Elle talks about the current 60 Minutes crew celebrating their release and how major television networks have shaped her opinion on this issue. Similarly, J’aime discusses the story, realising her views are heavily shaped by media bias before knowing the real story.
Lydia discusses how her views of the US campaign have been shaped by social media, especially the potency of Trump on Facebook.
Rhiannon discusses the portraiture of the Queen and how the tension between her and her American photographer moved through different media sources.
Annie discusses how people perform identity in Facebook in relation to the reading.
Sophie gives an overview of the lecture in reference to the US campaign, and how we can’t help being intertwined in the campaign.
Lucas Ihleim has been developing the idea of blogging as art since 2005. Through a serious of blogging projects he has developed a method that:
“involves a regular, iterative cycle of action and interaction through ‘real-life’ encounters and online blog posting. It generates a temporary public sphere around a particular issue, location or cultural event, deepening attention and generating new insights at the level of the everyday”
I thought this would be interesting for those of you that are really enjoying developing a blogging voice.
His website has links to his blogging projects as well as links to some writing his done that theorises blogging as art, including his thesis.
Some really good questions have come up already about assessment task 2. You’ll (hopefully) notice that what it asks you to do is quite a bit broader than assessment task 1, and this is intentional; it’s challenging you to confront the inherent complexity of these things called networks, the web,online writing and communities. So here’s a few points to help you get underway.
You’re into the challenging part of the course now. Or rather, the ‘get out what you put in part’. But it’s also exciting, because if you can find some useful ideas to help you reach an audience, you are creating very valuable knowledge. If nothing works, that’s ok too – treat this as a test run for your last assessment task, and future projects…
Something that may be of interest to some of you – particularly those interested in engaging with feminist theory. The PoD are running a free seminar tomorrow night (Wednesday 20th April) at 6PM. For more details see the rest of this post:
Today, in the lecture, I used some contemporary examples to think about how media technologies can be analysed through technological deterministic, cultural materialistic, and poststructuralist lenses.
Aaron Dickinson Sachs in a media res article talks about how Netflix would be analysed from a technological determinist perspective.
Reference: Dickinson Sachs, Aaron. “Watching Netflix — Critical Commons.” Video. In Media Res: A Media Commons Project. N.p., 2 Dec. 2013. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.
Internet censorship is a good example to see how cultural forces impact the implementation, format, and content of technologies. North Korea is a country where Internet use is at it’s lowest. Matthew Sparks and Tong-Hyung Kim and Youkyung Lee talk about how the Internet functions in North Korea as a result certain governmental forces.
We’re getting into some hefty theoretical territory now. Don’t fear, making sense of this stuff is what we’re trying to do. This week’s reading is challenging, but on the plus side, it’s an exceptionally eloquent examination of what are very complex perspectives. Hannah’s lecture will help you get your head around it too, and give some insight into it’s relevance.
By now we should have built ourselves a nice little network of blogs and content creators. Hopefully you have been reading each other’s blogs, leaving comments, and contributing to an ongoing conversation, whatever that might be. If you haven’t been, you should start doing so.
Now, let’s take some steps outside our micro blogosphere, and start connecting more with the WWW.