I usually start of by
navigating to my favorite sports website, that is the nation basketball associations
website (http://www.nba.com). I check out highlights from the previous game of
my favorite team (http://www.nba.com/heat/), from there check out any news on
the teams websites, about trades or trade interests, post-game interviews and
so on. Then I do the same for other interesting teams in the league. I then get
on my favorite online magazines for fashion arts design and culture, such as
hypebeast, gq.
From there I check out a few of my favorite bloggers websites. I then browse
for new music on sites like hotnewhiphop, thisisrnb and
so on. I will from there navigate to my favorite new outlets such as cnn,
nytimes, yahoo.
It does not just stop there
because from these individual websites there are links to things that catch my
eyes. From there I get navigated to another site where I can find something
even more interesting. This is just a brief synopsis of how I can easily
accumulate hours on the Internet browsing. I didn’t include architectural
sites, or tumblr pages, or youtube vdeos, or social networking sites (twitter
specifically).
Through the brief synopsis
it is quite evident that my contribution to online content is slim to none. As
Lev Manovich (2008) put it I can be considered the 98.5 % of people that are
consumers to the most popular social media sites. Although at one point I must
say I manage a tumblr page. Also the blogger page I use to this course can be
considered a contribution to online content produced.
Teresa Rizzo’s talk of the exhibitionist tendency, which often times leads to spontaneous postings on
video-sharing sites, is unappealing to me. Unlike many today transparency through
online content is a concern to me. Our reach online goes much further than in
real life. Making a video and posting it on a site like youtube is a very brave move, due to the fact that the
viewer more often than not is not someone who know or will ever know.
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