Month May 2015

Over the last 2 weeks our group has produced many ideas and directions to move towards for our creative product for our text artefact. Our idea-span was almost too big to follow at one point, and we were unsure how… Continue Reading →

As humanity progresses and becomes more innovative in its technologies and methods of survival, we are more and more responsible for the consequences of those innovations. As humanity has grown and evolved to become the most widespread and influential species,… Continue Reading →

Power, in various forms, has been a constant that has unified and combined diverse methodologies and ideals in terms of how media is approached and treated. The relationship between of the production of media and the audience can potentially dictate… Continue Reading →

Remixes are the repurposing of existing media, and creating something new or different with it. The remix culture has found popularity amongst disco and hip hop groups. We can even consider remixes as not as straight forward as we on… Continue Reading →

“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.” We looked at the debate over intellectual property… Continue Reading →

Today we ran through with the class to explain our progress and thought progress so far. We’re staying on track with the research, and I have started constructing a website to present our findings. We’re planning to conduct a survey… Continue Reading →

We focused on institutions this week, and analysed community media in particular with a group. We made a mind map in accordance to the prompts we were given. Community media, being influenced and tailored to the surrounding community, provides content… Continue Reading →

Who cares about audience? advertisers commercial broadcasters production houses program makers government policy makers social scientists/psychologists cultural theorists/media scholars Changing conditions of audiences/consumers from broadcasting to narrowcasting from citizens to consumers Characteristics of a post-broadcast era Changes in: television institutions/major… Continue Reading →