Digital Sharing or Stealing?

How many times can we remember retweeting something funny, or scrolling through a collection of amusing images or jokes? The digital era, has allowed us to share our ideas and thoughts with the world, but what if we don’t get credit for them? Many of us follow parody accounts online. We follow the creators of … Continue reading →

Are We Spending Too Much Time With Technology?

In today’s society it seems we live, breathe, and exist within technology. From the moment we wake up, until the moment we fall asleep, we are drawn to its’ devices. We flood our lives with constant stimulation, and its only in that split second, after someone mentions it do you ask yourself? Could I be spending too … Continue reading →

How We View Our Entertainment

  After reading chapter 2 “Viewers make the meaning” by Sturken and Cartwright, and chapter 4 “Use your hands” in Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist, I believe that the perception of images is subjective, and lies primarily in the eyes of its’ viewers. Upon reading today’s assigned text, I was immediately fascinated by the … Continue reading →

What happens when Entertainers are Humans

  When popular figures that are normally placed on pedestals become humanized, in this case specifically entertainers, we as a society become flooded with their evolving narratives. Their every mishap is photographed, filmed, and documented, in ways we are now coming to understand. While we are able to feel relieved that no one recorded our … Continue reading →