Notes Seeing Ourselves Through Technology Ch. 2 (Notes) 11 Oct 201812 Oct 2018 Summary: In this chapter, Rettberg discusses a few different types of filters and how they impact our daily lives. She first talks about technical and cultural filters. Technical filters are…
Reflections Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: Chapter 2 (Rough Draft) 10 Oct 201812 Oct 2018 “Filters have become an important part of popular visual culture. Instagram was one of the first site to really popularize filters, and now they are everywhere, allowing us to make…
Notes The Mechanical Bride (Notes) 5 Oct 20188 Oct 2018 Commentary: In The Mechanical Bride, McLuhan writes "... an Arabian Night's of entertainment in which a thousand and one astonishing tales are being told by an anonymous narrator to an equally…
Reflections The Folklore We Create 4 Oct 20184 Oct 2018 An excerpt from an archeologist's journal. October 2, 3018 I’ve been searching the North American territory for 3 years, trying to find remnants of technology from before all electronic systems…
Notes Imagining the Blogosphere: Notes 26 Sep 201827 Sep 2018 Analysis: Lampa discusses a few different types of bloggers. The two major types are those who use blogging as a public diary and those who use it to discuss and…
Reflections Imagining the Blogosphere: Reflection 26 Sep 201828 Sep 2018 How do we imagine our audience when we blog? Are we just talking to ourselves? Are we talking to the world? Maybe it's just to our friends and family? Into…
Uncategorized Why License? 21 Sep 201821 Sep 2018 I chose a restrictive license because I don't really want my pictures being used for nefarious purposes. I do understand that using the Creative Commons license does still allow my…
Reflections Reflection: Seeing Ourselves Through Technology (Chapter 1) 20 Sep 201821 Sep 2018 Thought provoking and informative, Seeing Ourselves Through Technology by Jill Walker Rettberg, gives a history of how humans have expressed themselves throughout time. Throughout the chapter, she discusses various forms…
Notes Notes: Seeing Ourselves Through Technology (Chapter 1) 20 Sep 201820 Sep 2018 Analysis: Self-representation is becoming a hugely prevalent part of today's society. You can see it everywhere! Social media, wearable devices, the clothing we wear, even the vehicles we drive represent…