HW 3 - 1st Blog Post

We've been able to talk a little and brainstorm about the conflux of digital/electronic media that has connected eyes with screens for hours at a time. HDTV, Facebook, IMing, Texting, Emailing, Websurfing, Twitter, videogames - constant updates - constant interaction with screens and digital reality.

What are some of the topics that this suggests to you? When you think about the conquest of so many hours of your day, and the days of the people around you, by the electromagnetic-representational-dimension, what are some of the aspects that seem interesting to you? What's good and what's bad and what's weird about all this? What's obvious but still important?

Please, for your first blog post, write up some thoughts and questions about this digitalization experience and phenomenon.

Just sit and think and write ideas and questions. Get distracted. Sit and think and notice some more. Write questions about some of the aspects you've noticed. Then theorize a little about some of your questions - maybe x relates to y which leads to situation z?

Due Monday 4pm, posted on your own blog, which you've created a link for on the message board in the correct section. : )

If you "finished" this assignment early, please continue to add to your post. Given that this shift towards screens may be one of the largest phenomena in modern culture there is probably more for you to say than a single 20 minutes of writing would exhaust. A good way to add is to read your draft and consider what is vague (for instance advocating a "balance" - how much weight on each side and with what fulcrum?), consider what is missing, consider what could be more sharply put.