summary: In this chapter wrote by Jill Walker Rettberg she begins sharing about an art exhibit she visited called “lifeloggers”. In the exhibit the artist were recording themselves with film over the course of 15 years. She gives an examples of how take certain pictures and post them or keep it to ourselves. While she explains that we get to choose our profile picture that represent our personal image to the public. Through out the chapter she gives detailed internet users examples. One of them would be of the two YouTube that did similar photos time laps on. While one male followed the previous you tuber they had different comments while one side was more successful.

Main ideas and key terms

selfie-
a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media.

time lapse videos- photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured is much more spread out than the frequency used to view the sequence. When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing.

profile pictures- image that represents a social media account in all its interactions across a platform. 

icon- is an image that represents an application, a capability, or some other concept or specific entity with meaning to the user.

automatic portraits- resulting photos that often look very similar to today’s digital selfies.

photobooth-
is a vending machine or modern kiosk that contains an automated, usually coin-operated, camera and film processor (example of automatic portraits.

Connections- I could relate to some of the example that the author had laid out in certain sections. One of them would be the two YouTube that had similar videos. While one side was more accepting of the video and less criticism. She added one or two comments that were posted on the videos. In those comments it just made just be like huh no matter what people do they will find a way to dislike or find something not amusing to them. One of the comments were about race and usually its always about race and religious beliefs that made those comments. (‘Lol she’s asian so she looked the same for the whole thing’) comments like these are why i believe we take a lot of pictures that feel right or is accepted to the general crowd. But i think all that stuff is pointless just live your life don’t waste it entertaining others and trying to feel accepted by everyone.

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.

summary

Author Jill Rettberg explains that book that she wrote can be break down into written, visual and quantitative self-representation. The first piece talks about writing about ourselves using multiple varieties of things from painting, drawing  and writing and others. Authors goes into detail about documented history to show example on how we adapted to change and not so different from previous humans. She gives detailed examples about humans centuries ago kept tabs on themselves as it became popular to write autobiography. The Second would be visuals of self-portrait in history. This passage talks about how we changes we see ourselves over history from head and shoulders painting or photos to now generally full body and to share with family and friends. The third would be quantitative self-representation, in this she gives a before and after how we use to track ourselves. Author goes to talk about how people before technology use to keep track of their money, habits, sleep patterns and such. Overall of this passage she breaks down the idea of how we filtered ourselves to connect with other people with our social media accounts. But also connecting a bride to the past that it wasn’t common to write about ourselves. She also breaks down the social media we use, phones, apps that set best fit for our emotions and filters.

Main ideas

Technological and cultural filters- As social media word filtered is being evaluated into culture filters to connect with whats popular in our culture.

Aestheticising, anesthetising and defamiliarising- Ex. One reason the filter fascinates us is that it gives the image that strangeness that defamiliarises our lives (p26)

Choosing what technology can do – Finding a technology that best fits our needs while price and other stuff play factors but certain phones offer different needs for different people.

Genres as filters- stories shared in blogs, photo albums, journals and other have created a imaginary rules that set expectations what to write about or collect.

filter(1)- allowing us to make our selfies and other photos look a certain way, more muted than in real life same for email, news feed and any images

Cultural filter- norms, expectations, normative discursive strategies that teach us, for example to copy photo models in fashion magazines or Instagram selfie stars when we photograph ourselves.

Making a connection

When i first signed up for snap-chat i was in middle school i think it was 8th grade but my first username was embarrassing and didn’t even change it after two years later. I Just signed up for Facebook the year before. I wouldn’t even be on Instagram for another two years. having coming late to the social world except Facebook i didn’t really think Instagram, twitter and snap would be any better than Facebook. But i soon realized that i had became addicted to snap chat after abandoning it but going back. I realized that the same with twitter and Instagram had happened to me where i would abandon it then get hooked on after. The one thing i found very interesting was the dog filter off snapchat or what i call the founding father of filters. I would manly use these apps to send snaps of filters to my friends like one of my friends. As these apps released weekly or even sometimes daily filter i would stay to see what had released but as i grew up i instantly stopped. Because i realized that they were literally pointless unless it was something i liked and connected to it. I then started to use these as communication apps instead.

Well Here we are once again on my Gossip girl blog. By now you should of realize that i tend to leave all my responsibilities last minute, that being said shall we begin? In this episode we will take on “imagining the blogosphere “ by Graham Lampa from my point of view. As i read this piece it wasn’t my favorite i could tell right off the bat. But if there is a positive outlook on this article id  have to say, some parts of this piece did stick into my memory. Even though i believe it’s was useless facts or information that really attracted me. This article was a bit confusing to me at first but overall i had to understand what i was reading to do my assignments.

The beginning was the most interesting part to me because it talked about bloggers and the survey done by Perseus Development Company. I could connect with people on how they keep their blogs for 4 months average then not using it anymore. I was like maybe the other 1.4 million people from the survey are done with their English classes too. I know that after this semester ends i won’t ever need to go back to the blog. As i write this i thought maybe it be cool to look back at in the future when im 40 or something maybe be different than the other 1.4 million surveyed also my classmates. When it comes to blogs i believe that majority of users are artists and people that are complete bored. After breaking down Graham lampa piece i would gladly admit that i didn’t know certain things. He mentions that “ Although many blogging services may be free, the substantial amount of capital and operating costs needed to simply access the Internet are insurmountable obstacles to many in the developing world” (Lampa 5).

. I could connect with people on how they keep their blogs for 4 months average then not using it anymore. I was like maybe the other 1.4 million people from the survey are done with their English classes too. I know that after this semester ends i won’t ever need to go back to the blog. As i write this i thought maybe it be cool to look back at in the future when i’m 40 or something maybe be different than the other 1.4 million surveyed also my classmates. When it comes to blogs i believe that majority of users are artists and people that are complete bored. After breaking down Graham lampa piece i would gladly admit that i didn’t know certain things. He mentions that “ Although many blogging services may be free, the substantial amount of capital and operating costs needed to simply access the Internet are insurmountable obstacles to many in the developing world” (Lampa 5).

Going back to my thought about artist also people being bored are the only people that use blogs. Reading this made me revise my thought, maybe there would be more bloggers if third country don’t demand people to pay for internet use. Mainstream media has took a twist in important news being updated to the public. That being able authors to share ideas of their thoughts and personal views to their imagining community is interesting.  When the authors mentioned 9-11 blogs at the time were “ widely-publicized “ (2).

Overall reading this article for this week i have to say i learned somewhat valuable information but mostly about bloggers and the community that one’s attract. When i went to the next page to keep reading all i thought was i can’t wait for when i’m done with this blog stuff. I was getting annoyed having to type five-hundred words a post for my own grade. This week assignment wasn’t as bad, but it was because i could make connections with the post once i broke it down. This post made me question about the surveys held and the answers they found. All i know is that i’m going to leave this blog alone after this class and go back to take a look in the future to see young me.

Work Cited

Works Cited

Lampa, Graham. “Imagining the Blogosphere .” Conservancy, conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/172820/Lampa_Imagining%20the%20Blogosphere.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.  

Perseus Development Corp. (2003). The blogging iceberg. Perseusdevelopment.com. Retrieved 12/05/03:http://www.perseusdevelopment.com/blogsurvey/.

Summary:

Graham lampa begins talking about a surgery done by Perseus Development company called “The Blogging Iceberg”. The survey mentions abandonment of blogs. Just as the article written called imagined communities by Anderson it mentions as newspapers were important role and with privacy atmosphere where one is confident in getting in their news. Also talks about reasons why people blog now. Also mention why blogging isn’t a bad way to break big news as some did in the past. Over the course of this well written article it breaks down into main ideas about why blogs die out also how people connect in their little online communities. Also talks about the blogging communities decreasing interacting with one another. Graham makes the case that majority of the blogger are diaries as the audience are to be friends and family. On the other hand while news media tend to have more reasons to blog to keep them having to blog. While some blogs can have readers relate and comment on individual, also forming a similar larger audience.

Main idea/ key terms

• Imagining communities- that there isn’t a strong community and groups are imagined are some are growing (some blogs)
• Filtering communities- enables users shared base knowledge also connections to cultural connections.
• (Perseus 2003)- 2/3 of blogs are inactive or abandoned and 1.09 million blogs are one-day wonders
• Global audience, Global access -blogging grows audience and writers have more increasing important things to write about as access and attention expands
• Mass amateurization – “changes all this by enabling anyone with access to a computer to publish her or his work for the entire world”
• Blogs aren’t really communities but where ideas and news are shared

• Mass Ceremony: “individuals receive information relevant to their lives within the national community.”
• Meatspace- basically the offline reality
• English languages domination: English outnumbers blogs 3 to 1. Portuguese being the second.
• American bloggers update their sites daily,60% update their blogs 1-2 times per week or less (Lenhart, Horrigan, & Fallows, 2004)
• 2-7% of Internet users have created weblogs, further enforcing the notion that the blogosphere includes an incredibly tiny proportion of the total global population (Lenhart, Horrigan, & Fallows, 2004).

Connections

I see blogs as place for artist and people that are bored to share ideas and images. One popular blog I think that fits well would be tumblr I’ve made two accounts in my life so far and I’ve had them in totally for like 4 days. At the time tumblr was to soft for me so I left but there was also some funny things where I enjoyed reading people comments and post. I believe that traditional blog are going to die really and most picture blogs like tumblr it will be one of those ancestors apps like facebook. Coming back to the tumblr audience, there will be those artist people and people bored so those people will keep those apps going so it won’t full die but it will be less mentioned from the public eye. I personally like reading a lot of newspapers and articles then most personal pieces about their ideas on major topics that aren’t relevant or as important.

I woke up thinking this morning I could finish all my assignment that I’ve been postponing since I’ve had it handed to me. One of the biggest assignment coming into this week I definitely didn’t feel like doing was, our weekly post. I’ll take some responsibility for my laziness. But in my defense with the amount of words that are required, It was like writing a paper that was due the next day. I ended up waking up at 6am to get a head start on my day that didn’t work as I thought. I realized that it was two-hours in and I was on Netflix and I haven’t started anything! I would then go online to read the article ‘annoying ways people use sources’. As I started to read I enjoyed how I related to the author on the people that drive slow. As I kept reading, found out I was interested in what the author had to say just by relating to his attention grabber. At first I read the title and thought well this is going to boring but I was greatly mistaken. I personally read this article as I was having a conversation with the author. I knew that if the author read any of my pieces before that he would most definitely be annoyed by it. I found it amusing That instead of me seeing it like a article I read the pieces like a conversation. It made it more interesting where I could finish word for word.It was only 16 pages that wasn’t really much so those two hours I’ve wasted I’ve could of literally finished earlier. I enjoyed how he set up the problem and the solution into a paper where he showed his reasons and how to relate to audiences. Although this article may seem useful or anything I know that the information that I’ve gathered here would thrown out by my brain. I believe that it was basically showing readers where to place the quotes, citation, work cited etc. if I were to read this multiple times I think this being well written that I could possibly get a bit more efficient on my citation skills. 

Summary

Author Kyle D. Stedman begins talking about slowly drivers and connecting with readers how he hates slow drivers to draw them in. The article talks about the annoyance of people quotation in pieces. Mentioning things that writers do that annoy him when it comes to quotes. He also gives a “fix” to the previous writer passage. He relates driving under the speed limit to writing that you either don’t know how use quote or do and don’t care. Kyle gives advice on how to use them correctly. Giving out the hint that readers don’t like knowing they are about to get hit with a quote or reading about multiple quotes to make it look like you know what your talking about but being confused by the multiple ideas. He suggests that leading your way up to a quote so readers can know the idea your building, and if it agrees or disagree with your view.

Key terms and main idea

A citation that only list a title

A citation that only list a page number

A quotation without a citation at all

Using turn signals- letting your readers know where you are heading.

I Swear I Did Some Research~Blends words and phrases from sources with ones that they came up with themselves.
fix~writing sentences before the citation with things that tell the reader what information came from where.

Can’t Find the Stupid Link~The first letter of the ( )doesn’t match with the first letter of the works cited at the end.
fix~the first word in the works cited entry matches the word you used in the in-text citation.

Armadillo Roadkill~Putting a quote in without introducing it first.
Fix~a bridge or in other words a way to know where the quote came from

Dating Spider-Man~Starting or ending a paragraph with a quotation.

fix~guiding your reader to the quote and after your telling them a way to interpret the quote.

Uncle Barry and His Encyclopedia of Useless Information~ Using too many quotes without explaining them.

fix~go back to each quotation and say why it’s there.

Am I in the Right Movie?~ Putting a quote in a sentence without using proper grammar.
fix~read your essay out loud and if it’s hard to read a quotation you should adjust it

Commentary

One piece I really looked into was the dating the Spider-Man one. I’ve always had a open mind that if you start with a quote or end with one as long as it’s a very good quote and related to your topic then no harm no foul. But as I read the the fix part from Kyle the author it gave me another side for me to like look at it. Like it would be better if the writing have background information about the quote so readers can relate or even know where you’re coming from instead of readers being clueless. I really didn’t see how it annoying it was but I did find it helpful that his way of looking at it was very useful.

As coming into reading this I saw that it was super long but I kept an open mind. It wasn’t boring at all I loved how the author made connections. It kept me interested in reading. Bring up social media at a early point was a great strategy. As I kept reading it was basically talking about how we see ourselves and use technology to use that image. I was intrigued by it because I had spam accounts awhile ago and the authors meantions that it was a blog some way. While people make multiple accounts to show us their daily issues etc on private accounts, I’ve alwasy saw it people over coming issues not as a blog and the author showed me that this was another type of blogging. I was making connections to this article I liked it very well. Though it was long it had very interesting points about technology and how we view it. Since I love reading articles about Space and interesting things like these I was really easy into it since technology has become more use to us over the last decades. Over all this has article I was able to make connections to it how the authors used it mechanisms and examples. Overall reading this article was interesting, point forward, well written but long.

Summary:

Author jill walker for the book ‘seeing ourselves through technology’ explains the three modes for self representation in digital media are written, visuals, quantitative. She explained very well about how it was diaries and such to blogs are written self represtation in digital media today. Another thing Jill talks about how we use social media to build a self portrait of ourselves from apps like snap, instagram, Facebook etc. there an example in the beginning of parmigiaino used oil pastels of himself and as technology grows we grew into it, making it easier for us to do so. She starts the books by giving us a way of things we’re done back in the day to now how things changes. Writing about your self was expensive as Jill explains in chapter one but as time goes by talking about/ writing about yourself became more common and less expensive. Jill mentions that it was very common for people to paint pictures of themselves instead of write. Mostly because people couldn’t read or write and western traditions of writing was used for spiritual and religious writing. Then translated to diaries and also autobiographies which is the start. Visual self is the image one has of them self. Predate self portrait would be painting to digitally caners and today we use Instagram and other apps off our ver phones making it easier. The last section she hasn’t was quantitative which is records in number like height, weight, death and birth records etc. With these three being in our culture dating back to ages now using images to do making it easier..

Main ideas and terms
• There are three distinct forms of self-representation in digital media: visual, written, and quantitative
• Text to images was a huge innovation and made it easier
• Diaries and autobiographies turned into blogs
• Self representation been in cultures throughout history and still today
• Western diaries starting for religious and spiritual
• Self portrait went from full to weak or dull representation or view
• Recording person data into blog can sometimes be interferes with topic driven
• We record ourselves in numbers, called quantitative
• Digital presentation gives us power to control audiences viewers
• We reflect ourselves using social media

Making connections
I can see where the authors is coming from. I used to have a spam account with only couple people and that was really my rant page prior to that I had a main page for the public view but my spam was my private life of my problems and daily issues. Today people have multiple accounts to hide certain things making into some what blog. Diaries have turned into private’s accounts as technology becomes involved into our lives. For me I also have a private Twitter account called switter(I didn’t make it so). Lately I’ve haven’t been posting and deleted all my accounts because they were a waste of time and I only had it for Brief time. For other people using pictures and videos to express how they feel with a caption was it but it wasn’t for me plus I wasn’t even doing that I was only following certain pages to get the latest gossip. When I realized that it was a waste time to me I had wasted months of time of some stupid thing. But for other it has helped them and that’s great.