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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio: September 2011
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio. Thursday, September 29, 2011. Module 2.3: Entertaining the world: Using media across cultural boundaries. Image courtesy of Vancouver125 via Flickr. This week's topic is about media across cultural boundaries. In the iLecture by Dr Thomas Jayaprakesh he uses Arjun Appadurai's definition of Globalisation as 5 inter-related dimensions:. Ethnoscape - flow of immigrants. Technoscape - rapid movement of technology. Financescape - rapid flow of money via markets. Youth listen t...
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio: October 2011
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio. Monday, October 24, 2011. Module 3.1: Inform me! The Harper reader, which was written in 2003, is a little outdated now. Harper speaks of journalism having 'defining moments'. For print journalism it may have been the Watergate investigation. The defining moment in radio news may have been the crash of the Hindenburg and for television news - the assassination of John F Kennedy (Harper, 2003). Has there been one for online journalism yet? My parents still watch the televi...
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio: August 2011
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio. Monday, August 29, 2011. Module 1.1: Introduction. Image courtesy of Carmichael Library via Flickr.com. Definition of media = the means of communication, as radio, television, newspapers and magazines, that reach or influence people widely. Technology has severely altered the way media is produced and consumed. Society wants everything NOW, that's why you can now access news on your mobile phone. Traditional advertising is down and digital advertising is rising. We lived ...
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio: November 2011
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio. Friday, November 4, 2011. Module 3.2: Networks of Information. Image courtesy of timquijano. A writing style imitating fiction arose during the 1960's, abandoning objectivity. By the end of the 20th century governmental policy dominates news now with a small number of giant corporations whom the bottom line is profit (Wall, 2005). How is Wikipedia an example of participatory culture and/or collective intelligence? How is material contributed to the site? Jimmy talks of th...
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio: Module 2.3: Entertaining the world: Using media across cultural boundaries
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio. Thursday, September 29, 2011. Module 2.3: Entertaining the world: Using media across cultural boundaries. Image courtesy of Vancouver125 via Flickr. This week's topic is about media across cultural boundaries. In the iLecture by Dr Thomas Jayaprakesh he uses Arjun Appadurai's definition of Globalisation as 5 inter-related dimensions:. Ethnoscape - flow of immigrants. Technoscape - rapid movement of technology. Financescape - rapid flow of money via markets. Youth listen t...
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio: Module 2.1: Entertain me
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio. Sunday, September 11, 2011. Module 2.1: Entertain me. This week's tutorial and readers were about blockbuster movies, fan fiction and vidding. Let's start by defining some terms. A blockbuster movie can be defined as a movie with high production costs and good returns. A pre-sold identity is an actor who appears in a sequel and already has a huge following from their first movie. By Henry Jenkins is about the video called Vidding. Vidding is described as an expression, a ...
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio: Module 3.1: Inform me! News media
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio. Monday, October 24, 2011. Module 3.1: Inform me! The Harper reader, which was written in 2003, is a little outdated now. Harper speaks of journalism having 'defining moments'. For print journalism it may have been the Watergate investigation. The defining moment in radio news may have been the crash of the Hindenburg and for television news - the assassination of John F Kennedy (Harper, 2003). Has there been one for online journalism yet? My parents still watch the televi...
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio: Module 2.5: All The World's a Game
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio. Monday, October 24, 2011. Module 2.5: All The World's a Game. Image courtesy of TORLEY via Flickr. He explained that MMORPG's. Are a construct. Rules enable actions and relations and govern behaviour. There are open designs like Second Life. Where you can create content for the game and you own the rights to it. There are also and closed designs like WOW. David also explained the term 'grief-play' where players are getting killed in real life for actions within a game....
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio: Module 2.2: Don't touch that! Copyright, ownership and institutional control
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio. Wednesday, September 21, 2011. Module 2.2: Don't touch that! Image courtesy of Mike Seyfang via Flickr.com. Is owned by Walt Disney? And any performance of that song in public results in Disney receiving royalties for it.yes.in movies too! Considering Disney didn't write the song, it's absurd! The Collins reader titled Recovering Fair Use. The Lessig documentary Laws that choke creativity. 1941 legal access to music was broken. People make remixes for fun, not money.
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio: Module 2.4: Play With Me
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Med104 Engaging Media Portfolio. Wednesday, October 12, 2011. Module 2.4: Play With Me. Image courtesy of TheAmy Tucker via Flickr. This week's topic is about a topic which interests me as a game player.it's about gaming and I've decided I want to be a Ludologist. A person who plays and researches games for a living.hell yeah! They use simulated games to train soldiers. Michael Macedonia who is the c. There is an argument that violent games create violent behaviour, however Jenkins disagrees. Researc...
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