Author Archives: Estefany Londono

Blog post #8

  1. According to Du Bois, what is the significance of what he calls the “sorrow songs” to African-American history and culture?

These “songs of pain” accompanied black enslaved in the past. These songs meant a lot to They used them to express their suffering and pain given the discrimination of those times, it was like a hymn that strengthened and unified them

  1. Which of the songs featured in this chapter us the most significant, in your opinion, and why?

Two very significant songs in my opinion would be “My Way Is Cloudy” and “Steal away”. This two titles convey a lot to me about how black people felt about the abuse that they were suffering.

Blog post #6

  1. I agree with Krukowski on the idea that digital audio seems to be uncomplete compared to the audio in a one to one conversation that conveys a lot more. As Krukowski states “Cellphones, are engineering to communicate our words over all, everything else is pushed aside” but this has a lot of sense because through digital audio we are really treating to send a message to an specific person or group of people, so what the digital audio creates is the necessary data so the receiver of this message can distinguish and recognize voices and understand words to give a concrete message. So actually, digitalization fails to us in so many ways talking about sound and communication, taking off important parts of a message as non-verbal language but it accomplishes with the enough and necessary.
  2. The most interesting or important point about sound in this short history of A.S.M.R. is how we perceive it, how brain receives the massage and what it causes to our body. But the most interesting for me was all the definitions I read that made me realize the many times I have felt this before and I had no idea (knowing that I have looked for this sensation before to feel the markers on the paper, brushing my hair, turning the pages of the books, tickling my nails on different surfaces, etc.) showing how powerful it’s the sound and how much impact and importance it has in our lives.

Blog post #5

For years, technology have made all humans’ activities more confortable and easier. Nowadays, most of the people have a smartphone. Done that a smartphone is a personal device, it carries with it all its owners important information related to his or her live and most important, all his or her interests. This is the reason why smartphones are so important to its owners, they contain all its interests and preferences, making it more atractive than any other thing. On the second episode (named “Space”) of “Ways of hearing” by Damon Krukowski is argued how public spaces are getting privatized when people using their devices and earbuds seem to be by their own, like nothing relevant or interesting is sourrounding them. On the same, the guest Jeremiah Moss share that people moves in ” a private kind of bubble in which to move through public space”, meaning that people refuse to go out of their bubbles to socialize, enjoy or heed their sourroundings. The overall issue is that people don’t interact with the background noises or people, what creates a big bubble of indifference. My opinion, is that this is a conservative way to see it, because I know that I really enjoy public transport, for example, but the best way for me to travel is with my earbuds, with my favourite music and looking throught the window. I don’t evite people or public situations on purpose to mantaing my confort zone, but when i am going to use public transport I don’t expect to be interacting with the people that i would see at least if they are not on my intinerary but i would do it if someone need help or some kind of situation alike. What yesterday was the public square of socialization has been replaced by social media.

Blog post #4

Although black violence was shown in the streets I agree with Berger that newspaper and magazine editors selected photographs based on their perceived power to draw out the of their white readers, this was the best way of photographers to assuage the racial anxieties that the protests caused, conveying solidarity featuring black people as victims. Therefore, instead of portraying the protests of black people standing for their rights, they show black protestors succumbing to white violence. This was a form to evite affecting the depiction of blacks ( that could affect the social view of that newspaper or magazine ) and mantaining the white supremacy.

Blog post #3

  1. According to Berger,“publicity” images influence and affect consumers creating in them a new necessity that promises to fulfill them, to make them feel good by knowing they have the “latest” but this is accualy affecting them because what publicity makes is to create new fake necessities creating a cosumist vicious circle. This is significant to the socity because this is creating the capitalist system that we live nowadays.
  2. As he compares oil painting to publicity we can see two of the most important  parts for a human, these are past and future. Oil painting was used as a form to record and share past cultures, costums, events, people, etc. Publicty actually wants to give the image of where or how you should be and what you should have to bee successfull in the future, what you should get, start, buy, consume, etc.
  3. An example of an acual dream these days could be “The perfect life” that is plublished for our influencers. This dream offered by advertising use imagery to manipulate consumers by making them feel first, as If their life is not enough, as if they need more products, more activities, no work or obligations making them fell unsatisfied about what they are and what they have.

Blog post #2

Today’s representations of women objectify them in a similar way as Berger argues from the Renaissance paintings, passive and charm woman as they taught us to be nowadays. In my opinion women don’t have control over their images neither on the media or the real life, the image that women see of themselves is always “not enough” far from the image that the society tells that we should be. Sexuality plays almost the same role in images of women as Berger describes, as if women didn’t own her sexuality as if they should wait for a man and not to actively enjoy it but to please the man.

Blog post #1

1. According to Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, writers should use the model of “entering the conversation” in their writing because it allows the writer to present a complex, complete and organized claim. Complex because includes the positive and negative aspects of the thesis, presenting the different points of view, what creates a complete argument, organized by dividing the agreeing in “one hand” and disagreeing by “the other”.

2. I agree that learning to look at artwork help us analyze other situations because it train us to infer and look for answers to extract our self-point of view, which could help us to any other task of our daily lives or problems to solve

Hey, Nice to meet you! I am Estefany

Hello! My name is Estefany Londono. I am 19 years old, I am originally from Colombia, raised in Spain and currently living in the United States for two years now. I am student of Biology and a part time worker in a supermarket. I am a passionate of the nature and the animals. I consider myself a friendly, dedicated and active person. I love learning new things and meet new people. In my free time I like to watch series, workout, read, take long walks and cook (mostly sweet recipes). In High school I really enjoyed the ROTC program, and, in a future, I would like to work in the Army as a dog handler or veterinary. But my biggest goal in life is to completely enjoy every step I take, travel to new places, learn new languages, taste every kind of food… to basically find the best version of me and when I am done with that, build my home and family.