Looking Back On This Past Year
So my biggest life lesson this semester so far, is when making your own personal brand [project], only you define you. There are numbers of those that graduate in comm des [graphic design] that have a passion in sociology topics, but I am the only one I know that was privileged to have the chance to combine my motives in design and sociology into an integrated study and campaign I care about. Gregory Bateson is amazing, and makes so much social prejudice in the history of America to 2016 make complete sense, but it's hard to get others to not look at me like I'm sprouting two heads when applying his principles in voicing my opinions.
He is a highly genuine individual, but his research is not highly well known, since there is still a lot of ignorance about his game-changing interaction-empowered communication principles versus the ethically-modeled communication principles many societies use to this day. So much discrimination exists because the rules of language are still based on normalizing behavior by pre-determined ethics, not webs of interrelated scenarios, thought, and interactions that are changing and fluctuating constantly. The rules that determine what is right for women and minority are being fought because they're pre-determined and can be picked apart as single issues, the rules that determine how valid is the event of discrimination, stigma, or glass ceiling, is proven purely by the web of hateful thoughts, context of why the hate exists, and its interactions.
It reveals these issues in it's entire evidence of crimes just as it reveals how capable we are of changing it, because under these rules, no one can hide under the evidence of “being ethical.” Genuineness stands for itself, but what I also learned is, should these rules be different, we are all actually more genuine than we have been taught to think. No matter what, others will suggest what they think is best even if #theydontknowjacksquat, but only you can put the pieces together on the nature of what you're passionate about, and advocate it. If a headline isn't the best option, go video. If a video isn't the best option, go with an interview transcript, and a Twitter campaign filled with journal quotes. How we express what we care about is up to us.
Therefore the biggest problem right now is purely integration of content, and they don't teach a lot of social media campaign strategy in our program. But every day is a beautiful, positive experiment :). And so is my life~ Will post more about the building of this campaign when further backtracking of integration is finished in a few weeks.
