{"id":281,"date":"2017-10-04T23:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T05:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dh.tarasampson.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2017-10-04T23:05:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T05:05:22","slug":"read-novels-and-chill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/student-posts\/read-novels-and-chill\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Novels and Chill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was reading this article, the thought of the article regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/01\/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood\/282679\/\">Netflix<\/a> genres kept popping into my thoughts. It intrigued me think of what could possibly happen if someone put different novel genres in the same program and it spit out oddly detailed recommendations for what people should read based on what they have read previously&#8230;maybe I should invent a program like that? Maybe with e-books? Maybe more people would read books rather than sit behind a screen and &#8220;Read Novels and Chill?&#8221; would become a common phrase rather than &#8220;Netflix and Chill?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/oenruB2DKC7p6\" width=\"480\" height=\"306\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Moretti brought up in his argument the possible rationale of different generations being the possible reasoning behind the changing popular genres throughout the years. I really resonated with this argument because I am definitely a big believer that the environments we surround ourselves with truly affect who we are, how we act, and what we are interested in. Whether or not this is the driving reason behind the changing genres is still questionable, as he points out&#8230;but I think it is a definite possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Reading that argument also made me think of how my personal interests have changed throughout the years. When I was younger, I would spend most of my time reading books and playing in imaginary Barbie worlds with all of my dolls. Now I tend to watch movies and hang out with friends. Could this change possibly just come with age? Could it be due to school putting a distaste for reading books for pleasure in my mouth? Could it be due to who I decided to spend my time with growing up? There could be one driving reason behind these changes, or a mix of a bunch of different reasons. I don&#8217;t think I would find that out without years of therapy though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sources<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Alexis C. Madrigal, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/01\/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood\/282679\/\">How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood<\/a>.\u201d <em>The Atlantic<\/em>. 2 Jan. 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Franco Moretti. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newleftreview.org\/II\/24\/franco-moretti-graphs-maps-trees-1\">Models for an Abstract Literary History\u20141<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<em>New Left Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/netflix-and-chill-oenruB2DKC7p6\">https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/netflix-and-chill-oenruB2DKC7p6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was reading this article, the thought of the article regarding Netflix genres kept popping into my thoughts. It intrigued me think of what could possibly happen if someone put different novel genres in the same program and it spit out oddly detailed recommendations for what people should read based on what they have read previously&hellip;maybe I should invent a program like that? Maybe with e-books? Maybe more people would read books rather than sit behind a screen and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dh.tarasampson.com\/uncategorized\/read-novels-and-chill\/\"> Read More<span>  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9aQyB-4x","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}