2013年2月17日星期日

The Song Decoders By Rob Walker

What activity does the writer has to engage in creating the text?
The writer engage in the activtiy of  sitting at computers and listening to songs, and rating those songs element by element.

Then the author developed an idea which is" your music consumption habits are partly shaped by the curtural information that Pandora largely screens out. And is it really possible to seperate music taste from mutiple social factors?"

I think the writer is putting the studies and tests to the Pandora to find out the writer's musical taste. And then the result is connected to the social factors(like peer relations). Then he got an idea which is part of what we liek is based on the cultural information. And the personality characteristics are associated with the kind of music that people like. And it is also connected with larger factors.

The mechanism of the decoder makes people to test it, then the process of testing the Pandora is being arranged to the idea that -----what we like is partly based on the cultural information.

I think the writer is trying to argue that the factor we love music is not based on ourselves but it is more based on the people around us---they make influence on us, and many other factors that around us. He wants to argue that those factors are still not enough to explain the reason that why we will "like" a type of music or a song.

The wiriter provides an example about the genome that Westergren has developed tons of methods to pay attention. The problem is there are too many songs in the world so it will be a big big work to analyze .

2013年2月8日星期五

The Reflection of Project one

    1.The author's purpose is through an experience of his personal-injury and the the recover, he began knowing his body well. And his audience is college students. The developing is to consider the reason for the common problems of college students are because they do not know their body well so that they cannot make correct choices`````etc.
    2.Yes, the author thoroughly and thoughtfully consists his work and learning as a student over the project 1 cycle, providing a useful map and of strengths and weaknesses, lessons learned, next stops````etc. The author do show his strong opinion about how bad those common problems of college students are. The author showed through a learning path, he do learned how to tape himself and he began knowing well himself both mentally and physically.
    3. Yes, the reflection is appropriately develpoed, those reflectors pointed out the weaknesses and strengths clearly and they gave some really useful advices. They showed that the particle needed to make more connection with the larger theme and which is very important.