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  1. Nov 2015
    1. For example, teens will share “Happy Birthday” messages or bored notes where they ask others what they’re doing openly because they don’t see these particular interactions as having much significance. The sum of interactions that they have online appear to be much more public because teens don’t go out of their way to make minutiae private.

      It's true in the world we live in today many teens think that posting red solo cups online is okay and that they will never get caught or in trouble. When in reality posting red solo cups with people in it can cause a great deal of damage to peoples lives in the work force.

    2. eens’ desire for privacy does not undermine their eagerness to participate in public.

      Relating this to Snapchat is very relatable. Most young adults have a snapchat, and with snapchat a a person can post a "story" that is shown to their friends on snapchat. Although snapchat may be secretive in a way when just sending photos that disappear within seconds, snapchat stories are public for everyone on his/her friends list to see.

    3. Many teens feel as though they’re in a no-win situation when it comes to sharing information online: damned if they publish their personal thoughts to public spaces, and damned if they create private space that parents can’t see.

      No matter how a person creates their profile on a social media website, they are still not private. There is no privacy anywhere anymore. Whether or not I am private on Instagram, I'm really not because there is somehow a way to see my photos even if I am private, if it were necessary.

    4. Social media plays a crucial role in the lives of networked teens. Although the specific technologies change, they collectively provide teens with a space to hang out and connect with friends.

      I find it funny the author says "hang out" when writing about social media. Usually when I hear the word hang out, I think of hanging out with my friends at her house watching a movie. It's interesting that social media is literally related to everything now.

    5. glorified camera plus coordination device.

      When a certain event is going on, like a birthday, event or Holiday we use our phones to capture every minute of this event. It is how our world works now, which to me is a positive thing because I love taking photos of absolutely everything.

    6. Meanwhile, most of the student body was seated in the stands. They were decked out in the school colors, many even having painted their faces in support.

      This reminds me of my high school, when an event was going on the kids were more interested in themselves and friends rather than what was going on. When the Homecoming Court was presented at my high school we really only cared about who the queen was not about the fun facts that were said about them.

  2. Oct 2015
    1. Social change memes like the grass mud horse and Batman vs Pandaman represent a rift in the singular media environment, but so do many other media forms, like blog posts and simple status updates. I believe one reason memes resonate specifically is that they turn the tools and methods of state propaganda against itself

      Memes are a fantastic way for people to show the feelings and emotions toward a specific subject. Blog posts and memes do have a lot in common it just isn't obvious. Memes make something serious into something that the world can relate to.

    2. In China, we must understand social change memes as a form of citizen media, a small reclamation of power contra state media.

      In other countries besides America their culture is different relating to memes, Facebook, or Instagram. People from different cultures take different pictures, use different hashtags and also different memes.

    3. After exploring how social change memes evade censorship, it is difficult to deny their power and beauty. But why are they compelling? I argue that these memes reflect an important form of social change, a broadening of the visual language of dissent through a key form of the creative vernacular of the internet.

      Once a meme is showed to the world there is no taking it back. Also, it is a hit and miss with a meme. There are thousands and thousands of memes out in the world yet some make it viral and some are just on the internet. Memes show the internet a different side of social media, it is not just a plane picture yet it has text and states the point whether it be funny or serious.

    1. A great number of Facebook users were transmitting these kinds of images through their profile pictures, but the images did not reliably retain the information embedded in the original. In other words, if a viewer did not know an image with two objects on a red square background had originally been intended to show support for marriage equality, many of the images shown in Figure 4 would not necessarily have tipped that viewer off.

      There are many ways to incorporate a symbolic meaning/logos into something that is saying the same thing, but in a totally different way. How do people come up with such creative ideas?? For example, Google search creates different logos for different movements or corporations, and they are very creative.

    2. The rhetorical concept of kairos, or timeliness, refers to a moment in time that is just right for communication to happen. In the kairotic moment, the time is right, the audience receptive, and the communicator ready. Kairos is part of a cultural ecology that encompasses “rhetorical circumstances and exigencies, which include the orientations of both speaker and listeners, the moment, the place, and so forth”

      The word Kairos symbolizes being somewhere at the perfect time. It is the supreme moment. I do think memes can have their "5 minutes of fame" but also last a long long time after this which is interesting.

    3. The Human Rights Campaign has relied on a simple logo — a blue square featuring a yellow equal sign inside — since 1995 as an immediately recognizable symbol representing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

      This symbol is used in great ways but also in degrading ways, which is a shame. Why exactly is it just an equal sign to symbolize such a huge movement in the world? I've always wondered why the symbol isn't something more interesting like the the VW Car Symbol or Breast Cancer.

    1. I spend any time I possibly can collecting dots. I never have time to connect the dots except when I am bored. So is there any value to being bored, to zoning out any time? Does your brain need that, or am I just a bit of a relic?

      I think it is important to become bored when multitasking. A persons brain can only be focused for so long, it is hard to stay concentrated! I often times beat myself up for how bored I get when learning something, but then I remind myself it is normal and okay, and then I check social media and beat myself up even more. What did people do before social media???

    2. Who invented it? Never occurred to me there was a person who invented it. And there was, and it’s a great story. His name was Frederick J. Kelly, and in 1914, he knew that we were facing a national emergency, World War I. Men are in Europe at the front. Women are working in the factories.

      It's true, I never stop and think oh who's that guy that invented the computer again? It rarely crosses my mind that 100 years ago, there were no computers. No one read a book online, they read hard-back books. It is crazy how the the internet has literally changed the world.

    3. A recent study of productivity, just in the last couple of weeks, showed that, in fact, people who are constantly using social networks while they’re at work, or doing Facebook while they’re at work, or switching back and forth, think they’re less productive.

      I don't remember the last time I was doing homework and didn't check Facebook or Instagram 30 minutes into my homework. It's sad, really how addictive social media sites are.

    1. Finally, crap detection takes us back, full circle, to the literacy of attention. When I assign my students to set up an RSS reader or a Twitter account, they panic. They ask how they are supposed to keep up with the overwhelming flood of information. I explain that social media is not a queue; it's a flow.

      This happens all the time with learning about social media. When a teacher says create this account on this website, I go into panic. I think well that sounds impossible, learning something new on the internet. Yet this isn't true, learning something new on the internet, like learning how to create an account, is in no way hard we just think it is. We forget how user friendly the internet is.

    2. My students and I carry computers that are literally millions of times more powerful than what the U.S. Department of Defense had a couple decades ago, networked at speeds millions of times faster than the first online networks.

      It blows my mind realizing how powerful our lap tops are. I sometimes need to complete a task on my computer like creating a movie for school and I never have to worry about finding a place to create it because it is at my fingertips.

    3. Many students object that they can't learn unless they are able to take notes, and I agree that taking notes is an important way to learn. But I'm not sure it's the only way.

      I often times think that teachers want to try new thinks for students to take notes, like using an online textbook but for me I can only learn with a pen and notebook in my hand. Although people are different and times are changing, I like the old fashioned way.

    1. . The recent “LOLcat” Internet meme, built so heavily upon remixing and appropriation, is a good case study to illustrate the role of remixing in Internet memes. “LOLcats” are pictures of animals, most commonly cats, with digitally superimposed text for humorous effect. Officially referred to as “image macros,” the pictures often feature “LOLspeak”, a type of broken English that enhances the amusing tone of the juxtaposition.

      Someone can make a meme out of anything and everything, that is the coolest part about memes. A meme could range from a picture of a cloud to a funny picture of a dog. Memes have been created so that anyone can make something creative.

    2. Consider what happened when a group of advertising executives sat down to discuss the concept of viral media, a conversation which demonstrates the confusion about what viral media might be, about what it is good for, and why it’s worth thinking about.

      It is interesting to think how much thought goes into creating a tweet, meme, or Facebook post that goes viral even if it is on purpose or not. So much thought goes into what goes on social media sites, especially memes because it is a hit or miss if it is going to be liked or not, if its not people can really mess up their reputation.

    3. Rather than emphasizing the direct replication of “memes,” a spreadable model assumes that the repurposing and transformation of media content adds value, allowing media content to be localized to diverse contexts of use.

      When I read the words "spreadable model" and talking about memes I think of pictures on twitter that go viral. These memes just don'y say one specific thing, instead there are hundreds of different sayings on one specific meme.

    1. Blind faith can justify anything.(7)  If a man believes in a different god, or even if he uses a different ritual for worshipping the same god, blind faith can decree that he should die -- on the cross, at the stake, skewered on a Crusader's sword, shot in a Beirut street, or blown up in a bar in Belfast. 

      If I were to put meme in this sentence instead of God it would make sense. We all look at memes differently and interpret them differently. No ones faith is the same, and no meme is the same as well.

    2. Consider the idea of God.  We do not know how it arose in the meme pool.  Probably it originated many times by independent `mutation'.  In any case, it is very old indeed.  How does it replicate itself ?  By the spoken and written word, aided by great music and great art.  Why does it have souch high survival value ? 

      This is a great comparison because the idea of God is known worldwide and is interpreted differently by every individual. Just like memes, people will interpret memes differently. People believe different things about God, just like memes. Although memes and God are two completely different subjects, they still have loads in common.

    3. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.

      It is interesting how memes are being related to science. I usually just think of science as Bio and Chem, but now it is being related to memes and pictures on the internet. Almost anything can be related, I just would never guess science and memes!

    1. We are also going to have to figure out who should be responsible when software fails.

      No one wants to be responsible for their failure or someone else failure. Guilt is a terrible feeling, and taking on guilt for failing the human race, that would be the worst situation on the planet. Someone who is a genius using their brain, and genius using their feelings and positivity is the one who will/can take responsibility.

    2. Statistically: At Google, women make up 30 percent of the company’s overall workforce, but hold only 17 percent of the company’s tech jobs. At Facebook, 15 percent of tech roles are staffed by women. At Twitter, 10 percent.

      This reminds me of back then when women were not allowed to work or they were frowned upon if they had a job. I do believe that women can do just as much as men, but this statistic is mind blowing. I would think women would hold a higher percentage!

    3. The Internet will become a lot more like TV and a lot less like the global conversation we envisioned 20 years ago.

      This is genuinely so sad to know that the internet and social media are turning into something people fear rather than something people admire. It is a scary thought that the internet is almost taking over the world in the social media aspect.

    1. So if algorithms are going to curate the world for us, if they're going to decide what we get to see and what we don't get to see, then we need to make sure that they're not just keyed to relevance. We need to make sure that they also show us things that are uncomfortable or challenging or important

      It's not right for us to just see what the internet thinks we want to see. Seeing the nasty world is something we need to know about and should not be hidden from it. Knowing about the bad world and what crisis or movements that are going on is something that needs to be known to us.

    2. But the thing is that you don't decide what gets in. And more importantly, you don't actually see what gets edited out.

      Now when we search on the internet we do not get to decide what we want to see. We have to depend on the internet to create what it thinks we need to see, it's out our range of control. If we need information about a specific topic we have to depend on the search engine and hope it comes up.

    3. Scott's results were full of them. And this was the big story of the day at that time. That's how different these results are becoming. 3:21 So it's not just Google and Facebook either. This is something that's sweeping the Web.

      This is very terrifying. Now we have to watch out what we search on the internet and if we are getting the results we actually are looking for. We are controlled on the internet worse than ever.

  3. Sep 2015
    1. The photos came from all sorts of photographers, from amateurs with camera-phones to pros with telephoto lenses. The group was mainly populated by casual contributors-most people uploaded fewer than a dozen photos-but a handful of dedicated contributors shared more than a hundred pictures each, and one user, going by the online name czarina, shared more than two hundred pho­tos on her own.

      Nowadays, anyone can take a picture of anything and make it look good. An amateurs photo can actually be better in the sense that "it tells a better story" rather than a professional.

    1. f we're so good at social life and shared effort, what ad­vantages are these tools creating?

      The tools create a world for us to share our thoughts and ideas on the web. These tools, like sharing on Facebook allow us to show people what/ who were interested in. We should be thanking the tools.

    2. But there are large groups. Microsoft, the u.S. Army, and the Catholic Church are all huge, functioning institutions. The difference between an ad hoc group and a company like Microsoft is management.

      I often times think about huge companies like Coke, Google, or Microsoft and think about how much energy is invested into these huge companies. The attention that companies like these draw in, draw us in because they know how to attract people. They are smart

    1. And it's got the black-and-white curbs that we saw in the video, and as we click through it, you can see someone's uploaded photos to go with the map, which is very handy, so we click into the photos. And the photos start showing us more detail that we can cross-reference with the video. The first thing that we see is we see black-and-white curbing, which is handy because we've seen that before. We see the distinctive railing that we saw the guys throwing the bodies over. And we keep going through it until we're certain that this is our bridge.

      The question is asked, does it exist or does it not (pictures or videos posted on social media sites)? I never realized how much research and digging went into figuring out if what a person posted on a site is real or not; I simply always wondered. Nolan does a great job in showing that he has used google maps and free internet tools to search if something that is posted it true or not.

    2. There was only one video posted to that account, and the username was Rita Krill. And we didn't know if Rita existed or if it was a fake name. But we started looking, and we used free Internet tools to do so.

      There are softwares and programs that people can use to alternate and change the way people see a video or picture. Users of social media, like me, constantly question if the picture/video is real or not. We no longer live in a world where we can trust another user. Nolan says that clients worry if a video or picture is which which is sad because it shows that no one can trust anyone on the web any longer.

    3. Everyone in the world, hypothetically, had the potential to know that an earthquake was happening in Managua. And that happened because this one person had a documentary instinct, which was to post a status update, which is what we all do now, so if something happens, we put our status update, or we post a photo, we post a video, and it all goes up into the cloud in a constant stream.

      As a social media user, we have an impulse to post what we are doing, when we are doing it, and who we are with. Social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram create more pictures and posts for the world to see every second of the day. This is a positive aspect about technology because it opens up the world for people to see when we are thousands of miles away from other people, we have the opportunity to learn and see things outside our everyday life.

    1. I’ve stopped thinking of students as people who simply make choices about whether to pay attention, and started thinking of them as people trying to pay attention but having to compete with various influences, the largest of which is their own propensity towards involuntary and emotional reaction

      Nowadays everyone always has their heads down looking at their cell phone. We are constantly looking for an updated news feed on social media sites. The author is right when he says students try to pay attention but have various other influences streaming through our heads. It is sad because it is what our society has turned into; constantly wondering what Kim Kardashian will post next. My generation has made social media (twitter, instagram) more important than learning in the classroom.

    2. Those gains never materialize; instead, efficiency is degraded. However, it provides emotional gratification as a side-effect. (Multi-tasking moves the pleasure of procrastination inside the period of work.) This side-effect is enough to keep people committed to multi-tasking despite worsening the very thing they set out to improve.

      Multitasking is rarely ever a good idea. Rather, getting one task done at a time and then moving on to another is a better idea. The author makes a great point when saying that people think multi-tasking will get things done quicker, but that isn't true. I think multi-tasking slows a person down and creates procrastination.

    1. Attention is the fundamental building block for how individuals think, how humans create tools and teach each other to use them, how groups socialize, and how people transform civilizations.

      I totally agree that attention is a main driving force for people. Attention is what makes a person do what they have to do every day. For example going to school or work requires a person to stay focused and be attentive. When we loose out attention, we loose our drive and focus from what is important.