Leci n ' est pas une pipe.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-change-the-language-on-my-Tumblr-to-English



The construction of  Tumblr from space to place is completely done through imagery. There is minimal use of words/language except for quotes which themselves have been turned into images. The images the users of tumblr reblog* depict the self narrative they wish to convey whether that narrative be "real"as in a direct representation of themselves or exaggerated. 

The pictures themselves can be of anything. Its the users who are blogging them that change the pictures from images to story,  although this may not always be clear. To properly understand the importance or  use  of  particular  images, the viewer  must have  an  understanding  of  the  tumblr  language. This goes back to Tuan's discussion  of construction  through words as refrenced when she statede. "it is simply not possible to understand or explain the physical motions that produce place without overhearing, as it were, the speech-the exchange of words-that lie behind them" . If a person was to a create a  place for themselves on tumblr they would first have to be taught the tumblr language by another users. This sounds complicated but this is what Tumblr feels like it was designed for. It's about being in the know or understanding what tumblr represents to the users**. this references Kuttain when she stated "when we went from a oral world to a written world with the rise of the internet we became visual driven beings".This is what Tumblr was designed for, sharing images as a language for the users to express their true feelings, interests, likes and dislikes.

 *(for an overview of what tumblr represents to the user see previosu blog linked here
http://theplacespacetownsvilletutorial72016.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-max=2016-08-
13T22:07:00-07:00&max-results=14&start=41&by-date=false)
**reblog - reposting the same image another user has posted


Kuttainen, V (2016) Ba1002: Our space: Networks, narrative ad the making of place, week 5 lecture notes: [Powerpoint slides]. Retrievd from https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_76323_1&content_id=_2422311_1
Tuan, Y. (1991). Language and the making of place: A narrative-descriptive approach. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 81(4), 684-696. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1991.tb01715.x

Language and the Making of Place

Language and the Making of Place

Figure 1: https-//johnboykodotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/seeking-the-illusive-community

Language can be a powerful tool when used to create a sense of community and identity within a space. It is often used to define a space and can show the relationship (Kuttainen, 2016, p.2) between spaces and the people who inhabit them. The naming of places and spaces "imparts certain characteristics" (Tuan, 1991, pg.688) upon them, and can be seen to happen throughout the spaces of Rotary International House.

This use of language in the making of place at Rotary International House can be first seen in the naming of areas, in order to give identity to certain spaces and to create community within the college. As Tuan discusses within his paper, "naming is power" (1991, pg.688) and the power of a name becomes evident with wanting to create a sense of community in the college. Each resident has their own private room, while other areas are referred to as shared facilities and spaces. Communal and common rooms also become important aspects of such an environment, as a sense of community has already been expressed upon such spaces in an attempt to encourage camaraderie and friendship among strangers.

Another use of language in the making of place at Rotary is the communication between residents. Tuan talks of the language between friends and the way in which they can build places verbally (1991, pg.688) and can change the dynamics and atmosphere of a space with only words. This is also seen at Rotary as friendships are made and people support one another within these spaces, giving areas more meaning and value. “Human presence, human feelings and human communication add to the warmth and aliveness of a place” (Tuan, 1991, pg.690). Without such interactions within them, such spaces would be empty without colour or character as it is the communication between people that shape such spaces.

Figure 2: https-//www.jcu.edu.au/__data/assets/image/0013/120145/120145

Figure 3: https-//www.jcu.edu.au/__data/assets/image/0009/121023/121023

Kuttainen, V. (2016). BA1002: Our space: Networks, narratives and the making of place, week 5 lecture notes: [Powerpoint slides]. Retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au

Tuan, Y. (1991). Language and the making of place: A narrative-descriptive approach. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 81(4), 684-696. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1991.tb01715.x

The Architect

By Ryan Rutherford

Narrative is a way for the self to describe an experience of people, places or things to others (Kuttainen, 2016). Narratives change simply by changing who is the narrator. While the people, places or things remain the same, each individual who experienced this, be it by text or verbal interpretation, or even witnessing them, those events are subject to the individual (Kuttainen, 2016). Since narrative is inherently an exchange between at least two individuals, everything is then subject to both the narrators and the recipients’ interpretation.

“…the network structure of the site demands the persistent, symbiotic generation of narratives.” (McNeill, 2012). The collective nature of the Internet allows us to find similar narratives to our own, with little to no effort seeking these narratives. The appearance of similar narratives is a result of both the persons’ intention and the communities available via the Internet network. Networking narratives allows for an assumed common knowledge, or perceived common belief. “In most cases it is argued that identities are deliberately produced through specific stories one tells about the self.” (Mitra, 2011). While the collective nature of the Internet network allows all its collected narratives to co-exist in this seemingly same place, the ability to filter unwanted views enables the user to surround themselves with only the narratives they want to share.

The earliest forms of internet networks relied on two significant facts, “the users were able to share their thoughts via the discourses they created on their computer keyboard and transmitted instantly to everyone else on the network, and they had prior knowledge of the individuals in the community.” (McNeill, 2012). With the rise of social network sites (SNS) the second factor has lost its significance, while the first has encompassed our entire interpretation of SNS.

References:

·         Kuttainen, V. (2016). BA1002 Our Space: NETWORKS, NARRATIVES and the MAKING of PLACE. Week 6 Lecture.

·         McNeill, L. (2012). There is no “I” in network: Social Networking Sites and Post-Human Auto/Biography. Biography. Volume 35. Pages 65-82. 10.1353/bio.2012.0009

Mitra, A. (2011). Using Narratives from Social Network to Manage Teacher-Student Interaction. Education in a Technological World: Communicating Current and Emerging Research and Technological Efforts. FORMATEX

The making of a narrative on Reddit.

Reddit alien (2013)

Reddit is an online forum that allows a user to post about many different topics. They vary from personal topics I.e. financial advice, relationship advice but also topics about certain hobbies and also topics that allow you to escape reality and ‘roleplay’ (pretend to be someone you are not). The different way you can interact with the other people on Reddit helps you write your personal story and shapes who you are as a person. Paul Brucks (neuropsychologist): All the personhood of a person is…a story you tell yourself. Identity is the story of what happened to that body over time. (2013 lecture on narratives by Ariella Van Luyn)

The concept of narrative exists in everyday life and also online, it lets people figure out what area of the online world they want to be a part of. They way that we speak to each other to what kind of knowledge we give to the others allows us to shape our online narratives. Reddit helps this by giving us very specific ‘Subreddits’ ranging from a certain book or television show, to space itself. What they call this kind of forum is a ‘public sphere’, “a discursive space in which individuals and groups associate to discuss matters of mutual interest and, where possible, to reach a common judgment about them” (Hauser 1999, p. 61). Reddit is an expansive public sphere with many different smaller public spheres inside of it which allows the community to unit quickly and come to the common judgement that they seek.

Kuttainen, V (2016) BA1002: Networked Narratives, week 6 notes [PowerPoint slides]

Gerard, H (1999) Vernacular Voices Columbia, South Carolina: South Carolina Press

Reddit picture (2013) retrieved from http://www.redditsecrets.com/

Your Instagrammable Selfie 

Image: Is your Instagram self really you?

Behind the confines of your phone screen, thanks to Instagram, you have the ability to create your own image of yourself. Whether this be the person you actually are in real life or if it's another self entirely, it's up to you. Each personal Instagram account is someones own self-narrative, telling their own story (Kuttainen, 2016).

However, how "real" are these people being. With the ability to crop and edit photos and to even add filters to essentially "make yourself look better" you have to ask yourself what you lose along the way. 

References:

Kuttainen, V. (2016). BA1002: Our space: Networks, narratives and the making of place, lecture 6: Networked Narratives. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au

 McNeill, L. (2012). There Is No "I" in Network: Social Networking Sites and Posthuman Auto/Biography. Biography 35(1), 65-82. University of Hawai'i Press. Retrieved September 2, 2016, from Project MUSE database.

Place of Church

Narratives are a way in which to create meaning to something that is meaningless (Kuttainen, 2016).  In the social network, Catholic Church the Bible is a primary narrative which makes sense of life from the perspective of God.  This narrative creates an aspect of self and community through such stories as the Ten Commandments which is law of Christians and Jesus’ teachings of how to be good is ways in which to form coherent identity of values within this group.

Place of Church - https://en.wikipedia.org

In Tuan (1991) reading she advances on the idea that without speech humans cannot even begin to formulate ideas, discuss them, and translate them into action that culminates in a built place. The bible creates place through its symbolic stories that creates a phenomena of the community to give a sense of ownership to the church create a place from space.

The Hive

 

The Borg ship http://www.exitmundi.nl/borg.htm

As I looked into my Facebook network narratives I discovered that some individuals were getting lost in storyworlds, the deictic shift of the reader into a disembodied world of narrative from another facebook user (Duchan, Bruder, & Hewitt (eds), 2012 p 448). This disembodiment allows the reader to become part of the collective.

The physical presence of others seemed not important on facebook (Hayles, 1999), and narratives appeared to concur with the collective audience.  Our collective consciousness seemed to become embedded into the computer matrix.  It felt like my humanistic lines were eroding and blurred (Kuttainen, 2016).  Being logged into facebook and one another feels like I had become something like the borg of star trek.

When did it all happen? Did it start with the human software interface I had encountered as I plugged into Facebook?  Was I evolving to become part of the computer, augmented by technology? It was, what Donna Haraway who described, humans evolving with technology to become one, like cyborgs (Haraway, 1991, 149-50). 

“I” was now we, signifiers and signified posts were blurred (Kuttainen, 2016), we were all working together to make a symbiotic narrative (Lessin, 2011).  We were the “Post human collective” (Hayles, 1999, p 6).  What triggered this?  It all started innocently, inviting people to share, checking out a friends narratives, adding comments and likes.  This was the start, it encouraged “produsage” narrative. Somehow within this collective consciousness we became a “Hive Mind” (McNeill, 2012).

It did not stop there, all of a sudden I was being immersed into Facebook itself, everything that I needed or wanted was appearing as ads on my walls (Hayles, 1999, p 50-67); it knew the very essence of me.

This post-human occurrence was not making me anti-human but collaborating human traits and augmented technologies for me to survive in my now changing environment.

References

Duchan, J. F., Bruder, G. A., & Hewitt, L. E. (Eds.). (2012). Deixis in narrative: A cognitive

 science perspective. Psychology Press.

Haraway, D. (1991) Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge.

Hayles, K. (2010). How we became posthuman. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Kuttainen, V. (2016) BA1002: Our Space: Networks, narratives and the making of place,

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Lessin, S. (2011) "Tell Your Story with Timeline." The Facebook Blog. Facebook.

McNeill, L. (2012). There is no “I” in network: Social networking

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