Chapter 3 Serial Selfies: Key Terms and Main Ideas 

•  Cumulative Self-presentation: digital self-presentation and self-reflection is cumulative rather presented as a definitive whole.  
•  Self-Representation: a filter built into our software and machines, they are also influenced by culture filters 
• The Lapse Video: video of photos Agree Lee uploaded and had taken of herself every day for three years. 

• Automatic portraits: fully automatic photo booths were early as the 1890s (Pellicer 2010, 16). – self- portraits were a perfect surrealist method and many self-portraits taken by surrealists having been preserved. – digital self-representation of the diary written bit by bit over period 
• Selfie time lapse camera and pictures: that will remind you to take your daily photo, help you line up your camera, so your face is positioned the same in each image and automatically generate a video of your daily selfie 

         Chapter 3 Serial Selfies: Commentary 

Chapter 3 was my favorite and was very accurate in my opinion. Jill Walker Rettberg talks about serial and cumulative, it’s about looking at an individual post, or only sells us part cool to read only to tell us part of the story. Tinger, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat it’s easy to make yourself look like something you’re not. People love using filters and that’s half the story, and that brings in the self-representation and the self- presentation argument about which means what to someone. They now a days hide behind filters and other social media, like to present an image. People aren’t confident in their selves that’s why they need assurance form the rest of the world. I know a lot of people who are just existing on social media and not lengthy may act like everything is ok, but their life is usually a mess. 

Chapter 3 Serial Selfies: Making Connections 

In the text “Seeing Through Technology”, chapter 3 talks about how social media genres are cumulative and serial. She said looking at the individual post, tweet, status update or selfie tells us only part of the history. I agree with her when she said (paraphrasing) people now a days hide behind filters and other social media, like to present an image. The author talks about Self-Representation, a filter built into our software and machines, they are also influenced by culture filters. Now a days in 2019 I feel this is at an all-time high and a lot of people hide real life problems behind filters and social media. The author also talks about The Lapse Video. A video of photos Agree Lee uploaded and had taken of herself every day for three years. This is still used today on YouTube and iPhones have a special feature that also can make time lapse videos. 

CITE: Jill Walker Rettberg (2014). Seeing Ourselves Through Technology. 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 

Chapter 2 Filtered Reality: Key Terms and Main Ideas 

•  Filters–  an anslyrical term to understamd algorithmic culture. – we filter our photoes and our news all the time. – Technological culture or cognitive or they can be a combination of these photoes, instagram, snap and other social media. – Filters have become an important part of popular visiual culture. A process where something is removed. – can get cloged up and clogged up over time 

•  Technological and cultural filters– Visual filters we apply to our photographs, the technoligical filters we apply to out blogs and other social media and culture filters. – Technological filters allow us to express outselves in certain ways but not in others. – Cultural filters are as important as technological filters. – the rules and conventions that guide us. – Fillers out possible modes 

• Choosing what technology can do– Iphones can count out stepss with M7 or M8 sensors. 
• Aestheticising, anesthetsing, and defarmiliarising-  atestheticing the day is an goal methd to become mindful of daily expectations. 

Chapter 2 Filtered Reality: Commentary 

In the reading “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” chapter 2, it talks about how Walker explained filters and how we used them in our daily lives. Filters has always been a-part of our world no matter the era.  They analytical term to understand algorithmic culture. Us as humans will always filter out the parts in their life that does matter without even noticing. My main two examples the spoke about was the coffee or the photos. Reading this article brought new aspect of thinking and on how filters affect us. My point of view on filters can be broken down into complex topics and reasons on how we filter our lives. Us as humans can filter out simple pictures to make us look better or we can filter out our news and get what we want to see. I feel filters have helped humans see and hear what they want. 

Chapter 2 Filtered Reality: Making Connections 

Filters in a broader social aspect shows exactly how much and how long we have been using filters. We filter our photos and our news all the time. I feel filters have helped create confidence because it blocks out all your imperfections. Technological culture and cognitive are combination of these photos, Instagram, snap and other social media. I use these apps every day and didn’t realize how much I use filters and how much they apply to my life. Another thing I likes and can connect with in the text is iPhone. I have an iPhone and I can set it to tell me how many steps I put in in in one day. Visual filters we apply to our photographs, and the technological filters we apply to out blogs and other social media and culture filters.  Technological filters allow us to express ourselves in certain ways but not in others. 

CITE: Jill Walker Rettberg (2014). Seeing Ourselves Through Technology. 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 

Chapter 1 Written, Visual, and Self-Representations: Key Terms and Main Idea 

• Three distinct modes of self-representation: Written, visual and quantitative. -Each mode has separate history 
• Writing about the self (written): Augustine’s “Confessions” written in 397-8 CE was the first autobiography. -people rarely wrote about oneself in 16^th century. -b 30% of the population were literate in the early 17^th century, then 70%-90% in the 19^th century. – First English language autobiography was “The Book of Margery Kempe” by Margery Kempe in 1373.  
• Visual self-portraits in history: self-portraits became cool collectors’ items and used as body art. – self-portraits showed still more fragmented versions of the self, tending to conceal.  
• History of quantitative self-representation: self-representation is a number, list, map, and graphs. – written autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries are self-representation and aesthetics. – Quantitative self-representation is pre- or post-narrative. 

• Text or people: Self representation with digital technologies is a form of self-documentation. –  

Chapter 1 Written, Visual, and Self-Representations: Making Connections 

In Jill Walker Rutberg’s “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology”, chapter one talks about the three self-representations. I feel this connects to me because I use social media for self-gratification. I know I am confident but the dopamine that I receive taking a selfie. How we see ourselves does shows in our social media today. A lot of people feel they must put up a fake image for people to like them or just to get some likes. This is an example of self-representations. I participate in quantitative self-representation without even knowing it. Self-representation is a number, list, map, and graphs. Written autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries are self-representation and aesthetics. Written self-representation are more common because the literacy rate is higher than ever, Augustine’s “Confessions” written in 397-8 CE was the first autobiography. People rarely wrote about oneself in 16^th century -b 30% of the population were literate in the early 17^th century, then 70%-90% in the 19^th century. The first English language autobiography was “The Book of Margery Kempe” by Margery Kempe in 1373. 

  Chapter 1 Written, Visual, and Self-Representations: Commentary 

In Jill Walker Rutberg’s “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology”, chapter one she talks about the text or people self-representation with digital technologies is a form of self-documentation. I never keep my photos not one. I feel a memory is best lived in the moment and stored in your mental rolodex. How could a picture I no longer have be a documentation of my-self? In the section Writing about the self the author talks about Augustine’s “Confessions” written in 397-8 CE was the first autobiography. -people rarely wrote about oneself in 16^th century. -b 30% of the population were literate in the early 17^th century, then 70%-90% in the 19^th century. – First English language autobiography was “The Book of Margery Kempe” by Margery Kempe in 1373.  I didn’t know there where so many illiterate people in the 16^th centry. I also feel there should have been more self-assessment prices during that time regardless of that. I know people still wanted to write.  

CITE: Jill Walker Rettberg (2014). Seeing Ourselves Through Technology. 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 

How to Read Like a Writer by Mike Bunn: Key Terms and Main Ideas 

•  Mikes inspiration– He found out that reading in a way, it could also make him a better writer 
• What Does It Mean to Read Like A Writer– Identifying some of the choices might arise in our writing – Examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text 
• Goals- To carefully consider the choices the author made and the technique that he or she used. -decide whether you want to make those same choices or use those same techniques 
• How Is RLW Different From “Normal” Reading? – Figure out how the text you are reading was constructed so that you learn how to build  
• Why learn Reading Like A Writer? – it can help you understand how the process of a writing is a series of making choices – it can help you recognize important decisions you might face 
• What Should You Be Writing as You Are Reading? – highlight and underline the passage in the text its self- try to answer the following three questions on my notebook 

How to Read Like a Writer: Analysis 

After reading  How to Read like a Writer by Mike Bunn, I realized I don’t ask myself enough questions when reading, and I honestly don’t annotate nearly enough as I should. I’ve often been accustomed to casually reading, with no other thought than the acceptance of what’s in front of me. Reading like a writer isn’t just accepting, it’s questioning to better understand the text. It’s taking what is learned and then applying it to our own works and after reading I have a better understanding of what “reading like a writer” is and will work towards making this tactic a common thought process while reading anything from now on. Taking notice of new and different techniques of the texts I read will help me when I write works of my own. Reading like a writer will make me think more about the decisions I make as a writer as well as the decisions other writers make in their own works. It will certainly open my mind more and will lead to a more enjoyable reading experience. 

How to Read Like a Writer: Commentary 

In How to Read Like a Writer, I learned how to properly read educational pieces of literature.  Mark Bunn takes his readers step-by step in his process of analyzing literature, including its purpose, genre, type, context, and language.  Throughout the essay, he describes how one might analyze such things, and in the last couple of sections, he gave good solid examples by analyzing his own work. He encourages his readers to think about how they might improve pieces of literature, and rather that would be an improvement for someone with higher standards than the reader. He mentioned that readers must ask plenty of questions, though there are no correct questions that are versatile enough to apply to every piece of literature. He finally concluded the essay by trying to encourage his readers to go out into the world and read like a writer in whatever they   

Cite: Mike Bunn (2017) How to Read Like a Writer This Essay is a chapter in Writing Spaces: Reading On Writing, Volume 2 a peer revied open textbook series for thenwriting class room. http://writingspace.org/essays

Why Blog?: Key Terms and Main Idea 

• Why Blog?-  Unfortunatly, decades of research suggest extrinsic motivation can actually hurt our performance.  -A blog is an excellent opportunity for exploring and developing intrinsic motivation for writing. – A blog is an excellent opportunity for exploring and developing intrinsic motivation for writing. – Blog will need to come from inside and discover such motivation not only for writing but I general. Motivation for your academic writing and later into writing as a professional. 
• What Is A Blog Or Better What is Your Blog? –  Different kinds of blogs depends on content. -Public diaies, amature journalism or political views. – Specific interest. – Something that will discuss my journey in English 1117. 
• A Sample of Popular Blogs- The Huffington Post, Mashable, Tech Crunch, Gizmodo, Engaged, and more. 

• Discovering What to Write- Class Blog– the student and the instructor post common blog on the subject. – Individual Reading or Learning blog- Write specifically about the topic of the course or reflecting or a learning experience. – Class Team Blog- Update your blog on the classes project and progress in that class. – Individual Blog- autonomy writing.  

• Some Technical Advice on Building A Blog – These sites will place advertising on your blog instead of free blog. – You might learn about CSS and other elements of web design. – Show how to create a URL. 

Why Blog?: Commentary 

In the “Why Blog?” post the author Alex Reid talks about the benefits of blogging. He feels blogging is an excellent opportunity for exploring and developing motivation for writing. I feel everything has a benefit, even the worst things. So, I can see how he feels blogging will make you a better writer. It will allow you to think different then you would in other writing and reading classes. Alex also talks about how you control the length of your writing, subject matter, timing and all characteristics of your writing. This my personal favorite because it different from other teachers’ regular style of learning. It allows you to have more fun with your writing and thinking. Over all the author believes that blogging will increase your writing abilities and make you enjoy writing. After reading this post I am more excited about our blog journey. 

Why Blog?: Analysis 

In the article “Why Blog?” they show an example of a study determining what makes you an expert. According to Malcom Gladwell it takes 10000 hours of dedicated time to perfect a craft or profession. Just because you put that many hours into an activity, hobby, or life ambition that does not mean you will be good at it let alone a professional. I know people who have been practicing basketball for over 35 years and put in the time to “be a professional” but they still suck. To master something, you need more internal motivation. This article states that external motivation can hurt you. I 100 percent disagree with that because all my life’s motivation and achievements came from external motivation. I do agree that a blog a new way to learn but I don’t agree with it. I would rather have a format, and not such a free-lance writing assignment. Blogs are good for expressing your feelings, but I don’t like it for classes just because it’s so different. I feel like it will motivate me to be a better writer. 

Imagining the Blogosphere: Kety Terms and Main Ideas 

• What Happens to Old Blogs?- the public blogs are abandoned, 1.09 of which only have one post (Perseus Development Company, 2003) 
• The whole of blogs are like an “iceberg”- huge, with only a small part of the whole easily seen 
• Blogs are not a community as they are so often idealized to be; instead, there are few conversational groups, with all bloggers outside of groups being solitary 
• Different Kinds Of Bloging – There are different forms of blogging, each of which have different community values 
• Mass Ceremony – The individuals receive information relevant to their lives within the national community. 
• When one partakes in ‘mass ceremony’, the others partaking in the ceremony can only be imagined 
• Blogosphere Journalism – It provides a shifting two sided news form revolving around the imaginary communities of the Blogosphere. 
• News blogs give personal, uncensored accounts of current events; they keep stories ‘alive’. 
• ‘Filtering – It allows for the most active blogs to be easily seen and accessed. 
• News blogging benefits over traditional print news by being limitless, in terms both of human production and resources. 
• Blogging is digital divide is the dominance of the English language.  

Imagining the Blogosphere: Making Connections 

I see blogs as place for artist and people that are bored to share ideas and images. One popular blog I think that fits well would be social media . I’ve made many different accounts in my life so far . I have always loved social media. Even to this day this day I have over 5 different social media out lets. I enjoyed reading people comments and post. I also love catching up with old friends and watching them thrive in life. A regally and most picture blogs like “Big Media” it will be one of those ancestors’ apps like Facebook. Coming back to the “Big Media” audience, there will be those artist people and people bored so those people will keep those apps going so it won’t full die, but it will be less mentioned from the public eye. I personally like reading a lot of newspapers and articles then most personal pieces about their ideas on major topics that aren’t relevant or as important.  

Imagining the Blogosphere: Analysis 

In the article Lampa talks about blogs are not a community as they are so often idealized to be; instead, there are few conversational groups, with all bloggers outside of groups being solitary. I feel the blogging community is one big family. Everyone that has similar interests will meet. That’s the beauty of a blog you never know what topic you will find. To say the blogging community is non-existent is almost inhumane and inconsiderate to all the bloggers. After reading this article, I have not only gained insight of blogging and the blogosphere, but also insight on myself. For starters, I never realized the amount of those that do not update their blogs, and those to the extent to never return to their very own blogs. After reading about the research and surveys mentioned in the article, I could not stop thinking about how it accurately related to me. The article mentioned that the average abandoned blog only lasts about four months. I instantly thought about this blog. I only created one purely for this class. In one months’, time, I would not come back to use this again.  

Sources: Lampa, Graham. Into the Blogosphere – University of Minnesota. conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/172275.