Friday’s activity

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On friday we had to make a video. The topic was whatever we wanted. I decided to team up with a friend and we created a short clip about depression.

Making the video was a lot of fun and also very tiring ‘cause I had to look for the drawings, edit them in Illustrator, creating the video in Affter efects and then adjusting few details in Premiere Pro.

Here is the link.

 


Day V

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What’s up people,

Today was a bittersweet day for me: it was the last session of our semanai. I was satisfied, tired and sad. I have learned a lot this week. It felt really good to explore topics that have little to do with my everyday life and studies.  Besides I finally started blogging. I really like writing and blogging is an activity that since a few years ago has gotten my attention but I had never tried.

After this week I have decided not only to continue this blog but also creating another where I can write about the “philosophy” (I guess), history and ideas behind the pictures I take and post on Instagram.

A thing I liked about blogging and the “Digital Identity” course is that it has helped me to clear my mind and think about what I have learned during the day. I hope that if people read my blog they can get something from it, fun, a lesson, encouraging words, or whatever they are looking for. Anyways I’m sure I can get lots of good stuff from it. During the curse I have learned to be less scared about sharing a bit of my life on the internet. Besides if I post something that later on I will not like or agree with I can always erase it.

On the other hand the session of today was quite helpful because we learned about expressing one’s self through video. Diego Zavala showed us several websites were stories were told though videos. The one that I liked the most was about a boy and his father, it really touched my heart, I actually wanted to cry but I was too embarrassed to do it.

Ken, if you ever read this, thanks a lot for this week. It has been the best semana I for me so far. From my experience you are a great professor, having you as a full semester teacher must be super dope.

Cheers.


Día VI: contexto y censura

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El día de hoy escribiré acerca de dos grandes conceptos que captaron mi atención:

Censura

La actividad que más disfruté el día de hoy fue la conversación con Maha Bali. Habló un poco sobre la censura, sobre no crear “censuras parciales” por ejemplo, bloquear comentarios racistas solo para algunas razas y para otras no. Y como saber que censurar y que no. Yo había pensado desde hace tiempo en este tema, aún no tengo una opinión definida, por un lado, estoy a favor de que la gente pueda expresarse libremente, decir lo que piensa, pero en ocasiones algunas personas pueden ofenderse- con razón- por comentarios de otros seres humanos. Considero que hay temas peliagudos que definitivamente deben de seguir siendo temas de discusiones y debates, que tienen que hablarse, temas como: aborto, política, estética, arte y religión.Deben de identificarse claramente los sentimientos, los hechos y las opiniones. Claro que habrá gente con opiniones encontradas, contrarias y extremas, por eso, deben de hablarse de este tipo de cosas.

Contexto

Ken nos mostró algunas imágenes sacadas de contexto, la gente comenzaba a especular y a juzgar sin pensar antes el por qué de la foto.

Proyectó un video sobre unas chicas que estaban siendo grabadas tomándose selfies en un partido de baseball, los comentaristas no tardaron en juzgarlas y etiquetarlas. Escuché algunos comentarios de los otros asistentes que las tacharon de frívolas, Materialistas, huecas, entre otros adjetivos aludiendo a su “narcisismo” y “falta de interés por el juego”. Lo que muchos no sabíamos era que ellas estaban tomándose selfies porque era parte de sus actividades de integración y porque les habían dicho que tomaran fotos y las compartieran.

 


Day III

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Rosa’s visitor and resident chart

What’s up my peeps,

So we are on our third day of the “Digital Identity” course. Today we are exploring the visitor/resident concept. Before this course I did not know anything about that matter.  “Visitors” are people that visit a website and do not leave any trace of their presence there, on the other hand, “Residents” are the ones that leave a trace.

The platforms that I consider myself a resident of are: Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Hotmail because I am constantly using them and interacting with machines and people through them all the time. Speaking about identity on those sites I think I am pretty constant about my “personality” in all of them I am always the same person but I share different quantities of my personality in each.

Another aspect about being resident or visitor is the personal and professional approach.  In my experience I try to be as “professional” as possible in all platforms because you never know who is going to see that information. I have heard about cases where school teachers posted pictures of them having alcoholic drinks and losing their jobs because of that. Hence I try to be cautious with all my actions and posts, which I think it should not be like that but society is very hypocrite in that sense: people say that you should be free, and do whatever you want with your life but there is always people judging you, I mean, sometimes giving your opinion is seen as a bad thing, anyways that’s a whole other topic.

As a conclusion each person has a different background that may affect whether they are visitors or residents in different websites and places. There are no rules nor correct answers.


Semana i: Digital identity

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La privacidad es un privilegio que, en estos tiempos, es difícil poseer. Algunas personas desearían estar off the grid , sin embargo, es demasiado difícil casi imposible no aparecer en algún sitio de Internet. Por lo cual es importante pensar muy bien antes de publicar, ya que, eso se queda para siempre en algún lugar del universo.

Considero que ya tengo suficientes redes sociales, me gustaría eliminar algunas de ellas pero las redes sociales son un mal necesario. Por ejemplo: Facebook. Para muchos trabajos en equipo utilizamos Facebook como medio de comunicación y para compartir los documentos que generamos a lo largo del curso. Algunos profesores deciden crear grupos en facebook para compartir la información de la materia.

Durante el curso “digital identity” a lo largo de la Semana i, aprenderemos un poco más sobre las redes sociales y nuestra personalidad digital.