Yearly Archives: 2010
The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press, 2008. “Convergence doesn’t just involve commercially produced materials and services traveling along well-regulated and predictable circuits. … It also occurs when people take media into their own hands” (17). I this way, it is both a top-down and bottom-up structure. “Corporate convergence coexists…
Black Box Fallacy
“Media convergence impacts the way we consume media.” (14). Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press, 2008. Black Box Fallacy Jenkins coined the “Black Box Fallacy” in response to the common argument that “all media content is going to flow through a single black box into our living rooms (or,…
OVC as a Medium
“Old media are not being displaced. Rather, their functions and status are shifted by the introduction of new technologies” (14). Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press, 2008. OVC as a Medium As I’ve discussed in the passed, while my research on the online video conversation (OVC) focuses on students’…
Convergence Culture – Jenkins
Welcome to convergence culture, where old and new media collide, where grassroots and corporate media intersect, where the power of the media producer and the power o the media consumer interact in unpredictable ways. (2) Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press, 2008. Media Convergence Jenkins defines media convergence as…
Convergence
Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. The MIT Press, 2000. The promise of push-pull media is to marry the programming experience of television with two key yearnings: navigating information and experience, and connecting to other people. (By Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf, “Push” in Wired Magazine Issue 5.03 | Mar 1997)….
Mediation and Remediation
Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. The MIT Press, 2000. In chapter two, the authors discuss Mediation and Remediation. They note that while hypermedia and transparent media are opposites in design, they have a common goal: to move beyond representations and attain the real. However, the real is not some objective,…
Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and Remediation
Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. The MIT Press, 2000. Repurposing as remediation is both what is “unique to digital worlds” and what denies the possibility of that uniqueness” (50). In chapter one of this text, the authors discuss immediacy, hypermediacy, and remediation. Fittingly, they offer the disclaimer that they make…
Exploring Learning through Visual, Actional and Linguistic Communication: The Multimodal Environment of a Science Classroom.
Jewitt, Carey, et al. “Exploring Learning through Visual, Actional and Linguistic Communication: The Multimodal Environment of a Science Classroom.” Educational Review 53 1 (2001): 5-18. From the abstract: It suggests that learning is realised through the interaction between visual, actional and linguistic communication (i.e. learning is multimodal) and involves the transformation of information across different…
Reading Images: Multimodality, Representation and New Media – Kress
“Each mode forces me into making certain kinds of commitments about meaning, intended or not. The choice of mode has profound effects on meaning…” (111). Kress, Gunther. “Reading Images: Multimodality, Representation and New Media.” Information Design Journal & Document Design 12 2 (2004): 110-19. In this 2004 article, continues his discussion of multimodality and representation…
Interview with Gunther Kress
Bearne, Eve. “Interview with Gunther Kress.” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 26 3 (2005): 287-99. In this 2005 interview, Eve Bearne from the University of Cambridge, UK discusses multimodality and new media with Gunther Kress, a Professor at University of London and expert on the topic. She grounds this discussion in Kress’s…