It’s really interesting that this week’s reading, “Seeing Ourselves Through Technology” resonated with my community topic. On page seven, Rettberg talks about blogs, and the different forms of blogs. Blogging stems from diary-writing that many of us have done before. But now it is more likely that we write about it online than on pages of a small book–which is interesting considering that online writing is so public that it is nothing like the original concept of diary writing. My community relates to the topic-driven blogging talked about. I am focusing my project on a community of fashion bloggers that talk about styling and exchange articles of clothing in order to create a diary of individualized styles. It is interesting to see a task that used to be so individualized and personal become such a great community. Now we are able to exchange ideas with others on common interests. In some way, the fashion community I am to explore has all of three modes of self-representation Rettberg addresses: written, visual, and quantitative. The written and visual go hand in hand as fashion bloggers showcase different outfits and write about where they got their clothing, why they chose it, and maybe a tidbit about their lives the day they were the outfit. It is a collection of memories. Fashion bloggers nowadays do not only have a blog, but they usually have accompanying social media sites like instagram, twitter, and facebook. This is where the quantitative mode comes in. Many fashion bloggers also showcase outfits on instagram, as a “sneak peek” to their post and sometimes they geotag it. I’ve seen numerous blogs where they talk about restaurant x they went to while wearing this outfit. If you were a stalker you could basically find people easily through twitter and instagram since everything has tracking, even when you don’t mean to add it. The bad thing about diaries turning into blogging is the lack of privacy. But blogging overall is a new form of communication, expression, and record-keeping.