{"id":18893,"date":"2022-01-29T01:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=18893"},"modified":"2022-04-24T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T01:21:00","slug":"immersive-17-texts-from-random-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/01\/29\/immersive-17-texts-from-random-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Immersive #17: Texts from Random Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18898\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/immersive17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/immersive17.png 700w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/immersive17-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/immersive17-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/immersive17-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I was messaged by a random number asking to catch up in a totally normal &#8220;we live in a pandemic and I haven&#8217;t contacted you in a while&#8221; setting. While I wasn&#8217;t the correct recipient and was later addressed as &#8220;sir&#8221;, it made me wonder about the messages we shoot into the dark and how we assume it&#8217;ll reach the right person. There&#8217;s so much context that is implied in these messages, yet when we aren&#8217;t in the know it can come off as quite odd. It makes you think a lot about the lives of people you&#8217;ve never met before and what is going on in their own heads right then and there. Are they nonchalant about making a simple mistake? Or are they on the other end of the spectrum and freaking out about disclosing potentially personal information to a stranger who could hold it hostage? Nevertheless, I don&#8217;t mind being sent a harmless message or two, it gives me something interesting to talk about for the next week!<\/p>\n<p>Note: Welcome to Immersive v3! We&#8217;ll be making a lot more comics this semester and thinking about context within communications, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was messaged by a random number asking to catch up in a totally normal &#8220;we live in a pandemic and I haven&#8217;t contacted you in a while&#8221; setting. While I wasn&#8217;t the correct recipient and was later addressed as &#8220;sir&#8221;, it made me wonder about the messages we shoot into the dark and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2240,"featured_media":16252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1388,1659,1825],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19031,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893\/revisions\/19031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}