Perhaps Genevieve Pecsok isn’t the prime example of someone who uses social book marking, however she uses it in a way that is relevant to our class and to all students gathering various sources for a paper. After extensively searching Diigo to find my soulmate, I came up empty handed. Does no one share my same interest in the effects of women’s magazines on society!? I am joking, clearly, who really wants to use Diigo to bookmark serious shiz like that... It seems as though most Diigo users are not necessarily using it if for research purposes, but rather pleasure purposes. I did find one interesting character, Genevieve, as I mentioned above, who doesn’t bookmark often but when she does, most of her articles are relevant to my blog. Genevieve, until like most Diigo users, seems to use it for more than just tagging her favorite articles about cats in costumes or new recipes she wants to try out. After perusing through her bookmarks, I found that she concentrates specifically on body image and eating disorders. A few of her links are specifically related to the media and magazines and how they affect women in society. On a more random note, I can’t help but imagine what Genevieve Pecsok looks like, her name to me gives off the image of something with thick coke bottle glasses who enjoys reading Nicholas Sparks books in her spare time. Think LeeLee Sobieski circa Never Been Kissed (you probably have no idea who I am talking about.. IMDB it). Anyway, Genevieve is very thoroughly in her bookmarking practices, she frequently adds multiple comments on the bookmarked article. She directly quotes the article and then adds her personal opinion below. She actually has more annotations on the bookmarked articles than she does total tags. Each article has multiple annotations and sticky notes. However, although she annotates thoroughly, she does not tag often. Most of the tags that appear on her page say “no_tag.” In fact, she has only bookmarked 12 different articles but she has over 80 annotations. One great link that Genevieve bookmarked is a scholarly article entitled “Body Image, Media, and Eating Disorders” which appears on the website, Psychiatry Online (If you really want to read a scholarly article, here's the link). The author explains how exposure to the mass media is correlated with obesity and negative body image, subsequently leading to a possible eating disorder. A second gem that Genevieve has in her Diigo library is an article titled, “Beauty and Body Image in the Media,” you can find the article here. The article is a more informal, yet informative look into advertisements in the media and there direct effects on women. Genevieve has bookmarked some potentially valuable articles for the upcoming research paper. A major trend in today’s society is eating disorders, millions of people in the United States, the majority women, suffer from them. Joel Yager, a psychiatrist specializing in eating disorders made a bold statement when he said, "Every society has a way of torturing its women, whether by binding their feet or by sticking them into whalebone corsets. What contemporary American culture has come up with is designer jeans." I am interested in exploring and researching this topic more in the future.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Soulmate
Perhaps Genevieve Pecsok isn’t the prime example of someone who uses social book marking, however she uses it in a way that is relevant to our class and to all students gathering various sources for a paper. After extensively searching Diigo to find my soulmate, I came up empty handed. Does no one share my same interest in the effects of women’s magazines on society!? I am joking, clearly, who really wants to use Diigo to bookmark serious shiz like that... It seems as though most Diigo users are not necessarily using it if for research purposes, but rather pleasure purposes. I did find one interesting character, Genevieve, as I mentioned above, who doesn’t bookmark often but when she does, most of her articles are relevant to my blog. Genevieve, until like most Diigo users, seems to use it for more than just tagging her favorite articles about cats in costumes or new recipes she wants to try out. After perusing through her bookmarks, I found that she concentrates specifically on body image and eating disorders. A few of her links are specifically related to the media and magazines and how they affect women in society. On a more random note, I can’t help but imagine what Genevieve Pecsok looks like, her name to me gives off the image of something with thick coke bottle glasses who enjoys reading Nicholas Sparks books in her spare time. Think LeeLee Sobieski circa Never Been Kissed (you probably have no idea who I am talking about.. IMDB it). Anyway, Genevieve is very thoroughly in her bookmarking practices, she frequently adds multiple comments on the bookmarked article. She directly quotes the article and then adds her personal opinion below. She actually has more annotations on the bookmarked articles than she does total tags. Each article has multiple annotations and sticky notes. However, although she annotates thoroughly, she does not tag often. Most of the tags that appear on her page say “no_tag.” In fact, she has only bookmarked 12 different articles but she has over 80 annotations. One great link that Genevieve bookmarked is a scholarly article entitled “Body Image, Media, and Eating Disorders” which appears on the website, Psychiatry Online (If you really want to read a scholarly article, here's the link). The author explains how exposure to the mass media is correlated with obesity and negative body image, subsequently leading to a possible eating disorder. A second gem that Genevieve has in her Diigo library is an article titled, “Beauty and Body Image in the Media,” you can find the article here. The article is a more informal, yet informative look into advertisements in the media and there direct effects on women. Genevieve has bookmarked some potentially valuable articles for the upcoming research paper. A major trend in today’s society is eating disorders, millions of people in the United States, the majority women, suffer from them. Joel Yager, a psychiatrist specializing in eating disorders made a bold statement when he said, "Every society has a way of torturing its women, whether by binding their feet or by sticking them into whalebone corsets. What contemporary American culture has come up with is designer jeans." I am interested in exploring and researching this topic more in the future.
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ReplyDeleteI know Genevieve in real life! She does look like LeeLee Sobieski :) good inference.
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