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Chris Andreen

Bonnie Robinson

English:1117: 35 & 53

3/6/2019 “

           In the article “Imagining the Blogosphere”. : An Introduction to the Imagined Community of Instant Publishing by Graham Lampa, Hamline University didn’t really interest me to much compared to the other articles. For me blogs/blogging has never been a big thing for me just because there is so many people doing the same thing and too many people doing it just for fun, when others are trying to make this their job and the people who are doing it for fun is bringing down the expectation of what a good blog or what a good blogging has in it. Another reason why this article isn’t my favorite is because all the other articles are informative about something more important in a way to me and enjoyed reading and doing my own reflection. For instance, in one of the last articles “Chapter 1 of Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” it talked about how our technology is changing and we are now using filters and high definition cameras to take photos and capture these views/sceneries. When back then were painting their views and if they messed up they had to either try and fix it by working with what happened or starting all over and people back then would actually look at paintings and try to find the true meaning on why it was painted like this with these colors and this point of view? When today all you have to do is click your screen and you could possibly take up to like 50 photos at once to get the perfect picture and angle. And now nobody looks at pictures and is like “I wonder why they took this photo, and how is it so special”? because now almost everybody has a cell phone with a camera on it and take photos and post them.

Rettberg, Jill W. Seeing Ourselves through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and … Shape Ourselves. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Chapter 1 of Seeing Ourselves Through Technology

Lampa Graham, Hamline University. “Imagining the Blogosphere: An Introduction to the Imagined Community of Instant Publishing. Accessed 3 March 2019.