Goffman helps us understand translation as performance as our actions showcase how we want to be seen, we put on a facade, or as he calls it, "impressions management." We are always performing and translating our reality into a fake one for everyone to see. #hwa2 #translationperformer

#hwa2 #truthtest continued...I start acting the way I’m supposed to in that room for the audience and the social rules, and that performance can make me feel even more alone instead of connected.

#hwa2 #truthtest Sometimes I’m in a room full of people, but my social battery is dead and I stop being present. I pull back from socializing, and then I end up feeling alone. This connects because when my social battery is dead, I’m not just “being myself,” I’m still doing twice-behaved behavior.

#hwa2 #dangerous I am like a Facebook mom, I spread news I have learned on TikTok that I believe should be morally shared. This is dangerous because I do not do my own further research. Fragmentation is present because it is broken into pieces and I mistake immediacy for truth.

#hwa2 #donetome Not everything is what it seems to be. Media comes with literacy, and literacy is how we perceive and read the world. We reflect what we know.

by questioning the way I consume information, I'm able to hold a stronger discernment over what I believe and how I act #hwa2 #dangerous

I think the hwa2 opened my eyes on how we're in environments that we don't even realize, a lot of what I've done is programmed off of how I've been influenced by different forms of media #hwa2 #donetome

#hwa2 #whatmcluhanwants McLuhan wants us to become aware of how these fragments shapes out thinking and behavior, pushing us to apprciate the environment we take for granted. Fragmentation is dangerous because it enters our lives through opinions and shifts what we barely notice.

#hwa2 #flippingdewey Even criticism can reinforce the system it tries to challenge. John Dewey is not meant to reject him, but to reveal the limits when fragmentation is present.

#hwa2 #doubledewey Melvil & John Dewey show that even when the system is "good", the system can still be misleading. Their work helped society, but it also broke things into fragments, hiding the bugger picture.

#hwa2 #mediafunhouse this "funhouse" is part of my routine unwillingly. Doomscrolling will have you going to tik tok to find "Top restaurants in NYC" to watching a stranger reading tarot cards and claiming you have an admirer.

fragmentation breaks the world and our experience into disconnected pieces, which distorts how we understand reality — why McLuhan wants us to stop thinking in parts #hwa2 #whatmcluhanwants

#hwa2 #amateurvsexpert Armatures are allowed to grow, and not stagnant to being an expert. I rather be an amateur per attached quote below:

McLuhan flips John Dewey’s quote, not to dismiss him, but to show how fragmentation shapes and limits our understanding #hwa2 #flippingdewey

My sister is a teacher - there is room for failure, and no such thing as a dumb question. Her classroom explores these questions. In my profession in finance, I have to follow the system. I cannot afford to mess up. I fit the systems, my sister challenges it #hwa2 #antienvironmentquestions

The Deweys (John and Melvil) show us how fragmentation affects our everyday lives by breaking down experiences and knowledge into disconnected parts, making it harder to see the whole picture #hwa2 #doubledewey

I feel like this right here is sort of like a cycle because ideology becomes media, since media is a form in which we can express ourselves #hwa2 #mediaisideology

I feel like this is like a toxic relationship, where they kind of just sink in without you realizing and by the time you do its too late #hwa2 #istechnologyatoxicrelationship

I doomscroll Tiktok every day and sometimes 30 seconds of content is enough for me to conclude an opinion on something. I know that can be harmful, but I have been doing this for years that this has been my normal. I don't set a screen time limit. If I do, I go to Youtube... #hwa2 #buildthenotice

I resonate with the example because that's literally me every morning for no absolute reason, and it turns into constant forgetfulness and my attention span shortening #hwa2 #mediafunhouse

We enjoy the aspect of the possibility of swimming but not the water itself. The water might be cold, but it will get warmer after submerging our whole body. We are not reconstructing anything around us, just simply enjoying the content. #hwa2 #ideologyinmotion

#hwa2 #nervoussystemping
What is media? Well, here is an example: Let's say media is steak. How would you like your steak cooked? Media-um well? (sorry i had to). The server comes out with a rare steak. Would you pay for this steak? Media isn't going to always be cooked the way you ordered.

is he warning us, or is he condemning us by taking away our hope of freedom and individuality? #hwa2 #isallhopelost

#hwa2 As I am going through this module, my twin sister, who is an English major is also listening, and she is enjoying the lecture very much haha just wanted to share

#hwa2 listening to this part of the lecture was kind of a "woahh" moment for me - it reminded me of the quote below from Mark Twain. When we look at a rearview mirror, we are unconsciously perceiving signs of dangers, of what to avoid. But how can we look forward, when we are looking backwards?

#hwa2 #dangerous I’m becoming dangerous by finally realizing that TikTok is a waste of time and it’s shaping my days at times and conversations and it’s time to get off it 😭

#hwa2 #donetome nah nothing has been done to me so far, but I guess I’m off social media a little now lol

I actually liked the upside-down touch because it took me out of the environment where everything is obviously the right side up. #hwa2 #normalenvironment

#hwa2 #invisible Whenever I walk into a Zara, I'm hit with house music that makes me feel like I am at a club and somehow justifying why a plain top costs $50. Music (media in this case) shapes how I shop. I do not feel guilty buying fast fashion because at least the music is good... right?

#hwa2 #whatmcluhanwants I think he wants us to stop thinking parts just because it’s little things that change us. He wants it to hone on what things do, how they circulate. Lowkey, in dumb terms he’s saying focus on everything in ur life. Think in bunches not wholes.