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Damn, the semester just began and its about to end -.-

Do you love your iPhone?

"As we embrace new technology that does everything but kiss us on the mouth, we risk cutting ourselves off from human interaction. For many, the iPhone has become a best friend, partner, lifeline, companion and, yes, even a Valentine. The man or woman we love most may be seated across from us in a romantic Paris bistro, but his or her 8GB, 16GB or 32GB rival lies in wait inside our pockets and purses."

You Love Your iPhone. Literally.
from New York Times, September 30, 2011

image from Elizabeth Anne Designs

What's everyone been up to?

Surface level and hidden meanings in UGC: Do you know how to look at content critically?

The following images are examples of different forms of user-generated content. One is a piece of artwork, the other is a photograph of a banner, and the last image is a digital image that was created utilizing online sources.

When you look at this image, what do you see? Think about the differences between literal meaning and hidden meaning. What do you understand about this image? Do you recognize the charaters in the image? Do you recognize the setting represented in the image? How does this image represent what is produced, consumed and accepted (or rejected) by your culture?

What do you see in this image? How is this an example of user-generated content? How is it vastly different from the user-generated content produced on Youtube or on Facebook? Are there any literal and hidden meanings? If so, what are they? What sort of background information does one need to possess in order to read and understand the image (and message) of this banner?

This is an image that appeared this weekend on my Facebook feed. Many of my friends were sharing it. A classic form of user-generated content, its producer is unknown yet this image/message/content has spread throughout the internet. What are the literal meanings in this image? What sort of statement is this message trying to convey? What are the specific steps that the producer is making to convey the message in this image?

LIVIN WIT A THUG

Classmates, you should view this video, because it's  entertaining. Also, you can see from Deshawn's perspective, how it is living with a thug.

So........what's going on with the interviews?

Scare Tube?

Left to Right: Beetlejuice, Michael Myers, Samara (The Ring), Hell-Raiser, Leather-Face(Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Jason Voorhees, Scream, and Freddy Krueger




So Halloween is on its way and most of us love to dress up and imitate these legendary killers (above). So instead of calling it You Tube, why not call it Scare Tube, for this Halloween?

where the Arties at

Brodies tryna do it big this nice long weekend.... Not that techno Bull crap...I hate that crap.. So boring.... Nun in the bronx neither... Or harlem... i might do queens... I Need something nice...I Be bored :'(

Google Doc won't let me type sometimes

IT'S SO ANNOYING

I need a bit more clarity on what we're suppose to do

I get the annotated bibliography I believe and I've chosen Social Media to cover
but are we suppose to chose something specific? like a sub category for what we're covering?
Like Social Media and how it affects teenagers or How Social Media has effected a generation? Something like that?

*Watching Writing an Annotated Bibliography*

WELL! LETS GET STARTED!!!

So i was going to try to work on my HW

Then i discovered gifs work here

Does anyone watch Supernatural?

OMG WE CAN POST GIFS HERE

Awwwww, Jason Hugs His Mommy!!!

Social networking and you!

This School Friendship Network plot is from a website called www.visualcomplexity.com. Created by James Moody in 2001, it represents  how students of different races associate themselves within certain networks. Here is a description from the website about this project.

Friendship network of children in a US school. Friendships are determined by asking  the participants, and hence are directed, since A may say that B is their friend but not  vice versa. Vertices are color coded according to race, as marked, and the split from left to right in the figure is clearly primarily along lines of race. The split from top to bottom is between middle school and high school, i.e., between younger and older children.

The colors of the dots in this image represent the following races.
Yellow - White Race
Green - Black Race
Pink - Other  

How would you rationalize the splits that occur between ages and races in this plot? How is this plot similar or dissimilar to your online networks? How else could you group together the members of your social network?

Have any of you ever used Topix?

I just read this article in the New York Times about social media. Looks like social media has infiltratated our rural towns! I'd love to know any connections you see between this article and how you use social media in New York City.

 

In Small Towns, Gossip Moves to the Web, and Turns Vicious

By A. G. SULZBERGER

Published: September 19, 2011

As more people share gossip over the Internet rather than over coffee and eggs, anonymous, and startlingly negative, posts have provoked fights, divorce and worse.

WAHHHH :(

Hit an ultimate writers' block. -_-

ugh, this eassay has hit a dead end ='(

wthhh

this essay...im soooooo stuck.

essayyyyyyyyyyyyyy =/

trying to get my ideas out.... not quite working =[

This essay is challenging....that's literally my face right now.

I LOVE MY ENGLISH 101 CLASS !!!!

Dear Classmates and my English teacher,

    Before I go to sleep, I just want to get this off my chest. This is my honest opinion about you guys. So far , I see us as a team  trying to solve a problem. In order to solve a problem in the action world,we must solve the problems at school first. I LOVE YOU GUYS, I really do. Everytime I come to english class, I feel so calm, stress free, and happy.  Even though we don't know each other that well, I sense a positive, great vibe from you guys.What makes me even more happy, is seeing all of us reaching for the same goal....Success. Once again I love you guys and Mr. Navarro you are my best teacher so far in college. Thank You for your wonderful, laid back personality. Well, goodnight. Have a nice and safe weekend everyone.

Since DBZ was brought up i'd thought i'd share

My Classmates, remember Dragon Ball Z ? Well, they sing along quite well to reggae music.

LOL.......I LOVE IT!!!!

What about Robots being created in the future?

So while I was sitting in the train, I saw an ad about metro cards. It stated,"Have your metro card refill automatically each month, linked to your credit or debit card". My whole point of bringing this up,is that I feel that soon our economy will be more of a dependent economy than how it is today. We the people, will be dependent more on technology, in which we will no longer self-serve as much. But wait, if technology is so smart (personification), why can't we have robots?Better yet, I-Robots? That would be so cool, right classmates? But who will run the world.........?