This auto-ethnography explores the author's journey through aerial silk training, documenting sessions via photographs taken with an Android phone. The post-production process provided deeper insights into their training, highlighting the author's self-representation as an actor in their own life.
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This auto-ethnography explores the author's journey through aerial silk training, documenting sessions via photographs taken with an Android phone. The post-production process provided deeper insights into their training, highlighting the author's self-representation as an actor in their own life.
"First Dips" is an auto-ethnography by Astrid Gerhard, exploring her lifestyle and identity as a non-smoker and a heterosexual woman seeking sterilization before turning forty. Illustrated with her own 2024 photographs, the book reflects her experiences navigating online platforms like Facebook and YouTube during her travels.
This digital manual for online journalism by Astrid Gerhard features screenshots from 2021 to present. It serves as a resource for aspiring journalists, offering insights into self-efficiency and guidance on developing an informative writing style for interested readers.
"First Dips" is an auto-ethnography by Astrid Gerhard that explores her lifestyle and identity in a fast-paced environment. It addresses heavy topics like sterilization and her experiences as a non-smoker in the 21st century. The work combines personal narrative with online platforms, using images from 2014 onward to discuss her journey.
Young novelist and (self-)publisher Astrid Gerhard writes respectful and in easy sentence structure, carefully about her own point of view. She, her best self, is feeling a certain amount of harmony within her world. These days she has a lot of views about a variety of different topics, because she finally is making progress in finding her trust within herself. Her lonesome days are over, and she reminisces for the first time about things in her life, that are worth mentioning - to herself.
Die Story behandelt den inneren Kreislauf, der uns oft als Zeitvertreib vermittelt wird. Sie thematisiert die frühen Entscheidungen im Leben und die Möglichkeit der unkontrollierten Selbstbestimmung. Es wird untersucht, welche Mechanismen und Geschichten wir wählen, um diesen inneren Kreislauf für die Außenwirkung zu regulieren.
Die Autorin berichtet von ersten Eindrücken während der Herausgeberschaft ihrer bevorstehenden Buchreihe. Demzufolge ist dies der Roman vor einem selbst-veröffentlichten Roman. Es wird schnell deutlich, dass sich im Grunde eine Vielzahl von Autorinnen sowie auch Autoren bereits auf Plattformen im Internet eigenmächtig veröffentlichen, während dessen besticht die Autorin, Frau Astrid Gerhard, durch ihr Loslassen von bereits fundierten medialen Zusammenhängen. Sie befasst sich unter anderem anderen Formen medialer Repräsentanz und beginnt die Perspektive zu erweitern.