The Un-Symposium: Week Twelve
I attended today’s lecture, but unfortunately most of my attention was elsewhere. I’ll give summing up the lecture a go, regardless. Today’s lecture was more of a re-cap of the topics covered over the last 11 weeks, so excuse me…
The Un-Symposium: Week Eleven
Again, my rough, unedited notes: Carry over questions: Why didn’t Tim Berners-Lee patent the web? Adrian: You freely donate your information to Facebook and they on sell this to other companies and we don’t see a cent – this is…
Un-Symposium: Number Ten
These are my rough unedited notes from yesterday’s lecture. The Faces of Facebook Public API’s: Facebook’s approach is the exact opposite to that of traditional heritage media. Conversely, Coles-Myer will never make their database public. Brian’s take-away idea from the 80-20…
The Un-Symposium: Number Nine
Our class’s lasting sentiments: The Russian guy’s ideas on interpretation: how inserting something into a narrative can completely change its meaning Sam’s “heated discussion” with Adrian: difference between infinite capacity (has the capability of stretching on forever) and infinity (the…
Un-Symposium: numero seis
Q: How does hypertext relate to storytelling in different media formats? The reply began with Elliott, who cited the unsuccessful example of hypertext being used in conjunction with YouTube‘s video format, in order to make the point that not all…
Blogging, multi-sequential readings, and the hypertext revolution
Admittedly, I’m a bit late jumping on the week five readings bandwagon. But hey, better late than never. Last week we were instructed to watch three videos in place of the lecture. One of them, produced by Michael Wesch, dealt…
“All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
So instead of attending the un-scheduled un-symposium this week (which some of us may or may not have tried to go ahead and do anyway ***note to self: read Networked Media blog more often***), we were instructed to watch a…
Un-Symposium: Mercantile Assumptions of Learning
Of this week’s unlecture, I was once again quite surprised. Whereas I thought we were going to continue with the egalitarian symposium Q & A format, it seemed we reverted to the dictatorial system of information consumption that Adrian had…
The Internet: to what extent has it changed us?
Back in May, I wrote an article for The Melbourne Globalist that addressed the social and cultural implications of the Internet. Specifically, it dealt with whether privacy, as a social norm, was still relevant in today’s society. Our lecture this week and…
“The Un-lecture” Numero Dos
I must admit, I was a bit of a skeptic in regards to how successful I thought the ‘un-lecture’ was going to be. The unconventional format seemed a bit far-fetched, radical and idealistic to me; you could say I’m a…
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