This week activities are remarkably interesting to me because I was told to do something out of my comfort zone. We were supposed to take 10 minutes of our time, doing absolutely nothing. I wasn’t allowed to open any of my technology. Which was truly a challenge to me, but I managed to take my 10 mins and thought about how my life would be if I had some time off with technology. At first, I thought this activity was going to be tough instead it helps me realize how taking off, of my time of any technology and social media is not a bad thing. This also resonates with this week’s reading which is “Digital Detox: Media resistance and the promise of the authenticity.”

With the other activity that we did, which was choosing one word from the meaning of media and making a craft out of the word that we chose. I chose the word “creativity” and compose a craft which is a small bouquet flower. From the Journal written by Jeanette Milne talking about “What is Creativity?” stated that “creativity results when curiosity, imagination and knowledge collide, generating ideas and making connections between what we know now and desired future outcomes” (“Milne, Jeanette,2020”). Which is accurate because when thinking of what craft I should come out with, I was thinking of how much love I have for flowers and through that imagination and knowledge that I learned from week one which is origami; I can create something into “alive” that I called as creative.

While doing the craft activity, I took my time off social media or technology and started to communicate more with people surrounding me. Which makes me realize how I have drifted apart from interacting with people in real life and it grasp my attention how attached I am with the life of social media and technology that makes I feel superficial, narcissistic and alienation (“Eisikovits, Stubbs, 2023”).

Milne, Jeanette. “What Is Creativity?” British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing) 29.12 (2020) S4–S4. Web.

Syvertsen, T. and Enli, G., 2020. Digital detox: Media resistance and the promise of authenticity. Convergence, 26(5-6), pp.1269-1283.