Drinking from Digital Firehose

I enjoyed reading both these articles. In the first article I liked how Lanham was answering questions about all the mass amounts of information we get everyday and how we should handle it. I think he is correct when he says people want to share their information with others by using the web. It was also interesting how he talked about electronic books and how they are not yet there, but Sony is close.

The other article that Dr. Nichols helped write was really investing to me because it touched on points that we have gone over in class. For example, the "Is Google Making us Stupid" article. It was funny reading about that again because it was such a relevant article. Also the authors touched on the subject about aggregation and curation, which we are also learning about in class by using the internet and websites such as Pinterest and Flipboard. I also liked the student project scenarios because they gave the reader a real life picture.

Both the articles talked about the digital age we live in, and all the information that we are stimulated with on the day to day basis. It is so interesting to see how far we have come since the age of the internet has started, and it is exciting to see where we can go to.

Social Media Pintrest Board

Update

Within the past couple of weeks we have been learning so much and intaking so much new information. We have branded ourselves by having a brand voice and style sheet, we have gone onto BrandYourself and helped increase our score when it comes to social media, we have started creating our websites on weebly and will continue working on them for the rest of the semester, and lastly we have been introduced to HootSuite which is a social media hotspot, you can log onto 3 of your social medias and see everything that is happening on your feed and also send out mass updates to all channels. All this new information is useful in helping us in the real world, and I am excited to see all the new things to come for the rest of this semester, and the next.

Nosedive- Black Mirror

This episode of Black Mirror was freaky because it could potentially happen. In today's society everyone is fighting to "out do" everyone when it comes to social media. In this episode people's social "status" was all about points, and the people got points by posting cool places they've been, or what they had for breakfast. The main woman started to obsess over the amount of "points" she had, and she ended up losing them all and going to jail. The ironic thing was, when she went to jail her and another man ended up just speaking their minds back and fourth and they felt more free than they did in society. This is true in real life today! People can come off as being fake on social media just to get the popular "likes." Being on social media you really just post for others not yourself. Of course, social media is not all negative. It is such a positive and great thing how it can connect people from all over the world and bring people together. This episode just really showed the extreme of what social media can do.

Brand Yourself

I created a Brand Yourself Profile and I am going to be adding it to my social media sites. Today in class I will share my LinkedIn profile, because I feel that it is the strongest one.  I really enjoyed playing around on Brand Yourself because it showed me different ways to increase my "score." At first I thought it was going to be huge adjustments, but it had tips as simple as adding your location. I think when I graduate I might make an account on Brand Yourself, to make sure that when people search my name on Google I am coming up frequently.

Recreating pictures with cardboard camera pt.2

Recreating photos with cardboard camera