Happy Birthday to the Ground

This week we discussed Institutions & Systems, specifically media institutions and tried to critically analyse what we understand about them. It was slightly confusing trying to decompose an idea that had been established as something completely separate to the process of film-making, but once you break it down it’s understandable how much institutions factor into regular media practice.

As an example we broke down marriage as an institution:

• Expectations
  • values associated with marriage
  • e.g Monogamy
• Law
  • legal framework
  • regulatory
  • Births, Deaths & Marriages
• Meta-institutional
• Widespread
  • Accepted by dominant societies
  • practiced daily by millions worldwide
• Cultural rules
• Rituals & Symbols
• Historical
  • Carry tradition
• Community recognition
  • Society
  • Legally
• Commercial Industry

Then we split up into smaller groups and analysed different institutions that we could be familiar with. My group did Community Media and below is our poster of ideas about it.