To preface, this article pertaining to the presidential elections was a very fascinating story and was following this for a while because I found that being able to elect someone like Donald Trump caused sites 4chan celebrate it as some kind of feat for our country. Typically, forums on 4chan share ideas that are commonly all over the place or spontaneous like posts and threads from other social media sites such as Twitter. With Goldsmith in Chapter 8, he goes on to preach that we are generally are vessels of righteousness and that through social media, we are generally affected by things such as “meme culture”. This whole meme culture can also serve as a catalyst for other terms as a “zoomer”, which is generally considered a meme but taken seriously through other forms of media such as the news. When considering the rapid proliferation of younger adults and this new wave of ideas that contradict the generation before, it is important to consider the overall nature of change that is to undergo in America. It is honestly really astonishing whenever there are stories such as this because although extremely ambiguous the public should be, how the modernization of society is evolving should not be undermined.
Writing For Emergent Media Chapter 6
In Chapter 6 of Goldsmith’s thesis, he goes on to explain how origin is essential for photography and more broader, technology as a whole. Essentially, the value in which content transgresses loses value. The factor of originality is important when trying to create something for the simple fact that there will always be multiples of styles that look similar to each other. To branch off of that idea, there are various examples where content and work have taken the form of something else and loses its credit based on an underlying genre. A perfect example of this process can be related to art and towards a broader spectrum technology as a whole. Art has various genres and can take the face of many mediums so it would only be right for certain pieces to look similar. Now if you take that image and manipulated and used little to no originality, then it practically drowned in the content wave. The essential need for what’s in the now is originality. Another prime example is music. I feel that artists who take samples from other people’s work, do well based on how much originality they contributed into their work. The main point I’m trying to go back to is that through technology now, everything has a point of origin and will do well depending on how original that content is.
Emergent Media: Hot Take
Through social literacy, hot takes have entered the digital world and is still understandably new. Even though this is the case, developing a solid claim about events that are considered relatively new. By definition, a hot take is a noun that entails strong and typically fortified commentary about a recent event, generally to attract publicity. Getting attention and formulating a thesis is generally difficult due to how whimsical and witty you are and most times it boils down to how novel you are to the story or news. For the topic of this take, I am going to be going over Alfred State College, and then developing a strong claim based on recent events.
One example of a hot take includes a take by some who is potentially going to Alfred State 4 years ago:
This individual was able to expressed their absolute boredom by mentioning that they are visiting Alfred State College and that they are avoiding that by tweeting. This sort of commentary not only sways the viewer with a different point of view, but gives us a type of commentary based on recent experiences. Analyzing this take further, we as the audience are able to gather that Alfred State College is boring.
Our second take, which is surprisingly much older, is able to share the same sentiments as the first take. The tricky part about this take is that the audience is not informed with why this person is not applying to Alfred State. In turn, we are left open to interpretations. Nonetheless, this post is still hot take worthy.
These takes makes it easier to support the overall claim that Alfred State is not generally a place for everyone.
Alfred State College caters more to finance and their administration than it does to the well-being of their own alumni.
Not to take away from this take, but it is a solid representation of the stigma presented by the college as well as how the college presents itself over the years. In conclusion, a hot take is consistent and can be considered as an opinion in digital literacy.
Wasting Time on the Internet (Brief)
Goldsmith’s analysis of Andy Warhol and how the concept behind quantity having more of an impact than quality. In my personal take on this, quantity has more of an importance than quality as it provides more content for the user to work with. However, this may be detrimental primarily due to overbearing as overbearing mass amounts of various resources in which they are put to somewhat of good use.
Wasting Time on the Internet Chapter 3
Our browsing history may become a new way for us to catalog our likes, our dislikes, and everything in between. For us currently, technology has become a way to signify more of our personality traits and then be able to regurgitate it all back to us in waves or phases. In my personal experience, the whole idea of keeping an archive or an algorithm falls purely on sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Youtube has this interesting way of pulling us in and feeding us what we enjoy as opposed to what we want to see mainly due to what our interests are. Now on to the more archival ideal of the chapter and how it is beneficial for us to archive things as well as preserving them as history. For instance, we remember the past and we document it through video, photographs, even drawings. These factors pretty much serve as a catalyst for many experiences and opportunities in life. One suck photo I like a lot and that is the one I took in high school at Dylan’s Candy Bar in Manhattan.![cropped-img_0249[1].jpg](https://aizayahportfolio.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/cropped-img_02491.jpg?w=525)
Chapter 2 Blog
It is interesting when Goldsmith compares our day and age to a zombie-like apocalyptic wasteland. Mainly due to the fact that we are in somewhat of a wasteland already whenever we graze upon the topic of technology and how without it, we suffer a great deal without it occupying our time. In other words, technology might be the reason why we crave looking at our devices and is the best comparison when describing what we are as a society today. Brainless zombies, wanting nothing but to starve for one thing and one thing only. Goldsmith clarifies that embracing something disjunctive is far more powerful than taking something to face, or just attempting to construct something of value through picking up only the smaller pieces and pointing them towards something larger. Conveying Goldsmith’s views and the way he perceives the prevalence of cultural artifacts gives me the idea that we should treat old pieces as more of a disjunction and treat it as more of an organic way of framing the medium.
Emergent Media: Tech Collage
Emergent Media: “Wasting Time on the Internet” Chapter 1
In “Wasting Time on the Internet”, the first chapter describes the exploration of keeping one busy and grazes upon the idea of literally wasting time. In this chapter The Social Network, that the author subjects the people to boredom and would have to find their own way to keep themselves busy, which corresponds to the whole idea that people are more connected to their devices than once thought. In my own experience in wasting time without my precious technology, I would usually do a lot of miscellaneous things and would be more social than I usually am. Frankly, there is meaning to taking away our technology because it provides the person with a sense of freedom, as they put their entire life onto one device or maybe two. In that experience, however, there was a sense of accomplishment mostly without technology and that impact is much more powerful that we wouldn’t have to rely on these devices to do so. Goldsmith conducted actual research when trying to generate something random when taking people’s devices away. The outcome though, was to make sure that nobody knew what they were doing or how to occupy themselves, and that pretty much reflects on my experience when away from technology, unaware and lost with no sense of direction.
Writing for Emergent Media: Introduction
In Kenneth Goldsmith’s “Wasting Time on the Internet” presents the reader with a bridge between living in society and behind the screen with technology and thereafter. Based on personal experience, I thought this textbook would just be another piece of writing where one author goes on a rant about what media today means as well as how we think as artists is wrong. However, upon looking back at the experiences the author describes, I am able to agree with some of the experiences presented. For instance, with Facebook and how we would always be tuned in to their devices, especially our phones to be precise. When we use our phones, we are immersed into a different plan of living, so when we waste time, we are also creating a form of culture or subculture that poses a sort of question based on values reflected today. When looking back on that theory, it’s safe to branch off on the idea that the way we interact with technology will infinitely change the way we interact with one another. Back to the idea of Facebook and Goldsmith’s experience in social media can be related to my own and how both form a sort of indifferent experience. Based on my own experiences, I use Twitter regularly and find myself trapped under some sort of inner society where you feel like everyone is wasting time, but in actuality everyone has a life even outside of posting multiple times a day.
