The World of Connections Lectorial Week 10 Krystina Benson
Dec 27, 2015
Please Note:
• LEX is seen to be one of the main measures of individual as well as team teaching efficacy at QUT
• As a result of feedback from last semester (for those who did do KCB201, sem 1, 2010), the unit schedule is being rearranged and unit assessments are also being refined. The unit has also been renamed New Media: Internet, Self and Beyond to reflect its focus more accurately.
• This unit - KCB 202 - is still under reconstruction and your feedback is vital to its improvement. Personally, as your tutor I find it highly useful
to read your feedback. I think about it, reflect on it and incorporate it into my teaching.
TO ACCESS LEX: Go to QUT Virtual under Student Messages box, under the Welcome tab, a Learning Experience Survey message will appear. They then click on the link 'Complete the survey'.
LEX is here . . . From now until Week 12
Agenda
Notices
Attendance
Tools to help you with your case studies
Engaging with the readings
Video – watch portion of youtube ‘reading’
Wiki time, question time, case study time
Assignment 1: Individual Wiki Contributions
Due date: This week - Week 10, Friday, 24 September, 12 midnight
No contributions after this date will be included in your evaluation, however you can contribute as much as you like…
Databases to start your research from
Proquest
Project Muse
EBSCOHost
Swetswise
Factiva
QUT Liaison Librarian’s recommendations are also online
Some Journals for Research
Theory, Culture & Society
European Journal of Communication
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
First Monday, online journal
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), online journal
Fibreculture, online journal
M/C Journal, online journal
Ctheory, online journal
Discourse & Communication
Theory, Culture & Society
European Journal of Communication
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
First Monday, online journal
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), online journal
Fibreculture, online journal
M/C Journal, online journal
Ctheory, online journal
Referencing Management Software
EndNote: software and training available to current QUT students
Zotero: online, free and integrated into Firefox. No training from QUT
Tutorial Exercise
We are going to write and explain an absence from a pre-arranged appointment….
Grab 1 piece of paper from each bag
They tell you’re the medium in which you are writing
And the person to whom you are writing it
You have 10 minutes to write your note
We will read these aloud and try to guess the medium and audience
And see what we think about it….
Reflective Questions
What was the medium?
Who was the intended recipient?
Did this note work well? Yes or No – why?
What does this tell us about media?
What does this tell us about media audience?
Week 10 Readings
(1) Anthropological introduction to YouTube
Presentation delivered by Michael Wesch, June 23, 2008, U.S. Library of Congress, 55 mins, 33 secs. Available online at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU
(2) The Social Affordance of the Internet for Networked Individualism
Wellman, B., et. Al., (2003). Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Vol: 8 Issue: 3. Available online at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue3/wellman.html
Why different than a world based in text?
Separation of form and content
“Not just about information its about linking people, and in ways we haven’t before, and in ways we can’t predict”
Discusses - User generated content and user generated ranking (Digg, Delicious), user generated organisation (iGoogle page), user generated distribution – why is this important?
Integrated Mediascape – not just youtube
Not content, not tools, but “media mediate human relations”
How goes these concepts relate to Actor Network Theory?
Consider the communication technologies as actants and how they play a role as an active part in the development of a network, rather than simply inanimate tools that only achieve meaning when utilized by human beings.
Anthropological Introductionto YouTube (Wesch, 2008)
“Media as mediating human relationships.…When media
changes, human relationships change”
(Michael Wesch, 2009)
Even before the coming of the Internet, other social, economic and technological phenomena affected the transition from groups to networks:
Social Changes: Birth control and liberalized divorce laws and dual-career families have both reflected and driven the transition from a place-to-place to a person-to-person mode of domestic and community life.
Land-Use Changes: Zoning separation of residential from commercial and work uses meant that people had less contact with coworkers in the community and that their travel time had eaten into their community networking time.
Technological Changes: The proliferation of car ownership, expressways, affordable air transportation, and inexpensive long-distance telephony enabled people to have more frequent meaningful contact with physically distant relatives and friends
The Social Affordance of the Internet for Networked Individualism (Wellman et al, 2003)
“More importantly, we argue that citizenship (including e-citizenship) is affected by the ways in which Internet use is in a positive feedback loop with the turn away from solidary, local, hierarchical groups and towards fragmented, partial, heavily-communicating social networks” (Wellman et al, 2003).
What are the potential consequences of this?
The Social Affordance of the Internet for Networked Individualism (Wellman et al, 2003)
NumaNuma…Infectious Happiness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o