#unit 7

[rastronomicals]

10:21 PM EDT June 25, 2024:

Cannonball Adderley - "Unit 7" From the album Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (February 1962)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[portlandnet]

2024.05.29 Rose Festival Special - De-escalation Tips, with Lt. Jason Jones

[shiiitthead]

progress video of drum machine

[the-future-of-education]

Unit 7: All Posts

What is emotional contagion?

Emotional contagion is the idea that individuals tend to experience similar emotions as those they surround themselves with. You are reacting to the emotions of others and your emotions begin to mirror the emotion of people around you. If you choose to surround yourself with people who are constantly negative, then you will experience negative emotions. If you instead surround yourself with people that are usually uplifting and happy, then you will also experience the same emotions.

Emotional contagion is not an end-all be-all. If you are feeling depressed, I would like to first urge you to speak with a trusted adult about how you are feeling. I would then like to explain that your depression does not necessarily mean that your friends are depressed. Nor does it mean that you will only ever be happy if you surround yourself with people who are always positive. The purpose of understanding emotional contagion is to recognize that we, as humans, have a tendency to mirror the emotions of those around us.

Can social media manipulate our emotions?

According to Kramer et al.’s (2014) article, “Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks”, an experiment commonly referred to as the “Facebook-manipulated-our-emotions” study, it is indeed possible for social media to manipulate our emotions.

This study explored how positively and negatively toned posts affected the subsequent posts of a targeted individual. They found when the individual encountered more negative posts, they tended to post more negative posts themselves. They found the same result for positive posts. 

This study supports the concept of emotional contagion and demonstrates just how much of an effect social media can have on our emotional state. If you find yourself reading through a bunch of negative information, take a break and go watch or read something positive. 

How can you use the Internet to promote social support?

The Internet is host to a variety of platforms that can provide social support to people in need. Reddit is one of the most popular social media platforms that allows people to commiserate and offer advice to one another, but it is not the only platform available. 

In 2017, Liu et al.’s published their article: “When Support Is Needed: Social Support Solicitation and Provision in an Online Alcohol Use Disorder Forum”, which examined how people used the Internet to get support when needed. Not everyone has someone in their life who they would feel comfortable sharing their personal issues with, but the Internet offers some anonymity, which can make some people more comfortable sharing their experience. Other people genuinely wish to help those around them and there are several websites which allow people to meet and support each other in similar circumstances. 

What is the most popular form of positive emotional contagion and why is it so popular?

You may have already guessed it, but the most popular forms of positive emotional contagion are both pictures and videos of cats. For those of you who had access to the Internet in the early 2010s, you will remember just how frequently people posted pictures and videos of cats doing just about anything. Even now cats have kept us entertained and in love with their antics. 

There are several theories about why cats are so popular. Some argue that cats are funnier than dogs (Jin), while others claim that cats are easier to personify (Fish, 2012). Some even argue that we are in awe of cats and are endlessly amused by their cute faces (Stein, 2012). Whatever the reason, cat pictures and videos continue to be a source of positive emotional contagion on the Internet.

How can you improve your happiness?

While I wish I could just tell you that watching a couple videos of cats will solve all your problems, that simply isn’t the case although it can make you feel better if you do it consistently. There are, however, steps you can take on your own to help improve your happiness and they are relatively simple. 

If you celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States, you may be familiar with the concept of sharing something you are grateful for.  You may even recall the smiles on everyone's faces as they declare their gratitude for family and friends, and the food you are eating. Maintaining your happiness actually follows a similar train of thought.

Writing down reasons or even telling others why you are happy in a day can drastically improve your mood. If you are looking for something positive each day, it will draw attention away from some of the negatives in your life.

[dancampton]

UNIT 7 - COLLABORATIVE PROJECT

Here we collaborated with a dance studio to do a climate crisis inspired piece which we would costume. My team was on extinction, so i chose the common barberry which is purposefully culled to make way for farmland and crop preservation, in effect the barberry sawfly, barberry carpetmoth, and scarce tissue moth are going extinct.

FINAL PHOTOS PENDING

Also attatched are experimental drawings to do with performance in relation to costume.

LEFT - the process of cheese making represented through a costume

RIGHT - how a performer, costume, and space can all be one and interact with eachother. 

[field-log]

Unit 7, List B

Amniotic Egg: The egg in the picture is a chicken egg, which contains amniotic fluid, and produced by a bird. The shell is calcium based.

Image was taken in my kitchen, on 19 July 2020, 5:26 pm

[manishpurani]

જીવમાં જીવ આવ્યો કાવ્ય પઠન | CBSE Gujarati Unit 7 | Poem Recitation | Ji...

[magpelle]

Time Based Experiment review The aim of our brief introduction to the animation unit was to simply explore the...

[rastronomicals]

4:42 PM EDT April 21, 2024:

Cannonball Adderley - "Unit 7" From the album Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (February 1962)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[portlandnet]

2024.04.17 Basic Crisis Intervention – History and Evolution, with Lt. Jason Jones

[shiiitthead]

current work in progress of a sound piece 

[internet-plum]

UNIT 7 VIDEO- EQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuCkkgiFhac

[dancampton]

UNIT 7 - CREATIVE CUT

challenging conventions of regular pattern cutting using a prescribed flimsy gardening fabric, with the intention of creating a projection mapped onto the garment later. we were encouraged to play with the fabric and be inspired by its properties. i was inspired by the squiggle

final video!!!

[field-log]

Unit 7, List B

Polyploidy: The image depicts a russet potato. Potatoes are tetraploid, which means they have 4 sets of chromosomes.

Image was taken in my kitchen, 23 July 2020, 4:17 pm