christian said...
Kiana,
I agree with your post that that Telivision and Videogames do make us a smarter person even though in our society people look at it in a different eye. They look at as a total negative because of the outer body experience that most people endure. Even though that could happen, it doesn't mean we're not learning, we're just more foucused on what we're watching than anything else. But then they would argue that we would be oblivious to the world! Hell no, they have educational shows about the world, we could be watching that shit. And Books! Books should be counted in as they same proposed threat Tv and videogames have because the only change we're doing, is having our eyes strained to read words. In Tv and videogames, are eyes strain to look at the screen.
One question I have for you though, is how do you think "Feed" and "Everything bad is good for you" try to portray the same message, or had something incommon? I said that both authors had it down when we couldn't understand something complex, so we have something digitaly explained to us. Check my blog for that one if you'd like.
Overall I enjoyed your post, and the similarities between videogame simulations helping you at driving school. I look foward to more blogs you post about this arguement of how digital technology is good for us.
October 27, 2009 7:07 PM
christian said...
Yurelis,
I agree with you entirely that "Feed" can be considered a mirror under Bert Brehct quote "Art is not a Mirror with which to reflect the World. It is a Hammer with which to shape it." becuase in feed the parables and allegories explained and described very much of teenage life. In "Feed" it mocked the clothing trends and hair style trends but all together at the very end when Valarie dies, how do you think this was an allegory or parable to reality?
You also stated that "Feed" could be a hammer. I can't say I agree with you because even though I read this book, I feel that nothing has really changed, im just aware of digital technology use, but I still use it. I'd like to hear back from you, why you think "Feed" should also be considered a hammer, and what change/difference the book as a whole has made in teenagers, and what the most important change/difference "Feed" had that would make a difference?
I think you have some really great points in your blog post, but if you expanded on your thoughts, I think it would become a stronger indepth statement on what you bring across in your post.
October 27, 2009 4:30 PM
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Hw-14 Short excerpt
In "Telivision", Steven Johnson brought up good points about how digital technology is good for us. He explained how Tv shows complexity that began in the 80's have helped us understand even more complex shows present day. Mostly he talked about multithreading which is how Tv shows with complex narritive stories kept people watching, and Tv shows with single-plot narrative stories held viewers for a short while.
I agree with Johnson's point of how we can better understand multithreading in complex narritive shows and stories because of our exposure to shows such as "Hill Street Blues" that began the 80's of complex narrative plots to keep viewers tuned in. At the beginning though, many people in the 80's complained about how "Hill Street" was to complicated but they still tuned in, and because of that, Johnson explains, we can now understand even more complex shows such as the famous "Sapranoes" which made Hill Street Blues look like Three's Company according to Steven Johnson.
One thing I thought was interesting was how his graph showed a calculated complexity of a certain show, For example, "Hill Street Blues" had many scattered plots, which indeed it did because of multiple plots in had in one episode, and "Dragnet" which had a single-plot narritive story, which was plotted on the graph as a straight line.
In "Everything bad is good for you", Steven Johnson contradicts "Feed" because in "Feed" the mesaage I felt the author was conveying was that because of digital technology we would become lazy and if we went to against, we would die( in this case Valarie was the one who rebeled and slowly died). "Everything bad is good for you", thats the total opposite, he praises that digital technology has made us better, for example the constant exposure to multithreading in tv shows helping us understand complex narritive story plots.
One thing Johnson didn't contradict in "Feed: was definately the fact of people not capable of understanding complexity in shows, so we have it pointed out. For example, the movie "Student Bodies" a parody about horror/slasher flicks that almost have similar plots like a girl that leaves the front door open after checking if anyone was outside, the murderer comes in. Very common. But in this film, they have a big arrow pointing out every little plot and reasoning helping the viewer understand. Just like in "Feed" when they didn't know a word, or a person, they looked it up on the "Feed database."
I found "Everything bad is good for you" interesting because so many of us agree that digital technology is bad for us, because of "this and that and some of this" but Johnson argued that not many of us would argue, that digital technology is good for us.
I agree with Johnson's point of how we can better understand multithreading in complex narritive shows and stories because of our exposure to shows such as "Hill Street Blues" that began the 80's of complex narrative plots to keep viewers tuned in. At the beginning though, many people in the 80's complained about how "Hill Street" was to complicated but they still tuned in, and because of that, Johnson explains, we can now understand even more complex shows such as the famous "Sapranoes" which made Hill Street Blues look like Three's Company according to Steven Johnson.
One thing I thought was interesting was how his graph showed a calculated complexity of a certain show, For example, "Hill Street Blues" had many scattered plots, which indeed it did because of multiple plots in had in one episode, and "Dragnet" which had a single-plot narritive story, which was plotted on the graph as a straight line.
In "Everything bad is good for you", Steven Johnson contradicts "Feed" because in "Feed" the mesaage I felt the author was conveying was that because of digital technology we would become lazy and if we went to against, we would die( in this case Valarie was the one who rebeled and slowly died). "Everything bad is good for you", thats the total opposite, he praises that digital technology has made us better, for example the constant exposure to multithreading in tv shows helping us understand complex narritive story plots.
One thing Johnson didn't contradict in "Feed: was definately the fact of people not capable of understanding complexity in shows, so we have it pointed out. For example, the movie "Student Bodies" a parody about horror/slasher flicks that almost have similar plots like a girl that leaves the front door open after checking if anyone was outside, the murderer comes in. Very common. But in this film, they have a big arrow pointing out every little plot and reasoning helping the viewer understand. Just like in "Feed" when they didn't know a word, or a person, they looked it up on the "Feed database."
I found "Everything bad is good for you" interesting because so many of us agree that digital technology is bad for us, because of "this and that and some of this" but Johnson argued that not many of us would argue, that digital technology is good for us.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Hw 13- Feed B
"Feed's" allegory was significant because it illustrated the dependence on technology that, we as people, crave. And because we crave it, we are oblivious to daily life attributions and we stick with our one way digital motion "our fingers on keyboards."
I think "Feed's" allegory was showing individuality in one's realization of fighting against the technology, but tragecally ending in death. Tobin showed this by using Valerie as the person to come to her sences and finding out that "feed" had no purpose but only to make things worse, ironically killing her in the end. From this, I believe the message Tobin conveyed was even if we did go back and not use advance technology, we would be left back in a fast-pace generation.
"Art is not a mirror with which to reflect the world. It is a hammer with which to shape it."-Bert Brecht
I believe that "Feed" is a mirror that reflects and even foreshadows because of the parables and allegories that are similar to reality. I don't think "Feed" is a hammer that can shape our current life even though it works as a peace of art because in order for this book to be considered a hammer, drastic change has to be made to modern life decreasing human interaction with technology that our society thrives and depends on.
I think "Feed's" allegory was showing individuality in one's realization of fighting against the technology, but tragecally ending in death. Tobin showed this by using Valerie as the person to come to her sences and finding out that "feed" had no purpose but only to make things worse, ironically killing her in the end. From this, I believe the message Tobin conveyed was even if we did go back and not use advance technology, we would be left back in a fast-pace generation.
"Art is not a mirror with which to reflect the world. It is a hammer with which to shape it."-Bert Brecht
I believe that "Feed" is a mirror that reflects and even foreshadows because of the parables and allegories that are similar to reality. I don't think "Feed" is a hammer that can shape our current life even though it works as a peace of art because in order for this book to be considered a hammer, drastic change has to be made to modern life decreasing human interaction with technology that our society thrives and depends on.
Hw 12-Feed A
Feed is an allegory to modern day teen society because of the authors use of language and trends. The language used in feed are similar because of the catch phrases the author uses in myriad situations. For example, when they were going to a party, they wanted to get "weasel-faced"and "malfunctioned" and I thought the language the author used are similar to modern teenage phrases like "lets get shit-faced and high." The author also came close to the similarities in trends that teenagers most likely follow. For example the clothing brand Rogers and crotch was so similar to Abercrombie and Fitch.
The "Feed" in the story creatively I think showed how much we rely on internet sources as our reference to the world. In "Feed" the teenagers used the "feed" to chat, define words they didn't know, or as one would say, Under the influence things such as going mal or weasel-faced. I also thought it was significant to show how depedent we are on the internet because in "Feed", the teens "feed chips" crashed and they had no idea on what to do and they felt bored and lost. In reality, I think our society would do the same becuase we wouldn't have phones and social networks to connect us with other people.
One thing that I found very much in common between "Feed" and reality are the gossips that get past around when they "m-chat" and when we text our friends or come to to school the following day to gossip about and put in our own opinion on it. "Feed" I think altogether hits the nail on the head with allegories and parables between reailty and the book, but one thing I don't completely understand are the Lesions the characters get? And how they get them?
The "Feed" in the story creatively I think showed how much we rely on internet sources as our reference to the world. In "Feed" the teenagers used the "feed" to chat, define words they didn't know, or as one would say, Under the influence things such as going mal or weasel-faced. I also thought it was significant to show how depedent we are on the internet because in "Feed", the teens "feed chips" crashed and they had no idea on what to do and they felt bored and lost. In reality, I think our society would do the same becuase we wouldn't have phones and social networks to connect us with other people.
One thing that I found very much in common between "Feed" and reality are the gossips that get past around when they "m-chat" and when we text our friends or come to to school the following day to gossip about and put in our own opinion on it. "Feed" I think altogether hits the nail on the head with allegories and parables between reailty and the book, but one thing I don't completely understand are the Lesions the characters get? And how they get them?
Monday, October 5, 2009
Informal research internet.
http://www.noahbrier.com/archives/2007/08/what_do_you_think_of_facebook.php
I think the most interesting part about this blog Noah Brier made was about the trend of social networking services that rise and fall due to the loss of context/control.
I agree that because of how many friends we have in reality that use social networking sites get us hooked to it, and it builds when we get that special "friend request" because t does feel like you build a certain popularity.
http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/126553/gaming/what_do_you_think_about_video_game_violence.html
The most interesting topics covered about the video game industry this site talked about were the addiction and controversy games bring to reality. In their blog they mentioned popular selling games that had a lot of controversy thrown at it such as, Mortal Combat, Grand theft auto, and Manhunt, etc.
I agree that the video games are distracting to the younger ages, but people should be aware that your child can pick up the similar media from watching tv or just being outside aswell. But yeah video games are for the worst.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-123833.html
This blog was interesting because it didn't tell me what Tv is like presently and was like historically. It asked me what I think of it futuristically. I had a wide variety of answers of how cool tv would be in the future, but the site gave me some insight on how Tv is being better made to make the consumer amazed.
I agree in the blog that Microsoft, should come out with their brand new futuristic ideal Tv that can make everything easier all the way up to not having to own a REMOTE CONTROL! Can you believe that? No remote control, but you can still flip through channels. CRAZY. But this also made me think that how much more lazier can our generation get, and then I compared myself to that disney movie, Wall-E, and i can just imagine now, "Fat, tired, high speed chair go-ers." not bad.
I think the most interesting part about this blog Noah Brier made was about the trend of social networking services that rise and fall due to the loss of context/control.
I agree that because of how many friends we have in reality that use social networking sites get us hooked to it, and it builds when we get that special "friend request" because t does feel like you build a certain popularity.
http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/126553/gaming/what_do_you_think_about_video_game_violence.html
The most interesting topics covered about the video game industry this site talked about were the addiction and controversy games bring to reality. In their blog they mentioned popular selling games that had a lot of controversy thrown at it such as, Mortal Combat, Grand theft auto, and Manhunt, etc.
I agree that the video games are distracting to the younger ages, but people should be aware that your child can pick up the similar media from watching tv or just being outside aswell. But yeah video games are for the worst.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-123833.html
This blog was interesting because it didn't tell me what Tv is like presently and was like historically. It asked me what I think of it futuristically. I had a wide variety of answers of how cool tv would be in the future, but the site gave me some insight on how Tv is being better made to make the consumer amazed.
I agree in the blog that Microsoft, should come out with their brand new futuristic ideal Tv that can make everything easier all the way up to not having to own a REMOTE CONTROL! Can you believe that? No remote control, but you can still flip through channels. CRAZY. But this also made me think that how much more lazier can our generation get, and then I compared myself to that disney movie, Wall-E, and i can just imagine now, "Fat, tired, high speed chair go-ers." not bad.
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