DAVE EGGERS The Circle My initial thoughts after reading the book I don’t want to say that i knew how it was going to end, but i will say that i was not surprised. I knew from earlier on in the book that Mae was a lost cause, trying to prove herself to the cause […]

In keeping with my posts about  Dave Egger’s The Circle, my blog post today will feature a look at an important moment in the novel and my response to it. That being said, I’d like to look at the scene in which Mae steals a kayak, gets caught by the Circle’s SeeChange camera implanted in the […]

Secrets are Lies–Caring is Sharing–Privacy is Theft How are this mottos/aphorisms from the Circle like George Orwell’s 1984: War is Peace–Freedom is Slavery–Ignorance is Strength ? Does Mae believe the Circle’s “doublespeak”? Please remember to check our syllabus for your “daily create” assignments relating to The Circle. Here is Dave Eggers literary magazine: McSweeneys Internet […]

As I was reading Dave Egger’s The Circle the other night, I came across another interesting aphorism that I wanted to share with you: “Privacy is theft (303).” Towards the second half of the novel, this phrase gets a lot of attention. “The Circlers,” as the narrator aptly calls them, often use this phrase to defend […]

I found this passage that seems relevant in Suzy Anger’s Victorian Interpretation, in which she quotes George Eliot in The Mill on the Floss: All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by […]

The Circle by Dave Eggers is a dystopian story of a young woman, Mae, who gets a job at the premier, most widely-used, wealthiest technology company (monopoly), The Circle, which seems to have so much power, and penetrates people of the developed world’s lives so deeply, that it becomes like an oppressive government, like that […]

One of the aphorisms in The Circle by Dave Eggers that was really interesting for me to see was the fact that the name of the program, at the very beginning of the book, is called “TruYou.” It is a program that connected your entire life to one identity, one account. The book describes the […]

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From the New York Times Looking forward to discussing this with you tomorrow (read 1/3)…

For class we have begun reading The Circle by Dave Eggers. In short, the book follows Mae, a young girl, out of college by two years, who gets a job at the Circle, a (very, very) massive internet company. The Circle thrives on community, especially community ties via their social media. They aim to make […]

According to an article on medicalnewstoday.com called “Happiness is Viral, Thanks to Social Media”, the University of California in San Diego has done research to suggest that social media posts, such as status updates on Facebook, can spread happiness among one’s friends and/or followers. The study claims that a happy Facebook update causes one’s Facebook […]

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I found an article on the New York Times talking about how Facebook was buying WhatsApp for 16 billion dollars. In my opinion I’m not surprised that Facebook would do a thing like that because they are trying to take … Continue reading →

Happy 25th WWW!

The Agony of Instagram- Post I found this article about a week ago and posted it onto my own Facebook page. I figured that it accurately captures the great problems with Instagram and how we live in such an image-based society that entirely depends on how others perceive us. The post talks about Instagram-envy and […]

So, today's daily create involved reading an article about social media and writing your stance on it's argument about the subject.I chose this article which asks the question of whether or not Youtube is is a bad influence on society.While the ar...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/15/ron-paul-crimea-russia-sanctions-act-of-war In the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution much is at stake. The ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych and his facilitation in Russia, after the violent Euromaiden protests in the Ukraine, has led to the U.S.’s offer of $1 Billion in aid to the Ukraine’s new government. The Libertarian and former congressman Ron Paul, has denounced the US’s […]

 

As I was scrolling through my Twitter feed, past tweets from The Food Network and Buzzfeed, trying to find an article from a reputable source I could share with you on my blog, I came across an article tweeted by The New York Times. The article, which I am linking to my blog here is titled […]

Here is an article from the New York Times: As The World Wide Web Turns 25 Fear about its Future We’ll finish presentations of digital stories and talk about social media. Check out the syllabus for our reading. Also, be sure to find an article about some social media platform and blog about it. We’ll […]

It’s really lovely to read something that isn’t griping about damn-kids-these-days, always-plugged-in. Farman lays out the claims of those who argue we are disconnected from experience and others because of the pervasiveness of technology, then brilliantly tells the history of this crisis (reminds me of the regularly-occurring crises of writing!), going all the way back […]

Buzzfeed: ”I Killed A Man”: What Happens When A Homicide Confession Goes Viral While I don’t have time to read this now, I’m putting it here for future reference. I think it may resonate interestingly with Foucault’s ideas about confession, discourse, and subjecting oneself to control and discipline. The internet allows all of us to freely express ourselves […]

I decided to make a youtube video for my project. This is the first time I’ve used Windows Movie Maker in years, so I hope it isn’t TOO awful.

After many a trial and tribulation, I have finally completed my digital story.Story board and thoughts will follow in a later post.Hope you enjoy!

After many a trial and tribulation, I have finally completed my digital story.Story board and thoughts will follow in a later post.Hope you enjoy!

Hi Everyone: Great job those of you who presented on Monday. Please be sure to link your story to your blog (and make sure I have it linked here–still waiting for some blogs!). Please also check the syllabus for upcoming assignments and dates. See you tomorrow! Loathe the Selfie?

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