Symposium 0.8
We are in an economy where there are amazing resources that people can access for free and people are happy to donate their labor eg: Wikipedia Difference between protocol and mediation Is the Internet democratic? Well yes, because everyone can…
Symposium 0.7
We were shown two really cool things during this weeks lecture, The Faces of Facebook and The Oracle of Bacon. The Faces of Facebook online app has scanned the public profile images of each member, which is equal to one…
Week 8: Symposium 0.5
Why is hypertext considered influential in the future development of media making and storytelling? Interplay between hypertext and network and story and history itself Causal logic: this event happened to cause this event but that’s very rarely the case Hypertext…
Week 7: Symposium 0.4
What kind of genre is an interactive documentary? Is it still a documentary, or would you say that it is a new genre because of the hypertextual interface? Documentary: A document of physical reality. Mediated by author and technology Mixing…
Week 6: A jumble of symposium notes
How does hypertext relate to storytelling in different media formats? Youtube’s incorpoartation of annotation to incorporate visual media (not particularly successful) Hypertextual video (Korsakow) Non linear storytelling strategies Korsakov is navigated through the choices you make (short videos), randomness, take…
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 2 – Unlecture and Tutorial
This week’s lecture stressed again that ‘knowledge is constructed’ and this course is about the simultaneous production of both knowledge and graduates. As the semester progresses and students become a little bit more settled, it’s interesting to see the division…
Week 2 – Unlecture
Learn through doing. The Week 2 Lecture/Unlecture was in the form of a Q and A session. We were asked to write down the questions that had come out of the first week with the only restriction being that they…