Pinterest

       This week we created a Pinterest account and pinned pictures that related to our theme. You can find our pinned pictures here.

      Our theme is technology, so I started to find pictures that I could pin by going through the technology tag. I found several interesting pictures and created three boards and therefore sorted the pictures into three categories: phones, computers and technology (pictures that were not about phones or computers were pinned to the technology board). Then I also started to go through the phone and computer tags. I chose to pin pictures that I simply liked: they were, in my opinion, interesting, cool, awesome, funny etc. In other words, they were pictures that made me feel something positive and therefore were worth pinning. One member of our group also pinned a few pictures and said that he pinned them because they were related to our theme and the article that they were taken from interested him. All in all, 44 pictures were pinned.

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For example, I pinned this picture because it made me smile.

 

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And this picture (or article actually) I pinned because it made me think "WOW!" as I have not heard of technology like this before.

       The pinned pictures have - obviously - at least one thing in common: they all are pretty clearly related to technology. Also, as I mentioned previously, at least to me they all were interesting. They are different in a way that they are pictures of different kind of technology: some are just gadgets, like The Smooth Trip Teleport Charger, and some are revolutionary inventions that could change lives, such as masks that give you superhuman sight and hearing, and some of them you are able to buy already, whereas some of them are just concepts, like a flying car.

Probably because our theme was technology, most of the pictures originate from articles, such as dailymail.co.uk, latimes.com, mashable.com and futuristicnews.com, but the origins of a couple of them were "Funny Technology" Google+ group, amazon.com and tumblr, to name a few.

Assuming that I have understood re-/decontextualization correctly, most of the pictures' contexts have not changed very much. There are just a few pictures that have been removed from their original context and have a new context now. One of them is this picture:

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In this picture, as you can see, two pictures that are perhaps taken by two different people and maybe even years apart from each other, have been edited together and are now in a new context that compares old and new technology to each other. The picture wants to show how technology has changed.

A couple of other pinned pictures have gotten a new context in the form of list, of which one is 31 Reasons Pinterest Is The New SkyMall. The original context of the inventions which the article lists were probably articles that were written about the invention or online stores.

See you next week!

S-M.R.