For this week’s blog post, I opted to read “Comparative Textual Media” by Rita Raley. This reading really stuck out to me because it highlighted issues that really irk me in regards to technology and media. I never understood why, when texting, A texts B, but because it seems “difficult” to text out all the words so the message is shortened. Whenever I see that, my image of the communication process is lessened, or weakened, because I feel that the communication isn’t what it could be. I see that form of communication in technology a way of weakening our minds, and intelligence. It kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth when someone responds that way to me. I see our words and way of communicating, so much more crucial and vital, now more than ever, with the future “Skynet” around the corner. How we speak, how we talk, how we learn, and read, we need to hold onto it, and the ways of the “old”, because technology wouldn’t existed without its’ foundation. We need to make sure not to lose ourselves to the future that is technology, and it could start with how we text each other. That’s how I see it at least.
Computer Story- Abby Potashnik
I chose to upload this photo because I found it extremely relatable to my story as well. While the story has great ending, and it is a light story, the setting is somewhat dark. My great- grandparents were both coming out of the war, having lost most, if not everything, and coming together with nothing. It was a dark, turning to light, quiet, not-so-sure-what-is-happening-next kind of time, and I think this picture represents that. It’s calm and peaceful, eerily quiet, coming into light. This photograph represents the beginning go my great-grandparents story perfectly. For as we all know, at the end of a dark tunnel, there is always a light.
“Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light”- Albus Dumbledore.
Isaac Espinoza 10/29 Blog post
“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication”
I can’t speak on the way communication modes affected the generations before mine because of the lack of research but I can discuss my own experience. The invention of these new forms of communication such as the telephone or the computer that allow us to communicate instantaneously has definitely changed the way people think and behave. With everything moving at a million miles an hour people, including myself have become overly dependent on their cell phones to interact with one another because they are afraid of the fear of missing out. Take a cell phone away from a high school student for just one day and it becomes very obvious just how attached some people are to them. Something that I’ve recently come to terms with is that the advent of technology is not exactly as positive as humans have always made it out to be. Like with everything, we have to take the good with the bad and in this case, it means accepting that people are becoming increasingly consumed by texting and social media and have lost touch with the actual world. Its as if the digital world has become our actual world.
Anesiya Rivera Week 11
“I’m an Addict” and Other Sensemaking Devices: A Discourse Analysis of Self-Reflections on Lived Experience of Social Media
This was super interesting to me because they talking about Social media and self identity. How in today’s society the culture around us , sits in our hands on a device where we have access to these different social platforms that allows us to express but also who explore who we are as an individual. Being addicted to social media it a literally thing because people are always looking for some type of validation or new experience or even to learn something new. we always have answers and social platforms have given us opportunity to explore the questions were asking. These platforms have also given people the chance to speak up for the things or people they believe in. A chance to for people to become more engaging with society, and speak up for people that can’t speak up for themselves. On the other hand these social platforms have also created a discourse within society. With fake news being put out there. Negative notions or perception of how others live their lives, what society should or shouldn’t follow.
Anesiya Rivera Week 10
Anesiya Rivera Week 9
Q: Raised in class: What does computer technology do for you ?
Computer technology allows me to post this blog post. It allows me to get my homework done, keep track of my everyday life and feel like I have it together even If I may not. Computer technology provides a sense stability for people in today’s society. When we think about everything we have access to on computer Ex: a Calendar, When we clock in and out of work, ordering food from our hands, shopping online, keeping yourself organized, emails, ideas, videos, books online, music apps on computers , the ability to share your computer screen to your tv screen. It’s instant, its effective, it’s efficient. It allows our lives to run a lot smoother.
Anesiya Rivera Oral History Project
I focused my oral history project on a transcript interview with a young lady named Brittney Maya. Brittney discussed the struggles of being a young woman with disabilities and being a relationship with a partner with disabilities. Brittney also talked about her future with her boyfriend. Translating the transcript at times was a bit hard. Due to the fact some of the phrases or words were incomplete. I wasn’t sure in which direction the conversation was going. There were moments I had to read the rest of the conversation to make sure I was interpreting what was being said accordingly enough to re-phrase it. There were times where it felt as if during the conversation they couldn’t finish there thoughts. Even at times where they were cutting each other’s sentences off. Verifying was easier for me. Due to the fact, I could just simply pick which options I felt would sound best in certain sentences. Also Some things indivisuals already transcribed, I felt as if the other person didn’t make sense. I wanted to go back in and edit it but I was unable too. The process felt easy at first and became a little difficult because If I transcribed something or even verified it, I thought about how someone else might come and interpret the sentence or what if they were to get confused.
Anesiya Rivera Week 1 Transfered
The Reading I decided to go For was Cyborg Manifesto By Donna Haraway. I found it interesting the points this article touched Post gender in a Feministic world, and transgression in the boundaries between human and animal connection. Between humans and living creatures in the worlds. Haraway gets more depth the boundary between physical and non physical and how electronics devices are everywhere. I enjoyed how the cyborg embraces technology and tries not to Categorize it by exploring different boarders between the two non physical and physical. A Question that I raise though is How do we decide that her theory creates open mind to what it means to be human and machine ?
Week 9: Digital Visualization
The visual story I chose was Hobo Lobo of Hamelin. By the far the most hysterical and realistic in a scary way. The live comic strip is a modern day remake of “The Pied Piper” with a mixture of European folktale, political satire, and internet snark in a 3D story box.
This shows the evolution of where story telling is going in the future because when I read this I was fascinated oddly of how the story came to life digitally. What was scary is that this was more engaging than an actual picture book and it shows what books can be or will be in the future. Still I think there is something to consider, would electronic comics be a good genre to include in the electronic literature world?
I was able to navigate at the top , by pressing the numbers, and that gives a floating navigation, that passes where you are going and then goes a bit back, a very nice effect that brings out the 2D depth of the visual aspect. If the numbers navigation not had this effect, you could have missed the very nice animation effects of the piece. The other way of navigation is simply using the arrow keys, you can go back and forwards as you wish.
Week 8: Print to Pixel: Visualization
For this weeks article I chose Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew Kirschenbaum. His concerns are with how word processing has changed the labor of writing. By the labor of writing I mean the physical demands and what Kirschenbaum is noticing is how literary writers have embraced, resisted and interpreted that transformation. Kirschenbaum describes his bewilderment of various systems from programs designed to run on shared mainframe computers. “The conjoining word “word” with the word processing or processor has at various times been used to denote principles of office management. “(p.xi)
In the Preface he gives a relatable example of how word processing has changed from the time hes been introduce to technology and to now while writing this book on Microsoft word. I found that incredible.
