Documentary Vision
The reading talks about the “desire for life in a documented form”. The emergence of a generation that is dominated by phones and how culture is changing is due to the new technology and apps. This causes systematical and social behavioral changes. The article talks about our obsession with photography, and how we are also replicating the past with these new apps that make our photos look a specific type of way.
Why is society becoming more concern about their public self image?
What Do Metrics Want? How Quantification Prescribes Social Interaction on Facebook
The article talks about how metrics through a social system such as facebook, drives our need to increase these metrics. However, removing these metrics with Facebook Demetricator demonstrates how the platform solely focuses on the quantification and how our society is headed towards that direction. Users are bombarded with numbers on the home page, but removing them makes the platform look unfamiliar. I think a lot of the metrics are making us addicted to this ideal of self improvement and self worth.
Would you use social media if it didn’t have quantifiable data available to you?
Wearables and how we measure ourselves through social media
This tedTalk talks about data and how we are always quantifiably measuring ourselves through media. She talks about how we use these data to improve ourselves, such as through Fitbit and baby trackers. Something I found very interesting and never really thought about was the idea of dataism, which the belief that all data is the absolute truth. I think I agree and disagree with this fact because although data may show our non measurable activities in a quantifiable way, it only shows the “digital traces” we leave behind.
Do you think that automated technology and application will make us more greedy to become this “perfect human” that Benjamin frankiln talked about?