I have a decent amount of experience when it comes to editing pictures. I had a class in high school (which was almost 10 years ago now) that taught the basics of Photoshop and I have edited a good amount of images since. I have not used Photoshop or any decent photo editor in a while now but I consider myself to be pretty tech savvy so I am sure I can pick up how to do it pretty easily. I am fine with the idea of learning it again and being an ITI major I enjoy learning whatever I can when it comes to programs and technology so I am actually pretty excited about it.
The Coleman reading, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls; The Politics of Transgression and Spectacle speaks about the origins of hacking and its progression. It started out in MIT where people found a way to “hack” a telephone by using a certain pitch these people were called Phrackers. The reading then begins to transition into what we now consider hackers using computers to gain access to things they shouldn’t. Then it mentions trolls and their impact on the internet. We see trolls on the internet all the time, always chiming in with their relentless unwarranted opinion. These trolls can also use photo editing to leave their mark on the internet as mentioned in the reading when Coleman says, “4chan houses a series of topic-based forums where participants, all of them anonymous post and often comment on discussions or images, many of these being esoteric, audacious, creative, humorous, heavily Photoshopped, and often very grotesque or pornographic.” We also see memes and other edited photos used to create havoc on the internet and is usually pretty successful. What Phrackers, Hackers, and Trolls all have in common is there desire to want to interrupt the status quo.
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