Main Ideas/key terms.
Filter: Definition from the article will be just simply removing something form its original (post or blog or quotes, etc) In reality the idea is to remove the unnecessary information pretty much it is a summary.
Different types of filter stated in the article.
Cognitive filter: This type of filter is when your brain automatically filter the surrounding in this case the text, into a perspective that your brain works with normally. In other words it will filter the text into something that you can relate to.
Filter through technology: Through technology there is a certain way that reader expect there self to read through, so there is only something that you can put online.
Culture filter: There is a set of rules or guild lines that the culture is set up for and what ever you do it must follow the rules that where given.
Summary:
In this chapter Rettberg talked about the different types of filter that are around us. Rettberg state on page 21 ” filter is the process where something is being removed.” Throughout the chapter Rettberg describe the effects of filtering and the different ways of filtering. The differnt ways of filtering that Rettberg gave in this chapter are filter through Technology, culture, and cognitively. First Technology filter, rettberg says that through the help of technology people can improve many things, some example Rettberg gave was things like picture or blogs (text). she then goes on and talk about the cultural filter, the example that she gave in the article was keeping a diary. she stated that the diary will keep the things that you add into it in order. She said that cultural filter have a certain rules or guild lines that you will have to follow. Later in the chapter she goes on and talked about the effect of the filter, one of the most common filter that people are seeing every day are technology filter especially filter form of art, like pictures. She said that people are pleased at the picture of what they had taken due to the standards that the internet has set as an result they will try and filter out what is bringing down the picture and post the acceptable image.
Commentary:
while reading this article the were couple of thing that I have come across that got me nodding my head. After finishing up the article I was shock at how much the filtering applies to me and how much filtering that is happening around me. One of the ideas that she stated in the article is the technology filter. when I come across this main idea it got me nodding, because this is something that I can relate to. when ever I pull out my camera to take a picture of something I get slapped in the face by all of the option that the camera provide me with to take a picture from portrait mode, square mode, pano mode, especially after the picture has been taken it ask me if I want to edit the picture or not.
Work cited:
Rettberg, Jill Walker. Seeing Ourselves Through Technology:
How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and
Shape Ourselves.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2F9781137476661.pdf
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