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A word cloud of every single post that I’ve made onto the course website, to date. Generated using www.wordclouds.com\/.%5B\/caption%5D<\/a><\/p>\nA cursory look over my post history on this site doesn’t reveal much about myself that I didn’t know. One thing that did stick out, however, was that I apparently absolutely adore comparing things. I think that the idea of comparing too things is attractive to me because it involves a true understanding of two not always entirely different topics, and searching for underlying meanings that may produce overlaps. Due to the nature of the course, many of the things I’ve compared follow a general, analog versus digital structure.<\/p>\n
For example I’ve done a post on public online grieving<\/a>, which was being implicitly compared to more traditional expressions of grief. \u00a0I’ve compared the concept and act of repairing a broken analog and digital object<\/a>. The list continues, but\u00a0the most surprising thing that I picked up was that I didn’t consistently ‘favor’ one side or the other. Going into the class, I probably would have had strong opinions on whether some things should digital and others analog. But in retrospect, I think that I was more flexible than I thought. For example, in my blog post about repair, one of my observations include that as modern technology become more sophisticated, we rely less and less on single individuals who of capable of repairing it. I meant that statement in a truly neutral way; I don’t think that specialization in repairing abilities really spells anything catastrophic or amazing for modern, digital society.<\/p>\n Finally, one last thing: my choice of the digital media in the ‘required integrated digital media’ criteria in the blog posts. While I’ve done a lot of screenshotting from that day’s material, I found that as the semester progressed, I used more and more pictures and tidbits that I had prior knowledge of before the assigned material. Things I like xkcd<\/a> comics I remembered from a while back, a still from a movie, or an interesting photo from reddit.<\/p>\n And I definitely know the reason for this interesting phenomenon: I usually post my blogs not too long before the deadline (sorry Dr. Sample), but I usually try to read everyone else’s blog post before I do mine. In my efforts to try and appear *unique* and *original*, I ended up using things that I’ve seen from my own experiences! And it ended up pretty okay, I think. Thank you to any readers that followed this rollercoaster of a class!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A cursory look over my post history on this site doesn’t reveal much about myself that I didn’t know. One thing that did stick out, however, was that I apparently absolutely adore comparing things. I think that the idea of comparing too things is attractive to me because it involves a true understanding of two … <\/p>\n