The Plaintiff Speaks by Clarissa T. Sligh

Clarissa T. Sligh’s The Plaintiff Speaks reminded me of my race, gender and class course while I studied journalism since it deals with misinterpretation of race in the news.  So I couldn’t help to think that Sligh had journalism and communications students in her mind when she wrote The Plaintiff Speaks, especially when she became a photographer so she can omit any misinterpretation of the working black community. I think Sligh knows she can not be the only one climbing this mountain so for her to gain allies she has to educate people about her fight, and aspiring reporters or photographer are just one of the best people she can educate because news misinterpretation applies to their career field more than anyone.

Reflection: Week 5(2/20-2/24)

I have been behind more than I had hoped since some other assignments have taken over my life. Thankfully, I have more free time this weekend to work one the homework and hopefully I can catch up!

About My Photoshopped Pictures

I am familiar with photoshop but not enough to do make drastic changes beyond my skills. I mainly stayed in what I’m comfortable of doing in photoshops like applying different filters on the photos. I do wish I knew more about photoshop so there would have been a good show of manipulations in my photos. I did select what I think is “better” photo of myself than what other personal photos I have so it was hard for me to see the two photos as “ugly” when I had to make them unattractive. What I did was try to go extreme with the brightness, filters and image curves in the photos so the photos would be unpleasant to the eyes.

Five Varitions of Myself

Original Photo

Weekly Schedule: Week 2 (1/20-2/3)

I will use this week to work on Week 2 and Week 3 assignments. First thing on my agenda is to do Week 2 assignments by Wednesday and then move on to Week 3.

Reflection: Week 1 (1/23-1/27)

The ideas or observation that stood out for me from this week’s assignments and discussion was what Eugene said in the forum on the switch of perspective on the internet. The internet was once seen as only for “nerds and geeks”, and now you’re seen as “hip” if you’re into the internet and all of its evolving sites or networks. I think what should be added is that your “hipness” is also depended on what digital technology you use, and one only needs to look into the PC vs. Mac commercials to see that.

Responding to the Syllabus: Course Goals and Projects

The “Course Goals” are always important for any academic class since it gives students a look what they will get from the class. After reading out “Course Goals”, the two goals that stood out for me the most was the first and third goals.

First goal states that students will learn how to produce texts in different form of technologies that are not just limited to the usual forms like blogs, email and texting. The third goal puts those texts in to the context of how it will be interpreted by the readers when circulated despite how the text has been structured to appear.

What this all means?

Early of 2010, I made one huge decision - to move to New York just how I've always wanted to do. Two years later, here I’m trying to fulfill my own "concrete dream" in the Big Apple.

The summer of 2009, I began to write for a fashion blog on Blogspot by a Fashion Editor in New York,  while I was still living at home in Milwaukee to complete my certificate on Digital Arts & Culture at UWM. As an aspiring journalist, I knew the impact of the digital age has had and will have in journalism prior to blogging. At first, I didn’t think much of “blogging” or being an “online writer”, but it has now helped me with my aspiring career.