In this workshop, we discussed posts on the internet that aren’t considered authentic, and to basically not trust everything that we read. We were also put into groups for the PB4 assignment. I was set in a group with Qiming Zhang and Matthew James.

We discussed what we’d learnt in the lecture regarding research in contrast to academic research. Research is a core Media Making Skill, not just an academic skill. Talking to people is good, but needs to complimented by reading/researching.

Academic Research: Souring information from multiple sources to make a well-educated and logical decision and conclusion

Research: Having biased research and information based on other people opinions and often marketing schemes.

Our focus on knowledge produced within Media Studies as an academic discipline, we should be looking at a topics core principles, references, abstracts, conclusions and Works that are cited and peer reviewed. Journals are created by multiple academics, and reviewed by multiple (and often anonymous) sources, which is why they’re a very trusted form of information.

Lastly we figured out how to effectively use the Zoom H2N. Parts that I noted were the fact we could change the direction in which the microphone would record, either surrounding the microphone, or pointing in a particular direction (uni-directional,bi-directional or omni-directional). and other parts like connecting to a computer, and formatting the card.