Draw your Conclusion…

With an emphasis on there-invigoration of cinematic narrative, French New Wave Cinema rejected traditional linear tropes of storytelling and created a new language of film. Inspired by both depictions of the common, lower class workers of Italian Neorealism and Hollywood’s beloved ‘Golden Age’, the French New Wave became a vibrant influence on international cinema which is still being felt today. Originating from the artistic philosophy of ‘auteur theory’; a concept that acknowledges film as a product of the director’s absolute imaginative and inspired aesthetic vision, New Wave filmmakers inspired the cult of the director as artistic icon on a par with writers and painters. Through their films, these screenwriters and directors also illustrated philosophical concepts of absurdity, existentialism and the human condition which were indebted to French literary and philosophical traditions. Technically, French New Wave Cinema was a brilliantly innovative experimentation with not only storytelling, but the process of filmmaking. New methods of editing and shooting films broke through limitations in the way in which narrative was created in the cinema.

In terms of Watt’s opening page, why do we call network as network? It looks a bit stupid but I really devote into the meaning behind it. Where does this word come from? What is the inspiration?

In the way, we are always connected by network but we hardly find out when, where and how we became connected. The structure of network basically is a point by point. In the level of art perspective, points, lines and planes contribute to one image that what we think it is beautiful. In the same way, the structure of network is constructed by spots. Every spots more or less connecting directly or indirectly is offering a devastating power to network. The powerful energy is created ourselves to produce the huge impact to the world.

The very interesting point from Watt’s view is the electronic power with which a modern world is running. We can charge our iPhone or laptop whenever we want but we cannot build up a giant battery to keep the city alive because we, so far, do not have good enough technologies to keep  such a big amount of electron that give the power to light up the city. What can we do now? The engineers take advantage of the idea of network with the tube as line that connects city as a spot, therefore, the structure of electronic network is dynamic! The power keeps transferring between city and city, the entire America, in this way, is a battery as same as the theory of internet network. The power is from ourselves!

Watts, Duncan J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. London: Vintage, 2003. Print.

I had good experience from the networked media lecture yesterday. Before I had the lecture, i was very confused about the conception of hypertext. What is kind of functions? How does it work? Although  I went through the weekly readings, I still didn’t get dsitinct comprehension of hypertext. All the things about hypertext I know is probably that how hypertext was embedded in the fiction writing and give a large space to author to create their crafts. However, if someone ask me to specify the hypertext, I guess there is no any word comes out.

Yesterday, Elliot, Brain and Adrian offer a plenty of explainations for the conception of hypertext  as well as its function. There are many insteresting perpspective for this kind of new stuff. Brain thinks of hypertext which is not new idea for now but somehow it more or less preexits in technologies earlier, however, people find it out until recently and move to a research agenda. More importantly, Brain also consider that the hypertext can adapt into different media medium with different effective results. Some of form works could be impressively sufficient out of people’s expectations. We never how hypertext could intensify the media for now but hypertext somewaht like a magic trick to bring our production to antoher level.

On the other hand, Adrain in the lecture memtioned another great point of hypertext. Adrian reveals the importance of book is only for its direct relationship with literature. Hypertext in some way provides readers convinience to read the books. They only click on a link and find out the materials they want to read instead of a print text. For some people, they might like this way more than the traditional way to read the book. Once upon a time, our conception of reading books was already relatvie to experience but the era is moving forward. Do you want to experience a book or only read a book? So ther is the choice for readers between convinience and experience. Same situation also happens in print media industry, while the level of technologies and the habit of people’s life are generally changing, the print media industry, like newspaper, magazine and book, is suffering a tough time. Readers are now merely turn on their apps and they could obtain the inforamation. The newspaper is too slow to respond to this action and somehow they lost their track. People enabling accurately exploring suitable information by digital media in which hundreds of hypertext offering this power is unbelievable.

Writing is a skill that is required to learn to read and write. Writing also could be a technology to help people note things and produce things. In terms of the readings on week 5, I obtained a new understanding for notion of writing. Writing unconsciously enhances the human capacity of social organisation.

Writing became a technology since the born of print-press in fifteenth century. The invention of typography make writing change to duplicating technology. Marshall McLuhan realised that the typography provide the first uniformly repeatable  commodity, the first assemble-line, and the  first mass-production. As the time went by, the technology of printing developed to be acceptable for people. The mechanical printing improve the visual character of the written paper, inducing the writing space technically cleaner and clearer.

The word technology in Greek is techne that could refer an art or a craft system,or method of making or doing, or the fine arts. Going past to ancient, the craftmen has to learn a skill and use a machine. The technology is a combination of skills as well as machine. A technology always tends to internalize users, becoming a natural ability. Writing is as well. Some great speaker enable speaking as the way they write. For that kind of people, writing is speaking, they thinks as writing so they understood, in what specific way, to talk with their capacity of writing. Writing as technology can be handled, known.

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Hypertext is a elaborate relationship among a huge number of texts. These texts are more or less connecting with each other so that the readers enabling to discovering one specific texts with one involved text in the texts ocean. The spectrum of hypertext is very broad. Where shall we enter the texts. The answer might be everywhere you can found. Somehow, it is like the detective film and you explore the connections of clues in the locale. Such a wide range of information offer enough space to academic media so that some author can create more forms of writing with hypertext.

The Hypertext prose, the author produce a document with links to documents on the same as well as on other websites. While writing the text, we might have to consider the outside links that we are using probably either are relevant  or irrelevant to another texts. Therefore, we should consider the way we build up the texts and choose the correct we use. Some books perhaps contains a dozen of links to support its idea, however, some of them would probably be paradoxic. On the other hand, some author tend to build up a lexias, which have included a broad range of information, so that the documents are  already clarified so its essence means readers could easily to find the information they want to.

The hypertext essay, which is kind of another system to clarify the documents, takes the from of a set of networked documents in order to either combine the documents into a large web or keep it alone. The author tries to build up the essay based on the networked documents so that they have depth enough to testify their idea within the texts.

Bring your Q and get your A

Things process in week 2, Adrian continue to run his unlecture idea in the lecture. After he generally introduce his idea of unlecture, he attempt to achieve this project greater. Apart from the traditional way, Adrian decided to make ‘Network Media’ lecture become a Q/A show. He asked us to write down the questions about ‘Blogging’ and the impressive question would be pick out and figure it out.

Adrian consider his philosophy of unlecture is that if you want obtain something from lecture you should had contribute something to the lecture. Q/A could be the best way to complete this idea because of great interaction between lecturer and students. You would bring a question to here and I will solve it for you, for everyone. We are able to ultimately accumulate the knowledge from professional opinions from Adrian.