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[femmebotshavefeelings2-blog]

Your imagination can take on the values of the capitalist economy if you aren't careful. 

[emilytesdale-me-blog]

Commodified Sexual Freedom

Commodified Sexual Freedom is as a social power, we must have multiple partners that we can make a good judgement of who we want to be with and this means that we detach ourselves from emotions which is a big problem because our emotions get us through the social world. If something isn't right, our emotions let us engage in the information and knowledge that we get and that can come from the internet. 

I chose this artifact because it shows how people can take out emotions in dating and base in a rankings in the society and this can be done by finding someone on the internet and not really feeling or understanding a person but to just look at the values they have to get them through life. These online dating sites are related to algorithm because these algorithms take people and have match making, setting individuals up that don't really know each other but base it off of what they put in their bios. 

[internet-and-society-blog]

Agile programming was originally a tech development process, created to fix the ineffective process of most businesses. It was designed to break the development process into small chunks that would either succeed or fail quickly to save time from being spent on a project that would eventually fail. Bruce Feller adapted this technique into an agile manifesto to help families run smoother. There are three main parts:

1. adaptability: this is necessary because you can't predict everything that might happen, and adaptability allows one to react in real time. An example is having family breakfast instead of dinner if there is a conflict at dinnertime.

2. Empowerment of children:by giving children a say in their own development, they get practice in independence which is an ultimate goal of parenthood. An example of this is having children be in charge of their to-do list, as my artifact shows.

3. Sharing your story: by defining your core values as a family and telling your children about their family history, it gives children a higher self-esteem and makes them happier. An example of this is family meetings.

This concept of parenting relates to the effect of the new media on family life, as this technological concept has been adapted to form a parenting concept.

This topic is approached from a utopian perspective, where agile development is being hailed as the solution to making a happy family, and it has strong case arguments to support it.

[almostnuttydinosaur-blog]

While Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty may have found love with their charm, good looks, and damsel is distress situation, not all of us are lucky enough to find that perfect match on the first try. Sometimes it’s hard to find a good partner, especially when those pesky emotions get involved and you “fall in love” too fast. Like Anna with Hans in Frozen (if you haven’t seen it, you should). Today, the web offers many different sites to help people find their "partner in crime." These sites are designed to help people find "love" by comparing their attributes and interests and finding other people on the same site who might be a good match. Using sites like these broaden potential dating horizons and allow the time to search for a partner without emotional involvement. 

[emilytesdale-me-blog]

Sexual use of the internet

In the article, Sexual use of the internet, there were really two arguments that were made. One being sex happened to the internet and the second being internet influences the behaviors that it facilitates and fuels the creation of new ones. And to answer these arguments, they did a research study involving homosexual males and an online dating/chat room for them to use. Essentially asking them how they felt before and after using the internet and most of them felt more confident when using the internet to fulfill their pleasures. 

The artifact above is showing how when being homosexual it is hard to, in the public to be open about their sexuality. Over the internet it is easier to hide behind something and portray themselves one way, even if it doesn't show who they really are. The study showed that men felt more comfortable being open on the internet and gaining new relationships because they are able to create their image and what they want to be seen as. 

This article goes along with the concept interface, demonstrating the media and how it is really helping shape the gay community. The online sites show a place where homosexuals are able to communicate with people who have the same common interests. Even though this article is mainly talking about homosexuals, I think that it can be related to the heterosexual community as well. The community as a whole finds it easier to talk to people over the internet rather than face to face, and the internet is giving people easier access to get to know more people whether it be in a romantic way or just to make friends that share common interests. 

I found the argument they came up with pretty agreeable in the sense that internet influences the behaviors and it facilitates and fuels the creation of new ones and is very relevant to today's world. The internet is being used more and more to find romantic relationships and contacting others rather than face to face because it's easy to hide behind a computer and create who you want to be seen as. 

[internet-and-society-blog]

Men who have sex with other men, or MSMs are a group of people that have been largely affected by the internet and online sexual experiences, such as online dating. In a study with 36 MSMs, it was found that most MSMs saw changes, both on and offline, such as sexual diversification (a quantitative and qualitative shift in sexual partners), acceptance of their sexuality, and different communication patterns (more quality interactions).

On the flip side, some MSMs had negative reactions, such as increased suspicion and addiction. My artifact relates to this increase in suspicion, where the uncertainty and frequent lies of online interactions causes this negative impact.

This relates to the concepts of interactivity, through computer facillitated the human-human interactions the MSMs had, identity, which the MSMs were enabled to explore further online, addiction, through the addictive nature of the secret world of online interactions, and the rationalization of love, through the modern idea of online love and the allowance for more potential partners and more experiences.

This study is highly relevant because it explores the concept of online sexual experiences, which are becoming increasingly more and more common. It is also relevant because the findings could be related to a heterosexual, and thus wider, audience, except for the further acceptance of the MSMs sexuality.

[internetsocietyclass-blog]

Commodified Sexual Freedom

            “…I believe such a kind of intensely commodified sexual freedom interferes with the capacity of men and women to forge intense, all-involving, meaningful bonds, which provide one with knowledge of the kind of persons one cares about” (Illouz). Basically, Illouz states that the sexual freedom we are giving through the use of internet is stunting our social lives, making us incapable of forming meaningful relationships.  

            I used this artifact because it seemed to best represent what Illouz is trying to state. That the internet will only lead to casual encounters, so meaningless that one does not even bother to learn the true name of whom they are talking to.

            “If the second wave of feminism opened the gates of sexual constriction and repression, it is now time we reexamine the state of estrangement and alienation created by the interaction and intersection of emotions, sexual freedom, and economics” (Illouz). While I will agree that the internet has led to “bodies in bubbles,” it does not mean that we are alienated from community. Quite the contrary, I believe that is why we have such addiction to these social network sites, because it fuels our need for daily socializing with people we truly want to talk to, rather than who is available to talk at the time. True, there is nothing better than sitting face-to-face with a cup of coffee and catching up, but as Americans we live busy lives. We are always on the go and always working. So why should the way we socialize not be allowed to adapt to the way we live our lives?

            With all that said, the concepts most applicable to this term are: interactivity, addiction, and the affective turn. Interactivity, because this is all about interactions and how we are evolving in the way we socialize thanks to the internet. It all started with word by mouth, then written letters, phone calls, emails, texting, and now we have numerous social networks at our fingertips. Addiction is when you feel you need something and you start to hurt when you can’t have it. Well, as people we actually do need to socialize – we go crazy if we don’t. So, while we are addicted to social media, I find it to be an understandable addiction. Finally, the affective turn, which describes the “bodies in bubbles” that I talked about earlier, but also this idea that technology alters what the body is. It is this technology, the internet, which fuels our ever-constant craving for attention and simultaneously provides us with numerous ways to sate this hunger