Its 11:52 on a Tuesday, I’m supposed to be on spring break as I type this in the school library. So, you must be wondering why I’m wasting my free time typing this. If I’m being honest, I don’t have anything to with my time anymore except work, so I decided to just get this done so I can be bored later rather than stressing about it. I came in thinking it would be an easy and quick read then enjoying the rest of the day by going back to bed. Although I read the whole 87 pages because I wasn’t sure if we were supposed to do that. I really enjoyed reading this though it wasn’t quick it was very easy to read and understand. The author begins mentioning a self-portrait painting that I wasn’t familiar with. I then searched up the beautiful painting by doing that I’ve built somewhat schema about what the article is going to be. Just as Parmigianino drew a self-portrait of himself, we can relate to him as we are doing the same but with better technology that has developed overtime. While the artist used a convex mirror and I related that to selfies immediately just like anyone else would. As we snap pictures of ourselves and post them on Instagram with the image, we want our filtered audiences to see. The same idea was being done with painting and writing autobiography or even diaries. I saw blogs and social media apps like diaries. Back then people weren’t as literate as us making high official in churches or government only educated. Authors Chartier mentions that “ In most of Europe, approximately 20–30 of the population were literate in the early seventeenth century” (Chartier). Painting or writing about themselves wasn’t common due to how many little knew how. As the world changed and became more equal to get the same rights for education. We developed writing about ourselves. As centuries went by it has connected us with a filtered audience or while having a better disciplinary self-representation for some. Author Jill explained that “When we write and share photos with our friends on Facebook we primarily see the social communication we are engaging in, rather than the text of their and our own self-representations. But when we merely lurk or follow, we position ourselves as traditional readers, as voyeurs, as an audience “(jill). For me sometimes when I see a Lebron’s post or another person I look up to on Instagram I would be like wow it’s crazy all the things he’s accomplished. forgetting that he’s a human and that he worked for it. Everyday I find a new reason to believe that if technology hadn’t been evolved, we would probably be really illiterate. The power shift would still be all still to the wealthy powerful people. Luckily we have smartphones now to post our daily agenda, emotions, thoughts, images etc. with a click of a button instead of painting 12 hour painting of yourself. At the same if I was alive back then I know that my painting would go crazy because you know I’m going to perfect the only 12 hour painting I’m going to do in my whole life.
Work cited
Chartier, Roger. 2001. ‘The Practical Impact of Writing.’ In The Book History Reader, edited by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery
Rettberg, Jill. Seeing Ourselves Through Technology. University of Bergen, Norway, 2014, link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2F9781137476661.pdf.
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