Language: Top 3 images – Digital liberated, celebrated, shared.  Bottom 3 images  – Digital ridiculed, criticized, unsupported Part 2: I choose twitch.tv a gaming/streaming platform as my digital tool, to see my overall experience on what i am viewing. Taking the game that i am most familiar More

Identity Supported: Identity Unsupported: A lot of games are making the transition to support self customization, or relatable characters to bring you more in to the game. Unlike Destiny, Snapchat(Bitmoji), and the Xbox avatars, games like League of Legend, Pokemon, and Madden NFL all have More

Above, are the photos I chose for the theme of positive impact derived from digital media. These images were found on a blog I have recently found named “Girl Talk HQ” in which focuses on the topic of feminism. These are all found in the More

  Most of these images were taken from either Facebook, Reddit, or Instagram. I tried to stick to memes as the main format for my images because I felt like there would be a lot of them and I wanted consistency throughout the images for More

This is a Snapchat filter that is supposed to make you look like a baby. Personally, stuff like this doesn’t do too much for me. I think it’s cool that people figured out a way to alter pictures like this, but i don’t find it More

Identity Category: Gender (Unrealistic vs. Realistic representation of the human body in videogames)   Unrealistic vs. Realistic Portrayal of Videogame Protagonists: Instead of individually captioning each photo, I feel it is acceptable to comment on the appearances as a whole since they mostly share the More

I’ve been using a website to organize what music I listen to and to better expose myself to new sounds for the last 8 or so months. This website, RateYourMusic, or RYM, has exposed me to a variety of different sounds and different cultures since More

Topic: Sexuality (Oversexualization of characters in video games)   Unsupported:   Supported:   Digital Tool Example: One example I can remember is the character creation tool in grand theft auto five and I was able to alter the age of my character and what my More

Identity: Race   Unsupported: Supported: The first thing that comes to mind when I think about altering yourself and creating a version of yourself that you can’t physically create is the bit-moji feature on snapchat.  This allows users to make an avatar of themselves that More

For my identity category, I chose race and how it has been supported and unsupported through media over time.   Identity Supported Identity Unsupported   Part Two Spotify allows me to create an online identity based around my music taste. I can create a user More

For this Journal I decided to choose movies as digital media because movies have a huge impact on our entertainment, they also can have a big impact on us as a whole. Some people drive inspiration from movies or create an emotional connection with them, More

For my identity category, I picked gender but specifically focused on the feminist movement that has been happening since the early 1900s, and even before then, but is still happening today. Identity Supported Identity Unsupported Part Two: When I was reading and re-reading the second part More

False advertising plagues the internet, our social media streams and the digital environment as a whole. Most of these products are either cheap knock-offs from China or simply low-quality items advertised as something different. In the example of the Dji Maveric, we have an image More

Immediately when thinking of creating your own avatar, I thought of the videogame fortnite. In this game, you get to make and design your own avatar that you play through the game with. Fortnite makes all their avatars look exotic, creative and almost always extremely More

  Originally Snapchat users were only identifiable by user names but in 2016 Bitmoji’s were implemented. Bitmoji’s are designable avatars that reflect you. You have the ability to choose everything from the outfit it wears to the beauty marks for the face. With Bitmojis being More

The LGBT+ community has always had a strenuous relationship with media, particularly TV and Video Games, for a long time in how they are represented. There are good times: (From Left to Right, Scorpia from She-ra the Princess of Power, Dorian from Dragon Age Inquisition, More

The first three photos are of some of the most successful female rappers in the game today (Except for Iggy, she’s mildly successful but honestly just works for this example). The next three photos are of the most successful male rappers in the game today. More

For an identity category, I wanted to discuss mental health and “sanity”. While this has no bearing on appearance, mental health can greatly affect the way an individual identifies just like age, race, gender and class. All of these characters I have chose are either More

Journal 5 By: Carly Cornish   The topic of my journal five entry is the idea of not being beautiful in the eyes of society and marketing. For most of my life, I haven’t felt like I was beautiful. That I wasn’t thin enough, or More

Language Digital liberated, celebrated, shared.  Digital ridiculed, criticized, or unsupported This is the Facebook horizon. The new project of Mark Zuckerberg the owner of famous social platform, Facebook. This will allow us to customize ourselves into the character that we want to be. Why is More

The physical identity I am going to choose to discuss is age. It looks there’s three main age categories that are talked about on the internet, Baby Boomers, Millenials and now Gen Z. So I’ll choose some media that defy each and then supports each. More

  AI and face recognition software makes it possible to change the physical appearance of someone through the use of social media apps. Adding a filter to someone’s face can change their appearance, manipulating their age, weight, and other physical features. Apps such as Snapchat More