I think managing memories rhetorically comes naturally to all-as we are thinking beings. We all make the decision to manage particular memories by either keeping them in material form, digitally and or mentally. We all make the choice in which form we decide to keep them and how long we want to keep them for. Usually the memories we decide to keep- no matter where they are stored- tend to be correlated to the intensity of the feeling of the event. As time passes, the intensity of that feeling may decrease and that’s when we update our stored memories. It’s interesting to find that photographs and digital forms tend to linger longer until we come across them and if the felling is not intense anymore we discard them and or alter them.
I think having expiration dates on information on the web can be a disadvantage to our society as a whole because the purpose is to have this information accessible to us at all times either to learn from or use for the purpose of creation of new things. Having expiration dates on articles, images, digital information etc. will reduce the exponential growth of creation of new information.
This far, what I tend to delete from the web are blog posts that I created for the purpose of school. These blogs posts, I created were forced; not necessarily passionate about therefore making them not the most fun to read and feel like they do not reflect anything about me. The things that I do decide to keep tend to be interests of mine and intentionally leave them for other to use in the future.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
DTC 475 Blog Number Ten
In the book Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color Victor Villanueva, he uses the term racelessness. This term, I find very important because I think the significance of in which the term is used. This term to me refers more in the sense of a biological stand point not from a cultural stand point; or at least it should be used in that way. Racelessness should reflect more on the merging of the multi ethnicity of biological features in a person where they should not be obligated by any society to act upon their expectations; to have no choice in what we want as individuals for ourselves is frankly 19th century. People’s thoughts and opinions and rhetorical choices in how one acts, or the choice in what outfit they are wearing is nothing but a product of what the individual chooses to accept as part of who they are. For example, Yes, society is the first to look down on someone who chooses to “Act” too white if you are black and “Act” too black if you are white. What exactly does this mean? To “Act”… aren’t they nothing but stereotypes to begin with? depending of your biological traits you are expected to “Act” a certain way on someone else’s expectations, no matter what; so I say to those who get criticized for speaking, acting, or dressing a “different way”, go on and be who you want to be with no limitations! . So I challenge the use of this term!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
DTC 355 Blog Post Number Four
I will be taking from this class the foundation of CRAP principals and the importance of thinking about my creations before I create them. For example thinking about who is my audience. The study of my audience is very important because if I don’t know the culture behind the audience they will miss the message of what is being conveyed thru my work and or artwork. Also I found very interesting the significance and importance of images. Images make more of an impact that just text alone. In the use of webpages it makes a significant difference to use images in addition to the text information provided.
The comic assignment was a good exercise to teach us about storytelling and the order in which we tell things. The translation and emphasis on certain scenes to add focus and what we as the author thinks is important.
Photoshop lessons have been great! I know there are more lessons to go thru and things I would love to learn about. I would like to know how to work with vectors. It would be helpful and beneficial to work on job/project based scenarios as assignments.
I needed to check sodium count on rice krispy cereal in order to make sodium free rice krispy treats. I went to caloriecount.com on their main page I see links throughout the page. The ones that grabbed my attention the most were the advertisements. These advertisements influence to click on them the most perhaps because they have images and or video and sound and color. The link that I choose to click on was free coupons. This link is described by Burbles as “Part of something used as shorthand for the whole”. (Burbles) The relationship between the two is the word (items).
Then after I click on the coupon link I see a tab that says exercise. I click on it and it takes me to a page with more links and choices about exercise. Burbles calls this type of link a sequence cause and effect because this link "indicates real relation, not allusive ones”. (Burbles)
Cited
Burbules, Nicholas. Rheotrics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy. 102-120.Print.
http://caloriecount.about.com/?utm_medium=redirect&utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=caloriecountcom
The comic assignment was a good exercise to teach us about storytelling and the order in which we tell things. The translation and emphasis on certain scenes to add focus and what we as the author thinks is important.
Photoshop lessons have been great! I know there are more lessons to go thru and things I would love to learn about. I would like to know how to work with vectors. It would be helpful and beneficial to work on job/project based scenarios as assignments.
I needed to check sodium count on rice krispy cereal in order to make sodium free rice krispy treats. I went to caloriecount.com on their main page I see links throughout the page. The ones that grabbed my attention the most were the advertisements. These advertisements influence to click on them the most perhaps because they have images and or video and sound and color. The link that I choose to click on was free coupons. This link is described by Burbles as “Part of something used as shorthand for the whole”. (Burbles) The relationship between the two is the word (items).
Then after I click on the coupon link I see a tab that says exercise. I click on it and it takes me to a page with more links and choices about exercise. Burbles calls this type of link a sequence cause and effect because this link "indicates real relation, not allusive ones”. (Burbles)
Cited
Burbules, Nicholas. Rheotrics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy. 102-120.Print.
http://caloriecount.about.com/?utm_medium=redirect&utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=caloriecountcom
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
DTC 475 Blog Post Four
In my opinion we have always shown degrees of ourselves in different characters at all times – virtual or in “real life”. There is no separation of the two. But are we really? Bell and Bauman argue that “virtual membership is elective and selective” (Bell). Making this virtual membership no different from RL communities-we can select what we are part of and have to be accepted by selected community. For example in a RL community, a student at a university is part of the university community but in order to be part of a university athletic team that student must make the selection to tryout for their team and also be accepted and pass their tests into the team to play. See because even if I wanted to part of something sometimes you have to get an approval from that group and that includes paying or passing to be able to join and speak their lingo.
The image projected by the individual changes as you change your interaction with a certain community because of the specified language of that group it may not be just the language it self it can be broken down even to the vocabulary of a doctor as an example. I think that if you’re part of an online community you get to choose and be chosen as well for participation.
The view of an online community as being a peg community is probably true because both virtual and RL communities use the same process for participation but one is virtual and the other is in physical form.
I think I will use the following for assignment # 2:
http://www.craftforum.com/?gclid=CIW6ou2tjKQCFRL4iAodkhsbHQ
http://www.getcrafty.com/
http://forums.craftzine.com/
I chose these because I LOVE to create things and I have never participated in any online communities for crafters. Now I can take time and analyze these three to see what the similarities and differences are.
Bell, David. The Cybercultures Reader. 2nd. 1. New York, NY: Routledge,
2000. 254-63. Print.
The image projected by the individual changes as you change your interaction with a certain community because of the specified language of that group it may not be just the language it self it can be broken down even to the vocabulary of a doctor as an example. I think that if you’re part of an online community you get to choose and be chosen as well for participation.
The view of an online community as being a peg community is probably true because both virtual and RL communities use the same process for participation but one is virtual and the other is in physical form.
I think I will use the following for assignment # 2:
http://www.craftforum.com/?gclid=CIW6ou2tjKQCFRL4iAodkhsbHQ
http://www.getcrafty.com/
http://forums.craftzine.com/
I chose these because I LOVE to create things and I have never participated in any online communities for crafters. Now I can take time and analyze these three to see what the similarities and differences are.
Bell, David. The Cybercultures Reader. 2nd. 1. New York, NY: Routledge,
2000. 254-63. Print.
Monday, September 13, 2010
DTC355 Blog Post 3
Addidas
I choose this superbowl commercial to use as my example of affect transfer.
At the beginning of the video there is a brief focus on a guy wearing Addidas branded clothes but it does not feel forceful on the viewer to buy Addidas apparel. Instead they use humor and interest by the quirky event that is happening. They use originality as their main focus. Then at the end of the clip they say "Addidas" followed by "celebrate originality". This add does not tell you to buy their stuff instead they use the viewers emotional response from the unrelated event and then transferred to the product being sold, simply showing an image of their repetitive logo apparel throughout the clip, and then followed by images of the emotional event leading to their brand as the finale. “They expect that the series of messages are intended to work together constructing an overall image and set schematic relations that will convince the audience member to take the desired action.”(Hill 36)
Cited
Hill, Charles A. "The Psychology of Rhetorical Images"
Defining Visual Rhetorics. Ed. Charles A. Hill and Marguerite
Helmers. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
http://superbowl-ads.com/article_archive/?cat=81
I choose this superbowl commercial to use as my example of affect transfer.
At the beginning of the video there is a brief focus on a guy wearing Addidas branded clothes but it does not feel forceful on the viewer to buy Addidas apparel. Instead they use humor and interest by the quirky event that is happening. They use originality as their main focus. Then at the end of the clip they say "Addidas" followed by "celebrate originality". This add does not tell you to buy their stuff instead they use the viewers emotional response from the unrelated event and then transferred to the product being sold, simply showing an image of their repetitive logo apparel throughout the clip, and then followed by images of the emotional event leading to their brand as the finale. “They expect that the series of messages are intended to work together constructing an overall image and set schematic relations that will convince the audience member to take the desired action.”(Hill 36)
Cited
Hill, Charles A. "The Psychology of Rhetorical Images"
Defining Visual Rhetorics. Ed. Charles A. Hill and Marguerite
Helmers. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
http://superbowl-ads.com/article_archive/?cat=81
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
DTC 475 Post Two
Digital Divide
Waschauer suggests that the original term is "the notion of a binary divide between the haves and the have-nots". But he completely disagrees by stating that the "Digital divide is marked not only by physical access to computers and connectivity, but also by access to the additional resources that allow people to use technology well." (Warschauer)
I completely agree with him. This digital divide is not measurable- making it difficult to say exactly what it is. Waschauer mentions samples of different situations of the difficulty to get immediate access to the Internet; It could be simply the lack of time conflict, tool resources, and/ or the lack of literacy, making it more of a gray shade area than just black and white issue.
2. Can you think of any other metaphors besides the office
metaphors used with Windows and Macintosh operating systems that
might be better? How come these might work better? (150-200)
I really can’t think of other metaphors. I do understand the idea behind the status of class between the two operating systems; At a small scale there is a divide in the preference of operating system based on the standardized English language literacy capacity of the user. In other words classifying that English is the only way and the right way.
Cited
Warschauer, M. (2002). Conceptualizing the digital divide. Retrieved August 31, 2010 from http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/967/888
Selfe, C, & Selfe, R. (1994). The Politics of the interface: power and its exercise in electronic. Electronic Contact Zones College Composition and Communication, 45(4), Retrieved from http://www.paulmuhlhauser.org/475/Readings/interface.pdf
Waschauer suggests that the original term is "the notion of a binary divide between the haves and the have-nots". But he completely disagrees by stating that the "Digital divide is marked not only by physical access to computers and connectivity, but also by access to the additional resources that allow people to use technology well." (Warschauer)
I completely agree with him. This digital divide is not measurable- making it difficult to say exactly what it is. Waschauer mentions samples of different situations of the difficulty to get immediate access to the Internet; It could be simply the lack of time conflict, tool resources, and/ or the lack of literacy, making it more of a gray shade area than just black and white issue.
2. Can you think of any other metaphors besides the office
metaphors used with Windows and Macintosh operating systems that
might be better? How come these might work better? (150-200)
I really can’t think of other metaphors. I do understand the idea behind the status of class between the two operating systems; At a small scale there is a divide in the preference of operating system based on the standardized English language literacy capacity of the user. In other words classifying that English is the only way and the right way.
Cited
Warschauer, M. (2002). Conceptualizing the digital divide. Retrieved August 31, 2010 from http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/967/888
Selfe, C, & Selfe, R. (1994). The Politics of the interface: power and its exercise in electronic. Electronic Contact Zones College Composition and Communication, 45(4), Retrieved from http://www.paulmuhlhauser.org/475/Readings/interface.pdf
Monday, August 30, 2010
DTC 355 Post Two
My name is Maribel Madison and this is my embarrasing story.
About ten years ago when I was in high school, I used be part of the cheerleading team at Kennewick High School. Every year the team participated at the Benton Franklin County Fair Children’s Day, and we would do a short 3 minute performance.
The first three years of high school memory performances at the fair are a complete blur to me except for my senior year in high school. It was a hot Wednesday afternoon. I was wearing the typical cheerleading uniform: a short pleated skirt, spankies- what looks like boyshorts - and a thick restricting shirt known as a shell. The usual routine before a performance for the team was to check each other and make sure you were wearing the right attire as sometimes there was miscommunication between the girls and some end up wearing the wrong uniform. For others it could have been simply overdoing their make-up and needed a little assistance from a fellow cheerleader. The purpose of this routine was to keep us all uniformed.
This year’s fair performance started no different than the rest. I felt a little nervous in the huddle as I visualized the entire cheer routine in my head- making sure I had it down. The last few seconds before we went on stage for the performance, I bent over to make sure my cheer shoes were tied. I did not want to embarrass myself in front of the crowd by tripping on my laces. While I was so busy concerned with my laces, a bee stung me right on my butt cheek- making it swollen and red the size of an apple.
I knew it was an extremely short notice to be removed from the performance or for someone to swap spots with me, and- of course- I was in the front center. Shortly I hear the crowd cheering us on. The music begins! All the cheerleaders move to their positions and I move rapidly to mine. I pulled through the entire routine with pain and a familiar smile that you had seen on the movie “Bring It On”. And NO! this smile was not an intentional one. I was trying so hard not to show my pain.
After the performance, I told my coach what had happened to me. She took a look and ended up sending me to first-aid to get an ice pack. I spent the rest of the day walking around the fair with my friends and an ice pack on my swollen derrière. Despite the pain and discomfort, I was not about to let a stinging bee ruin my day.
#2 the dangers of amplification through simplification is that "As we continue to simplify our image. We are moving further and further from the "real" face of the photo(4. My understanding that these simplified images become one exaggerated layer of the entire picture. And the question is did the right one get represented? which to me becomes the danger in the simplification.
McCloud, Scott. The Vocabulary of Comics. Print.
About ten years ago when I was in high school, I used be part of the cheerleading team at Kennewick High School. Every year the team participated at the Benton Franklin County Fair Children’s Day, and we would do a short 3 minute performance.
The first three years of high school memory performances at the fair are a complete blur to me except for my senior year in high school. It was a hot Wednesday afternoon. I was wearing the typical cheerleading uniform: a short pleated skirt, spankies- what looks like boyshorts - and a thick restricting shirt known as a shell. The usual routine before a performance for the team was to check each other and make sure you were wearing the right attire as sometimes there was miscommunication between the girls and some end up wearing the wrong uniform. For others it could have been simply overdoing their make-up and needed a little assistance from a fellow cheerleader. The purpose of this routine was to keep us all uniformed.
This year’s fair performance started no different than the rest. I felt a little nervous in the huddle as I visualized the entire cheer routine in my head- making sure I had it down. The last few seconds before we went on stage for the performance, I bent over to make sure my cheer shoes were tied. I did not want to embarrass myself in front of the crowd by tripping on my laces. While I was so busy concerned with my laces, a bee stung me right on my butt cheek- making it swollen and red the size of an apple.
I knew it was an extremely short notice to be removed from the performance or for someone to swap spots with me, and- of course- I was in the front center. Shortly I hear the crowd cheering us on. The music begins! All the cheerleaders move to their positions and I move rapidly to mine. I pulled through the entire routine with pain and a familiar smile that you had seen on the movie “Bring It On”. And NO! this smile was not an intentional one. I was trying so hard not to show my pain.
After the performance, I told my coach what had happened to me. She took a look and ended up sending me to first-aid to get an ice pack. I spent the rest of the day walking around the fair with my friends and an ice pack on my swollen derrière. Despite the pain and discomfort, I was not about to let a stinging bee ruin my day.
#2 the dangers of amplification through simplification is that "As we continue to simplify our image. We are moving further and further from the "real" face of the photo(4. My understanding that these simplified images become one exaggerated layer of the entire picture. And the question is did the right one get represented? which to me becomes the danger in the simplification.
McCloud, Scott. The Vocabulary of Comics. Print.
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