The main way I engaged with the blogging was to connect the reading to personal experience and sometimes other ideas relating to the subject matter in our class. I don\u2019t often blog for other classes, so to me the exercise seemed more oriented towards personal experience or feeling, at least at first. My blog posts are often connect often connected to personal experience instead of abstract academic concepts\u2014places I\u2019d visited, things I\u2019d read, etc. Though I maintain the first-person perspective an attitude throughout my posts, they have changed from more personal to professional, I\u2019d say.<\/p>\n
For example, in one of my first posts<\/a>, I write: \u201cThe most disturbing element of\u00a0Dead Set\u00a0was certainly the gore, at least in my experience. I\u2019m not a horror fan, and thus turn my head or close my eyes during the inevitably violent moments of my favorite TV shows or movies.\u201d This is obviously a very firsthand and un-academic sentence, though I go on to talk about concepts and quotes having to do with the topic. However, by my last post<\/a>, I did not mention personal reactions\/feelings at all, but did relate the subject matter (Jackson\u2019s \u201cBroken World\u201d thinking) to a book I had read.<\/p>\n In terms of concepts I revisit, the main two are haunting\u2014haunted tourism, Edison\u2019s spirit phone\u2014despite that I haven\u2019t considered this a topic in which I am particularly interested. The next topic is ethics of technology\u2014Black Mirror, Slenderman, and dark\/toxic tourism. I found myself circling around the topic of ethics with questions: Should we be doing this with technology? Should we be thinking about death this way? These questions, of course, apply to this class in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The main way I engaged with the blogging was to connect the reading to personal experience and sometimes other ideas relating to the subject matter in our class. I don\u2019t often blog for other classes, so to me the exercise seemed more oriented towards personal experience or feeling, at least at first. My blog posts … <\/p>\n