Category Archives: Networked Media

My Media Use- Day 1

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What?

Facebook- Scrolling through my newsfeed

Instagram- scrolling through my Instagram feed, and liking photos of people I follow

My blog- I posted on my blog 6 times, this included text, videos and photos

Vimeo and Flickr- I embedded photos an videos from vimeo and flickr onto my blog post

Messenger- I messaged my friends on a group chat on the ‘messenger app’

Spotify- I listened to the global top 50 songs playlist on Spotify

Safari- I googled my train line timetable

 

How?

In terms of publishing content, I posted text on my blog in relation to an assignment for my media 1 class. Along with publishing text on my blog, I also recorded a video on my phone taken of people painting an advertisement on a building in the city. In order to post this video on my blog, I uploaded this video onto my Vimeo account from a file on my desktop, and shared this video by embedding the link onto my blog post. Therefore when my blog post was posted, the video from vimeo was embedded onto the post and became automatically linked to Vimeo, I also tagged the post ‘vimeo’.

Why?

I posted this video on my blog, because it was a blog post I had to do for Uni. My aim was to show how people are constantly creating media, which is represented in the video, as people are painting an ad for a film on a building, instead of using a billboard like most advertisements. I posted this video also to learn something, to learn and reflect on the reading and discussion for that week that media practitioners need to instead of learning about media, learn with media, and to try to be as creative as possible.

Tagging

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In my previous blog posts, I have edited them and learnt how to tag the content of my posts. Tagging blog posts or media in general is important because it makes media easier to find or makes it more specific. When tagging, people tend to tag the most important aspects of the content within their media or the content that stands out the most. Tagging is different to a category as a category is a lot more broad and generalised, where as a tag is specific and related to key information of a type of media or blog post.

This link is from a blog post, from one of my favourite blogs, ‘The Debrief. This post is all about how Ed Sheeran may be making a guest appearance on the show ‘Game of Thrones’ in season seven. At the bottom of this blog post, there is an icon that says ‘tags’. The tag that has been posted in relation to this post, is ‘ed sheeran’. Therefore this blog post will be linked to other blog posts or stories related to Ed Sheeran.    http://www.thedebrief.co.uk/news/celebrity/ed-sheeran-game-of-thrones-season-7-20170366794

Video

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•I found this video on Vimeo. I typed into the search bar of Vimeo, ‘Creative Commons videos’ and all of the video under the Creative Commons license were all available to me to share and embed into my blog post.

•To double check I could definitely share and use this persons video, I looked at their description about their video in their bio, and they stated and reiterated their video is available for anyone to download or share.

•I then embedded the link of this Vimeo video onto my blog post, so the media factory site didn’t have to host this video.

One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

Audio

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• I found this audio from Soundcloud. I typed into the search bar of Soundcloud, ‘Creative Commons’ and found audio that are under the Creative Commons license.

•However on the description section of the audio, I clicked on the Creative Commons link to make sure I could definitely use and redistribute this persons audio onto my blog.

•I then embedded the link of the audio from Soundcloud onto my blog post, so therefore the media factory site is not hosting this audio.

Copyright

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Through listening and reading the Creative Commons how it works and sharing of digital content  video and the RMIT copyright guide, I have learnt that through using Creative Commons, media publishers and creators can use the work of someone else’s, only if they copy the work from people that have a Creative Commons license, and people that want their work to be copied, can apply and receive a Creative Commons license as well.

The different copyright elements to a license include ‘BY’, which means anyone that copies work off someone with this license must state who the work is originally by. NC (Non Commercial) is another element, which means only the original creator of the work people are copying are allowed to make a profit from their work. ND (No Derivatives) this element means anybody who copies the work of someone with this license must to change any aspect of it. And the SA (Share Alike) element means anybody can copy work from someone with this license in any format, yet the work itself must not be changed.

If people do not want to share their work with people or have their work copied, any public work is automatically their own work, and is set under copyright.

Ethics When Blogging

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Being ethical or following ethics when posting on a blog is very important. In todays networked media workshop, I learnt that to be ethical online is to not break the law, which seems obvious but it can happen and that is also about taking personal responsibility for what gets posted and about knowing the rules and regulations that apply to the content in the post.

The idea of comments being available on a blog is a good idea, as it is important to produce discussion online and connect with other people to express an opinion, yet when ‘trolls’ or people who comment nasty replies on someone else blog post, that the owner of a blog may stop people commenting all together. Nasty comments being published however, stem from the idea that the people who are posting content on their blogs, may or may not always state or make it clear it is only their opinion. If a writer of a blog post is not clear in stating the content produced is their opinion, the comments tend to become more negative toward the blog post and the writer. It is a lot worse also, when the writer of the blog post actually states their idea represented within the post is a fact. Because this can therefore create negative and hurtful comments to be posted when people who disagree are replying to that post.

 

Blog Case Study

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http://www.thedebrief.co.uk

What do you like about it?

I like how aesthetically pleasing this blog is, therefore it attracted me as soon as I came across the home page. On the left side of the homepage it has the latest popular news and in the centre of the page is the latest issues or topics the world is discussing that are available to read. I like how easy this blog is to view and how it can simply connect to other pages or posts. On the top right hand corner of the blog home page, there are also four other pages that include topics that most readers are interested in.

Why do you think it works well?

I think this blog works well because it is constantly being updated and always remains very modern and aesthetically pleasing. It is not only the visual appeal that is intriguing about this blog, but also the content within the many posts are interesting and broad as they cover so many different topics, issues and interests the world is facing today.

How does the author (or editors, publisher) use authoring, publishing and distributing in the online space to get an audience?

The publishers of ‘The Debrief’ are extremely aware of using the online space and what is available through social media to seek an audience. The Debrief usually does this through twitter, as they have a constantly active twitter page that regularly posts on what is being updated on their blog, to regularly seek the attention of others on twitter to attract them to read the blog, and to get a hold of original readers of ‘The Debrief’ that can follow their twitter page to know about more blog posts coming up or the blogs updates.

Reading Short Literature Review

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What I have read across both readings and what I have learnt, is what blogs are, and how they were formed. I discovered that a blog is practically a web based publication that consists of a range of posts with a variety of lengths that are published in reverse chronological order, so the most recent blog post is seen first. Every blog has its own Content Management System (CNS) to enable a blogger, to become a publisher. Blogs are personal, yet they are also public, therefore a blog is not the same as a personal journal or diary, as others see a blog and can comment and reflect on other blog’s posts. A blog is important for a media student as it is used as a tool to reflect on past workshops, readings and tutorials and can also be used for posting about events outside University as well.
The more we use the blog as students, the more we realise how convenient having a blog is.
A blog’s history begins with the printing and publishing of the newspaper, yet the writers of a newspaper do not choose the layout or what the writing looks like on the page, the publishers do. A newspaper does not have connection and links to other sites, and does not enable readers to connect and reply instantly.
Gradually, people such as Markos Moulitsas who created the Daily Kos in 2002,begun using websites to express their ideas on political matters. Yet overtime, people like Dooce, began writing Weblogs dedicated to literature, poems, art and so on and soon enough, the word Weblog turned into the word blog.