Portfolio Assignment #9

This week's guest lectures were interesting but some of the topics kinda flew over my head. Both the lecture Feeling Fails — Mediated Sentiment and Social Change and the readings provided alongside it covered concepts that I just could not get fully invested in. I understood the core…

Portfolio Assignment #9

Part 1: Write 2 paragraphs on what you learned from our guest lecturer and other presentations and readings this week.

Mediated Social Change & Privacy in the Digital Era

Portfolio #9

Privacy, Publicness, Empathy, and Action

The relationship between empathy and action and the relationship between privacy and publicness have taken on new meanings in the digital age. Digital media has split each of us into two versions of ourselves. First is our public self…

Portfolio #9

I learned a good deal about empathy in social media and its negative implications. I previously hadn’t considered it or would’ve called it performative — I didn’t have the proper language on the topic. What stood out in Ferrari’s guest lecture was the inclusion of POC events being co-opted by white…

Portfolio #9

The readings, video, and lecture on the topic of mediated sentiment and social change altered what I previously thought of empathy as an approach for social change. On the surface, empathy seemed to me like a powerful and positive tool in general, but there are also negative aspects to it. In ‘Is Our…

Portfolio Assignment #9

Portfolio Assignment #9

From Ferrari’s (2020) lecture, I learned that empathy is not always necessarily positive. For instance, she said: “people have to constantly be performing as subjects of someone else’s empathy or objects of someone else’s empathy rather.” This relates to my own experience because I…

Portfolio Assignment

With a guest lecture, this week I was interested to see how art or art pieces, in general, can be used as a form of study for social change or social learning presentation begins with the guest lecturer introducing and how her background is in art/art writer that focuses on public art and…

Portfolio #9

I learned a few things. From the reading “Why Privacy Matter” it says “Everybody probably has something to hide from somebody” (Solove) In this reading it was talking about how people say they don’t have anything to hide because they don’t do anything bad, or they don’t mind if the government monitors…

Portfolio Assignment #9

This week I learned just how easy it is to have your personal information can be compromised. It can be because of a lack of consciousness, or as a result of believing a deception that is too good to be true. I've also learned through the art and media lecture and Papacharissi’s work on…