Oh boy. It’s finally here. The day I get to talk about Digital Blackface in an academic setting. If you…
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GIFs and Internalizing Popular Culture
GIFs would not have the presence or function they do without popular culture and the spread of that culture through the internet. Part of the reason that GIFs can potently describe someone’s reaction or feeling in a conversation is that are pulled from movies and TV shows that viewers are familiar with. It is not… Read More GIFs and Internalizing Popular Culture
I Just Don’t Think I Agree
I want to focus my post on Teen Voque’s article “We need to Talk about Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs”. I honestly, sincerely do not mean to be the one that reads an article and decides that I do not agree with any of it. I always go in with an open mind but I … Continue reading I Just Don’t Think I Agree
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Chuck Norris Approved
It was surprising to me that GIFs were created over 30 years ago according to Kate M Miltner and Tim Highfield in their article, “Never Gonna GIF You Up: Analyzing the Cultural Significance of the Animated GIF.” GIFs seem like they would be something that would be newer in the internet world. I have been …
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Digitally Surreal
I thought seeing Kevin L. Ferguson’s digitally surreal images of movies was very intriguing. I don’t think I knew that looking at a movie in such a way would produce anything but noise. I was surprised to see (after he pointed it out. I couldn’t tell before he talked about…
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Reading “To Cite or to Steal?…” made me feel frustrated for Kevin Ferguson. The beginning was so exciting, when he said his work was being circulated and he felt like, for a moment, that he had “arrived.” And then to…
Digital Surrealism: Visualizing My Life
While reading Kevin Ferguson’s methods and analysis of the work he has done with different films, I kept having a recurring thought of “what if I used this same method to analyze my life in some way?” Maybe my life planning and decision-making class has me in too much of a “reflect on my life” mood…or I could be onto something. At first, I thought about putting all of my home movies and videos of me throughout my life through…
An Analysis of the Surreal
In reading Kevin L. Ferguson’s piece on Digital Surrealism, I found something rather amazing. A small gem from my childhood,…
Limitations and Blessings of Voyant
Text processing tools such as Voyant enhance our ability to recognize and find meaning in language patterns within a body of text beyond what can be done with a close reading only. Looking at the information generated about the use of certain words and where they occur adds to our own interpretation by offering a… Read More Limitations and Blessings of Voyant
