Chris Andreen

Bonnie Robinson

ENG1117

20 March 2019

Ch.2 Reflection

When I grew up smartphones just started to come on the rise. I remember buying myself the I Pod 4th generation a couple months after it came out because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to spend all my money on one big thing. When I first got it I started to download all the games and apps that my friends had so we could compete against each other on who could get the high score, and I remember one of my friend’s told me to download this editing app that you can do all sorts of things with any picture. I remember taking pictures of everything just to go back home and get WiFi so I could mess around on the editing app, and this one time I took a selfie and wanted to see what I could do and I made it super cool by adding all these filters to it. Now I realize that the term “filter” has so many meanings like it can mean a photo filter, coffee filter, or someone can tell you to filter your language. Jill writes, “Putting a filter on our selfies, or framing them by placing them in a blog or an Instagram feed, gives them a distance that makes them new to us” (27). In today’s world “selfies can be raw and revealing. They can feel too authentic, too honest” ( 27). I feel like many people including me use filters on photo’s just to add their own touch, I don’t filter every photo I post because sometimes the photo can be how I like it and doesn’t need a filter. You mainly see females using filters to help cover up acne and make their face look clearly, and more color to it. I’m not saying men don’t do it either but it is mainly females because they want their face to be how it is as if they didn’t have pimples or darkness under their eyes.

Works Cited

Rettberg, Jill Walker. Seeing Ourselves Through Technology. 19 Mar. 2019, link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2F9781137476661.pdf.