story, meanwhile, has a photo of the cardamom, cinnamon, and almond grounds oats I made for breakfast this morning. The background of the Chromebook on which I write is…
“Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” Chapter I Notes
Key Terms and Main Ideas We reflect upon ourselves and our lives using digital technology. Using technology to see one’s self distorts one’s own self image. ‘Self-representation’ has been a common part of culture throughout history. There are three distinct forms of self-representation in digital media: visual, written, and quantitative. Self-representation in digital media evolved from text to images…
Marleigh and the Arts 