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Milagros’ Post for 11/6

I decided to reflect on “I am an Addict” reading for this week. Once I started to read the abstract portion of the reading, I really was intrigued with what the rest of the reading was going to touch base on because a lot of people really just neglect the fact that social media and the use of internet is addicting and honestly effects us as human beings. “This reflects a dialectical struggle to make sense of their lived experiences and feelings.” (Tiidenburg, 1)  This to me was the most important part of the abstract because this is an idea which were there is a struggle to understand or even to look into young people’s personal lived experiences and feelings rather than their feelings and experiences being based on what they post on their social media accounts. Yes, social media has become very influential in young adult culture and sometimes I too find myself really having to sit back and really take in what my personal experiences are and not just being behind a phone or a computer. I appreciate this reading because it also made me realize that sometimes I really do need to fast from social media and understand that social media isn’t everything.

Work Cited

Katrin Tiidenberg, Annette Markham, Gabriel Pereira, Meghan Dougherty, Mads Rehder, Ramona Dremljuga, Jannek Sommer. “I’m an Addict” and Other Sensemaking Devices: A Discourse Analysis of Self-Reflections on Lived Experience of Social Media.”

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Marisa Brincat’s Post for 11/5

“Social media use is pathological and leads to (psychological) problems.” (Tiidenberg & other authors, 6)

I completely agree with this theory because I have witnessed it first hand. As someone who suffers with anxiety, I have noticed social media become an entity that could be consuming and cause turmoil within yourself. In a day in age where social media seems to deem a person’s social status and can be the cause of so many friendships breaking up,  I can honestly see how social media can affect a person’s mental state. A friend of mine also suffers with anxiety and she said that she had to delete her instagram account because she found it way too addicting and distracting. A person can be so wrapped up in how many “likes” or “followers” that they have that it can affect how they view themselves as people. Social media can also make it appear as if a person is leading a double life. The way in which someone portrays themselves on Instagram can be completely different than how they really are in the world. I think social media does have a lot of downfalls and can ultimately cause psycholigical problems within a person.

 

Sources: Tiidenberg, Katrin, et al. “‘Im an Addict’ and Other Sensemaking Devices.” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society – #SMSociety17, 2017

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Michael Farias Blog Post for November 6

For this weeks blog post, I chose to write about “I’m an Addict” and Other Sensemaking Devices: A Discourse Analysis of Self-Reflections on Lived Experience of Social Media.” By Katrin Tiidenberg, Annette Markham, Gabriel Pereira, Meghan Dougherty, Mads Rehder, Ramona Dremljuga, Jannek Sommer. In the writing they talk about social media and technology and how much people (particularly young people) rely on these things. The way I see is that we all tend to rely on technology for a lot of things. Without technology I wouldn’t be to be writing this blog post or submit it. It is not just me it is everyone. If you go on the train you will see almost everyone glued to their smartphones. They can be on social media, texting, playing a game, etc. We all rely on technology at least a little but some of us for everything.

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Final Part // Story Telling – Miranda Pacheco

 

By putting my story through Voyant Tools the computer performed basic text mining functions in which creating the piece above. This visual display of my story uses keywords to  show main themes and characteristics of my overall work. Storytelling takes on many different forms and when I look at this piece it reminds me of a movie trailer. What the computer did is take my story and highlighted the big picture without revealing too much detail. In doing this it makes my story intriguing and possibly makes others want to gain more insight. We never fully understand how our computers do these functions, upon research I learned text mining is mostly used to derive high quality information from different text. I find this so interesting that my computer knew what information was key to my story just by following the patterns and trends I unintentional gave when writing it. I sometimes get lost in detail that I fail to recognize I always go back to the main idea somehow or someway.

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Three Stories Assignmnet Reflection, Clary Capellan

After completing each of the three stories assignments, I now have a better understanding about the significance of how stories are told orally, written and through technology. With the oral story, I told it how i had remembered it being heard by my mother. Not necessarily caring so much if the little details were correct. However, in the written part I caught myself asking my mom to tell me the story again. To make sure all the details I was writing was correct. In a sense I feel like writing a story is different from telling a story orally because i feel like when its written down it should be more  concrete and more focused on the truth as opposed if it were just told. As far as the technological aspect of story telling i feel like although there are various ways of doing it, for me using voyant tools signifies how a computer is programmed to display the significance of a text.

 

 

 

 

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Computer Story, Clary Capellan

To me voyant tools displays the essence of what story telling through a computer is about. It epitomizes how technology chooses to tell a story.  By copying and pasting my story onto voyant tools, it creates a word cloud by analyzing the text. Which pinpoints what it believes is significant in the text from how frequent specific words are used. I noticed that with my story the word “spoon” stuck out the most. It’s interesting because the spoon is what the story is all about.

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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.

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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.

https://goo.gl/images/xh1LUZ

 

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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.

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Carolyn Pena Blog Post #9

For this week I decided to write about “Media is the massage” by Marshall McLuhan because I wanted to write about the images that were printed next to the text.  All the images that were posted next to the text were unique and different. Majority of the images that were printed didn’t even relate to the text or did it? We have been talking about visualization and personally painting a picture in my head, helps me understand things better. Although when it came to reading what Marshall McLuhan wrote it was a little bit more difficult to understand. The images were odd and it seemed that it had its own story behind it as well. I want to know why he chose the images he did and what his goal was.