After missing class last Thursday due to being sick, i have to say not seeing anything posted on our D2L gave me a little break to recover. I had hit up multiple classmates on Snapchat to confirm on what’s due before class Tuesday. After one of the home boys said we didn’t have anything due, i went to sleep early Monday night. While sleeping i had gut feeling in my dream that something was fishy about not having any assignments due but i wasn’t going to stress and losing any sleep for an assignment that i didn’t know about. But my subconscious always looking out for me reminded me that i had already read the whole 87 page so if it’s about the past assignment related that i would be fine. I had to review what chapter 3 was talking about. Everything had came back instantly, what caught my attention right away again was Jill walker breaking down the Time lapse sections. Author Jill Walker compared two YouTube videos that were similar and also mentions comments from those videos. People perceptions changes if things are the same but different in physical features. After reading that sections i was confused why people disapproved lee video and were more accepting towards Kalina video. Although Walker mentions ” The current comments on Lee’s video suggest that gender and race may have a lot to do with the different reception “(37). After being curious enough i went to check out those videos myself. What Walker had said wasn’t wrong at all i compared most comments and the big picture was mostly about gender and race. Kalina video wasn’t all rainbows and sunshine it had some comments that attacked his looks and even compared him to come cartoon character that made me laugh. When i was watching the videos in class and on my free time it was both different mindset coming into the videos. For an example when i was in class i wasn’t looking at it from educational standpoint where you can see the interest of the person wanting to see themselves age through the years. I was more looking at the physical features and his body language. On the other hand while i went to watch it on my free time i enjoyed it more i came in with a will to know more in general. I had started to question more of both video ideas as for Setting, Changes made, body language and aging. While all these thoughts ran through my mind i was wondering what people in hateful comments were thinking about(we will never know unless its from them). Walker gave multiple examples of these comments in the videos. One of them looked closely at the facial expressions. Author Jill states that ” on Lee’s video commenters assume she doesn’t smile because she’s Asian (‘Lol she’s asian so she looked the same for the whole thing’) whereas commenters on Kalina’s video ask him ‘y so sad’ with concern or simply comment ‘Poker face.’ (37) Coming Back to what I’ve said earlier about people perceptions changes if things are the same but different in physical features. People are always going to have something bad to say about something we feel uncomfortable with or dislike its always going to be that way we all do it. But i believe that we should just keep it to ourselves so we can be the only person out of 7 billion people to know what we are thinking and also its a waste of time cause what did you gain from it?
work cited
Walker, Jill. Seeing Ourselves through Technology. University of Bergen, Norway, 2014, link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2F9781137476661.pdf.In-text Citation
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