Oct 31 2010
Week 10: Framing
1. When I take a picture of my younger cousins (11, 10, and 8), they instantly demand to see the picture as soon as I take. They have done this since they were toddlers, because to them, cameras have always been digital and come with an instant preview screen. When I was younger, on the other hand, you had 24 (or 36) pictures and that was it. You couldn’t delete, you couldn’t preview- you had to wait until the film came back developed a few days to a week later. How is this instant gratification reflected in social networking sites/ public lives? How has an overload of instant images changed our perceptions?
2. By 2010, have we as SNS users realized the need to control privacy settings? Have we accepted the public nature of SNS sites in general and adjusted our comments accordingly? Have we accepted that if something we post gets out in a negative way, there is nothing we can do about it?
3. The big stink about Wikileaks in the news lately is that the documents it has released about the Iraqi War could create safety issues for the United States and do harm toward the US Military’s agenda. The release of the Pentagon Papers had similar protests (that it would harm the government’s efforts in Vietnam) but the papers were leaked and everything was okay (except for the realization that the government had been lying enormously about Vietnam). Are Wikileaks causing the same type of momentum today? Or do people not even care that they are being lied to?