The Television Fan
French scholar Michel de Certeau asserts that audiences are not passive consumers but instead active interpreters of media texts. This follows Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding model of communication first developed in 1973 in which he proposed that individuals create their own…
Humans of New York
I think Humans of New York has won the title of my favourite blog. Self taught photographer, Brandon Stanton, began the HONY blog in 2010. He photographs New Yorkers he meets on the streets with accompanying quotes and short interviews….
Live Television: The Ordinary and The Extraordinary
As a technology, the television’s introduction was negotiated through a series of discourses bringing the family together as people gather collectively to watch a program, and quite often these shows are dramas about families like The Simpsons and Modern Family….
Is youth wasted on the young?
After listening to Sir Ken Robinson’s highly entertaining and profound speech about children and creativity, I couldn’t help but feel frustrated about society’s predetermined hierarchy of the educational curriculum. He elucidates that children are prepared to take risks and explore…
Week 6 – Readings
This week we are once again met by George Landow’s ideas on hypertext and Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Glabalization. He opens this chapter by reminding us that the digital world and image, even on the…
Week 5 – Readings
In this week’s reading George Landow discusses the idea of hypertexuality and how it radically changes the experience that reading, writing and text signify. Hypertext moves the boundary of power away from the author to the reader, which changes the…
“DOWN-UNDERdecision 2013”
One of my favourite clips from the past week. Stand in host of The Daily Show, John Oliver, compares American and Australian election campaigns. Please note: this is simultaneously embarrassing and hilarious. Check it out here.
Week 4 – Symposium 0.1
Firstly welcome back Brian, love your work. It was great to see a change of formula in this week’s unlecture turned ‘symposium’. The content was derived from student questions with all four tutors providing different thoughts and ideas. I thought…
Week 4 – Readings
Bush Vannevar begins his discussion by asking, “Of what lasting benefit has been man’s use of science and of the new instruments which his research brought into existence?” Firstly, we have more control over our material environment such as…
“How to survive and succeed in Journalism” with Sandra Sully
Last week I signed up for an online Podcast hosted by Pedestrian TV Coach with Sandra Sully about being a journalist in the current media climate. Below are some take away ideas/tips from the talk. She expressed the importance of…