Monday, August 3, 2009

Week 2

Notes on reading: Asa Briggs and Peter Burker, (2002). Convergence.

A good survey of the move from analogue to digital media – I hadn’t realised that.... etc etc etc

Videos – Jenkins - Participatory culture

This video highlighted some of the exciting aspects about participatory culture, but seemed rather uncritical in thinking about the ‘power’ of the audience to direct media outcomes, texts and institutions...

Notes from Lecture

Star Trek as case study – shows the way these texts have been remediated...

Definitions of Remediation – adaptation, moving to another medium, ‘remixing’ and mashups.

Question whether move to new media always an improvement.



Text for the tutorial

Freaks and Geeks


Week 1

Reading: Jenkins “The war between effects and meanings”

Some interesting ideas about video games and violence – etc etc etc...

Tutorial discussion
We talked about how media works, what its uses are.
How do views differ between students and friends / family / older generations/different cultures? Why? Why are there moral panics about media use?