For week 2, I choose the Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong. This article reminds the moment on the first day of the course. We discussed the meaning of Orality and literacy. Why we had to write something down? Why did we need to record something about our life to let people know? According to Walter Ong description that Orality is the culture reflects on the nature of sound itself as sound. All sensation takes place in time, but the sound has a special relationship to time unlike that of the other field that registers in human sensation. In particular,  oral culture is the restriction of words to sound to determines not the only mode of expression but also though process. Thus, we speak is because we send our own message to the other to express ourselves. However, sometimes if we speak something that is no meaningful word, that might make confused to the other people. I personally think we should speak out the word depending on the appropriate moment.

Week 9 TingFung- “What is Visualization by Manovich Lev

We enjoy seeing the new things that open our vision, expanding the perspective to the society or the world, just as when we see the bright color, we are naturally attracted by that color because our basic instinct sends the message to us that is somehow beautiful for us, so we want to keep looking at it. This is to make something visualized. Also, visualization is a way of communication that beneficial for us to analyzing and interpreting in different aspects. According to the journal “What is Visualization” by Manovich Lev, he explains the visualizations is the signature method as a fundamental level for research, studies, and exhibition practicing in various disciplines. “Direct visualizations method will be particularly important for humanities, media studies and cultural institutions which now are just beginning to discoverer the use of visualization, but which eventually may adopt it as a basic tool for research, teaching, and exhibition of cultural artifacts. Humanists always focused on analyzing and interpreting details of the cultural texts, be they poems, paintings, music compositions, architecture, or, more recently, computer games, generative artworks, and interactive environments. This is one of the key differences between humanities and sciences – at least, as they were practiced until now.”. As Manovich mentions, analyzing in detail is helpful to people work different arena, either in art or sciences is important for us to real thins carefully. Therefore, I gather the different cities in a website want to display the photo to inspire people perspective.

 

 

Manovich, Lev. “What Is Visualization?” Paj:The Journal of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, vol. 2, no. 1, Dec. 2010. journals.tdl.org, https://journals.tdl.org/paj/index.php/paj/article/view/19.

Week 7 The Coming of the Microcomputer by Brian Winston

What was the first time you use the computer? And how did you feel about it? I remember when the first time I used the computer was like 6 years old, that was the old model with the big and heavy computer monitor. I love to play the flash game which was slow, the internet speed was not going fast. That’s is the memory of first-time using the computer. In the chapter the coming of the microcomputer by Brian Winston, he talks about the early computed model had been used in the military service at the 1950s. The original computer model was modified from the telegraph. To be precise, the concept of the computer is the same as the telegraph.

“It is how they invented the new computer”

Katrin Tiidenberg, “I’m an Addict” and Other Sensemaking Devices

 

For week 11, I chose “I’m an Addict” and Other sensemaking Devices. Based on the topic we already know that it is talking about how young people rely on social media nowadays. In the article, they explore young people’s social media experiences and how social media make them feel. The research also mentions the focus on the language and opinion on social media. In my opinion, in the current age, technology is the essence of daily life. We watch the news through the i-phone, we chat with friends via Facebook, snapchat, or Instagram. We upload everything that what we are doing in these media, to let people give a like to us in order we are being like. I have realized that I am kind of using social media too much. I keep checking my Instagram to see my friends post every 2-3 minutes, especially when I have work or homework to do, I am easily getting distracted by it. In order to let me focus whenever I have the stuff to do, I delete the Instagram to let me concentrate. It seems a little bit working without it. While I finish the work, I redownload it and keep checking again. Based on my experience, I think we should try to reduce it to using the i phone if it is not necessary. And I think people suppose to talk to each other when hanging out. We suppose to speak or say something to the people, not just looking at the i-phone.

Week 6

In the current generation, this is the technologically advanced generation or called Information Age. In Media technology and Society by Brian Winston, he describes the concept of information Revolution already existed in the history. Information Revolution is implicitly historical. Basically, this is saying how people could know the situation has changed, how people resolve the issue without the relevant information. He states that is like the principle of “Science”. People don’t have any idea how to solve the problem that they have never encountered before, so this is like they need to figure out to explore a new way to solve the problem.

In addition, he illustrates the process of the telecommunication between the past to the future. First, once the new technology has been invented, that will be using as the prototype, to see how the public reacts to it. The second phase, the inventor or technologist see the function of the prototype that could fulfill the necessity to society.  There are four types of prototypes, rejected, accepted, parallel and partial. Aside from the partial one, the other three prototypes are working to being in this process. After the inventor keeps adjusting and improving the prototype until the majority of people has completely adapted to the new technology become part of life. The third phase, diffusion, which is the “Law”, a universal hypothesis, is the suppression of radical potential. Basically, this phrase is focused on the production. A practical product is being sold into the market. Yet the entire process is sustainable and keep doing that way. Therefore, the telecommunication is constantly changeable between the people and society.

For week 1 I chose Culture and Anarchy By Adrienne Rich. Rich shows her anger on women who are struggling for a voice and their right — women who tend to be weak, powerless, not educated, etc. But they fight for what they deserve and they should.  She thinks women will experience this anger and if they can accept it, it will be an emancipation concept to women. Rich also thinks that feminist anger is acceptable and even commendable.

During this project i chose to transcribe, Dr. William Seraile interview of his son Aden Seraile. I chose this story  because his story is relatable to me. He was born and raised in Harlem before it was an upcoming neighborhood, whereas myself I grew up in Bed-Stuy which is a popular upcoming neighborhood now but before gentrification it wasn’t an ideal neighborhood to be in. Listening to Aden’s experience, I can remember being that kid in private school near Dumbo in Brooklyn and telling kids where i lived I was judged. Also, in the interview Aden talked about how gentrification has brought the neighborhood back and gave it what it needed.

The interview was executed nicely but the audio had an echo and you could hear other things going on in the background, such as steps being taken, if something was being place down, sneezes. I had to lower down the volume in order to make it easier to listen to because audio levels I guess aren’t properly together (if that makes sense). What i did notice about the transcript was the audio timing and the timing on the transcript didn’t match the other. Also the transcript doesn’t have all the words from the interview and they are cut short.

For this weeks post i chose ” Internet of Women”. This article spoke on how the hashtag MeToo movement started on social media and created on the internet to make a “feminizing” industry. The impact that the one hashtag caused  a fundamental change in the way sexual harassment, a subject that up until now had been treated as almost taboo, could be openly discussed and brought to light. This would not have been possible without the medium of social media.

 

In “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Stephan Carrs argues that our brain is being reprogrammed to not think anymore and google has stole our thought process. Being that this article was written 10 years it resonated with me because although I was reading about how he got extremely distracted when reading long pieces of writing, I could feel myself doing the same things. I would read a paragraph of what Carr was saying and then dismiss it completely and go on my phone or search something up on another tab.

Carr does a good job of illustrating how various technologies throughout human history, like the mechanical clock, have altered the way we perceive and understand the world around us. These examples add a historical authority to his argument and demonstrate that as different technologies are incorporated into societies, they can fundamentally change how humans act and think.

 

“AN ABSTRACT PAINTING REPRESENTS A DIRECT MANIFESTATION OF CREATIVE THOUGHT PROCESS AS THEY MIGHT APEAR IN COMPUTER DESIGNS”

(McLuhan, P. 24)

We construct words and insert our identities into the as they are built because the come from our brain. There are many fonts of the letter A which exist. All book bags aren’t the same but their still book bags. In fact all books are a molded thoughts put together in union. The construct of the print in its final product may look identical in volume, or dimensions but the cover designs are different. That’s why we all have brains and think differently to make choices that are then noted as ours in ownership.

 

Mies Van Der Rohe once said,  “A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” 

This phrase has been referenced by many important post modern architects and artists who believe in the concept of minimalism. Can his words be his ghost yearning to accomplish all that he couldn’t while he was alive? Quotes alone can inspire a new wave of creative thinkers as this statement was made by a man who died in August 17, 1969, however his words still live in the year 2018 and it his massage that makes it available on the internet as content and even in this blog post.