The reading of this week is about some bits from making media studies, and I saw the video that made by David Gauntlet from the post of Professor Brian Morris. Media is a subject characteristic of practice so normal people would think that there is no theory of media. Although there is theory of media, it is useless. According to David, the media study is mainly about connect lots of things to media. Almost all the people know that media is useful and powerful, also in daily life we can see media everywhere. Based on the power and function of media, David suggests that we ought to consider about what good things we can do with media.
In media study, people will learn about and with media, moving forward and understanding of look backward.
The computer that questions David for a long time asks David about the relation between creativity and media. David answers that it is not all about creativity, it is a kind of refreshing. Actually, I cannot understand any differences between refreshing and creativity. Simply, those two words are all about somethings new that come out. Maybe I will understand when I study in media.
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Yolanda