Thursday, March 17, 2011
Blog 8 Identity
I am following a blog about single malt monkey. This blog has alot of interesting pictures followed by text. It is amazing how the communication used by the person that is texting, ties it all together. Identity is characterized in this blog by the person with their usasge of description and feeling. The text appears to filled with the most exciting technology use of message texting. The person creating text is sending out a message that will give a more detail description of what's really going on. The most important point in the blog I'm following is that all messages text uses action words. Action words helps the viewer see how the picutures relates to the text. Like Baym describes in his topic on identity how we can be trick in to believing what we want to believe. Meaning, we want or like something so much, we let our imagination go wild and miss the real "picture". In the day, we want what we want and when we want it. Instead of interperting how something is presented. We fail to see the person for who they really are that's why we are mislead into deception. Characteristics are in every individual for a reason. So, we much reach out to explore both side to be able to choose the right side.
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What do you mean message texting? I don't know what you are referring to. I agree with Baym that we believe what we want to believe. Ideally, in a perfect world, everyone that writes on the interest would be a honest, genuine person. However, that is obviously not the case and many people pretend to be something they are not. Therefore, we have to decide when we are on the other end of information what we are going to believe.
ReplyDeleteYes, we do believe what we want to believe, because we have choices. It is totally up to the an individual, what they choose to believe.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to see a person(s) for who they really are when they are not being themselves. Identity plays a major role because if your are chatting online whatever their profile is a that time persented, then that is really all you know about them. Until you meet them f2f if that ever happens.
ReplyDeleteTreonna...even in real life when people ARE being themselves, it's hard to know what's up with them. A guy I work with is (one of) the office jokers. He always has a smart remark (usually funny), a joke to tell or just something comical to say. One day he came in and in his usual way said he was having trouble with his computer. When we laughed and blew him off he got mad because we didn't take him seriously and he needed to get something done by a certain time. Then you take the internet where people can do thing anonymously and that's like throwing gas on a fire.
ReplyDeleteDaniel makes a good point. And remember what we talked about in the chat--we often have multiple sides to who we are, and we express them differently to different audiences. One thing to look at with your blogger is who does the blogger write for? Who is the audience? How is the identity performance shaped by the perceived audience?
ReplyDeleteIs it really deception? Or is it perception?- Very good point I think, Will. This makes a lot of sense when you think about it. I tell my fiance frequently, that if I am mad about something- it may be caused by something else(not him). He may jump to conclusions and seem deceived by his own interpretation of who I am at that exact moment, and I may be "angry" differently if talking to for example my mother. Different "angry" identity for different crowds.
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