Eek so its been awhile since I've written last, and my last post was sort of just a rant at the class. I feel I made a few valid points, as I've talked to a few people in class about what I said and they agree on a lot of aspects- then again, I'm the only one who was w illing to say them outright, and post it, so that does say something about the way things are done here.
I posted one hte course blog earlier today, on the topic of the reprecussions of documenting our lives online. It's actually a topic i plan on writing my evolution of writing paper on, because it's soemthing i really feel needs attention and discussion. I mean... the idea that someone could potentially videotape pretty much every second of their lives (without porn or murdering anyone, of course), and post it on youtube.com, and people will pontially watch it. I mean, you can subscribe to a person's videos, which means you automatically get them added to "your videos", whenever that person adds a new video to their others. That means I could watch your whole life. Kind of brings to mind the "Truman Show", with Jim Carrey (a movie/idea that has always, and always will, struck me as genius and petrifying at the same time). It takes the idea of a "reality" show to a whole new level. And actually, until now, I didn't even take into consideration the mass interest in "reality tv" into relation with the dawning of youtube and that form of "reality. very interesting connection, to me at least. I need to start learning more about the different ways we "document" our lives- i know of the general ones, but I'm curious about others, what they are, where they are, who uses them....all that jazz. more to come soon, i'm sure.
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