Today I accomplished some more research. I still ave lots more to do. What has been difficult for me is trying to explain things in a way that others will understand. I grew up around cows and food safety but I realize that not everyone has. So far there have been no major problems.

1. I want to do my project on how social media has changed human relationships (romantic, familial, and friendly)
2. I am planning on using Prezi to present.
3. I am going to do online research and conduct personal interviews.
4. Materials: my laptop
5. The purpose of this project is to discover how human relationships have  changed and if there is anything that can be done to reverse any negative effects of of social media on relationships.
6. Timeline for the project: Work on it over the weekend and next week. (This week is pretty packed with a paper for another class, a midterm, and two quizzes)

I’m still in the researching phase of my literature review paper. I’m having a tough time deciding whether to do it on digital litereacy or digital advertising/marketing. The hardest part of the paper is finding scholarly articles and finding the time to work on the paper. Tonight I will definietly set aside two hours for research and making an outline. Tomorrow I will finish the outline and start on the paper. By Friday the first rough draft will be done and by Monday the final draft will be done. I have other stuff to do for other classes so let the all nighters begin lol.

The article “What Defines a Meme” compares memes to genetics. The article states that memes are a cultural evolution. The author connects the evolution and replication of memes to the evolution of genes. The author also states that ideas evolve other ideas and that the same is true for genetics.

• read-write versus read-only culture
• 1945 Supreme Court ruling: The doctrine protecting land in the sky has no place in the modern world. There was no common sense.
• public domain broadcasting: BMI
• technology is reviving the read-write culture. kids are reviving it right now (Anime, Remix, etc.)
• Remixing something to say things differently is not piracy. It is how we think.
• Every single use of something in digital culture is a copy. According tho the law one must have permission to use copies. This law has no common sense.
• “competion can create balance”
• “can’t make our kids passive angain, we can only make them pirates”

I feel very empowered when interacting online. I have the power to determine who sees my profiles, who I am “friends” with, what pictures/information about me are/is posted, and how I act online. I can delete any posts, comments, or photos that I make or people make on my statuses or wall. I can also report anyone who cyberbullies me or anyone else for that matter.

Are people really who they say they are? How can it be known if soeone is being authentic or fake? Are peolpe who they think they are? In Charles Cooley’s The Looking Glass Self, it is stated that people act how they think that other people think they should act. Research has shown that this theory extends to people’s lives on the internet. For instance, in the online world of Second Life, researchers found that the appearance of the avatars mattered a lot. People can ake their online profile into something they are not in real life. When an employer performs a background check on a current or future employee they might find something that reflects the person in question in a different light than they are offline. But how wrong is it to have multiple identities? It is natural for our identies to be prismatic. I have an identity as a daughter, a friend, a sister, and a student- each of these being different but yet similar.

A person’s digital footprint is the trail they leave when interacting with their digital environment (television, computer, etc). I was a little curious to see what my digital footprint was so I googled myself. Apparently their are tons of other people out there with my name. When I googled myself I could not find anything belonging to me personally because there are so many other peole with the same name. Some of these people are financial executives, some are modles, and some are educators. These other Faith Reynolds live all over the world in countries such as the United States, the UK, and Spanish speaking countries.

When posting things on the internet you are telling your story to an audience that is much larger than anyone can really comprehend. Anyone can see whatever you put on your Facebook profile or Twitter account. When I post things on Facebook, I try to be just like who I am in real life. I do not use the internet as an alternative life to the one I live outside the internet. I would not try to change the way I present myself on Facebook because that is just who I am in real life. The way I tell my story online is the way I would tell it to someone if we were sitting down and having a conversation. That is just the way it should be because somone may get the wrong impression of another person if they have a different life online than they do in real life.