Jeremy Bowtell started his presentation by describing ‘The Edit’ as a synthesis of fixing and breaking and the symbiosis of juxtaposition and closure. Closure – a term introduced by Scott McCloud’s Blood in the Gutter comic – is an act … Continue reading
What Is Media
Omnipresent (social media – the degree of saturation within this moment)
Development
Influential
Editing
Rhetoric
Cultural appropriation and identity – control over various spectrums
Reception of media (perception)
Media is power and ethical responsibility
“The media are not so much ‘things’ as a places which most of us inhabit, which weave in and out of our lives. Their constant messages and pleasures seem to flow around and through us, and they immerse most of our waking lives”. Cranston and Stafford
Constitutive of identity and sense of self
Media is partly ‘the reality’, it can only go so far to a perceived truth.
Our lives are, to a more extensive degree than we care to think, infused with a process of inscription, producing printed or written traces or working from them. the omnipresence of these documentary or textual precesses is now being entered by the technology of computers –Dorothy Smith
Instead of categorising media time to real life time maybe the debate should be the amalgamation of both.
Within week one’s readings: N. Katherine Hayles Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes, Miles Adrian’s Blogs in Media Eduction: A Beginning, and Cal Newport’s The Passion trap, the theme of self identity projected through one’s work, (whether be blog or … Continue reading