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Week11- Lecture

WHAT ARE MEDIA? Three Metaphors: 1.media as conduit [textual analysis] 2.media as languages [affordances] 3.media as environments [medium analysis] TRADITIONAL HISTORIES OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: THE VIRTUAL REVOLUTION (BBC/OPEN UNIVERSITY, 2010) EP4 ‘HOMO INTERNETICUS?’ What is the impact of the Internet over the previous 20 years are relationships and rotted our brains. Has the Internet changed humans…

Week10- What Facebook is for

Week10- social media revolution

Week10-reading

M. Dias, M.Arnold , M.Gibbs, B. Nansen & R. Wilken, ‘Asynchronous speeds: Disentangling the discourse of ‘high-speed broadband in relation to Australia’s national broadband network’, Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy, Jun 2014, Issue 151, p.117-126. The reading discussed the substantive problems related to the ‘high speed broadband’ in relation to the…

Week10- Lecture

Institution: term from sociology concern with organising structures of society social, cultural, political, economic relations principles, values, rules that underly these MEDIA INSTITUTIONS : •ABC •The News •Journalism •Newscorp •Cinema •Broadcast Television •Community Radio •Public Service Broadcasting MEDIA INSTITUTIONS: are enduring regulate and structure activities are ‘collectivist develop working practices employees and people associated are…

Week 9 – Song of the Phoenix （2016）A great Chinese art film

Song of the Phoenix （2016） by Tianming Wu This film is about a touched story of two generations protecting Chinese Folk Arts – souna– （it is a traditional Chinese instrument). This film is appealing to Chinese to know traditional folk art and protect them. Here is the trailer .

Week 9 – How to evaluate a film

Here are some links helps you to evaluate a film in a right way. http://www.mecfilms.com/critic1.htm 1. Film Era 2. Film Genre 3. Sub Genre or Mix 4. Grade Category 5. Grading System 6. Conversion Table 7. Sample Critique https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-evaluate-a-movie — Film Analysis & The Message of the Film — Film History &…

Week 9 – workshop

Photo from www.indietips.com This week’s topic is Audience, we discussed how audience influenced film industry. Hollywood Films like Superhero series all follows with particular patterns. Audience like to see superhero go through being ordinary to superhero , to fight with evil force, and finally save the world, so all the…

Week 9 – Reading

The People Formerly Known as the Audience Photo from www.kwizoo.com As the reading mentioned the people formerly know as the audience were people on the receiving end of media system that ran one way, and nowadays people no long did that. People are no long just audience, they could access to media platform…

Week 9 – Lecture

Photo from www. blog.sourcefabric.org http://rmit.libguides.com/copyright We had a guest lecturer Anne Lennox, she is Senior Coordinator of Copyright and works in RMIT library. She talked us about Australian Copyright. The short film was quite interesting. Before the lecture I have been tried to understand the copyright thing, and I had lots of questions about it….