Mudpit
For your last 750, you spent some time in phase 1 of analysis on your text or artifact: naming & noticing. Now you’ll either want to spend more time in this phase, or proceed to phase 2: making connections. Here are some questions to help you in phase 2:
Do any of the components relate? Do you see any patterns? Can they be grouped in any meaningful ways?
Do any of the components remind you of anything else? What associations can you make?
Personal connection: what is your reaction to the text? How might you explain that reaction?
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“Porn” in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Think about the way that your generation uses the Internet. What does it say about your generation? What can it “teach us about ourselves?” (Klosterman 112) What is it that you all want?
Is it different from what you all want in real life (like Klosterman’s example on page 113 of the guy in the bar)? If so, how do you account for the difference? What does the difference say about the internet and/or your generation?
Pornography was a big driver of internet growth in its first decade. Social media has driven the better part of the last decade. In the way that Klosterman “reads” internet porn, read social media. What does it say about us? About what we want? Focus on developing your ideas with this.