wednesday reading
Apr. 9th, 2020 04:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thingexplainergetting tired of this quarantine business. my classes are going okay
accidentally/on purpose read through all of hunter x hunter in the last few days and i'm sad about killua and alluka/nanika.
What I Just Finished Reading
In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan
Funny and cute and light-hearted! In another time I might not have enjoyed it as much, for appearing to try too hard, but, well.
Every Heart A Doorway, by Seanan McGuire
I keep reading novellas that I somehow do not realize are novellas. I liked the concept, still working out my feelings on if returning to one's portal world is "good" or "bad," or maybe neither?
The Digital Street, by Jeffrey Lane
A book we read for class about how urban youth integrate the digital street into the physical street.
First half focuses on ways youth move in and out of the digital street, with different elements of power and control emerging based on gender, reputation, social forces. The second half focuses on what is done to nudge youth away from the violence of the street, using digital media as either a method of monitoring, both benign and malicious. I liked this read a lot, although I think Lane could have stood to reflect more on where he stood as a white man, and how that affected the way he interacted with the people he interviewed. I do like how it examines digital use from a perspective that isn't commonly explored in studies on social media, as it turns out that urban youth of color use social media in a different way than their affluent/white peers.
I was also taken by the amount of agency and thought he gives the youth in their decisions about how they use social media and what for. At the end of our discussion someone brought up a really interesting thought, which was that social media affords impressions of the individual, so to what extent was this agency intentional on the author's part, and to what extent was the image of agency influenced by how these social media platforms make us think about the individual?
What I'm Currently Reading
No new comics. :( But I did start The Bloodstone Hunt because of Discord server book club. NTYCBD instead of NCBD. blah. I like NCBD better.
The Poppy War, by R. F. Kuang
Stopped right before the fictionalized account of real-life war atrocities. Not because things haven't been handled well up to this point but, just, not sure how much darkness I can take right now.
What I'm Reading Next
Finally got This Is How You Lose the Time War off from hold. At least I know this one is a novella this time. Very excited to read it. Our next book for internet class is Ghost Work by Mary Gray.
accidentally/on purpose read through all of hunter x hunter in the last few days and i'm sad about killua and alluka/nanika.
What I Just Finished Reading
In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan
Funny and cute and light-hearted! In another time I might not have enjoyed it as much, for appearing to try too hard, but, well.
Every Heart A Doorway, by Seanan McGuire
I keep reading novellas that I somehow do not realize are novellas. I liked the concept, still working out my feelings on if returning to one's portal world is "good" or "bad," or maybe neither?
The Digital Street, by Jeffrey Lane
A book we read for class about how urban youth integrate the digital street into the physical street.
First half focuses on ways youth move in and out of the digital street, with different elements of power and control emerging based on gender, reputation, social forces. The second half focuses on what is done to nudge youth away from the violence of the street, using digital media as either a method of monitoring, both benign and malicious. I liked this read a lot, although I think Lane could have stood to reflect more on where he stood as a white man, and how that affected the way he interacted with the people he interviewed. I do like how it examines digital use from a perspective that isn't commonly explored in studies on social media, as it turns out that urban youth of color use social media in a different way than their affluent/white peers.
I was also taken by the amount of agency and thought he gives the youth in their decisions about how they use social media and what for. At the end of our discussion someone brought up a really interesting thought, which was that social media affords impressions of the individual, so to what extent was this agency intentional on the author's part, and to what extent was the image of agency influenced by how these social media platforms make us think about the individual?
What I'm Currently Reading
No new comics. :( But I did start The Bloodstone Hunt because of Discord server book club. NTYCBD instead of NCBD. blah. I like NCBD better.
The Poppy War, by R. F. Kuang
Stopped right before the fictionalized account of real-life war atrocities. Not because things haven't been handled well up to this point but, just, not sure how much darkness I can take right now.
What I'm Reading Next
Finally got This Is How You Lose the Time War off from hold. At least I know this one is a novella this time. Very excited to read it. Our next book for internet class is Ghost Work by Mary Gray.
