ENG1101

8. For Friday 10/23

1. Next week we will be focusing more on how to listen to and write about music more carefully—a skill that will be key for developing your Essay 2s. For Friday, I want you to work on close-reading the lyrics of your selected song (e-mail me if your song has no lyrics). Specifically, what I want you to do is to write out the lyrics line by line and identify a social issue in at least five lines (using your own words).

EX (from Drake’s “Hotline Bling”):

“You used to call me on my cell phone”
possible issues: loss (used to…), love, friendship? Trust?

“Late night when you need my love”
possible issues: love, sex (late night), dependence (you need)

2. In the text we’ve read this week, “Drake: Rapper, Actor, Meme,” Jon Caraminica creates a thesis about Drake’s “Hotline Bling” that connects this song to a key contemporary “social issue,” the meme. In a few sentences, unpack (using your own words) the connection Caraminica makes between the aesthetics of “Hotline Bling” and the issue of memes and meme-making. If you’d like, you can also add your own response to this article—ideas or opinions you’ve had while reading.

For Wed 10/21

Hey 1101ers,
And, after a week or so away…we’re back! As mentioned previously, for this coming week I want you to focus on the two big pieces of writing we’ve been working on this Fall: Essay 1 and Essay 2.

By the end of the day on Wednesday, please complete a second draft of your Essay 1 and post a link to it as a reply to your note on the feedback you’d be using to revise.

Also for Wednesday, please share a link to your rough draft of Essay 2 as a post under the category “Essay 2 Feedback”.

Before we Zoom on Wednesday at 11am, please read the following:

—Kate Crawford’s “The Anxieties of Big Data”; and…
—Jon Caraminica’s “Drake: Rapper, Actor, Meme”

No need to do a Media Analysis post for this week on top of everything else. In the Zoom, we will begin talking about strategies for creatively and interestingly using research—including, notably, building unexpected connections between seemingly quite different (possibly even unrelated) topics. This will come in handy as you continue to develop your Essay 2s…

Welcome home—’see’ you Wed morn!

Monroe Street Essay 2 Draft 1 Link

Monroe Street Essay 2 Draft 1

Jasleen Aujla- media Share 7

In the text, author ” Art at arm Length” by Jerry Saltz, he talks about what is selfie and how it has different meanings. It made me think of the article I have read ” Why you should be taking selfies” by Angela Clarke which discuss about selfies that how it is good for individuals. It relates to Saltz text because it shows how selfies can have different impacts on us. It can change or aspects of social interaction, body language, self awareness and public behavior.

Lubna Mojumder Share Media 6

I pick this picture, the picture is underneath the MS that identifies with the thoughts of a web dependence in the writings “the Viral Virus” by Lauren Duca, “Dependent on Addiction” by Christopher path, “Issues for DSM-5: Internet Addiction” by jerald G. Square and “The development of web habit” by Griffiths et al. These writings show how web has pessimistic effect on individuals. As should be obvious an individual in the photograph who is addictive to web and has no enthusiasm for his work. He is simply thinking about the games and social applications instead of focusing on his work. Individuals as him don’t comprehend the negative impacts of the web that could have on them. My opinion is continually utilizing technology simply squandering our time,it’s smarter to learn new things.

technology-addiction

Dom Padon Media Share 7

After reading K-Hole’s “Youth Mode”, I realized that the style of thinking represented in the article is very confusing, and requires a bunch of bullshit to be present in order to fully adapt to that style of thinking. With ideas and attention-grabbers such as “The assertion of individuality is a rite of passage, but generational branding strips youth of this agency. Belonging
to your generation becomes an inescapable truth — you’re a
Scorpio whether you believe in astrology or not” and “In the same way that a video goes viral, so does potentially anything. The likelihood that you and Michelle Obama wish upon the same star is greater than ever”, I think, who gives a fuck? What kind of idiocy really allows someone to believe in shit like astrology, or care whether you and Michelle Obama wish upon the same star or not? All these ideas and forms of thinking are full of bringing consequence to the inconsequential, and it fills me with distaste for human behavior that actively pursues this ideology. I think many of the people in the world are so enamored by the appeal of clout, recognition and notoriety that they become fucked up versions of their base humanity: they all do stupid or irrational shit for the chance at views, shares, and a sense of accomplishment when in perspective, our window of existence is so small that one would rationally aspire not to be a fool while they exist. It’s this ideology of “I wanna be accepted by other people” that really makes me hate interacting with people that are constantly seeking other’s validation and acceptance because I believe that the only acceptance you need to have is from yourself. No bullshit from others, no pressure to conform, but solely your happiness is what should be kept in mind.

Mehreen Khanom Media Share 7

In the text “Art at Arm’s Length”, Jerry Salz’ talks about how selfie has taken over people’s life. It states “What I love about selfies is that we then do a second thing after making them: We make them public.” People these days basically takes selfies to post it on social media. And some people will do anything to get the perfect one, sunkissed, nice view, with pets, with friends and family, and etc. What people don’t understand is what you see is not always true. In the article, it states “Almost half admitted editing them before posting and 27% say their photos online make their life look more exciting”, also “I’m not what I look like on social media.” It’s hard to find selfies with a natural face. Most of them are edited and photoshopped. This is the genre of selfies.

Maram Awadh Zoom Mtg 7 Summary

After watching the zoom recording I learned what a scholarly article actually is. I never really knew what it was exactly but this recording helped explain it to me. I’m familiar with Google Scholar because I used it to write my ten page research paper when I was a junior in highschool. My teacher made us use google scholar to find articles for us to include in our papers. Google scholar made it easier to find factual articles that are reliable and include evidence to prove or support their statement. When I would use google to search for articles, it wouldn’t give me an article with reliable facts. The articles were biased and did not provide any to little evidence to back up their claim and I knew if I used these articles they wouldn’t really help my essay, it would make my essay weak because there isn’t any solid evidence that backs up what my statement is. I’m glad that we get to use google scholar for our Essay #2 because it makes things way easier for us to find good articles to use in our essays. Also, I agree with what Dom said about people being disconnected from each other and they need a sense of connection by sticking in a group that have similar things in common like race, skin color, interests, etc. I agree with this because people tend to feel comfortable or safe around people that are just like them and have similar things in common. When they are around people like them, they don’t feel like an outcast.

Jasleen Aujla Zoom mtg 5 summary

Unfortunately I was unable to join this zoom meeting but after watching the zoom recording, I learned many new things that I didn’t know before. Anaphora was new to me but zoom recording helped me to understand what it is. It is a list that generate new thoughts and make connections between already existing thoughts. We can use anaphora list in essay 1 to make our essay more clear and thoughtful. Also I learned about sub-list assignment that help us to make connections between topics which usually don’t have anything in common. I think these lists are very important because it help us to relate many things. There was also discussion about essay 2 topic. For essay 2, we need to find the social issues. The zoom recording was very helpful because without this I would be unable to do my Friday’s assignment.

7. For Friday 10/9

For Friday:

–(re-)Watch our Zoom as a reference for thinking about what a scholarly article is.

Briefly compare Lane’s “Addicted to Addiction” and Griffiths et al’s “The Evolution of Internet Addiction.” One of these is a scholarly article, published in a scholarly journal; the other is not. In your response, tell me which of these articles you think is a “scholarly” article and explain to me how you know this. (You do not need to read much of the articles to answer this.). BONUS: Tell me which of these texts you prefer and why. MEGA-BONUS: How are these two texts making a similar argument about IA? (You’ll have to read carefully to answer this latter question.)
Look at your list of social issues you began thinking about working on for Essay 2 a week or two ago. Choose one social issue and find (don’t read…yet) TWO ARTICLES on this social issue—one scholarly article and one non-scholarly article—using two different resources linked in Essay 2 Research Resources. Share links and publication info (Author name, title, etc.) for these two articles under #2 in your response.
Briefly paraphrase in your own words the thesis of either:

—K-Hole, on “Normcore” (pp. 27–41); OR

—Jerry Salz, on the selfie, p.1, 2, 3 (bottom), 6,

Explain how K-Hole tells us what Normcore is by telling us what Normcore DOES; OR
Explain how Salz tells us what a selfie IS by telling us what a selfie DOES (ie what does a selfie SHOW us; how is it MADE? how does it IMPACT us?).

NEXT WEEK WE ARE ON BREAK: USE THIS TIME TO REVISE ESSAY 1 & DRAFT ESSAY 2. Your revised Essay 1 and your draft of Essay 2 are both due the following week (10/21).