I chose to look at the keyword Gaze with my story map. I specifically looked at the concept of the male gaze as a frame of references for not only understanding the concept of gaze as a whole, but as a point of references for understanding several types of “gazes”. I did this by specifically examining several types of media… Read more »
As the keyword article suggests surveillance and technology are deeply intertwined. As more aspects our our everyday lives become digitized, opportunities for surveillance through these means increase. On example of this is through social media. Social media encourages users to do things like share their location through geotags, geofilters and things like “Snap Map”, a page on the snap map… Read more »
When discussing the concept of gaze in media studies a certain Margaret Atwood quote comes to mind. The quote is from her book The Robber Bride and is thought provoking and perhaps in some ways self-aware. It reads as follows, “Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s… Read more »
The most interesting line from this reading for me was the following : “The 1970s TV viewer was a relatively anonymous part of a one- way ideological system functioning largely at a macro level, but the 2010s social media user is constantly registered, addressed, and compelled to participate as a series of discrete and distributed data points.” This line details… Read more »
The text on assemblages provides a interesting lens towards dissecting the media that we frequently interact with. Using this lens forces us to pick apart the individual pieces that come together to make a large “assemblage” or platform such as YouTube. On the Youtube platform there are many what the text calls “arrangements of humans and nonhumans” all of these… Read more »
The reading on “Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People”, describes the process of setting up an “agent” in the form of a Google alert. This alert allows the user to have the “agent” report back to them through email when a new item matching their predetermined search words appears. To me this interaction between the human counterpart and… Read more »
Infrastructure tends to be made to be invisible. In terms of physical infrastructure we tend not to notice the roads and bridges we drive across when their exists melds seamlessly with our own. However, if our roads are full of potholes we will be forced to be more consciously aware of our infrastructure. The same can be said of the… Read more »
At its origin Facebook attempted to be a digitalization of the social networks that exists in many parts of our lives, including the college campus where Facebook made its genesis. Facebook manages to recreate some of the hierarchy found in traditional networks, by creating status through the amount of followers an individual may have or how many likes they receive… Read more »
The current relationship between the average consumer of digital products and services has a complex relationship with their data. One on hand, giving up some of your personal data in order to gain a better more personalized experience seems like a fair trade off. However, I think a lot of people, myself included, have a poor understanding of just how… Read more »
The Cudamani performance was a visual and musical performance by a Balinese music and dance ensemble. The performance used elaborate costumes, gamelan, and dance to express a variety of stories from Balinese culture. One concept that I felt I better understood through this performance was that of identity. As it is one of the main themes of… Read more »