Sturken And Cartwright Social Media

Technology and the twenty first century go together like a PB&J sandwich. Everyone around us has some type of electronic devices which they can access the Internet from, whether it be a cell phone, a laptop, or a tablet. People today are not only physically attached to their devices but also emotionally. We as users must post on some type of social media based forum every minuscule detail going on. In Andrew Lam's essay he writes about Bill Bye "The Science Guy" giving a speech at USC and he collapses on stage. The audience's first reaction is to pull out their smart phones and records him collapsing. When 20 years ago the audience reaction would have been completely different. It would have consisted of someone running to a land line phone

No matter who you are, no matter where are you from, the most things we saw is words and images. As the textbook says we always can found a certain way to share and find the information, such as Facebook, advertisements, photos, posters, cartoons, video and blog. The textbook says, “In each case, these text try to move us, convince us to buy something, shape our opinions, or make us laugh.” (Christine L. Alfano & Alyssa J. O’Brien 2) For me the most words and images I

In today's generation people don't take the time to observe their surroundings. They just focus on the screens that are in their hands. Technology has changed nature’s beauty. Technology is the only observation and thing that people take the time to stop what they are doing and look at. Throughout time things have changed people stop focusing on the things around them. People have stopped talking to the people around them just to focus on their technology.

Fr. Nicolas has stated that the “globalization of superficiality” refers to the fact that we have more information than ever, but we have less ability to think, to reflect, and to digest the information we have acquired. As social media has unearthed its profound, and what seems to be, vital place in our global community, instant communication techniques have become pervasive, which in turn, have caused many public opinions to conclude that social media discourages deep reflection and engagement. This might be true in some cases; however, social media serves many different opportunities for connectivity and community, business and marketing, or even entertainment and media coverage. People take to Twitter and other forms of social media to simply discuss what is going on in the world or in their environments. It is not a place where many people will likely be comfortable speaking on such deep issues of love or the human mind. Our thought process with social media is just that, social. It is ideal for meeting new people or discovering and sharing the latest story. I believe from there that deeper reflection and thought can originate.

With the combination of today’s effects that you can add to both videos and photographs, the possibilities and the amount of information that can be communicated to the viewer is great and has tremendously improved when compared to the past. One photograph alone may not be enough, but simply two or more photographs will slowly unfold the story that you are looking at and slowly fill in the puzzle/problem that you’re trying to understand or solve. Video texts simply further the extent of knowledge that can be communicated with you because videos are basically a collection of photograph, but in another sense videos are their own being. Videos can express full events built off of the collaboration and collective knowledge that you gain while making the video, but with the video you are spreading your knowledge to others. As shown with the anime, an additional photo can provide more information to the viewer and simple video effects can inform the viewer what is happening within that scene. Therefore this shows the true power that multimedia has and also the limits

Facebook has over 500 million users, Instagram has over 50 million users, Twitter has over 220 million twitter users, Pinterest has an estimated 230 million, Tumblr has over 100 million. Almost everybody all over the world uses social media. From the kid next door to the hottest celebrity, sport celebrities, the government, television networks, churches schools, nonprofit- organizations, companies and businesses. Almost everyone uses social media but the main obsession that people has with social media is posting pictures and videos good or bad. People are fascinated with exciting, funny, daring and I can’t believe what I’m seeing videos and pictures. GoPro is the Rolls-Royce of cameras that delivers Holi Grail action photography and fantastic videos.

Photography and imagery has seemed to attempt to serve one main purpose: accuracy. When people use photographs in most of today’s society, it is to show factual evidence that their arguments and story are true. Two early devices that have shaped the use of photography are the camera obscura and the stereoscope. Both use the eyes to attempt to create accurate depictions of the world around them, especially in trying to allow people to see the parts of the world that are foreign to them. The stereoscope’s more objective representation of the world over the camera obscura is used in James Cameron’s Avatar as representations of how “civilized” populations skew the truth behind the “savage” societies, allowing each separate society to represent

Photographs on Facebook are an example of this trend. We strive so hard to maintain this pristine image of ourselves, and use social media sites as a stage to project how we want the world to see us. There is nothing wrong with looking well, but we should not change for others. How we look is now our priority. Why do we want other people to perceive us in a way that isn’t the truth? ‘Natural’ is now merely a word printed in the dictionary.

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Visual communication is a widespread form of communication involving imagery, film, typography, symbols and signs to communication or display information. (White, 2003) The purpose of the form of communication is to influence, move or motivate one another whether it being in a newspaper, poster, a commercial or on the internet. (Bergstrom, B. 2008) It is known that artist and designers use visual communication to challenge the ideologies of inequality because it can be more

This behaviour has become so common amongst todays younger generations that it is expected to take a selfie with your friends as if it is a normal ritual that has been apart of society for centuries. It is also anticipated that this group photo, selfie or any photo taken at an event will most likely then be published on social media. “Visual media such as photography, film, television or painting” are all mediums that are constructed in codes and signs which allows texts to be broken into different elements through analysis, an artwork can be read as a text through these codes that we recognize and comprehend, this also allows us to note the meaning of its construction. (Sturken & Cartwright, 2009, p.464). Visual media is often read like text through its code, signs and symbols which allows the text to be read. This is also achieved through the denotative meaning of an image which is the “face to face meaning” which is interpreting was is visually presented in front of you (Sturken & Cartwright, 2009,

A systematic examination of photographs can reveal many insights into the individual taking the picture. For example, Dijck (2008) explains that picture taking has been widely used as a way for people to save memories of events, a tool for communication and experience, and more recently, as a tool for identity development. For example, in the 20th century, people used photography to save memories to remember their lives (Dijck,2008). As time moved forward it evolved into using photography to communicate with others by sharing their experiences with social media. By using social media like Twitter for example, people share different types of pictures from selfies, to video game screenshots, to a photograph of a new jacket; which occurs not just in the United States but, all over the world (Thelwall, Goriunvova, Vis, Faulkner, Burns, Aulich, Mas-Bleda,

Stepping into the year 2017, technology has been made the world’s number one priority. And because of technology, social media has drawn people from all over the world. Over billions upon billions of people are connected with some sort of social media. Those numbers are still in counting within the year. As technology advances, reality becomes more virtual, but in the same second its become less humane and reasonable.

This is a weakness because reflecting online is only possible when there is a platform that is available for actors to behave in certain ways, which would have been useful if explored in detail. Belk somewhat considers this by suggesting further research be taken, especially due to constant advancements and avenues for digital engagement. This can inform the basis of my research because using Belk’s theory we are able to investigate digital-natives and how they interact in the virtual world. Particularly, we may be able to research case studies of particular networking websites such as LinkedIn or Facebook in order to observe how digital photography is utilised differently on these platforms. Additionally, I am able to study how psychological motivations drive individuals to engage in social media practices. Through digital ethnography techniques I am able to observe how virtual networks can extend social interaction and how individuals perform offline and in the virtual. Therefore, I am able to apply this theory to the new roles that digital photography play in cultural production and emerging forms of self-expression and

Humanity currently lives in a digital society. Over the past century, humans have grown accustomed to observing the world through screens. However, as Marshall McLuhan points out in “The Gadget Lover”, there is a dissonance between a person's existence onscreen and a person's existence in reality. People become attached to mere representations of reality rather than reality itself, much like how the character of Narcissus falls in love with his own reflection in Greek mythology. McLuhan implies that we should observe technological growth to ensure that we do not become numbed by devoting our lives to images. Humans use technology as if the effects of using the technology are separate from reality. For example, people often use social media