To brianna...
I like your posts. Its clear that you read the books and thought about the author's used words. I agree with your opinion that people who read more dont necessarilly go out more and have a greater social life than those who stay home to play games. You answered questions you came up with from the readings and also asked yourself frequent questions relating to them, i find this to be a great strategy especially when preparing yourself to write an essay. You included great quotes and analyzed them carefully which was also interesting. For your essay to be completely solid, just try correcting any grammar mistakes because it is the little mistakes that hold your paper back. Your point about art being a hammer that we use to shape the world was interesting. Although i slightly agree, i dont agree that feed is a work of art, i find it to be a book full of hidden messages helping us to re-appreciate art. I dont think the book was meant to prove the authors message of kids being dumber these days correct when reading the book, but your right about parts of the book sometimes being a bit confusing. its hard to imagine a world we dont live in when in reality it is the exact same world we live in. I enjoyed reading your posts.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
HW 14 - Second Text
The Television text was not as interesting as the Games text to me. It spoke about the changes made in television shows over the last 20 years. The author said that TV was seen as a downfall for us as we are said to surrender our minds to television whenever tuning in. It was interesting to read that we were in a corrupt time in our lives even during the Andy Griffith and Perry Como era.
The Games text had an opposite argument than Television, supposedly being good for us rather than bad. It was bold of the author to even try comparing video-gaming to reading. Ive always noticed the outbreak in game designing but i never thought about how much reading and text is included in the game and how one video-game shares the same concept as reading, including plot, characterization, setting, repetition etc.
These books contradict feed and its messages as feed is an aligory for modern teenage lifestyle, showing the habits and addictions we have picked up from digital media representation. The books mention how the bad is actually good for us. The author also states that reading only puts down human beings suffering from dislexia. He has two interpretations of digitalization because he says television time is worthless for us, because we only feel smarter and dont actually get smarter as we watch sophisticated shows like frazier. Then video games can actually make us smarter because read-ons are now included.
The Games text had an opposite argument than Television, supposedly being good for us rather than bad. It was bold of the author to even try comparing video-gaming to reading. Ive always noticed the outbreak in game designing but i never thought about how much reading and text is included in the game and how one video-game shares the same concept as reading, including plot, characterization, setting, repetition etc.
These books contradict feed and its messages as feed is an aligory for modern teenage lifestyle, showing the habits and addictions we have picked up from digital media representation. The books mention how the bad is actually good for us. The author also states that reading only puts down human beings suffering from dislexia. He has two interpretations of digitalization because he says television time is worthless for us, because we only feel smarter and dont actually get smarter as we watch sophisticated shows like frazier. Then video games can actually make us smarter because read-ons are now included.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
HW 13 - Feed B
Feed as an allegory was something special because it illustrated the reliance onto technology that we will have along the road if we continue to distract ourselves from the real world and continue to distract ourselves with latest inventions and such.
The thirst for technology as a child to obtain a feed so that Valerie may be just like all the other kids, and her later mission to 'fight' against the feed helps to lead to her rejection of a better and newer feed, ironically killing her slowly.
Feed can be seen as a work of art, just as a painting or a picture may paint a whole new picture within the viewers mind. For art to be used as a hammer, sounds a little too much, because a hammer's dents, reshaping what needs to be shaped, can never be reversed. A mirror shows what you truly are and how you are seen by the rest of the world. you might not like what you see, but unlike the hammer, you can always shape yourself up in more ways than one.
Feed is more of a mirror than the hammer, reflectively, its just showing us that if we continue to lead our lives in this "destructive" way, things will come down onto our world, much as a hammer would.
The thirst for technology as a child to obtain a feed so that Valerie may be just like all the other kids, and her later mission to 'fight' against the feed helps to lead to her rejection of a better and newer feed, ironically killing her slowly.
Feed can be seen as a work of art, just as a painting or a picture may paint a whole new picture within the viewers mind. For art to be used as a hammer, sounds a little too much, because a hammer's dents, reshaping what needs to be shaped, can never be reversed. A mirror shows what you truly are and how you are seen by the rest of the world. you might not like what you see, but unlike the hammer, you can always shape yourself up in more ways than one.
Feed is more of a mirror than the hammer, reflectively, its just showing us that if we continue to lead our lives in this "destructive" way, things will come down onto our world, much as a hammer would.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
hw 12 - feed a
Feed is an allegory to modern teenage society. I think the authors goal of capturing modern teenage life through a futuristic lifestyle was accurate and understandable as it was easy to connect to the trends or digital media in which they go through.
The "feed" in the story is incredibly creative and moving because of Violet's taking. I think that the feed was created because the internet, chatting, and media is entirely on today's teenagers' minds. We almost have what is known to the book as the feed, only it isnt linked to our brains. We have blackberrys and Sidekicks that do almost all of those things only it isnt as high-tech as the feed is.
The feed was designed to make people smarter and have unlimited resources in they're hands. Not knowing what something was meant at that same second you could research it or define a word or find the answer to any question, ultimately something like that should make you smarter, except those kids were using they're resources for teen fads and going "mal". To be able to define words in a second made them lazier and never remembering them because they were never going anywhere, and when they're feeds were down they couldnt even carry a conversation on they're own, not being told what to say made them lost.
The "feed" in the story is incredibly creative and moving because of Violet's taking. I think that the feed was created because the internet, chatting, and media is entirely on today's teenagers' minds. We almost have what is known to the book as the feed, only it isnt linked to our brains. We have blackberrys and Sidekicks that do almost all of those things only it isnt as high-tech as the feed is.
The feed was designed to make people smarter and have unlimited resources in they're hands. Not knowing what something was meant at that same second you could research it or define a word or find the answer to any question, ultimately something like that should make you smarter, except those kids were using they're resources for teen fads and going "mal". To be able to define words in a second made them lazier and never remembering them because they were never going anywhere, and when they're feeds were down they couldnt even carry a conversation on they're own, not being told what to say made them lost.
HW 11 - Self experiment 1
For my self-experimentation i had decided to go with digital fasting, not entirely but with certain digital devices. The reason i had decided to fast was because i was sort of forced to go that route, as my cellphone was shut off for a week and my ipod the battery shorted out. I were in school not texting people or fiddling with my cellphone, actually paying attention a small percentage more than before. I started to read my "feed" book everywhere i went on the trains and i actually finished it when told to only go up to 210. i personally consider this a huge goal for myself seeing how i haven't finished a novel in probably two years. No cellphone meant i was in bed earlier not texting hours into the night. I still kept up my television habit and aiming/fb, but i 'on those sites any longer than i normally would due to me being phone less.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
HW 8 - comments
Jin's video...
good stuff. i liked how you made your video showing two different perspectives. You allowed the viewers to see both what you are seeing and how you are viewed by them while actually doing the activities. You said in your text that you thought it was creepy to see yourself speaking so you stood quiet (haha) that allowed me to check out your faciall expressions reacting to you on Facebook. It seemed to me as though only reading facebook updates and feeds was boring yet you chose to continue to do so instead of changing the website or activities all together. I like how you said you dont like how you spend your time on facebook when you can be out connecting with your "community" yet you being on facebook becoming aware of all of your friends/family's news helps you stay ahead of what is happening within your own personal community without having to leave your home. i think that it is sometimes easier to do it this way. If i wanted to connect with my own community myself without going out i guess i could turn on my television set to a decent channel and not my usual picks of sitcoms and whatnot. Or visit news-related websites like Yahoo or CNN instead of constanly on social-networking sites. Some ideas i can throw by you to help further your future blog posts are to include maybe small clips of you actually doing the activities you mentioned like playing the wii. It was a great video. the link to the website really screamed creativity.
elias's video...
Good stuff. i liked how you pretended to not be on camera the entire time (haha). I liked how you moved from activity to activity in very little time, getting everything you needed done swiftly. This shows me, through the eyes of a first-time viewer not an average friend, that you are used to being on those digital devices very much and that you spend much time on them to be able to multi-task so easily. I liked your point in your text that stated you like that school and homework keep you distracted from wasting your time from things like web-browsing. But imagine if in your video you spent the computer time actually getting school work done, Me as a viewer would never be the wiser. It was funny to see that what you were doing on Facebook was visiting MY profile (lol). Overall it was a decent film, short and expressive. Good stuff.
good stuff. i liked how you made your video showing two different perspectives. You allowed the viewers to see both what you are seeing and how you are viewed by them while actually doing the activities. You said in your text that you thought it was creepy to see yourself speaking so you stood quiet (haha) that allowed me to check out your faciall expressions reacting to you on Facebook. It seemed to me as though only reading facebook updates and feeds was boring yet you chose to continue to do so instead of changing the website or activities all together. I like how you said you dont like how you spend your time on facebook when you can be out connecting with your "community" yet you being on facebook becoming aware of all of your friends/family's news helps you stay ahead of what is happening within your own personal community without having to leave your home. i think that it is sometimes easier to do it this way. If i wanted to connect with my own community myself without going out i guess i could turn on my television set to a decent channel and not my usual picks of sitcoms and whatnot. Or visit news-related websites like Yahoo or CNN instead of constanly on social-networking sites. Some ideas i can throw by you to help further your future blog posts are to include maybe small clips of you actually doing the activities you mentioned like playing the wii. It was a great video. the link to the website really screamed creativity.
elias's video...
Good stuff. i liked how you pretended to not be on camera the entire time (haha). I liked how you moved from activity to activity in very little time, getting everything you needed done swiftly. This shows me, through the eyes of a first-time viewer not an average friend, that you are used to being on those digital devices very much and that you spend much time on them to be able to multi-task so easily. I liked your point in your text that stated you like that school and homework keep you distracted from wasting your time from things like web-browsing. But imagine if in your video you spent the computer time actually getting school work done, Me as a viewer would never be the wiser. It was funny to see that what you were doing on Facebook was visiting MY profile (lol). Overall it was a decent film, short and expressive. Good stuff.
Friday, October 2, 2009
HW 10
The first website i read on, was saying the cellphone use causes cancer, which was the links main argument. They also mentioned how it can also change your DNA physically through your body, by rearranging strands. They said that the radiation coming from cellphones are invisible and yet they are small amounts that run through signals and incoming/outcoming waves.
The second link i read about was saying that out of the entire world, approximately 6 billion people total, 4 billion human beings have personal cellphones. The U.S. seems to be one of the most concerned countries when directing safety from constant cellphone use. I guess Americans have a larger cellphone addiction than we realized.
The third website i ran into talked more about how cellphone radiation is more of a scare than anything. Cancer can literally come from anywhere so why judge cellphones. All websites agreed that radiation comes through different forms. This website was the one to mention how there is also good radiation in this world too, such as daylight. Yet there are still some that can drastically kill you, there are even science terms used for the type of exposure found, for the good and the bad.
(website 1)
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/health/sfl-cell-phone-risks-091609,0,4780750.story
(website 2)
http://detroitnews.com/article/20090916/LIFESTYLE03/909160366/1013/Tips-to-cut-potential-cell-phone-risks
(website 3)
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/are-cell-phones-harmful-to-young-children/
The second link i read about was saying that out of the entire world, approximately 6 billion people total, 4 billion human beings have personal cellphones. The U.S. seems to be one of the most concerned countries when directing safety from constant cellphone use. I guess Americans have a larger cellphone addiction than we realized.
The third website i ran into talked more about how cellphone radiation is more of a scare than anything. Cancer can literally come from anywhere so why judge cellphones. All websites agreed that radiation comes through different forms. This website was the one to mention how there is also good radiation in this world too, such as daylight. Yet there are still some that can drastically kill you, there are even science terms used for the type of exposure found, for the good and the bad.
(website 1)
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/health/sfl-cell-phone-risks-091609,0,4780750.story
(website 2)
http://detroitnews.com/article/20090916/LIFESTYLE03/909160366/1013/Tips-to-cut-potential-cell-phone-risks
(website 3)
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/are-cell-phones-harmful-to-young-children/
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