A few weeks ago I got paired to do an assignment with a fellow classmate, as we were doing our project we began talking about ourselves. Towards the end of the conversation I did what I would normally do, and ask for their instagram handle. To my surprise this individual did not have an instagram and wasn’t on any other social network sites. We have got to the point in our generation where it is strange to not be connected in this specific way, meaning the majority of people use social network platforms.What’s so interesting about this article “I’m an Addict” and Other Sensemaking Devices : A discourse Analysis of Self Reflections on Lived Experience of Social Media is it analyzes social media and it big percentage of users. My initial thought was they were going to track the amount of hours spent on social media then the content people are posting which shows a reflection of who a person is etc, but their methods were quite different. They instead collected their data by gathering young people and “making sense of their own lived experience through self reflexive auto-ethnographic narratives” (4). By allowing the participants to analyze their own habits on social media it allowed researchers to use these experiences to generate a overall shared experience. By teaching the young people methods of collecting data like auto-elicitation exercises, they were able to get written accounts and even video to base their conclusions. In contextualizing all the data they needed to look for patterns and create this “one” to represent the majority of people. Seeing this makes me think of the collaborative effort of note taking and systems that put all this data together. For such a social media driven world today, these findings give us more insight to what were involving ourselves in, and this method of data collecting is more important than ever.
TingFung Chu “Computer Story”
TingFung Chu “Computer Story”
At the beginning of the semester, every one of us had to tell our own personal story or experience. Some of us had a hilarious experience like peeing out on the bridge while some of us had the terrible experiences, while my story was encountering some kind of paranormal activity, which my mother told me about it as I grew up older. Then, we wrote it down on the paper, we can read our own story like a book. From the story beginning, we can know our past what had happened, how we were reacted to it when the “things” came to us how the things turned out and how it the end. We describe the stories in details, to let the readers know our story. Then, what if we transcribe it into the computer technology, does our story keep the same originally? We can tell our story not only just type it out and post in the file format, internet blog, or social media, but also we can actually present our story by visualizing. For example, if I want to let everybody knows my story on the internet, not only reading in the text, I could make the video channel to tell my experience, also attaching the photo or video clips from the movies that are related to my story. Which is basically like making a vlog to let everybody comments in my video.
As more people watch my story, some of them may enjoy it, some of them may just watch it, or some of them probably criticize if it is true or not. Since you can search an over million information through the internet in present, while it is hard for us to determine the things we look up is right or wrong. Then, is the computer not reliable for us? Nowadays the computer already becomes our essential for us, that is the part of our routine every single day. We use it for different purposes. We need it for checking the traffic news to find the better way to go, we need it for doing the research paper, or We just watch the movies on the video channel. The point is, anything comes in the computer, it is possible to be doubted the truth of the information even though it is from the primary source, it could be still doubtful on the internet.
Computer Story: Anthony Sierra
My story was about one of the most embarrassing school memories. I’ve never been particularly great at telling stories orally. I was personally more comfortable with the written version of my story because I was able to add details I missed with the oral version. Yet, the digital version of my story fits my idea of computer technology by allowing me to create a visualization of my emotions and reactions in a non-physical form. The use of “Gifs” created a whole new way to tell my story. I created a twitter thread, and I felt like I was able to be more personal when telling the digital story because I was able to select the appropriate Gif for the proper situation.
This is a story (thread) about one of the most embarrassing moments in my life.
— OLCT3000 (@olct3000) November 6, 2018
Jailene Mangome, Computer Tech. story
My story was of me telling my friend that I was planning on dropping out of college. This eventually led to her telling my counselor and convincing me to stay since there was only a couple of months left before i graduated. I reluctantly agreed but I didn’t want to walk for Graduation. Again, I was somehow convinced to walk. But because my graduation was an insanely long ceremony, my entire family had fallen asleep. Over all though, I was very happy I decided to listen to everyone and stay in school and graduate because I wouldn’t be where I am now. I graduate Fall 2019 with my Bachelors and I’m super excited!
Me telling my friend I’m dropping out of college:
My friend telling my counselor about my decision:
My Counselor convincing me to not leave school:
My family convincing me to go to my commencement ceremony:
Day of my Graduation:
Me at Graduation:
My family fast asleep: 
Me screaming at my family to wake up:
Me leaving with a smile cause I got my Associates Degree:
Isaac Espinoza Digital Story
I can safely say that one of the worst nights of my life took place in November of last year as I was leaving a holiday party that was thrown by the restaurant I work for. I had a couple of drinks in my system and honestly, the only reason I had left was that I had to work early the next day and didn’t want to wake up with a hangover. I walked down the block and into the 42nd street subway with a coworker who left with me. He took the same train as me so it made sense to leave together. I walked towards the turnstile, took my MetroCard out of my wallet, and I swiped it. Of course, I didn’t have money on the card indicated by the “insufficient funds” message on the display. I stood there and thought to my slightly drunk self, “I could easily get away with jumping over the turnstile”, in the middle of the night with no one around. So I did just that. I jumped over the turnstile (having sufficient money in my pocket to pay for a ride) and continued to E train platform.
I was approaching the stairs that lead to the train platform and out of the corner of my eye, I catch someone open a mysterious door on my left. He walks out from I could only now imagine is a surveillance room and calls for me. “Hey Miss come over here,” he says. I’m not a woman but at the time I had hair down to my shoulders and was mistaken for a woman on a daily basis it seemed. After hearing this and noticing that he was indeed a police officer I knew I had been caught. Before walking over I told Angel, my coworker, to just go on home without me and he did. The officer then said, “you do know you have to pay to enter the subway”. I apologized multiple times hoping my young appearance would save me from a healthy 200-300 ticket. He took my ID and said he was gonna run my liscense for any arrest warrents that I might have. Being that I’m not a criminal I didn’t think anything of it. I was really just worried about having to pay the ticket. I waited impatiently for the officer to return and when he finally does, the unthinkable happens. He instructs me to put my hands out in front of me and that was being placed under arrest. I was quite frankly in shock when this happened. I was upset and thought it was a misunderstanding. Sure he must be confusing me with someone else or made a mistake when he ran my ID. However, I did manage to figure out why I was being arrested. I had received a summons in 2014 that I never got around to paying. It was 3 years later and it finally came back to haunt me.
I was beyond upset with the officer because he knew the circumstances leading to the arrest and still decided to do it. To his defense, he claimed his boss was in the office so he had no other choice. The handcuffs and the escort to the car was also policy that he couldn’t skip. Luckily the subway was basically empty. After being put into the back of the officer’s car I was taken to the station in 59th Street Colombus Circle. In the station, feeling like absolute garbage about myself, I was stripped of all my belongings and also my shoelaces and belt. It was 2 am and the courts didn’t open until 10 am where I would eventually be taken to see a judge. As I layed on the floor of my cell I thought about all the different I could’ve avoided this. What if I had just paid that summons in 2014? What If I had put money in my MetroCard? What If I had gone to a different station? I spent the following 8 hours asking myself these same 3 questions over and over.
Morning Came around and I was finally taken to the courts on 34th street to see a judge. As I was taken from the precinct to the car to head downtown I had to cross the Colombus Circle subway station which happened to have 100’s people passing through it at the time, in handcuffs. Embarrassed couldn’t even begin to describe what I was feeling at the time. I had reached such a low that the only thing that could actually make everything worse was if by some chance someone recognized me.
When I finally met the judge who was assigned to my case I was sentenced to time served which essentially means the 8 hours I spent in the cell overnight was enough punishment for the unpaid summons and the jumping of the turnstile. Unfortunately, by the time this had happened, it was already 2 pm. Meaning I had wasted 12 hours of my life because I was too lazy to refill my MetroCard.
Isaac Espinoza 11/6 blog post
“I am an addict” discusses the different discourses that are out there regarding social media and its effect on the public. The authors of the paper explore conflicting ideas that may or not be true regarding the internet and social media. Being that I am a young adult that grew up in the midst of the social media era, I’ve always had strong feelings when it comes social media. I’ve never been very fond of social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram and it actually took me quite a while to even start using these platforms. While I understand its purpose which is to stay connected with the people you care about I feel it also helps you stay connected with the people you could care less about. Instagram has since turn into a popularity contest with many of its users caring more about how many followers and likes they have instead of focusing on what its actually for. Social media today is riddled with superficiality which is why I’ve actually deleted all of these apps from my phone. I feel that its having many effects on many of us, especially the “digital natives”. While we are all capable of using social media regardless of age the youth definetley uses it more than anyone and it turning us into superficial and attention seeking cellphone addicts.
Michael Farias three storys project part 3
A story that I have to share is a story about the trip coming home from a party at work during the summer. During the summer I work as lifeguard at Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways. This past summer was my fifth year working as a lifeguard. A tradition that we have every year is a party in about mid August to celebrate the ending of the season. I live in Marine Park Brooklyn so I had about a 5-mile trip home that I was going to do by bike with my friend. So when the party ended at 11pm my friend and I got our bikes and began our ride home. We were both pretty tipsy after the party and we started getting into these very strange and sort of philosophical conversations about life. We were talking about why are we wasting time working and going to school just to be able to earn a bunch pieces of paper (money). We thought it would be better for us to spend our time doing things that we wanted to do. Now of course we were both tipsy and did not mean any of that although we had discussed it. Then as we were going over the bridge that connects Brooklyn and the Rockaways, my friend tells that he has to pee. I as well had to pee. My friend suggested that we pee off of the bridge, which seemed like a very stupid idea to me so I said no. Then my friend started saying that it was something we had to do and that we would be legends for this. This convinced me to do it so I ended up peeing off the bridge right into Jamaica Bay. Now it felt very good because I did have to go but unfortunately I did not feel accomplished or like legend like the way my friend described. My friend then said to that he had wished that a boat were passing by while we were peeing so that the people on board would think it was raining. I offered no response to this statement. That didn’t happen (thankfully) and we kept on biking until finally we got home. This act of urinating off of a bridge is not something that I had ever planned to do in my life. It wasn’t top priority for me like it is for others but when I look back on it, I am glad I did although I don’t consider myself a legend for it.
I decided to just put what I had typed for the written part for this part of the assignment. Typing on a computer is all based on computer technology because it’s done on a computer. Before computers typewriters were used for typing but they were more complicated to use than computers. If you made a mistake on a typewriter you had to start over from the beginning while on a computer you can fix whatever mistake you made quickly. The typing I did for this was all computer based.
Anesiya Rivera Computer Story
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRs4Kuu4uxsWU0jSE3qNOvQ?view_as=subscriber
My Story is about me moving to Brooklyn and changing my life, while learning to love myself and who I am. I feel like my youtube channel visually reflects this.
Brieya Walker Computer Story
My story is about how I found out about my allergy to nuts and it was a complex story with a lot going on. I can see my story being told through gifs that would condense it to a much shorter story, which in a way eliminates the suspense but gets straight to the point. Using gifs fits into my idea of computer technology because it contributes to displaying how quick and instant almost everything is. For example, how fast and simple the process of sending messages has become. From mail being transported on foot to now sending a simple text message that someone receives right away. Unfortunately, the telling of the story with gifs would eliminate sharing many of the details but it would still get the message across. One can relate that to almost anything involved with technology though. Ideally technology is supposed to makes things much simpler and easier. I feel like it would be the same with computer technology.
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Frida Barolli blog post week 10
For this week’s blog post I decided to write about “The Capture of Sound” by Brian Winston. In this article, Winston talks about how the capture of sound and radio began. Sound is a hugely important part of life on Earth. Radio waves have the longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. They range from the length of a football to larger than our planet. Heinrich Hertz proved the existence of radio waves in the late 1880s. He used a spark gap attached to an induction coil and a separate spark gap on a receiving antenna. When waves created by the sparks of the coil transmitter were picked up by the receiving antenna, sparks would jump its gap as well. Hertz showed in his experiments that these signals possessed all the properties of electromagnetic waves. My husband is a Foreman (electrician) and when he brings home blueprints I look at them and I ask him how he is able to read them and understand them. Same thing with the capture of sound and radio. It happens without us even knowing. They compare the capture of sound to beach waves, the way they crash and make sounds is the same way they do for us everyday when we set our alarm clocks or the sound to our phones.
