This week’s challenge was to monitor how much time we spend on our phones and to monitor what we do on our phones. I know I spend too much time on my phone and I literally spend too much time specifically on Instagram. The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is to check my notifications and to check my instagram. This shouldn’t be the case because this tells my mind the first images I see in the morning is of instagram. I can relate to the reading ‘I am an Addict” because I feel at times that I depend way too much on instagram and texting to make my day go by smoothly. God forbid I leave my phone at home, I think I wouldn’t know what to do with myself but I also feel as if I’ll get a lot of work done because I won’t be tempted to text or to check. I monitored my activity on my phone and found that even when I just refreshed my instagram feed, I still notice that I still keep refreshing and scrolling. I think that our generation can become too attached to our phones and we can’t imagine what life is and was like before phones.
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.”
Jessica Colasacco Week 7 Blog Post
This week, “The Emergence of fate Digital Humanities (as the Network is Everting)”, by Steven E Jones really stuck out to me. The one line Professor Jojo had us examine in class, which stated, “Cyberspace is everting, as author William Gibson has repeatedly said, turning inside out and leaking out into the physical world,” had me thinking about all the ways that cyberspace consumes ones life. There is the physical aspect of it, in which people imitate things that were meant for the internet in real life, such as Mario Kart races in Tokyo. But mentally, cyberspace effects people as well.
Each and every time someone posts something onto their social media accounts, they are allowing an aspect of them to be shown to others in a way that they have chosen. People allow other people’s social media accounts to influence their own lives in specific ways. If someone whom they consider influential is always posting a new designer bag they are obsessed with, this person may find it necessary to buy one of these bags in order to keep up with their life. They might also censor their own social media account to output the same type of message that their “idol” puts out. This whole process can be seen as going full circle and can be very dangerous for a person to live through.
Clary, Week #6 Blog Post, 10/1
This weeks blog post I chose to to write it on Lisa Nakamura’s peice,“Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet”. Throughout this reading, Nakamura touches on several aspects of role playing sites on the internet such as LambdaMOO and focuses on the problematic issue of race and stereotyping on these sites. However the quote that stood out to me the most is when she states “The technology of the Internet offers its participants unprecedented possibilities for communicating with each other in real time, and for controlling the conditions of their own self-representations in ways impossible in face to face interaction”(Nakamura 1). With that being said, the internet allows for various ways of communicating with one another. Sending an receiving messages only takes a few seconds, it’s instantaneous. The internet also allows for one to alter and present themselves as they please. This made me think of social media and how people depict themselves and “controlling the conditions” in which to display.
Refrences:
Nakaruma, Lisa,“Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet” in Works and Days, Volume 13, 181-193, 1995
Milagros’ Post for 10/2
This week I decided to reflect on “Race In/For Cyberspace reading. “Users define their presence within this textual and graphical space through a variety of different activities‹commercial interaction, academic research, netsurfing, real time interaction and chatting with interlocutors who are similarly “connected”…”(Nakamura,1) This quote really resonated with me because it made me think about social media such as Instagram and how we put our versions of ourselves at times that aren’t really who we are. “The technology of the Internet offers its participants unprecedented possibilities for communicating with each other in real time, and for controlling the conditions of their own self-representations in ways impossible in face to face interaction.” (Nakamura,1) This quote just explains how using social media or any type of cyber communication lets us in a way create ourselves how we want to be looked at and what we want to put out there. I think that the internet has changed the way we communicate with others even face to face because there are times where I see people together and they are all on their phones not really being able to communicate properly or confidently face to face. But this can also be harmful because if we solely go based off the internet and who we are as people on our social media, then at times we will only look for validation from our likes and not our real selves.
Work cited
- Lisa Nakamura, “Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet” in Works and Days, Volume 13, 181-193, 1995.
