What is this Site?
My generation will be the last group of Americans that grew up without Social Media. For now, the Internet Behemoths Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr have taken over and they want every breathing body in the mass communication network; resistance is futile. In this blog, I seek to understand how New Media, including social media sites, news sites, other blogs, operate on a craft level and on a mass sociological level. I see myself as an insider, a person to which New Media is a normal aspect of life: a source of entertainment, information, and communication. I also see myself as an outsider, a person that thinks New Media can make people, myself included, act very strange and encourage some pretty wrong behaviors. In this blog, I will take you on an analytical journey as a critic and skeptic to figure out what the future of humanity looks like on the world wide web. I think you should read this blog because, although you may not agree with my ideas, I believe that we can learn about New Media together and figure out our place in the Internet world. But first, let's stop to grab a bite to eat.
The kitchen is a place for experimentation, flavor, fun, and protocol. To my left are the basic tools of the trade: a spoon and a measuring cup. With my spoon, I use my human senses in order to decide for myself what is working and what is not working, whether ingredients are missing or present in excess. In this way I personalize my writing based on my most animal of instincts: personal taste. I write a piece and analyze whether my points are working or not to determine if I should start over from scratch or whether I should merely add more of a certain ingredient, such as citations or context. I want to make sure that you, the reader, come out of my kitchen with a good aftertaste and a full belly of knowledge. I also need my measuring cup in order to standardize my writing as well as to evaluate how certain ideas compare. Though I lift my spoon to my lips and sense how ingredients taste, my ideas on craft allow me to make the changes, and so I use my prior blog experience to determine how my expectations compare to my product. I want my writing to be consistent, concise, and honest.
My generation will be the last group of Americans that grew up without Social Media. For now, the Internet Behemoths Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr have taken over and they want every breathing body in the mass communication network; resistance is futile. In this blog, I seek to understand how New Media, including social media sites, news sites, other blogs, operate on a craft level and on a mass sociological level. I see myself as an insider, a person to which New Media is a normal aspect of life: a source of entertainment, information, and communication. I also see myself as an outsider, a person that thinks New Media can make people, myself included, act very strange and encourage some pretty wrong behaviors. In this blog, I will take you on an analytical journey as a critic and skeptic to figure out what the future of humanity looks like on the world wide web. I think you should read this blog because, although you may not agree with my ideas, I believe that we can learn about New Media together and figure out our place in the Internet world. But first, let's stop to grab a bite to eat.
The kitchen is a place for experimentation, flavor, fun, and protocol. To my left are the basic tools of the trade: a spoon and a measuring cup. With my spoon, I use my human senses in order to decide for myself what is working and what is not working, whether ingredients are missing or present in excess. In this way I personalize my writing based on my most animal of instincts: personal taste. I write a piece and analyze whether my points are working or not to determine if I should start over from scratch or whether I should merely add more of a certain ingredient, such as citations or context. I want to make sure that you, the reader, come out of my kitchen with a good aftertaste and a full belly of knowledge. I also need my measuring cup in order to standardize my writing as well as to evaluate how certain ideas compare. Though I lift my spoon to my lips and sense how ingredients taste, my ideas on craft allow me to make the changes, and so I use my prior blog experience to determine how my expectations compare to my product. I want my writing to be consistent, concise, and honest.