Last week’s symposium was confusing at first and took me a while to understand the main point was. The networked media symposiums are not typical lectures but are more provocative. We are not just consuming what the lecturers/tutors say but are really encouraged to engage and offer up our thoughts.

The discussion really kicked off with how we would describe a book to someone who knew nothing about it. The more we (tried) to describe it the more it make a book sound over complicated with many unnecessary parts like why we have about 3 cover pages telling us the title. Adrian argued that ‘the form encourages the length’ and that there is a beginning, middle and end due to the medium. It really makes you start to question things. I mean if you could re-do/remake books, society, anything would it look the same? Would you keep it the same?

This may not have been the “main point” but what keeps getting reinforced in this course is that we are not here to learn what is right or wrong. It is more about exploring what we find is interesting and breaking away from conventions.