{"id":1262,"date":"2019-04-30T22:11:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2019-04-30T22:11:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T02:11:45","slug":"final-reflective-post-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/2019\/04\/30\/final-reflective-post-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Reflective Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of reoccurring themes stood out to me in my review of blog posts and a comment I did. The first is my interest in exploring gender and race. I explored both in my first blog post, \u201cThe Final Irrational Girl<\/a>,\u201d and then race again in \u201cTillich\u2019s Symbol & Baldwin\u2019s Letter<\/a>.\u201d In both, I discussed where blackness fits into a white dominated genre (horror). I am not too surprised by these areas because throughout my four years at Davidson, I often take on topics of gender and race. When writing about gender, I tend to take a feminist stance, as reflected by the line in \u201cThe Final Irrational Girl,\u201d \u201cWhile horror has treated its female characters misogynistically, it is also the genre that\u2019s given us \u201cthe final girl\u201d trope (basically what Pinedo was referring to as female heroes; means the last female alive to confront the monster). Do you think postmodern horror is perpetuating misogynistic images of women in Hollywood or changing them?\u201d I am aware that often in my writing I try to \u2018complicate\u2019 my ideas and that quote is a good example of when I complicate my argument by placing it next to an idea that challenges my previous statements and takes my argument to the next level. I often think of my writing as building my paper (or blog post) brick by brick, and I can see that reflected in the way I have composed each sentence.<\/p>\n

Another reoccurring topic in my posts is social media and how it produces a \u2018lack of the real\u2019. I discuss social media in both \u201cDigital Zombie<\/a>\u201d and in my comment on Alivia\u2019s \u201cInstagram Memorials<\/a>\u201d post. In \u201cDigital Zombie,\u201d my post about the Black Mirror episode we watched, I wrote, \u201cSocial media cannot fully replicate Ash because it works on the assumption that people put their whole lives on social media, which is impossible. Even with the addition of Martha\u2019s personal messages and videos, the artificial intelligence cannot account for Ash\u2019s life before social media which founded who he is and moments not captured between Ash and Martha, represented by zombie Ash\u2019s inability to react when Martha places his hand on her chest.\u201d Social media cannot fully represent a person and lacks human qualities that Ash cannot recreate. In my comment on Alivia\u2019s post, I mention how direct messaging a memorialized Instagram page makes the living user feel as if they can still communicate with the dead, but of course the account will not respond. I called this form of communication a \u201cdigital letter,\u201d but still lacks the same as communicating with a person who is living. I am kind of surprised to see this connection between social media and \u2018lack of the real\u2019 because social media plays a big part of my life without much day-to-day thought.<\/p>\n

From my first post to my last post, I think I shifted away from topics that I tend to discuss (race and gender) and discussed technology more and how it affects our culture, which was a crucial goal of the class. This is a general theme represented in my final paper discussing autonomous vehicles and marketing, and just by going through these posts I can definitely see what led up to me selecting this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of reoccurring themes stood out to me in my review of blog posts and a comment I did. The first is my interest in exploring gender and race. I explored both in my first blog post, \u201cThe Final Irrational Girl,\u201d and then race again in \u201cTillich\u2019s Symbol & Baldwin\u2019s Letter.\u201d In both, I …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflective-post"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paB9Ga-km","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}