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


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