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Reyman, Jessica. “User Data on the Social Web: Authorship, Agency, and Appropriation.” College English, vol. 75, no. 5, 2013, pp. 513–533. www.jstor.org/stable/24238250 www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/29/facebook-privacy-secret-profile-exposed https://newrepublic.com/article/124068/trade-privacy-facebook-likes http://www.elon.edu/docs/e-web/academics/communications/research/vol1no2/05SpinelliEJFall10.pdf http://scholarworks.rit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4080&context=theses https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9af3/0a31c6f5cee8411e707d8fbcfd5264bcb062.pdf I found Eve Ng’s article “Reading the Romance of Fan Cultural Production” difficult to interact and connect with. I, nor anyone I know, have ever utilized fan cultural production to interact with media sources. So, when Ng talks about All My Children, and the user videos revolving around the soap opera series, it was hard for me to understand where the consumers she was talking about were coming from. To me, a show evolves and ends the way the writers intend it, and after it is done I don’t continue to engage with it. However, these consumers of All My Children connect with Bianca and Lena’s relationship on a deeper level than I ever have with similar media sources. As Ng says, consumers create the mentioned videos that “suggest them being together…[with] a generally downbeat tone that nevertheless closes with a moment of connection between the two women…” (615-616). In essence, these viewers see the “Lianca” relationship as an important representation of homosexuality in the media, and because they were left unsatisfied with how the two women’s relationship ended as written in the series, they create “alternate” videos to alter it in a way that leaves them being together. Ng says, “…the Lianca vidders have a good sense of what other fans wanted, and skillfully put together scenes and music that would appeal to viewers looking for a text in which Bianca and Lena were the primary figures, with their love for each other apparent” (615). I find it interesting that certain people—in this case in particular, lesbian women—who feel they do not have sufficient representation in the mainstream media choose to use alternative means of media portrayal of homosexual relationships; because they are disappointed with same sex representation (in All My Children, as well as in general) they are in a sense forced to use their own methods.
More so than last weeks articles regarding viral videos, the reading regarding Facebook privacy policies had major personal implications for me. Growing up, my parents were always sure to ensure my understanding of my own Internet presence. Something they constantly told me was “nothing on a permanent medium,” meaning anything that I do or say should be done while keeping in mind that if it is posted online, it is most likely there permanently; in essence, anything that I post will be able to be traced to me for the rest of my life. This, to me, is both fascinating and frightening. On one hand, our lives are documented in an unprecedented manner; we have access to things that previous generations could not dream of. I can find a photo of myself that is over 12 years old with the click of a button, with no need to preserve and seek out a tangible copy. But on the other hand, there exists the possibility that things posted online (specifically, things that one might not want following them later in life) are tied to an individual for the rest of his life. This is what my parents were getting at; when dealing with one’s online presence, there is essentially no expectation of privacy. In the 1967 Supreme Court case Katz v. United States, it was determined that the government cannot violate a person’s Fourth Amendment rights when that individual has a “reasonable expectation of privacy.” When we as Facebook users use the social media site (and others like it), despite doing so in the privacy of our own homes, and on our own private computers, there does not exist the aforementioned “reasonable expectation of privacy.” As mentioned on page 62, Facebook’s right to access our personal data—and sell it for a profit—is “legally guaranteed by Facebook’s privacy policy” (62). It would seem that this generation of Facebook users is willingly accepting of this because its simply a part of using the free service. The article outlines three strategies for advancing the “decommodification of the Internet:
1/12: “How it Feels to Be Viral Me: Affective Labor and Asian American Youtube Performance”1/12/2017 Balance’s article “How it Feels to Be Viral Me: Affective Labor and Asian American Youtube Performance” brought up some interesting questions and ideas for me. The most intriguing issue came at the end of the article, when she discusses Davis Jung’s interaction and appreciation for the 2006 “Yellow Fever” video, noting the impact it had on him growing up as an Asian American. This interested me because I have not had such an experience with a viral video; I cannot think of a time when a blog style video (like those discussed in the article) truly affected me on a personal level. But I think that was the point of the article; that viral videos made possible by Youtube have given Asian Americans an outlet of expression and a sense of collectively shared identity. Asian American “visibility,” or their appearance in American media is an issue that has recently been brought to national attention; producers are failing to cast Asian Americans in roles that are consistently filled by white individuals, and furthermore, they are not receiving the same recognition of that of their white counterparts. So, Youtube has created an outlet that has allowed Asian American creatives to produce without the inhibitions of the typical American media culture, as well as advance a shared Asian American identity, a notion that that has never crossed my mind. |
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