Author: weswhopper

Key Terms and main ideas: Time lapse pictures: taken pictures over time. Profile photos as visual identity: Your profile picture closely identify’s yourself. Genre: a category of a certain topic. Cumulative self-presentations: how your present yourself. Self-presentation: how you present yourself to the world.

Commentary: I really liked how the author incorporated some examples of the Youtubers and what their videos are like. It really brought in an insight of what they were doing and how they did their videos. It went in depth on how they did them to tell the differences of them were and how the audiences reactions were to their pieces. I ended up looking us one of lee’s videos and found it. I watched it and thought it was pretty interesting just as I thought the author describes it to be. The last part of the chapter was the part that I liked the most. It went over how basically profiles were deceiving. The author went over a lot of good examples and really interested me in the work that he was doing.

Summary: Rettberg started with genres in social media and cumulative and serial. The author explains that examining into someone social media, blogs, and posts can help us to understand the person better and get to know them though their piece of work. In the Chapter the author talks about the few visual self-representations. Some she mentions are time-lapses. Those are pictures taken over time to help show the difference of the person. She also mentions selfies, photo booths, and videos. She mentions time lapses thought Lee’s and Noah’s videos. The author states that they did a very similar work. They did videos of photos that were taken each day for a various amount of years and sharing it to YouTube. She included what was posted about each video. The author included what was said about the videos in the comments they were both different. She said that Lee’s video got more hate then Noah’s did. She was thinking it was race or gender, but Noah’s got more positive comments. She also mentions how a persons profile picture expresses their true self. The ending of the chapter she talks about a photo booth. She says that the photo is the closest thing to reality because there is time for you to pose or make a scene in the booth rather then taking one having all the time in the world. She says that it takes the picture no matter if you are ready or not.

Works Cited

Retterberg, Jill Walker, Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How we Use Selfies, Blogs, and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

This is the reflection is on “Seeing Ourselves Though Technology” Chapter 2. It was Monday afternoon at one p.m. I went to check just in case there was an assignment that we had to do for Tuesday and that’s when I found out there was one. I didn’t have much time because I worked at two o’clock that afternoon, so I made the title and opened up the book to have it all ready for when I get home. I went to work and it was really busy and I worked with a really slow worker. I got out at eight instead of seven(my normal time). I got home and quickly ate than opened up and started. I wasn’t hyped about the twelve pages I had to read or having me not knowing there was one posted, but I made it though. I really liked the chapter it was entertaining and engaging along with examples about filters in everyday life and the different kinds of them. I definitely enjoyed this chapter over the first one because I could relate to it more. My main relation to it was that it involved filter. I use snapchat, so I know what those were and tried them on occasions to send to my girlfriend. When I was reading it I took some breaks to rest my eyes because they were hurting from looking at the computer screen in the dark. I complained to my girlfriend that I didn’t what to do it because it was rolling on ten o’clock when I usually go to bed to wake up at six the next day for work to keep a sleep schedule and because of the fact my eyes hurt. The reason why it took me so long to read and write my blog was because I keep worrying about what time I was going to get done and to get to bed. I really over thing things when I’m on a schedule. I also took a lot of breaks because eI didn’t want to do the blog and because my eyes hurt a lot. I finished at around eleven o’clock and waited to do this on Tuesday(today).

Key terms/main ideas: Abstract: existing in though or as an idea but not having a physical or concreate existence. Vignette: a brief evocation description, account or episode. Filter though technology: Thought tech there is a way the reader there self to be read through, so that you can put it online. Culture filter: a set of rules or guild lines that our culture that has been set up for whatever you must do to follow that are given. Filter: a porous devise for removing impurities or solid particles from a liquid or gas passed though it.

Summary: In “Seeing Ourselves Though Technology” Chapter two the author Rettberg talks about all the different kinds of filters in the world and also around us. In the article Rettberg states “filter is the process where something is being removed.”(21). In the whole chapter Rettberg describes about all the filters and the different ways of filtering. The examples of the filtering he gives are Cognitive, Technology, and Culture. First Culture, She goes on to give examples of in the article was to keep a diary She stated that the diary will keep and that it will keep it in order. Secondly Technology, she says that technology can help people to improve many things, some examples she gives is like taking a picture or others like blogs. Shes states that people are pleased at a picture they have taken with a filter because it fits with what our society wants and what they are looking for.

Commentary: In the article the author Rettberg uses many examples of examples. He uses examples of coffee, cigarettes, dust, x-rays, and passive circuit. I like that because it bring in a certain point of view to the subject and help us understand in a different way. What I was done reading the article I kept thinking about how much we have filters in our life and all around us. The author talked about technology, culture, and more. Then I came around to the main idea I like it. because I can relate to it. When I see all the filters on snapchat it amazes me because there is so many of them and they all do different things and can help with different needs. I liked the article overall. It made us think of a all not way to view filters other then pictures.

Works Cited:

Rettberg, Jill Walker. Seeing Ourselves Though Technology: How We Use Selfie, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2F9781137476661.pdf

Wesley Hanson

Bonnie Robinson

English 1117

3/5/19

Today we will be going over the refection of the “Imagining the blogosphere”. We will be going over my thoughts, struggles, pros and cons, and more. This will be the insight of what I was going though while reading this and how I felt afterwards.

When I was reading this article I thought It was good. I really like that It was only seven pages overall, so I could get back to doing leisure activies afterwards. When I started reading I thought the first couple paragraphs were interesting and fun to read, but the others were okay. I also liked that it was simple to understand. I really like articles like that because they get right to the point and don’t confuse me with other details that aren’t included.

I read that article the day it was assigned, so I had plenty of time to write and think on things to write about. Yet again I’ve waited last moment to write this refection and summary post. That had to mostly to do with me being confused with the essay that’s due tomorrow(Tuesday 5th) and also work and traveling. For the essay I got confused on the topic part. I didn’t know if we had to come up with a topic or she gave us a choice. Party was It that I didn’t really know if we had to write a post for this week or not either. I really only knew that we had to do a post was then I got the notification from my other classmates posting theirs on there blog. Idly I would have gotten it done the day that it was assigned and everything would have been good.

I didn’t dislike much about it, but there was just one things about it. That was when he was saying that people that use write to have people keep up with them. I think that everyone that blogs should be included in the blogosphere. Other Cons are that it wasn’t that interesting father in the article I got. I feel like if they would have kept it interesting then I would have been more engaged. Some Pros are that its short, easy to understand, and straight to the point.

Overall I thought it was good article, even if there were some disappointing points in this article. We went over my thoughts, some struggles, and pros and cons to this article. Hopefully we had some similarities on how we felt and what we went though.

Works Cited

Lampa, Graham. “Imaging The Blogosphere .” Intro To The Blogosphere , 2004, conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/172820/Lampa_Imagining%20the%20Blogosphere.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.

Commentary: I think that the article stated the truth and that I only disagreed with on part in it. When the author said that teenagers that update their family and friends aren’t apart of the whole other group. I really like how she included in iceberg analogy. That really brought in a new perspective and that really helped the people that picture things when they learn or try to understand things. I also liked how she added statistics in her essay as well. I really made us view an overview on how many people have abandoned there blogs. I also liked that she brought in that almost two thirds have quit on there first day of blogging. I wonder why? But yeah I really liked this article a lot and hope that more authors introduce more of the things I listed above to help enhance their article.

Summary: In the article by Graham Lampa she talks about what the blogosphere is, what’s it about and what he thinks it is and what she thinks and what she thinks should and shouldn’t be in it. She introduces a lot of blog pages that are thoughts over the years. She found out that two thirds of public blogs are abandoned. She added that 1.09 million of these post are a one day thing, so they try it for a day and never go back to it. She also stated that most of all the bloggers today are all teenagers that are updating their family and friends about what’s going on in their life. She says that the teenagers make up there own small group on the side from what the other bloggers do, but she says this is wrong. There is more things a blogger can post on the internet. She says that new is a good general idea. The blogger summarizes it by summing it up all the sources and blogging it. Another thing sis that bloggers don’t target a certain group of people.

Key terms: Iceberg analogy: that is there are two states with the iceberg, first the underwater, these are the bloggers that are the inactive or abandoned and the seconded part is above the which are the active and up to date bloggers. Blogospheres: this is the little community that is made of bloggers, what they do? Imagined communities: In the article she introduce that all online communities are imagined in order words fake.

When I first started reading this article it caught my attention. The part that caught my attention was the first paragraph because It connected to me on a personal level. I always have those problems when people won’t move over on the interstate. It irritates me a lot and I can see why It would irritate him as well. When I got to the second paragraph I lost my interest. I think the header just raised my expectations to high for this piece and I expected that though the whole thing. After the second paragraph I caught myself looking a my phone for a bit and being distracted. I found myself doing that throughout the article more and more when I got to the end. I was also kind of in a hurry to write my summary because I definitely forgot about it until Monday night. I think It would have been a whole new experience If I did not forget about it until the night before it’s do. I definitely could have gotten it done earlier due to my work calling me off. Now I know how people feel when they are doing their assignment last minute. I don’t get how they get a rush from it. I just get anxiety from doing my assignment later then normal. I did like how the author kept coming back and connected what he was trying to say to something we as the audience can relate to. That really drew me in to what he was trying to pass on even though a lot of his article was boring. I don’t know if others felt that way or if it was just me. Over all I though that the beginning of the article was good, but more into the middle and the end it wasn’t keeping my full attention. After this experience I’m hoping that the next article will be more entertaining and more engaging then this one was.

Key Terms: Contextualize: A place or study in context. Stylistic: Of or concerning style, especially literacy style. Declarative: Of the nature of or making a declaration. Subtly: In a matter that is so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe. Authoritative: able to be trusted as being accurate or true or reliable. Main Ideas: I think are Beginning a paragraph with a quotation and ending with one. Citation includes page number and not the title.

Summary: The article “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” by Kyle Stedman talked mostly about his opinion on how people source their info. One of the ways he presented to us was how people used quotations without showing us where it came from. Without the author of that pieces showing us where it came from we wouldn’t have any clue for the reader to confirm the sources. He explained that it would be difficult for the reader to believe the information that is presented and that it would be hard for both the reader and writer to connect. At the end the author tells us that we could help the reader and writer connect is by adding a statement with a citation with sources that are specific that so the reader knows where that information came from and can tell if the information is legit. He also displays some ideas on how to quote correctly and how to cite too. He is trying to help us avoid mistakes and how to fix any future upcoming ones.

Commentary: When I see a piece of work that isn’t cited correctly or quoted correctly either it gets confusing on where the author got that information and even sometimes how it ties into the piece. Sometimes its frustrating and somethings it’s just confusing. I’ve come into come troubles when reading a unprepared students essay or even reading something online. It makes me wonder where they are going and wondering is it legit or fake. I can also see where the author is coming from when he gets annoyed on him reading something that isn’t quotes correctly or cited correctly either. When he said that he tries to figure out why the author may have done that it related to me. I always find my self giving people the benefit of the doubt when they are wrong, always trying to find out why they did that thing. I think that’s a trait that everyone should adapt when it comes to mistakes. Some people just assume the worst then it comes to people making mistakes when it was completely unintentional on their part.

For this article I thought it was very educational. I thought that with a lot of references from the past to the present. Like when the author mentioned Benjamin Franklin and how you should keep track of things. The author uses the Fitbit as an example to how you could keep track of some things in the modern times. The Fitbit keeps track of footsteps and also your heart rate but also a lot more. It brought a lot of incite to what they did in the past with self-representation. For example they make sculpures, painting, and other things as well. The author brought a lot of incite about the modern use of self-presentation. The author used selfies, pictures, and signatures. Those are just a few the author listed off. For me personally it made me realize how much has changed from the past to the present and how we use other things to show our self-presentation. Also for me it made me realize that we still use some of they ways they did. In the article the author showed us that there are more then just one way of self-presentation. The author showed us three ways. There are visual, written, and quantitative. The author goes somewhat in depth in telling us what they are about. The author more gives us examples of what they are which helps us more visualize what they looked like and what they did. There wasn’t much I didn’t like about it. There was just a bit of reference word though out the article. That got repetitive even for my like of history. I think I liked this article more based off that it had a lot of history in it and that it made use think more about what has happened to the ways that our ancestors used before us to show self-presentation and how we use it now.

Main terms/Main ideas: Quantitative: In this case it’s recording to your habits and actions. It is relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something rather then the quality of it. Autopathography: an autobiography dealing with primarily with the influence of a disease, disability, or a psychological disorder in the authors life. Pathologising: regard or treat(someone or something) as psychologically abnormal or unhealthy.

Summary: In Chapter 1 the author Jill Walker mainly goes over the history of self representation. She introduces written, visual, and quantitative forms of self-representation. Back in the day people used written self-representation when they wrote in diaries, had other people write there stories or they wrote them themselves if they could write. Writing down anything is a form of written self-representation. Some examples back then are writing a book, dairies, and others. Some examples for the present are blogging, twitter, and Facebook. Really any type of social media. With blogging people write down what’s on there mind or what is interesting to them or what my be interesting to others. For Facebook and Twitter those are for the things going on in your immediate area. Like posting the weather, drama, what they are having to eat, or if something happened to them good or bad. The second form of self-representation is visual. For visual art falls in this category, so like portraits, drawing, paintings, and sculptures. those are all the past examples of self-representations. For the present forms are selfies, pictures and more. The last form is Quantitative. In the past was done according to Benjamin Franklin’s way where you keep track of what you are doing. Some examples of those could be the Apple watch and the Fitbit. Like what Benjamin said with keeping track of thing the Fitbit keeps track of your footsteps, heartrate and more.

Commentary: I like how the author explains how the past is different from the present with these three examples of self-presentation. He helps us realize that with the interdiction of technology we don’t use the ways that the people in the past did like using selfies and pictures over painting and sculptures. Also I like that the author included Benjamin Frankland into the article and what he said to keep track of what you do. The author did good and picking the Fitbit as the example for keeping track of things. The Fitbit keeps track of many things for use like our foot steps, heart rate and etc.