HW for Mon 4/8

HW: Finish reading Crawford’s “The Anxieties of Big Data.”  Read Caraminica’s “Drake: Rapper, Actor, Meme.”
With your Essay 2 group: search for new articles on your Essay 2 word, make a list of them, decide on 1 of them to read.  Read this article and arrive in class next week prepared to write about 2+ quotations from it that feature your Essay 2 word.  

Writing Prompt (2 parts)
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. Building connections between words and texts.  First, spend a few sentences explaining what the word “normcore” means.  Ground your explanation in a quotation from K-Hole’s text “YOUTH MODE.”  Second, explain what the word “surveillant anxiety” means when Kate Crawford uses it in her text, “The Anxieties of Big Data” (which starts on p. 46).
 Third, explain why you think Crawford discusses “normcore” on p. 48.  What is the connection made here between data anxiety and the trend known as “normcore”? 

2. Post article info (author, title, publication, link) for the new text your Essay 2 group has found and will be reading this week.

22 thoughts on “HW for Mon 4/8”

  1. Writing prompt:

    1.) Normcore stand for the way we dress that make us feel comfortable. It also stand for the way people wear basic colors clothing’s, and it just wearing simple clothes. For example, I think I’m definitely a Normcore person. Surveillant anxiety defines as a hidden anxiety people have. It’s basically when humans try to hide their intimate selves. Crawford discusses “Normcore” on page 48 because he want society to know that we don’t have to follow the trend and just be yourself. Data anxiety and Normcore connect with one another because for both of these ideas they talk about how we should find our own freedom. As Kate Crawford has noted, “A choose your own Adventure for affect” (p 49).

     

    1. Andy, hi!

      I think you’re onto something when you refer to “normcore” being a trend oriented toward “basic colors” and “simple clothes.”  Can you be a bit more specific in your discussion of “surveillant anxiety”?  Take another look at Crawford’s essay and work on this: according to her, who suffers from “surveillant anxiety” and why?

      Also, what new article are  you reading with your Essay 2 group?
      Thanks

      M

      1. Review:

        To in depth “surveillant anxiety” means that people who has anxiety and it affects their daily lifestyle. Crawford is saying people who have surveillant anxiety is suffering from this problem. People who has surveillant anxiety feel this way because feeling insecure about themselves, hopeless, and have social separation. As Kate Crawford has noted, “We Are All Very Anxious” argue that anxiety is the dominant affect of our current phase of capitalism, engendering political hopelessness, insecurity, and social separation” page 47 (2/9).

        Essay two article:

        http://go.galegroup.com.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T003&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=6&docId=GALE%7CCX3469300423&docType=Topic+overview&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=&prodId=GVRL&contentSet=GALE%7CCX3469300423&searchId=R1&userGroupName=cuny_nytc&inPS=true

         

  2. Normcore means a style of dressing that involves the deliberate choice of unremarkable or unfashionable casual clothes. Normcore is the type of people that really don’t care about what they wear but as long as they wear something. Surveillant anxiety meaning is the anxiety of those surveilled is deeply connected to the anxiety of the surveillers. In the anxiety and Normcore goes with each other because for both of these ideas it shows that humans should find themselves and do what they want. As K-Hole said “Seeking the freedom that comes with nonexclusivity”. Crawford discusses “Normcore” on page 48 about how we humans can be ourselves and don’t have to go along what people are going with.

    1. Mazharul,

      Nice start.  You’ve pulled some language from both of the articles into your explanation of these key terms.  When you do that, you need to use quotation marks and then explain the quote in your own words.  Otherwise, you’re pretty much plagiarizing (copying and using someone else’s words as your own).  So, for instance, I know this passage is from Crawford’s article:

      “the anxiety of those surveilled is deeply connected to the anxiety of the surveillers.”

      Please quote and paraphrase it in your own words.

      Also, please take another look at Crawford’s article and explain more clearly how she is connecting the idea of “normcore” to “surveillant anxiety.”

      Thanks

      M

       

  3. The word Normcore means the understanding that there is no such thing as normal and harnessing the potential for connection with the freedom to be with anyone as well as benefiting from the possibility of the misinterpretation as an opportunity for connection in a non-threat to your authenticity. (K-Hole pg40-41). The word Surveillant Anxiety means the fear that all the data we are shedding every day is too revealing of our intimate selves but may also misrepresent us with and expectation emotion, and the expectation in generally of risk, exposure, and failure according to Kate Crawford. I think that Crawford discusses Normcore they both had the connection to the consumers and the mass consumerism of society.

     

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    1. Mindy, thanks for this.

      As with Mazharul (above), I’m going to suggest you quote and paraphrase (explain in your own words) certain quotations you are using in your explanation of these terms, for instance:

      “there is no such thing as normal”

      “harnessing the possibility for connection”

      “the freedom to be with anyone.”

      Can you slow down, quote, and explain each of these phrases.  I’ll start you off with one of them.

      K-Hole remarks that “normcore” involves believing that “there is no such thing as normal” (K-Hole (28).  This is because __________

       

      Also, how is the article you posted connected to your Essay 2 word?

      Thanks again,
      M

       

       

  4. 1) Normcorer represents they way one feels comfortable with whatever clothes or style they may have. Surveillant anxiety according to Crawford’s text, shows the fear that a person’s personal information can disclose them as well as others can generate around them which can create misrepresentations of ourselves as well exposure and possibly failure. Crawford uses “normcore” to show that people can be who they want to be and be just fine with that despite what others may think of them.

    2) “Can We Choose Our Own Identity?”

    By: Kwame Anthony Appiah

    Published – 08/31/18

    The Guardian 

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/31/who-owns-your-identity-kwame-anthony-appiah

    1. Nice work on the whole, Shanice.  However, I think you can offer a more specific definition of “normcore” based on K-Hole’s text.  I also want you to take another look at Kate Crawford’s article; try to explain a bit more clearly about the connection she is making between data anxiety and “normcore.”

      Thanks,
      M

  5. 1) The word normcore first striked me as a person who is fairly normal. Through the use of K-Hole’s article Youth Mode it has a new meaning. It’s people who identity with each other and have the ability to celebrate similarities between each other. Surveillance anxiety is quite the opposite. It refers to people who are paranoid that all the information they are realeasing into the internet is way too “revealing” ( Crawford, 46). Crawford further this point by discussing the term normcore. It’s becoming a trend to send information into the web that is fairly personal. It’s a way many connect with others. It’s promotes the idea of normcore, allowing those to shamelessly connect.

    1. Brianna,

      The first several sentences of this post are *wonderful* and convey a nuanced understanding of K-Hole’s definition of “normcore” as well as Crawford’s notion of “surveillant anxiety.”  For the connection between the two ideas according to Kate Crawford, I’d like you to look again at her text.  According to Crawford, what might the connection between a culture-wide anxiety about being watched and a widespread cultural trend of wanting to blend in (“normcore”) be?  Can you articulate this connection in your own words?

      Thanks,
      M

  6. 1. “Normcore,” in the fewest words, is the celebration of sameness. While other concepts of “mass indie,” “alternative,” and “acting basic” all involve either the evasion of sameness or celebration of difference, normcore calls for people to accept being mainstream, and even be malleable enough to move between groups and be accepted in every one of them. K-HOLE makes the claim that normcore means that “making one choice today and a conflicting choice tomorrow doesn’t make you a hypocrite” (34). Purchasing Jordan’s one day and then buying New Balance sneakers the next day doesn’t remove you from the sneaker head group for purchasing two vastly different sneakers, but allows you to be part of both sub-groups.

    “Surveillant Anxiety” is the worry that information that the various agencies picking up our information have too much information about us and may, unfortunately, not sh0w the real us. Let’s say that someone plays a game that involves guns, like Counter Strike: Global Offensive, and they spend quite a bit of time searching online on which ones are the best to use. Someone with “surveillant anxiety” would be worried that not only does someone out there know that they spend a lot of time researching their favorite game, but there could be someone else out there who has taken the interpretation that this person has a strong interest in gun, and potentially for not a good reason.

    Kate Crawford mentions “normcore” in her text because it became popular around the same time that people became aware of “big data.” She mentions that the “cultural idea of disappearing has become cool,” which implies that normcore is a means of disappearing even when we are aware that we are being watched. Being so mainstream, in our Google searches and our clothing, celebrating the sameness we have between anyone and everyone, means that we have the ability to fall through the cracks of the those who watch us.

    2.

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    1. Zean,

      Wonderful post.  You’ve articulated quite well the whacky connection that Crawford is making between data anxiety and the trend K-Hole identifies as “normcore.”  I would challenge you to go further with your understanding of Crawford’s term “surveillant anxiety.”  As she points out, this is a “twin” concept, referring not only to those of us (like you and I) who are concerned about being watched online but also to…another group of people (who I will allow you to identify ;).

      Also: remind me how this article ties in with your Essay 2 topic?

      Thanks,

      M

  7. Based on the reading Normcore is the idea that people should embrace the similarities between them and be OK with not trying to be unique unlike mass indie or alternative which aims to be different K Hole states “Normcore seeks the freedom that comes with non-exclusivity… liberation and being nothing special”

    Surveillant anxiety is the fear that all the data we put into technology is too revealing of our intimate selves but at the same time it does not accurately depict us. Crawford  also mentions normcore stating that “blending in gives you a particular kind of power when standing out which in a way Connects to what was said earlier in the text about how “the bigger the data gets the more small things can be overlooked”

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    1. Elhadj,

      My comments for you largely mime my comments for Zean:
      You’ve articulated quite well the whacky connection that Crawford is making between data anxiety and the trend K-Hole identifies as “normcore.”  I would challenge you to go further with your understanding of Crawford’s term “surveillant anxiety.”  As she points out, this is a “twin” concept, referring not only to those of us (like you and I) who are concerned about being watched online but also to…another group of people (who I will allow you to identify ;).
      Also: remind me how this article ties in with your Essay 2 topic?
      Thanks,
      M

  8. What is normcore? Normcore is the combination of both normal and hardcore. Normcore is the expression of one’s specialness. Normcore not only is the expression of one’s specialty but is the similarities between people or a group. Surveillant anxiety is the opposite of Normcore. According to Kate Crawford the term Surveillant anxiety means “Surveillant anxiety is always a conjoined twin: The anxiety of those surveilled is deeply connected to the anxiety of the surveillers.” What the text is explaining is that Surveillant anxiety is the fear of one being feared of all the info that is inputted into data systems that can be revealed. The reason Kate Crawford mentions normcore in her article is because normcore is a trend and as Surveillant anxiety becomes more popular and people becoming more aware of this is it is becoming a trend.

    1. I would explain normcore as being neutral because you are stuck in between. I would explain surveillant anxiety as fearing things that are important to get out. I like the way you explain both Wahidmiah I agree with you.

  9. In the article, “Feasts Under the Bridge, Kerr introduces the term trolling to describe a change in online society. Instead of living underneath a bridge, these trolls inhabit the depths of the internet. Kerr proposes a question to his readers, “Is it possible that trolling can be seen as a contemporary extension of this desire to “shock the bourgeoisie?” ( page 59) Trolling is an attempt to displease, confuse and irritate the upper class citizens. However, I disagree that jonly upper class citizens are affected by the trolling phenomenon.
    Before this article swayed my view a troll was just an individual or group of individuals who thrived off of sarcasm. Kerr grants them a bigger role in the cyber mania.
     
    1) The word normcore first striked me as a person who is fairly normal. Through the use of K-Hole’s article Youth Mode it has a new meaning. It’s people who identity with each other and have the ability to celebrate similarities between each other. Surveillance anxiety is quite the opposite. It refers to people who are paranoid that all the information they are realeasing into the internet is way too “revealing” ( Crawford, 46). Crawford further this point by discussing the term normcore. It’s becoming a trend to send information into the web that is fairly personal. It’s a way many connect with others. It’s promotes the idea of normcore, allowing those to shamelessly connect.
     
    Brianna,
    The first several sentences of this post are *wonderful* and convey a nuanced understanding of K-Hole’s definition of “normcore” as well as Crawford’s notion of “surveillant anxiety.”  For the connection between the two ideas according to Kate Crawford, I’d like you to look again at her text. According to Crawford, what might the connection between a culture-wide anxiety about being watched and a widespread cultural trend of wanting to blend in (“normcore”) be?  Can you articulate this connection in your own words?
    Thanks,
     
    M
    New and improved
    1) The word normcore first striked me as a person who is fairly normal. Through the use of K-Hole’s article Youth Mode it has a new meaning. It’s people who identity with each other and have the ability to celebrate similarities between each other. Surveillance anxiety is quite the opposite. It refers to people who are paranoid that all the information they are releasing into the internet is way too “revealing” ( Crawford, 46). If you feel that you are being watched the first instinct is to switch up your movements. This is where normcore kicks in. While on the internet many want to fall into the background to escape the lazer eyes of those who monitor their internet usage. They are trying to close the blinds to their personal personas on the internet so no one is snooping around without the full picture.

  10. In the article, “Feasts Under the Bridge, Kerr introduces the term trolling to describe a change in online society. Instead of living underneath a bridge, these trolls inhabit the depths of the internet. Kerr proposes a question to his readers, “Is it possible that trolling can be seen as a contemporary extension of this desire to “shock the bourgeoisie?” ( page 59) Trolling is an attempt to displease, confuse and irritate the upper class citizens. However, I disagree that jonly upper class citizens are affected by the trolling phenomenon.
    Before this article swayed my view a troll was just an individual or group of individuals who thrived off of sarcasm. Kerr grants them a bigger role in the cyber mania.
     
    1) The word normcore first striked me as a person who is fairly normal. Through the use of K-Hole’s article Youth Mode it has a new meaning. It’s people who identity with each other and have the ability to celebrate similarities between each other. Surveillance anxiety is quite the opposite. It refers to people who are paranoid that all the information they are realeasing into the internet is way too “revealing” ( Crawford, 46). Crawford further this point by discussing the term normcore. It’s becoming a trend to send information into the web that is fairly personal. It’s a way many connect with others. It’s promotes the idea of normcore, allowing those to shamelessly connect.
     
    Brianna,
    The first several sentences of this post are *wonderful* and convey a nuanced understanding of K-Hole’s definition of “normcore” as well as Crawford’s notion of “surveillant anxiety.”  For the connection between the two ideas according to Kate Crawford, I’d like you to look again at her text. According to Crawford, what might the connection between a culture-wide anxiety about being watched and a widespread cultural trend of wanting to blend in (“normcore”) be?  Can you articulate this connection in your own words?
    Thanks,
     
    M
    New and improved
    1) The word normcore first striked me as a person who is fairly normal. Through the use of K-Hole’s article Youth Mode it has a new meaning. It’s people who identity with each other and have the ability to celebrate similarities between each other. Surveillance anxiety is quite the opposite. It refers to people who are paranoid that all the information they are releasing into the internet is way too “revealing” ( Crawford, 46). If you feel that you are being watched the first instinct is to switch up your movements. This is where normcore kicks in. While on the internet many want to fall into the background to escape the lazer eyes of those who monitor their internet usage. They are trying to close the blinds to their personal personas on the internet so no one is snooping around without the full picture.

  11. Normcore means the need or want to fit into any crowd. Not caring if you don’t stand out/ are not seen— purposely to fit in on whatever trend is happening and “lit” at the moment (Lit= intoxicating or exciting). “Normcore doesn’t want the freedom to become someone. Normcore wants the freedom to be with anyone.” Says K-Hole on their definition of what is Normcore in their text “Youth Mode”. I interpret that as someone wanting to be around any and everyone, not knowing who they are or having their own identity.
     
     Surveillant Anxiety is the double jeopardy of sharing personal information online and still feeling like you’re being misrepresented and someone or “Big Brother” (the government) May perceive you as someone you’re not. Crawford stated “…the fear that all the data we are shedding everyday is too revealing of our intimate selves but may also misrepresent us.” (The Anxieties of Big Data) in one of her many descriptions of surveillant anxiety. The key word in both Kate Crawford’s definition and mine is “misrepresent(ed)”, people feel no matter how much of themselves they share, others still wouldn’t know the real them.
      I think Crawford discusses “Normcore” and refers to K-Hole’s text “Youth Mode: A Report On Freedom”  to explain why the slide in the British intelligence agency GCHQ’s Squeaky Dolphin deck was blacked out and also the tone and style of the slide— who were they advertising/ selling this idea and or question to?

  12. normcore was a term include but not limit to those why wants to live simply life, have less on there mind, social media express idea by art work and fashion. 

    surveillant anxiety wants to show best out of yourself.

     

    when you are keep track of your social media update of view, like and comment. 

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