This is my buddy’s blog on his hilarious stories from the Sin City. The site’s name is strange but it was from one his funny stories with some of my best friends. So check it out….
http://www.2girls1bloodycutupdick.com/blog.htm
Final Blog#6
December 2, 2008It’s funny to say technology is so easy because it blinds us to what we are actually doing. I myself just posted this assignment on my other blog and checked until my roommate says you have good news and bad news…”Your music blog is over 4000 hits but you put your class blog on the music blog”. Technology is that easy but sometimes you screw up. Anyways, here we go…
Throughout these past months I myself focused a lot of my findings in our Lister book to the ideas of Henry Jenkin’s “convergence”. The high rate of involvement of technology sometimes blinds us with its intriguing and participatory culture. Media experience gives us an avatar to the outside world in which we can mix and match our wants and needs to computer technological space. Many things can be explained through the term, “convergence”, including technology. It is the concept of old paradigms or concepts taking on new meanings. Our media experiences last in the real world and in the media world. This sounds like the existence of the 1999 film, The Matrix. Investments, paradigms, file-sharing, predictions and business models are now all developed with new media but they still hold structure in old media.
The collaboration of all this media makes an user be incompetent to an outside world I think. During my two day fast of not using any type of new media. As a student I usually stare at my computer screen and wonder aimlessly for hours on random sites. But without the portal of the internet I was actually constructive fro once in my lackadaisical and procrastinating lifestyle. Computers are universal remotes to our calendars, phone books, maps, television and music.
The synergy issue of new media is a fascinating issue. This is the economic gain and opportunity represented by the ability to own and control their new media manifestations. To first think about how monetary business models are formed online is a little crazy. In the online interactive game, Second Life, people have emerged out of this game to make million of real dollars. The community-based game is our outreach to find people like us. A Facebook group has the same reasoning. We create immediacy for ourselves so that the engagement we have online is what we want in reality. Communities form with people who have the same mindset on beliefs, values and ideals. This is why so many coalitions are formed and soon turned into bigger than just an online forum. These ideas that are conformed and advoacted turn into monetary ideas in matter of months. New media allow us to look beyond the conformity of new media and base ideas off old media and build it into the newest technological device. These communities are driven to succeed due to the power of the people in the group. They are all similar so they can advocate one message around the world instantaneously.
Convergence has so many parallels to many ideas that we have today. It is like my final project in which network neutrality has risen from past events. The regulation of network bandwidth is comparable to the idea of the phone companies when they dealt with their regulations. An easier way to describe this example is the invention of the cell phone. It was very expensive to own a cellular phone when majorly distributed in the early 1990’s. Once they became less expensive they need to be regulated in order people to communicate with one another. Well if telecommunication companies are allowed to invest in a bandwidth regulatory distribution then there needs to be a reliable and honest source of bandwidth. This means that if there is not enough bandwidth for the web user than they cannot surf the web without having trouble even with their purchase bandwidth package.
It is amazing to see the parallels of our existence been growing since my early days of technology usage been grown into new sources that we know how to use and operate. This class drove us to see the culture behind techonolgy of today. Thanks
Topic Research
November 10, 2008
Reading #5 10/27
October 27, 2008When HTML was produced and implemented in 1990, the internet was just a blip on the global scale. Now it automatically and instinctively controls how we think in our daily lives. The HTML allowed for modern online communities to transfer images and text internationally. This was the first step in social forming with the globalization of the internet. Remediation looks at the old media and see how it transforms into the “new” media. With “new” media an user generation has born. Rafaeli talks about his theory of audience behavior. The internet has such an engaging dynamic that its users can develop their social and economic circumstances on and off the web. It recently has become an abstraction of culture.
We have now gained universal tendencies through using the internet. Also we have developed social identities on the internet. Everything on the internet is now a part of an information economy. The social democratic frameworks on this user generation allowed to strike an information revolution. The ability of the information accessibility has started a new phenomenon of “prosumerism”. Our attention and engagement in the internet is developed through this chart very well. It shows the levels of engagement in communities and other internet activities.
Reading #5
October 18, 2008I have seem to find a Jenkins to be a very intelligent person. His website and blogs are absolutely awesome. He actually had two members from the spoiler community help him in writing the piece on the survivor spoiler actions. These people took a guerrilla marketing/warfare tactic to virally spread spoilers for the hit show Survivor.
This has started a wild fire on forum communities. This could be a vocal oint on how forum communties have become so enlarged. People can say whatever they want even if it spoil’s one time CBS’s headline show. It gives open opportunity to anyone at anytime to voice opinion even it is proffessional or novice. It is almost the phenomenom of the web.
Reading #4
September 29, 2008Metadata. This term really sounds like a term that could be used in the movie Tron. The . Stewart Butterfield. a creator from the famous website Flickr, states that loose definitions on the internet helps get away from the hierarchy of the internet. He’s trying to say like his website has 90% taxonomy but its ten times more simpler. This means patrons of the website Flickr or other relative sites can have easy access to website control without using data to make the website work for them. ANd having loose defintions on the web allows navigation to find more relative sites through browsers and navigation.
But the word that is folfsonomy is defined by the “best and worst” of the organization of information. There are limitations on the web but for non data patrons (normal users). Now with browsing and search engines the limitations are starting to lift the boundaries of the web with their connectivities.
Reading #3
September 22, 2008This was a great read. In Scott McCloud’s “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art” he discusses the icocnic viewing and representation of art and words in a new era. Through examples and shorts quirks, McCloud exemplifies a discussion and thought that I once had before. In Chapter 6, the author discusses connection of art and pictures. He takes a little historic stroll through time. Pictures and words have an interdependency on a few levels. He concludes this chapter by saying, ” When to tell was to show… And to show was to tell.” This has to do with the push pull relationship of pictures and words. It is so dynamic that through time we have evolved so many styles or relations with this duo. It is amazing how differently we can now, through media, enact and react to its nature.
The reason I really like this chapter was his reference to how art changed the perception of words throughout history. But what explains more of words than an artistic description? Or how art can interpret words and thought and vice versa? It’s scary to think the ambiguos lengths one can take this dynamic dou. It’s pretty crazy as well that a comic medium is the only(and best) way to fully describe and explain this phenomenom. This last comic I thought was interpretive of our last discussions of the relationship and convergence of old media and new media. This comic strip image identifies the reason of art and words and its independentbility.
Reading #2
September 15, 2008Having heard of Henry Jenkins before this assignment, I was excited to see that I finally have reason to read his novel”Convergence Culture”. When Jenkins uses the word ‘convergence’ he means the connection between old media and new media. This connection brings forth moderation and change not only in technology but in culture as well. He states that this process will be a tough duration and a distinguishes process for the people. The people are referenced as consumers in Jenkins’ book. This is to show that the importance of consumption and belief in this process. At one point, he talks about the switch back to brand loyalty. In old media and before the internet boom and its ensuing crash consumers held obedience and trust in their place of business. Now consumers have gone away with brand loyalty. With our depressed economy, we need loyalty to gain business venture.
I really enjoyed the example of the “Bert is evil”. Not only was the example kind of funny but the idea of this striking a riot is astronomical. This was Jenkins way to show old media affecting new media. That is the basic structure fir convergence.
Reading #1
September 8, 2008What is new media in the historical and communal persective of new media? That is the main consensus of the first set of meeting. In the reading it talks about the social yet teleogical reasons we as an environment use and represent new media. The mediums we use are the community of networks that we are a part in a technological sense.
With the ever changing world of media comes a new perspective by thge individuals who use it. The book talks about a shift from modernity to postmodernity. Its not a change in pyschoanalytical thinking but a change on how new media has affected us. There has been a social change by new technology on us. Look at the change from simple websites to hypertexts and portals of even more websites. The most obvious change in the age of new media and postmodernity is the development of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace. YouTube etc. And all these ideas have brought change not just socially but economically.
Hello cyberworld!!!
August 25, 2008Hey its Corey and this is my the first day of class and a new blog. I have another blog on wordpress.com that is called musicevangelism. It’s a cool music blog on the spread of awesome music. But this new blog will be in effort for a new class that I am in. So the topics will be about commuications and tecnology so check it out.
