tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606986552278957417.post2108036304023003157..comments2013-04-05T11:15:11.375-07:00Comments on Research Methods to the EXTREME: Info-Glut: A PortraitAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00047431081245424412noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606986552278957417.post-82608148090630905412013-02-05T17:12:02.841-08:002013-02-05T17:12:02.841-08:00Chaya, while online forums provide an opportunity ...Chaya, while online forums provide an opportunity for virtual community-building that obviously isn't possible in face-to-face communication, the relationships built through this medium are, in my opinion, far less personal. When we communicate through technology, there is an opportunity to distance ourselves from other people. Relationships can be reduced to writing "happy birthday" on someone's wall when Facebook informs us that a "friend's" birthday is that day. This is typical, in my experience, with people who you are not that close to. <br /><br />Digital communication seems to have two results that I see. First, it makes relationships that aren't close in the first place far more distant, like in the example above. Secondly, it does make relationships between closer friends more concrete. With those who you actually do spend face-to-face time with, social media and the digital world adds another level that you can communicate with your friends. Events can be planned, plans can be made, and memories can be immortalized through pictures and "life events." This is obviously a positive aspect of digital communication. However, there is also the very real issue of impersonalized relationships as well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00047431081245424412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606986552278957417.post-51326051990221299432013-01-24T10:55:39.714-08:002013-01-24T10:55:39.714-08:00I'd be interested in hearing how you might qua...I'd be interested in hearing how you might qualify the kind of isolation that you think the internet or social media might generate. Online forums, for example, certainly seem physically isolating, but they also afford opportunities for virtual community-building. It seems like there's a bit of paradox there. And thanks for the pic! For some reason, it makes me think of mutated Tetsuo at the end of Akira. Crazy flick!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11841274727181569847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606986552278957417.post-7670592796868369122013-01-22T19:03:02.680-08:002013-01-22T19:03:02.680-08:00The fish in water analogy definitely applies here....The fish in water analogy definitely applies here. Anyone looking in on the situation can see how 'out of control' it's gotten. Causes one to wonder what a bird's eye perspective might reveal about our relationship with information.Mandihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07643507466024879356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606986552278957417.post-43309251879937434362013-01-22T18:12:41.941-08:002013-01-22T18:12:41.941-08:00I love this picture! I think it really illustrates...I love this picture! I think it really illustrates the negative effects of info-glut. I also think that this take on info-glut can be tied into the fish studying water theme. It's so easy to judge other people who are engulfed with social media and technology when they bump into you because they were staring at their phone, but how often do you sit back and examine the effects of info-glut in our own lives? Sometimes, it is hard to separate what we are looking at on the internet from the living world around us.Emily Ekstrand-Brummerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597320937468354671noreply@blogger.com