Blog 7.2

-While searching for the information regarding my partner I found that it was easier to find information about her than I thought it would be because she and most all of her family members were connected through social media. Taylor has alot of different accounts on the internet where alot of her information was stored. The hardest things to find on the internet I found was her addresses, which was not really unexpected. -I was surprised that Taylor could look up my house, who owns it and the value of my house it was kind of weird. -After reading the passed couple of articles that we have gone over in class I've decided to become more deliberate about my online image. It kind of scared me and immediately after reading the first article I checked all my accounts on facebook, twitter and instagram to see if there was stuff online that I didn't want future employeers to see and judge me about. I usually take a sarcastic approach to what I post online and I find that alot of the stuff I put up doesn't directly represent who I am and could see how people might view what I put up differently than how I see it. So the next day I continued to go through my profiles setting privacy settings as well as deleting certain things that I don't neccassarily want people to see anymore. Even though I know that, that information will probably never disappear it makes me feel a little better about my online image right now.

In-class Blog 7.2

Digital Technology raises the issues regarding public and private information by allowing virtually all the information about yourself to be found if a person digs around enough. It's virtually impossible to go unnoticed on the internet if you partake in various different social medias. This allows for all the dirt about you to be dug up and made available to possibly people you dont necessarily want to access this information about yourself. BEfore this class I knew that everything on the web left behind its foot print and could be found by anyone who could navigate the internet. But as of recent I've become more self conscience about what my image and reputation is on the internet. It has made me make virtually all my profiles and accounts private and have made me censor some of the things that I have posted to the internet in the passed. It has made me scared of what is out there about me. I am not a bad person but some of the stuff I post on the internet is really sarcastic and not the direct representation of myself.

Blog 7.1

- A lot of my photo's are taken through Instagram this new application that was developed specifically for sharing images with your friends. You can like as well as comment on your friends photos here. Another majority of my photos are shared through Facebook and a handful put up on twitter. As for other more visual arts photography I have to convert my RAW files to DNG on my computer put them up on Adobe Bridge then they either get shared through Dropbox or placed on my online portfolio. http://xhairs.carbonmade.com/ -A majority of my photo images are looked at by mainly just my peers or people around me. Sometimes random people get to see them. As for more of my serious pictures, they are viewed by future employers as well as my teacher and class mates. -After reading the article, I am some what concerned about some of the stuff I post via Facebook and Twitter. It made me feel like I should probably try to clean up my profiles of all the unnecessary junk that has built up over the past years. Just because I don't really want to no get hired because of some stupid joke I posted to Facebook or something. I am not really concerned about the photos that much. I don't post photos that are took edgy in a manner. Probably the photos I am most concerned about are the ones where I am drinking in them. Even though I am 21 years of age, they make me feel iffy like I should probably take them down before contact people for jobs.

Blog 6.2.2

Technology I believe alters our cultural conceptions of truth/ reality. As It makes it easier for us to produce what we all want to see it takes from what is actually the truth. I find it interesting how we all criticize these photo manipulations however they are for the most part socially acceptable and desirable traits we all want. I find that the two sides of the spectrum often contradict themselves. Making it hard for a viable statement to be made. When one thing is wanted and another not in another case they can be desired the other way around. The influence technology has on our culture of truth/ reality I find is a push & shove relationship that goes back and forth from both sides. The key is finding the medium or the state that both don't affect each other.

Blog 6.2

#digitalmanip This image and article is a political statement about gun laws in America. Clearly a conservatism bashing on the President. It uses irony as the President is shooting holes into the Bill of Rights, while he is trying to control gun laws at the same time. As photo manipulation has gotten better ever since it has been invented it seems as if it has been used as a weapon or some way to hide the truth. Even more troublesome to me is that it seems that it is being used to create this world that we can never actually experience. As a photographer, I really don't like photoshop I find that it makes you image look cheap and unreal. A question that I want to know is that as technology continually gets better, is there still going to be the need for photography in the future? Or will we just be creating fake images from scratch of what we actually want to see? And by doing so does this make us blind to the world around u

Blog 6.1

1.When/Where/ how often do you take photographs(or videos)? -I take photographs on the weekly, sometimes depending on the circumstances on the daily. Often in my surround boulder setting. But I am not just tied down to boulder. I pretty much take pictures whenever I become inspired by something so I try to capture the essence of where I am. As a photography major I need to stay on my toes and capture what get me excited. 2.What are your favorite photo(or video) subjects? -Personally I like taking pictures of people. I find that by taking portrait pictures it's easy to capture emotions and makes the picture your trying to make better. I often take pictures of people out of their element perhaps in wearing some sort of prop. I find this interesting is is a great way to produce emotions. 3.How important are your photographs to you? And if they are important, what makes them? It depends on certain things in determining how important my photographs are to me. Some pictures just don't turn out how you expected or wanted. Plus it depends one the subject matter. If I just am not into the thing I am shooting, then they aren't really that important to me. But if im fully engulfed in the matter then the photo's are precious to me and mean a lot. 4.Do you consider photography an art form? Why or why not? I certainly do. It takes skill to do photography past the ever so common "kodak" photo that anyone can take. There are many compoenets and thought that go into creating a truly good photo. Like composition, shape, color, focus, depth of field, material, and subject matter. It's clear to see when someone just went out and shot a couple quick photo's or really focused on something and tried to create something pleasing to look at. Photography is an art form that is accessible to everyone and doesn't really confine someone to specific skill such as drawing and painting do.

Blog 5.1

I would consider myself somewhere in between a technological insider/outsider. I find that I am pretty hip in the sense that I tend to participate in the latest new technologies. But by no means am I the one who discover's these hot new medias. However once I do discover these technologies I enjoy using them and using them to their full potential. I find them valuable assets that help connect me with and work with my surround society. I dont really see my habits changing after the discussion because I find that if I were to change my status of a technological insider/outsider in betweenness that I would become uncomfortable in where I am and would become lost or detached to my peers. Balsamo's chapter didn't really impact my thinking about technology. She references Summer's in here chapter which in a prior class to Atlas 2000 I had already learned about. So that aspect of technology has already been implanted in my mind.

4.2 Reflection

Carey's reading and the discussions further increased my belief in how technology has continued to shape our lives in what they are today and that they will always. There is no way in controlling how they control us. I find that there is no degree in which technology and ideology are inseparable. Technologies shape our lives and the way we think. This is awful to think about but I find that modern society is controlled by technology and that we almost have no control over technology. It like we are living in a SciFi movie or something. In way i do buy Carey's argument that technology is tied to managerialist and imperialist ideology because he does bring up valued examples of how they affected these different ideologies.

Blog 4.2

I do believe that the technology that I use in my everyday life does impact my worldview. I think it has shaped my taken for granted assumptions in the way that I think that everything that I have and use on the daily bases, that everybody does the same thing and uses the same technology as I do. I guess that I assume that most of the world follows the same pattern of technology and that we are interconnected in that sense all the time. I don't even really think about it I just assume that everybody has a facebook, twitter, and instagram account and I want to instantly connect with them. As well as like the iphone. I think that it has become such a commodity in our lives that it is often surprising if somebody doesn't have one or uses and ipod in some manner. The technology that I use in my everyday life has become such the norm that I dont even think about it's affects on society in general. It's hard to think that there are people out there though that aren't experiencing the same relationship with technology as I do and that they rely on different means to share and receive information on the daily or however they do it.

Blog 4.1

An assumption i make when thinking about technology is that technology is there to improve our quality of life and to make things easier on us. Generally I think this as an unconscious assumption because technology is everywhere in our lives today and I don't even need to think about it. When something needs to be done is simply search out for the necessary tool i need to complete this action and do it. I don't really give much thought about the technology just that it is a tool to help me complete my task. I think i am most drawn toward the Ontology Paradigm however I can see truth and importance in the Epistemology Paradigm as well. I find that these paradigms draw to me closer because when studying life in general i want to know what is real, true and knowable. I dont get drawn in by the facts or quantitative numbers such as in the methodology as numbers don't seem to mean too much to me. I want to be able to see how things relate to my life and how I am affected. I am not a number so I dont relate to the quantitive aspects of methodology. I feel like today's readings and discussions did add to my growing understanding about technology/ society. I feel like it helped broadened my understanding of technology and its relationship with society. It helped me understand I feel like that the deterministic aspect helped to minimize the the realm of how technology affects our lives. And helped to narrow the understanding of the different theories out there.