- What media do you use every day? List technologies and platforms, and then what you use them for.
I use new media a bit more such as Instagram to share my life and something interesting and WeChat to contact my friends and Family. And I also use old media. When I am driving, I usually listen songs on the radio.
- . Put a star next to any media that is offline/real-world.
- Choose three of these and do some basic research into these.
Q 2&3: Real-world media also called traditional media. It include Radio; Advertisement; Tv; magazines and flyers etc … I will choose Radio; Tv and Advertisement. These are the three forms of offline media that we see everywhere in our daily lives. According to (Randy Skretvedt 2021) ， More readily and in a more widespread fashion than any other medium, radio can soothe listeners with comforting dialogue or background music, Radio is still the most widely used electronic mass media in the world, although it is not as important as television in modern life.
- For companies, who manufactures the product? Where are they manufactured? What are the manufacturers’ interests? What profits did they make? Do they have any philanthropic endeavours?
For a media company, the ‘content operations’ department is responsible for the production of content, which they create and publish. They are also normally responsible for the post-processing of the video, editing it. Presenting the video to the audience in the best possible way
- Which of these technologies or platforms measures/quantifies/records data? What kind of data?
TikTok’s data centers process massive amounts of information every day. TikTok can gather even more information about you, your activity, and your preferences. The app can determine your location, the device you’re using, your IP address, search history, your message content and what content you’re watching and for how long.（Here’s what data TikTok collects from its users ——Ellie Abraham）
- Apart from your uses, do the media have any other affordances?
The media is a multi-functional platform that can offer extra services to people. For example: monitoring and correcting negative phenomena; coordinating social relations; passing on culture; guiding public opinion, etc…
- Is there a hierarchy of your media? e.g. do you need to have a phone to use WhatsApp?
I think there is a hierarchy of media. For example, we must use new media (electronic devices) in order to use Instagram and other online social media. Traditional media, on the other hand, does not require the aid of electronic devices to get information out to the public. For example, we read newspapers, magazines…
Through his essay ‘The textility of making by Tim Ingold’, Tim Ingold presents a different view that making is not something that is imposed on the material world by a creator. Tim Ingold also draws comparisons between the processes of carpentry and painting to show that making is a weaving practice, and Paul Klee repeatedly insists in his notes that the processes of creation and growth that produce form in the world we inhabit are more vital than the form itself. “Form is the end, it is death”, he writes.
Ingold, T 2010, ‘The Textility of Making‘, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol 34, pg 91-102.