The first reading assigned in week 10 was an extract from J. Van Dijck and T. Poell’s Television & New Media (2015), that focuses on the topic of making public television social. Since Eurovision just passed, I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity…
The lecture last week consisted of two topics: Media institutions Video essays The word ‘institution’, is another term for ‘sociology’. I kind of struggled with understanding this topic, as all the definitions everywhere either described different elements of institutions, or provided examples, rather than explaining…
In our seminar last week, we spent the whole time going through each individual group for project brief 4, and listening to them talk about the direction that they had taken for the assignment. And while I’m at it, I just thought I’d apologise to…
Notice how I said ‘good’. Yeah, it’s an expensive hobby, but there is a reason that gaming is such a popular media. So, what I’m basically saying is, if you’re going to lose money, lose it on games. I just thought I’d write a quick…
“If all would speak who shall be left to listen?” The second reading from week 9 was a blog post from Jay Rose, back in 2009, which discusses the topic of the audiences involvement in the use and production of media (in other words, ‘the…
I’ll be honest, I sort of didn’t really see the topic of ‘audiences’ to be the most important, or even interesting topic that we studied this semester. But I guess this reading from Henry Jenkins helped me understand how influential it actually is. Yeah, I…
The topic for this week was all about audiences. And so, the first reading for this week was an entry by David Morley from New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (2005). Before we can discuss this topic, we need to think to…
Copyright is probably one of the most important subject matters in this particular area of study. So, I missed a lot of the discussion in the Lectorial last Monday, due to my trains completely ditching, but at least I actually showed up in the end,…
The screening for week 8 was a 1960s French film, Vivre Sa Vie, which was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. I had mixed feelings about this movie. I felt that at times, I really enjoyed it, but at other times, it tended to drag on, and…
The previous two readings for week 7 were about the power of collaboration, and what makes up a collaborative group. The last reading for the week discusses what actually defines collaboration. This reading is from Adam Hyde and Mike Linksvayer et al,The Social Media Reader…