After today’s class and discussion, I really want to dive back in this idea of prosumer and prosumption that we briefly went over. In short, prosumption is when the line between content producer and content consumer becomes blurry and they become one. This is clearly something that we have all experience especially with the rise of social media but also other services like Ebay or youtube. Interestingly, social media is one of the many words that came to my mind when Professor Himpele asked the class the first word we thought of when hearing “digital”. I feel like it the digital has become such a big part of our lives that I have a hard time imaging a world without it. Now, People can develop relationships by connecting solely digitally, digital media has changed the way political campaigns are ran and even school courses have moved to online.

We have previously talked about authenticity and this made me think about a similar question and it goes along similar topics that Maya brings in her post-production post. I wonder if authenticity can be achieved digitally? Are we less, just as or more authentic online and through digital media? Maybe digital allows us to be less authentic or have a better control on our authenticity. I know this is a loaded question but I think it was worth bringing up to you guys.