#wesch

Er hatte den selben Körper, wie der Wesch damals.

Kurz, untersetzt, breite Schultern, kleinen Arsch, Radfahrerwaden.

Alles so quadratisch, wie ein Turner. Mit diesen komischen Daumen.

Ausserdem eine ähnliche Kopfform und Hautschattierung. Alpin.

The Sleeper

So hello one and all; classmates, the NSA, and other denizens of tumblr. I’m Peter. Crapitto, Peter. I’m a creative writing major, and also I’m majorly awesome!!!! ;) ;D XD I’m funny sometimes, I swear. I guess this is sort of a reintroduction, as the internet can surely tell you with its seemingly infinite capability for holding onto the past.* I have actually attempted this course before, and so this for me is a return with a fresh, and hopefully constructive, new outlook. ** I really hope to broaden my exposure and understanding of new media, particularly social media, and its role in our culture. Particularly as a writer for our school newspaper, a form of media that seems to largely be going out of style and is at the very least going through a major evolution, I am interested in how news is found, reported and accessed in this modern day. I guess having never spent time on Twitter in high school I find myself now trying to catch-up with the times. ***

As for my response Wesch, I find I am more fascinated than frightened by the cultural/societal changes that are coming as a result of this new digital age. Certainly as an aspiring author questions of how we define authorship and copyright may be concerning, but the potential of media in this interconnected digital world is exciting to me, and I think we should not be so set in our ways that we cannot embrace such changes. Others things Wesch says we need to rethink include ethics and privacy. I think these are things we must accept, not react against. Loss of privacy in our current day is a major concern, but I think that is a reality we must face. We must open ourselves up to the world in order to benefit from it’s newly interconnected nature. Ethics too must be rethought, simply because our current systems are inadequate to deal with ethical quandaries of the internet age. Perhaps what concerns me most personally is that we may have to rethink the concept of our own identity. To suggest that we don’t just use technology, that technology is a part of us now. It’s intimidating. It brings into question the concept of a true-self that I think most of us would like to believe in. It’s difficult to fathom. Even then though, I am curious to see where this new world is going. How shall we perceive ourselves and others in a future that is all about the online?

Greetings, fellow students of ENGL-400. My name is Evan Arceneaux, and I am a sophomore English and Church Music major from New Orleans, Louisiana. I expect that this course will help me gain an enriched understanding of what it means to be an English major in the world in which we now live and the one in which we will have careers in the future.

  The items in Wesch’s list that I found most troubling were love and family. We already live in the age of eHarmony and Match.com, online dating websites which technologically "enhance" the process of finding love. How frightening is it to think that love, an emotion so pure and uniquely human, might one day be totally reduced and artificialized to a mere electronic connection. Could some computerized form of love even be considered love, for how could one express love, a truly human expression of the soul, through the internet? Would love then cease to exist in the world of only electronic connections? Would it, along with almost all real human interaction, need to be redefined rather than rethought, as Wesch suggests. 

The concept of love brings to mind the next item in Wesch's list--family. Will our connections with family, the one's we love, be reduced as well? Will we some day share things with our family only through the technology? It's scary to think that technology might corrupt something as fundamental as the family unit. 

Hello all! I'm Cassandra Santner,better known as Cassy with a 'y'. I am a sophomore commuter student here at VU. Double majoring in Secondary Education & English and minoring in Theater. I am taking this class in hopes of better understanding how technology affects today's writing. This will be extremely important in understanding the kids in my classroom. Unfortunately, I think I am probably in the 0.01% of the teenage population that doesn't understand technology very well. I am hoping I will not only understand its importance, but also how to control it better and use it to make me effect in my future career.

Along with pondering career goals, the beginning of the school year always sets me thinking. Whether that be over the memories of summer or the course load of work ahead of me. Wesch's video took me in quite a different direction though. He forced his audience to think or rather rethink topics ranging from ethics to commerce to ourselves. The one that stuck out to me was family.

Call me old fashioned, but I believe that  a family is built on traditions.It is built on connecting face to face with the people you love and care about. Its about real tangible things.