by jasminewinecier | May 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
Coming into this course, i had absolutely no recollection of work attachment hours and its requirements. In this weeks lectorial, Paul Richard came to speak to us about it, and what is actually needed from us. To break it down, we need to work a minimum of 80 hours by...
by jasminewinecier | May 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
May, A. L. 2010. “Who Tube? How YouTube’s News and Politics Space Is Going Mainstream.” International Journal of Press/Politics 15:499–511. Writer, Albert May discusses YouTube as an increased drive to make a profit and avoid copyright challenges, making YouTube one...
by jasminewinecier | May 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Today’s workshop consisted of deconstructing and workshopping our projects, and the main questions of both the video and audio essay. Each group had to share their essay questions, and the class had to give feedback on its overall structure. Some were good, and some...
by jasminewinecier | May 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
Today, my group and i had a meeting focused on moving forward from the planning aspect of the project. As we planned at the start of the meeting, and chose our main topic, we started writing both of the essays, basically splitting it up between the 3 of us. I am a bit...
by jasminewinecier | May 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
The second part of the lectorial focused on video essays, and what it actually is and comprises of. We were shown Nick Moore’s example of a video essay ‘Video Essay, Video Essay’, showing exactly how it works. These were some points I jotted down to remember:...
by jasminewinecier | May 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
In this week’s reading, focused mainly on social institutions, by J. Van Dijck and T. Poell in their article, ‘Making Public Television Social? Public Service Broadcasting and the Challenges of Social Media’ discuss how the phenomenon on television has shifted in...
by jasminewinecier | May 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
This week’s lectorial focused on media Institutions, and how it acts on organising structure within society. Brian explained the term in conjunction with sociology and ways of analysing the world. Institutions have the power to set up social, cultural, political and...
by jasminewinecier | May 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sometimes communication can be a little hard and tricky, when the other side refuses to communicate back. It has currently been a week since my group has not replied to certain messages regarding PB4, setting us behind a heap. Not quite sure what is going on, but i...
by jasminewinecier | May 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Week nines workshop was a bit of an information overload, as we had not had a workshop the previous week. It was therefore a combination of both, focusing on annotated bibliographies, as well as project brief four itself. As most of the class was confused with what...
by jasminewinecier | May 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
This week’s reading, ‘The People Formally Known as the Audience’ written by Jay Rosen, discusses media’s advancement, and the way audiences have recently become active due to a societal change. So who are audiences? Rosen states that “the people formerly known as the...
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