PB2 – 3/3 – ARE PAPER BOOKS HEALTHIER?

ARE PAPER BOOKS HEALTHIER?

I am not sure if there is a correlation between my myopic eye and the screens, but my eyesight did become worse since my father bought me the first computer. I used to read lots of net literature on that computer about twelve years ago. There were plenty types of the net literature which attracted me a lot, for instance, Chinese style fantasy novel, alternative love story. Net literature was hard to be published at that time which means the only way for me to read is reading online. Nowadays, the consumption of the written word is changing. Newspapers, magazines, books and other paper products are being replaced by a complex system of interconnected electronic devices (Bull, & Kozak, 2014). Electronic reading devices are getting more and more popular because of two simple reasons: readability and portability (Delamothe, Tony, Savage, Richard, 2000).

There was a funny story few years ago, when I was deciding to buy a kindle as a gift for myself, I talked with my friend with her thoughts about the statement: are paper books healthier? What we finally got was no. With our shallow knowledge, we thought paper books were made by trees, as the trees getting fewer, the condition of the air would get worse, which was bad for our health. However, what we concerned has figured out now. From Henry’s research, we can see although the trees are renewable, the regeneration rate of the tree cannot catch the usage rate of human beings. Currently, recycling is the best way to produce paper. Recycling, including pre- and post-consumer recycled fiber distinctions; carbon footprints; forestry; chain-of-custody (CoC) certification standards; paper recycling methods and economics; worldwide practices and economic impacts; green production efforts; and reducing waste (Henry, 2008).

In a word, what I have done for the research is not enough to proof weather is healthier or not, only shows the point of view from me and be cleared that the whole world is improving the use ratio of the paper.

 

Cited by:

Delamothe, Tony, & Savage, Richard. (2000). Revel in electronic and paper media. British Medical Journal, 321(7255), 192.

Bjork, B., & Turk, Z. (2000). How Scientists Retrieve Publications: An Empirical Study of How the Internet Is Overtaking Paper Media. The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 6(2), The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 12/01/2000, Vol.6(2).

Bull, & Kozak. (2014). Comparative life cycle assessments: The case of paper and digital media. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 45, 10-18.

Henry, P. (2008). Association of American Publishers: Handbook on Book Paper and the Environment. Publishing Research Quarterly, 24(4), 294-295.

PB2 – 2/3 – OLD MEDIA IS REDUCING

OLD MEDIA IS REDUCING

Recently, the chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma said, he would make cash disappear in China in five years. However, the top comment was: “unless the bank disappears, otherwise, the cash is not going to be disappeared”, which is just like the relationship between old media and new media. Old media is like the cash, no matter how you want to use the mobile app or bank card to replace the position of cash, it will always be there with its own mission.

Although the old media will not disappear, but it is gradually reduced. The term old media has become synonymous with the seven traditional forms of mass communication: books, newspapers, magazines, film, sound recordings, radio and television (Benjamin, Sky). It is easy to find the reduction of most of these stuffs.

This second-hand camera Canon AE-1 was a gift from my parents when I was a child. It was fresh for me to own a 35mm single-lens reflex film camera at the beginning, however, because of the camera’s weight, I left it in the storage for many years. After the first year that I studied abroad, I found the Canon AE-1 again and felt fresh again. Unfortunately, I searched the whole city that I lived and there was no film or film processing service. Film was easy to work out, an online shopping website called ‘Taobao’ had all different kinds of films, although the film producer was getting less. Meanwhile, I just realized that there was no more photo studio that can process the film, which forced to build a darkroom and process the film by myself. Luckily, I found and joined an online film camera interest group, people who have the same problem could join, and share their information about the film camera and film processing. Also, there were some film camera experts that could teach us more skill and method.

Records’ seemingly unique ability to connect us with the past allows enthusiasts to imagine a ‘sociotemporal network’ (Yochim, Biddinger, 2008). While we cannot stop the reduction of old media, we still can do records, just as every record serves as an artifact of another’s existence, so too might they be remembered by future generations.

 

 

Cited by:

BartmanskiIan,D 2013 ,The vinyl: The analogue medium in the age of digital reproduction WoodwardJournal of Consumer Culture Vol 15, Issue 1, pp. 3 – 27

Yochim, E & Biddinger M, 2008, It kind of gives you that vintage feel’: Vinyl records and the trope of death, Media, Culture, and Society, 30(2), 183.

Lipinski, D., & Neddenriep, G. (2004). Using “New” Media to Get “Old” Media Coverage: How Members of Congress Utilize Their Web Sites to Court Journalists. The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 9(1), 7-21.

Benjamin, H., & Sky, S. Old Media Vs. New Media

Old media not yet ready to disappear. (2001, February 01). Northern Echo, p. 12.

Yochim, E & Biddinger M, 2008, It kind of gives you that vintage feel’: Vinyl records and the trope of death, Media, Culture, and Society, 30(2), 183.

PB2 – 1/3 – OLD MEDIA BUILDS THE MEMORY

THERE IS NO MEMORY WITHOUT MEDIA

 

Media, after all, are not only “things”; they are also cultural constructions that shape our everyday experience, and provide us with meanings and narratives to make sense of the transformations and changes experiences throughout life. (Natale, forthcoming; Natale & Balbi, 2014)

When I was a little girl, one of my daily routine is reading comics from every day’s newspaper, because the comics was serialized, it also made me to expect next day’s newspaper. When I was a little girl, my mother used to buy me a lot of story tapes, such as Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Aesop’s fables and the Thousand and One Nights. I had my own silver Walkman which accompanied with me for a long time. When I was a little girl, I used to listen to the radio with my grandfather. Sometimes, I cannot understand the content and my grandfather would explain to me. Kid’s channel was always my favourite, there were some nursery rhymes I still could sing now. When I was a little girl, there was no way expect the television to watch the cartoons. If you miss the time, you will miss your favourite cartoon. I think cartoon builds everyone’s childhood. My homestay’s baby Zoe loves watching The Pig Peggy, but in my time, I watched many Japanese cartoons rather than English cartoons. Even now, I still feel quite involved when I watch the cartoons I watched many years ago. When I was older to go to the primary school and the secondary school, I felt in love with different kinds of magazines, magazines about the idols, magazines about jokes and stories, magazines about the school’s life. I loved to read and collect them. There were too many of them so that I created a specialized bookshelf for them until now.

There were plenty of memories about media in my head, although the story tapes stop selling today, my grandfather cannot listen to the radio with me anymore, Chinese government does not allow to play the Japanese cartoons on the television, and I hardly read the old magazines, but I still have the memory. Almost all my high school friends and classmates chose to study business and economics in the university, I still chose to improve my media knowledge, because I know with all those media memory, the interests about media would support me to go further.

 

Cited by:

O’Hagan, Sean (2016, July 3). ‘The digital age reshapes our notion of photography. Not everyone is happy…’ The Observer.

Wei, L., & Hindman, D. (2011). Does the Digital Divide Matter More? Comparing the Effects of New Media and Old Media Use on the Education-Based Knowledge Gap. Mass Communication and Society, 14(2), 216-235.

Neiger, M., Meyers, O. and Zandberg, E. (2011). On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age. Palsgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, England

WEEK 2/1 LIBRARY

I used to go to the archive when I do wanna research about movies both specifically and not specifically. The teacher there always helped me a lot with finding different information about the movies. the magazines and other original newspapers copies are very helpful in my assessment process. If I cannot find any useful information at the first time, the second time I go there, the teacher would find more for me preparatively.

Three things

The online library means a lot to me, when I am busy and have no time to go to the school library, I always search online. I sometimes search some articles from other website which needs me to pay and read, I usually copy and paste the articles’ name and read free in school library website.

 

library’s computer is my nightmare, I spent a lot of time before this computer doing my assignment. Strangely, I can be very concentrate to my assignment in library but when I am at home, games and phone would take all my time.

 

 

 

Printer is important! I am quite weird because I always cannot get used to read on the screen, I have to print every reading every week and feel comfortable to read with my highlight pen.

 

WEEK 1 CRAFT

  • Paintings on the wall, a brush which has Olympic Rings.
  • I searched online and found out “painting on the wall” is called Mural. A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface.
  • I saw many kinds of art works like this in Melbourne.

  • Circles on the top of the Melbourne central.
  • THE COOP’S SHOT TOWER has been built since 1889.
  • Those circles always can attrack my attention to stare at it until I feel dizzy, haha.