Well it seems like everyone is kind of drained by the long process of making PB3 and I feel exactly the same. Sometimes I wish it could just be over so I can sleep for 40 hours without thinking at all. But then again making videos is something that always interests me. Interviews might not really be my thing but I can never hate making any video-based artworks. I guess that’s called aspiration.
So in this week’s workshop we continued to explore the concepts that we learned in the lecture and did more research on it. I got in a group with Joshua, Joanna and Tianshu and we were assigned to do research on Post-broadcasting era (a term that I cannot tell it’s meaning even after the first 10 mins of research and discussion). But thankfully we figured it out by looking through tones of websites (70% of then appeared to be irrelevant to me). Here’re the amazing slides did by Joshua.
It’s a pretty good definition even though it takes sometimes for the words to make sense to you. This is a hard concept with not so much information online. We searched the term on Google but it came up with Post-Network era. So we assumed that they’re the same thing. The first website the popped out was a blogpost on Mediafactory. We took some information from there and start to digest and put it in our own words. In short, post-broadcasting era is when people get information from anywhere without the geographical limits that formerly restricted the mobilization of it.
In the Post Broadcasting Era, information can be shared in more ways to more people. I think that all thanks to the development of the Internet, which made it possible for people to reach out the other people who would love to get involved in the same kind of activity. In the cast of reality shows, audience now can be more engaged that ever because they can vote for their favorite characters, they can control how the show goes to a certain extent. It used to be a one way thing – sitting there and watching. The Post Broadcasting Era is when everyone gets to be closer to everyone using the connections offered by the Internet.
Television and radio are no longer the only medium to acquire new information. In a sense, technology did develop enough to make things happen but at the same time it’s people’s views on what they want to know and how they want to know it that changed the most.
The Post Broadcasting Era is now. It is a great time for people to be alive and celebrate that fast and efficient ways that we’re able to use to get information.