Blog Post 2


Within the article, Making New Media Make Sense, Baym discusses the personal connection we need to learn to understand how new media works in today’s society. These help us understand how we affect technology and how technology affects us as a society. He considers the personal, cultural and historical aspects of it. With new technology comes anxiety from the public. Anxiety from technology can arise in all and any age of individuals. In the reading,  Katherine Pommerening, a 13 year old girl, is faced with anxieties associated with the media and technology.  I will be explaining the domestication of technology as it refers to this article and how technology and the individual refers to mutual. In this aspect of Baym’s view is that media and culture shape each other reciprocally. Technology shapes society as well as society shapes technology. Through the article you can see how Katherine has become so connected to her cell phone it has become integrated to her everyday life. We have gotten rid of many devices and replaced them with one piece of technology which can work as all of them. Young girls, and all users, get so involved in their social medias that they allow snapchat, Instagram, and so on to impact their self-esteem negatively. Even if at first it makes the individual feel better about themselves at the beginning, the user will become reliant on their technology to validate their self-worth with likes and comments. Even though people know that Instagram likes, and comments don’t define their self-worth, technology has become embed in our life we believe that this is the truth. People rely on their happiness and status to be determined with social media and technology. Therefore we can see that technology can influence us in society as much as we can influence the technology. Technology is being used to replace face to face communication increasingly everyday.

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  1. AnonymousOctober 5, 2018 at 1:40 PM

    You raised some very good points. It is no secret that the advancements in technology has normalized the use of smartphones and social media apps in society. The way that technology has revolutionized has increased interconnectivity, and access to information and knowledge, however has created a loss of real world interaction, and happiness that isn’t based on affordances of social media apps. I enjoyed reading your post as you made some great connections between Katherine’s virtual world and how the domestication of technology has caused her to feel and act the ways she does.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 5, 2018 at 1:43 PM

    You raised some very good points. It is no secret that the advancements in technology has normalized the use of smartphones and social media apps in society. The way that technology has revolutionized has increased interconnectivity, and access to information and knowledge, however has created a loss of real world interaction, and happiness that isn’t based on affordances of social media apps. I enjoyed reading your post as you made some great connections between Katherine’s virtual world and how the domestication of technology has caused her to feel and act the ways she does.

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  3. Mikayla WernerOctober 5, 2018 at 4:05 PM

    You raised some very good points. It is no secret that the advancements in technology has normalized the use of smartphones and social media apps in society. The way that technology has revolutionized has increased interconnectivity, and access to information and knowledge, however has created a loss of real world interaction, and happiness that isn’t based on affordances of social media apps. I enjoyed reading your post as you made some great connections between Katherine’s virtual world and how the domestication of technology has caused her to feel and act the ways she does.

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  4. UnknownOctober 7, 2018 at 2:46 PM

    I definitely agree with you that advancements in technology and our love for and reliance on social media have made it normal for us to place a lot of value on what what we see on social media. I think that you perfectly summarized one of the ways that new technologies domesticate themselves within our society and control our everyday lives - rather than the other way around - when you mentioned how likes, shares, and comments are more important to some people than everyday interaction. However I don't think that people are blind to this and even though they are aware that they might be a bit excessive in terms of how much they emotionally involve themselves with social media, I think you hit the nail on the head when you said that it only starts as an initial way to boost our ego and self-esteem in the short-term, but then we become dependent on this and it takes control of us.

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  5. UnknownOctober 7, 2018 at 2:49 PM

    I definitely agree with you that advancements in technology and our love for and reliance on social media have made it normal for us to place a lot of value on what what we see on social media. I think that you perfectly summarized one of the ways that new technologies domesticate themselves within our society and control our everyday lives - rather than the other way around - when you mentioned how likes, shares, and comments are more important to some people than everyday interaction. However I don't think that people are blind to this and even though they are aware that they might be a bit excessive in terms of how much they emotionally involve themselves with social media, I think you hit the nail on the head when you said that it only starts as an initial way to boost our ego and self-esteem in the short-term, but then we become dependent on this and it takes control of us.

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