I’ve noticed while reading other people’s reflection, they had a selfie that had something to do with where they were, what they were doing, or who they were with. At least majority of the ones I’ve seen were like that anyways. These selfies not only apply to whatever we wrote in the blog, but also I’ve seen these kinds of selfies around friends and also other random strangers all over the internet. I thought it was interesting because people don’t often take selfies of those in the past when they had something interesting in their life, but the majority of the young people today take selfies almost everyday in every scenario. I have a friend who took selfies practically everyday on Snapchat and sends it as their “streaks” for the day.  If you head to specific social media where your posts are up until you want to delete them like Facebook or Instagram has people smiling a lot in the pictures like “fake reality”. Sometimes, but not often do they post selfies of themselves crying or looking very negative. I did a little research because this article sparked my curiosity on how many people take selfies a day and so according to Adweek, 93 million of selfies are taken a day, to me that’s a lot of selfie a day. Funny to think that out of those 93 million selfies, none of them are mine because I don’t take selfies or have any on my phone. Speaking of taking pictures, going back to earlier when I said most of the selfies are random, but for the ones that have specific events, that reminded me of the day when I had my phone, there was a huge suddenly breaking out in the middle of me getting my new phone, and so everybody stepped to the side so nobody gets caught in the mix of the fight or gets hurt. So I tried to take my phone to record (never actually happened because the dude at the apple store had my phone so I could record or take pictures of what happened). It all comes down to in our society, camera seems to be the major resource of the generation. Every event had to be taken with a camera, rather than leave it be for experience first person. It is in a way kind of beneficial this generation to have camera everywhere you go though. Why I feel like people take selfies is because it in a way has become a habit for them to take it everywhere they go. Others could be for memories that is very sincere to them. For me, I feel like taking selfies is unnecessary because not everything has to have you in it. My other reason is just basically I don’t look good in pictures and I like to keep a very very low profile. When I take a picture, it is just the picture of whatever I want the picture to be about rather than having me in it. Having me in it is like saying that you’re taking a picture of the event, but you want the views to be the ones focusing on you rather than the event that you intended the picture to be about.

By the way, like I said before, I don’t take selfies, but this is for grade so ;-;

(I will still keep a low profile)

• Key Terms and Main Ideas:
  • Key Terms:
    • Filters: An augment in reality.
    • Presentation: The proffering or giving of something to someone, especially as part of a formal ceremony.
    • Identity: A representation fact of who you are.
    • Surrealist: An artist or writer who is an exponent of the avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.
    • Automation: The use of largely automatic equipment in a system of manufacturing or other production process.
  • Main Idea:
    • The principle thought of this article was to illuminate the gathering of people of the numerous ways selfies are depicted all through our networks. There are time slip by recordings, profiles pictures, and photograph stalls made reference to in this article.
• Making Connection:
  • In part three, Rettberg depicts a couple of ways that we take and show selfies. She additionally proceeds to contrast responses with the selfie shows. Ahree Lee and Noah Kalina were two of the main people to have set aside a few minutes pass recordings with their every day selfies. Lee was a graphical workmanship understudy when she had taken a day by day picture of herself for a long time. She posted a period pass video of the photos in August of 2006 on YouTube. After two weeks, Kalina posted a comparable video of the day by day pictures he had assumed control 6 years. The two recordings were extremely famous, with more than 800,000 hits each in under seven days. Be that as it may, the responses to the recordings were altogether different. Taking a gander at the remarks on the two recordings, it could involve race or sexual orientation. The Unified States has become much better in these two regions, yet we have far to go. President Donald Trump has made a few remarks that demonstrate this. In his presidential battle he proposed a divider at the Mexican outskirt and the mass extradition of foreigners. In later occasions he has been utilizing the name “Pocahontas” in a disdainful form to allude to Congressperson Elizabeth Warren. These sorts of remarks sentiments are not constrained to the President however. Racial and sexual orientation inclination have been very much archived in our history.
• Summary:
  • While taking selfies with cell phones and posting them on the numerous web based life outlets may appear to be moderately new, it’s most certainly not. In section three of Rettberg’s “Seeing Ourselves Through Innovation” we discover a touch of the historical backdrop of the selfie. There have been numerous people who have utilized selfies as an approach to make workmanship or to record their lives. Suzanne Szucs took photographs of herself consistently for a long time, utilizing a Polaroid camera. She has shown those photographs in craftsmanship displays, and displays, which may have affected the makers of Instagram. Ahree Lee and Noah Kalina were pioneers of the time pass recordings that can honey bee seen on YouTube. The photos we use on our online networking may not generally be a selfie but rather, it could give clues into the individual’s identity. Regardless of whether we post an image of our country’s banner or we utilize an illustration we made it is one of the manners in which we speak to ourselves. Programmed pictures have been around for a long time. Photograph stalls were licensed in 1925 and took into account the simple taking of your own photos. The stalls enabled one to try out a few outward appearances and get moment input on what it would seem that. This procedure has been supplanted with our computerized cameras, cell phones and selfie sticks.

When I first read this, I was not very sure what to think of the counter-arguments between filters. It had me confused a bit whether they’re saying filters are good or bad, I feel like filters aren’t a bad thing unless you add a meaning to it to exaggerate the picture. Filters could add a story or an extra meaning to a picture to get the message across the views. Filtering is very big that media applies it as a job like on magazine or in politics. False reality then again still does not apply unless someone apply a meaning to it. Some people might not even see filtered pictures as anything more than art, while other people might see it as a meaning that even the person who took the picture might not even apply any meaning to it. So in the end, I feel like filters are not a bad thing. This generation, it is hard to find a good picture that doesn’t have filters. Even the slightest editing like dimming the light would be considered filtering. Snapchat, a popular app for social media uses filters, but doesn’t ask you if you want to add filters to it, as for Instagram, another famous social media, there is always questions about if you want to add filters or not.

Summary:

• In this part, Rettberg talks about a couple of various kinds of channels and how they affect our every day lives. She first discusses specialized and social channels. Specialized channels are those we force through utilization of a codex or arrangement. Rettberg utilizes the precedents of infant books and applications. These books spread out a documentation arrangement and prompts in the content, giving guardians a set territory to work out specific occasions. These prompts are troublesome or now and again difficult to change. A social channel is one that isn’t spread out in content in any case, in our childhoods. Like the infant books, a photograph collection has particular rules. They demonstrate kids, guardians, families, and excursions. The general population are for the most part cheerful and just the best pictures are chosen for the collection. While these channels are less inflexible, they are no less apparent in our everyday lives. The following segment examines how picture channels have modified the manner in which we take a gander at our reality. Applying a photograph channel defamiliarizes us with our normal perspectives of the world. This defamiliarization enables us to transform our photos into workmanship. In any case, when we see similar sorts of filers rehashed ordinarily, it looses it’s ‘stun esteem’ and we generally expect them. In the third segment examines the specialized constraints of innovation. Numerous things are directed and constrained by the innovation being utilized. Kodak, for instance, made film that worked greatly well for reasonable cleaned individuals, however ineffectively for dim cleaned individuals. This was because of the breaking points of the film at the time. It wasn’t until the point that new film was produced that a change in dull skin conditioned pictures was seen. The last area utilized classifications to depict channels. These channels are a particular kind of media that one searches for, or how a particular medium has particular prerequisite to fit into the class. Photograph collections require photographs, while online journals require a wordy portrayal organized backward sequential request.

Making Connections:

• Prior in the semester, we talked about how the web is changing the manner in which we think, read, and act. In “Is Google Making Us Dumb?” Nicholas Carr discusses how the web has changed the manner in which we read and think. In the article, Carr depicts how perusing on the web is typically done by skimming the content for the data that you need, instead of getting into a secret government of perusing. This is in part because of the majority of the diversions on the web. Comparable things can be said for photograph channels. We have become so used to seeing our photographs go through a channel that we overlook what this present reality resembles, similarly we overlook how to accomplish a covert government of perusing. These diversions draw our consideration far from the protest being captured and to the channels being utilized. Some of the time this is unpretentious, different occasions it’s exceptionally self-evident.

Key Terms & Main Idea:

• Technical Filter: A filter that restricts or prompts you for a specific thing.
• Cultural Filter: The unspoken rules and conventions that guide our daily lives or reasons for doing things a certain way.
• Defamiliarizing: To change the way something is presented, making it less obvious as to what the object is.
• Anesthetizing: Becoming numb or desensitized to a technique due to it’s overuse.
• Filter: A device or screen that either removes unwanted results or changes the look of a picture.
• The main thing to get out of this article is mostly about how society uses filters to make something more than itself. It is okay to some people while it is not to others.

Too cool for original pictures 😏

Key Terms and Main Idea:

• Quantum: a discrete quantity of energy proportional in magnitude to the frequency of the radiation it represents.
• News-Gathering: the process of researching news items, especially those for broadcast or publication.
• Abolish: formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution).
• Folklore: the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth.
• Panorama: an unbroken view of the whole region surrounding an observer.
• Main Idea: The principle thought of this article is that the writer is attempting to clarify how we think and view things when we are perusing a daily paper or only anything as a rule. It proceeds to discuss these propensities that we make and how they influence the manner in which we see things or consider them. The creator proceeds to express that with these propensities that we have made we don’t generally take a gander at the daily paper all in all. We tend to search for things that stand out or things that we endeavor to ensure are genuine or intriguing as opposed to setting aside the opportunity to see the comprehensive view, all things considered.

Making Connection:

• I can truly identify with this article and his point. I do a similar thing that he states other individuals or columnists do. I have those propensities that with my state of mind induces me more to search for things that I believe are valid or the best features of an ebb and flow occasion as opposed to taking a gander at the more extensive picture and giving everything a shot and read different things. What’s more, it doesn’t even fundamental need to be in a daily paper. I additionally do it on the web while via web-based networking media looking through the news channel and just picking and picking certain things that I think may me genuine or fascinating and simply overlooking the rest. What’s more, as of not long ago I never truly thought about how much function individuals put behind the entirety of their work that they distribute or post and the way that the greater part of it just gets cruised by. I’m trusting that this acknowledgment makes me see things when perusing or thinking from another view.

Commentary:

• This was not a simple article to peruse that is without a doubt. In any case, I feel that it was likewise expected to make us contemplate what we are perusing as he is discussing how we think and see the things we do when we read. He made a great deal of substantial focuses to where the allegories he utilized fit in exceptionally well. It required investment to make sense of what he is alluding to yet I think it was his endeavor or method for changing our state of mind or not withstanding attempting to turn our point of view about how we think about specific things. Particularly when it go to the propensities that the vast majority of us have made and the possibility of how we will read something in light of specific factors that we search for before starting to peruse anything. The creator discusses this representation about the turtle and its shell and it bodes well. You can get and daily paper and get attracted to the greatest article or feature and recently read that and disregard the rest. For instance when he alludes to the columnist or persuaders to not by any means comprehend or see the magnificence of the entire shell of the turtle and not exactly what’s underneath.

In the year 2042, the world as we come to know of is filled with technology. So advance that everything was resourceful and did not need to rely on others to help. Internet is nothing, but a bunch of retro tech from years and years ago. Last time the internet was ever used was probably around 2022, about 20 years ago. The cause of this catastrophic event occurred due to the satellite not being able to hold on its own and crashed back into earth. Phones as we speak is also down, but luckily, we have back up sources to replace internet and phones to ease the human needs of internet on a daily basis. Businesses has upped their game and hold their business better than ever before, but to a certain extent, the internet is still needed. So I have decided to go set myself on a journey to find where the crash site was and see if I can revive the internet. For me, internet wasn’t much of a problem because I lived over half my life without internet. Seeing how much has changed over the past 20 years will be interesting, especially because within 20 years, technology has changed so much, even I have a hard time keeping up with technology updates every year or 2.

So I began my journey, I went down to where I pinpointed the location and there I found a spaceship looking thing. At first I thought it was a joke for a satellite to look like that, but then I realized that it’s retro tech and I’ve been living in the future looking back in time. I noticed a monitor on the satellite, but it was out. At least the monitor had a little plug that needs power source to recharge. Well I’ve got say, one thing hasn’t and it was the fact that the plugs are still the same. So I plugged it into one of my portable power generator (future tech) and I powered the monitor on. It said something like “January 1983”, I was wondering what that date was, and I found what was called “internet explorer”. I clicked onto the “internet explorer” icon (I know how to use a basic computer because I was born in that time) and thought to myself, “where would I be able to look up the date?”. So I noticed this colorful logo that says “google” and I had no clue what that was, but I clicked on it anyways. Later I found out through “Reliablesoft” that “google” was the most popular used search engine to look up random information or any question I encountered. Then I went back to “google” to look up the date that was given to me. According to “History”, the internet was created back then in 1983 by a man named “J.C.R Licklinder”, but did not get fully recognized until the 1990s.

Several months went by and I wanted to come back to that satellite. That’s when it hit me why the internet was so popular. The world is full of surprises and there’s unlimited amount of things a person can do when they’re not themselves online. Seeing all these modern technology, I think not all are as good or advance as the old technology. So I went and talk to one of the modern technology company to remake computers and launch a new internet satellite where people can see the joy of what people did 20 years ago (by the time this post is posted, the internet is back up and running again, internet is like a leech, “once clings on, never lets go”, then again I can say that about humans more than the internet).

Since the day we worked in class with the trio, I realized blogging may or may not have a bigger community than I thought. With that comes 2 different types of bloggers; the ones who do it for the passion and the ones who do it for discussions. I personally don’t think I’d like the ones who do it for discussion just because it normally involves political discussions and those are quite boring to me. Personally I feel like the ones where they can talk about how they feel and have personal connections out on their blogs are the ones I can like more. My reason is because I too like the freedom to do whatever I want where I do not have to talk much about it. Then again, you can learn so much from the people who do it for the discussion and possibly find out some connections with another person that might be something that’s not personal. People who do it for the discussions aren’t always about politics (which is a good thing). The problem with having the freedom to write your own blogs with your own preference is the fact that maybe not everyone is interested in reading your life as for something they can talk about, they can be attracted to it more. It all varies depending on the people and their preferences of blogging things. Aside from that, the trio was pretty fun getting to know that me and the other two people in my trio also has common interests. Which ties into how people connect through interests on blog. It all makes sense, but it is probably easier on blogs than in real life when asked what some of the common interests between you and another person is.

Summary:

• This article started out with the author Graham Lampa stating the information that he gathered from a survey. From the survey he was able to show that about almost 1.1 million blogs were posted once and were popular, but the rest were not in a way. Basically kind of like saying the “One-Hit-Wonder”, but replace the word “hit” with the word “blog”. Lampa later showed that this article is about what “Blogosphere” is. Blogosphere to summarize it up is basically a small community where people all over the world can connect with each other and communicate in ways you cannot in real life. To Lampa a blog is just like a diary, but for the public to see. Blogging is also known as journalism for the amateurs for the small portion of bloggers. Bloggers are free to post as they choose to, but because the world is built with limited on resources and unlimited wants (economic reference), not everyone can blog. For example, some may not be able to blog because they do not have a computer or internet. Lack of internet across the world is the reason why many blogs are not doing as well globally as it should’ve been.

Commentary:

• I thought this was interesting, because from Graham Lampa’s point of view, he said it is like a small diary for the public. That was my first thought when I made a blog too. The blog is just like social media, but targeted more towards reading than actually examining a picture with a small caption to it. It is something I expect to not be big in this generation though because social media is for some reason bigger than blogging. Probably because this generation doesn’t like to read as much and like to look at visuals more. Another reason that Lampa brought up which was a good point was when he said it is not popular because not everybody can access it. For me I thought this was true, despite me having internet, not everywhere I go provides internet or where I can access a computer to start up a blog. This makes it difficult to make my blog big when nobody is there to read it. I like it this way though, when I have a blog up, but nobody reads it, but when they do, it is probably from a long time ago, like an ancient archive just dug up from centuries ago. Basically like “ghost town”, but instead “ghost blog”. I thought one thing was funny was when Lampa did a research on the survey and many people post once on their blog. I thought of doing that too, but I am demanded to post more than once.

Main Idea + Key Terms:

• Blogosphere: Communication and connection with others the world of blogs.
• Blogging Iceberg: When someone think of blogging is another source for discussions of media and linking, when it only represents 10% of the blogs in use.
• Filters: The contents that goes on your blog designated by the blogger’s opinions and interests.
• Publication: The preparation and issuing of a book, journal, piece of music, or other work for public sale.
• Community: A group of a specific interest or hobbies or having something in common in a way.
• M1: Blogging is a way to build new social skills for bloggers.
• M2: Blogging is an underrated activity or hobby to do.

Man this chapter was quite long, it was too wordy, but I managed to read it all (sorta). The article was interesting because the author talked about how they researched on selfies. I would never in a million years would have realized you could do that. Mainly because I never thought people put thought into a selfie besides looking good and/or having a good time. Then again, I can’t really relate to this because I never take selfies. I try to enjoy the most out of an experience so I do not have time to take pictures of myself. There are pros and cons to selfies, one of which the pros is I can like I said enjoy the moment for how it is, but the cons is that I won’t have anything to remember it except my head. At the same time, this pros is debatable, but I wouldn’t embarrass myself for an ugly selfie. The only time I see myself through technology are usually when I photobomb by accident. Thinking back to the article with the whole people couldn’t read or write in the seventeenth century is hard to believe. I don’t think I could survive that well, mainly because I grew up being forced to know how to read and write so it’s still hard to believe. I am happy though we live in the era where it is safe to spread message across to the other person easily. So I am very curious where the future will take us and how technology is going to advance for more than just a selfie or writing, but how will the English literature change even more than it already did as time flew by.