Social media
I plan on incorporating some postdigital thought into my final project. My midterm project had something to do with the impermanence of digital publications and the ease with which they can be changed or edited. I originally wanted to do something through Instagram or Twitter or some other type of social media platform that would allow me to edit posts in real time, but settled on a NewHive project that would allow me give the illusion of editing a work by replacing pronouns in the poem “Bust Down the Doors!” by Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries. At this point I am considering either running with my original idea of editing in real time and taking more time to parse it out so it appears less fast-paced and perhaps has more human interaction/participation, or incorporating postdigital thought into the final project. In this case receipts such as screenshots and printed evidence counter the impermanence of digital posts and publications. I got the idea after seeing some of my classmates’ midterm projects on the wiki, since once something is printed onto a post-digital object, we can’t edit it anymore – and this is different from pre-digital publications because in taking screenshots of captions and phrases that are meant to be changed and edited, we are freezing the process – and perhaps in doing so, we may discover commentary never meant to be saved and published in such a way. (E.g. random musings that are never supposed to have any real permanence or significance past a few minutes, at most – or not at all, as in the case of comments coders make on the side lines of their code that are not supposed to affect the functionality of the code in any way, but can be saved and printed.)
