Summary- Chapter 2 in the book Seeing Ourselves Through Technology talks a lot about filters. And how we use them in our daily lives especially when it comes to using them in a digital media form. And the adjustments we can make on the pictures we take and post on social media such as Instagram or Facebook. It goes on to talk about how filters can be related to how we regulate things that dont necessary have to do with social media or taking a picture. But has to do with simply tracking things like how many steps we take in a day. Or if we were to search a certain subject on google. The search engine in that web site is going to filter through all its sources and sites to give you a list of the best sites to look at or click on to find your information. Another way to think about how filters work are how some people can go about when making or creating a baby journal. As the parent or parents would log information such as the baby’s first step or first word the digital journal would filter through all of the recordings and tracked information and put them all in order. Going forward they start to talk more about how filters have impacted our selfies and or photographs we take and post. The author states that there is a mass variety of people who tend to use filters when taking a photo. She talks about a lot of the reasoning behind why people use filters on pictures. One of them being that people based weather or not to use a filter by seeing what others are posting. Which has a lot to do with self-representation.
Keyterms
- Discursive- digressing from subject to subject.
- Terministic screen is a term in the theory and criticism of rhetoric. It involves the acknowledgment of a language system that determines an individual’s perception and symbolic action in the world.
- Neoliberal – relating to a modified form of liberalism tending to favor free-market capitalism.
- Aestheticism- the approach to art exemplified by (but not restricted to) the Aesthetic Movement.
- Defamiliarize- render unfamiliar or strange (used especially in the context of art and literature).
Main idea
The main idea of this chapter is about filters and how they affect the world and how we use them in our daily lives. Filters can be use for a variety of many different things.
Making Connections- I agree with a lot of the stuff that was said in this chapter. I use Snapchat quite a bit and i am constantly using all kinds of filters. I never thought about filters being a big part of my daily life or all the ways you can actually use the types of filters for a variety of things. I always thought of them as something that was fun or funny to do. All though i can admit that changing the tones on a landscape photograph can make it very vibrant and outstanding.
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