Skip to main content

Home/ Media Boundaries/ Group items tagged culture

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
1More

Facebook Isn't Making Us Lonely - Slate Magazine - 2 views

www.slate.com/...tic_cover_story_is_wrong_.html culture boundaries media social media facebook digital culture day5 loneliness social
shared by Tara Wibrew on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • Tara Wibrew on 01 May 12
     
    Slate's Eric Klinenberg responds to the Atlantic Monthly's story, "Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?" His response focuses on more of the research evidence refuting some of the assertions made in Marche's original article--including some of the quotations Marche pulled from Klinenberg's book on the rise in number of people living alone. Also, participants on the most recent Slate Culture Gabfest (a weekly podcast series, which I highly recommend) discussed both the original article and response. Available for download on iTunes or streaming:  http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/culturegabfest/2012/04/rupaul_s_drag_race_facebook_and_loneliness_and_the_legacy_of_dick_clark_on_slate_s_culture_gabfest.html?tid=sm_tw_button_toolbar via
4More

Vulture's Map of the Comedy Zeitgeist - 2 views

www.vulture.com/...tgeist-map-apatow-stiller.html culture boundaries comedy zeitgeist media convergence
shared by Tara Wibrew on 30 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • it feels like most TV and movie comedy is made by a very specific and contained number of people.
  • marvel at how, unlike our own solar system, this one has boundaries.
  • Tara Wibrew on 30 Apr 12
     
    Vulture has mapped many of the connections between contemporary comedians, comic television, and movies--complete with marriages! Interesting notes on how boundaries are drawn in this map and in our culture. Anything the map is missing?
  • Jonathan Lederman on 01 May 12
     
    where's kevin smith? penn & teller? trey parker and matt stone?
3More

Beyond Boundaries: Screenwriting Across Media | Screenwriting Research Conference - 0 views

www.screenwriting.be/conf screenwriting media conference transmedia
shared by John Fenn on 05 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • We want to discuss the crossing of media boundaries in cultural, metaphorical and physical senses. It encompasses trans and cross-mediality as well as the real or imagined differences between scriptwriting practitioners and theoreticians.
    • John Fenn
      John Fenn on 05 Apr 12
       
      this is important...
  • John Fenn on 05 Apr 12
     
    "We want to discuss the crossing of media boundaries in cultural, metaphorical and physical senses. It encompasses trans and cross-mediality as well as the real or imagined differences between scriptwriting practitioners and theoreticians."
1More

Theater Talkback: Against Ovation Inflation - NYTimes.com - 0 views

artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/...back-against-ovation-inflation nytimes ovation theater boundaries culture
shared by Tara Wibrew on 23 May 12 - No Cached
  • Tara Wibrew on 23 May 12
     
    A discussion on the expectation of a standing ovation at the end of [Broadway] shows, and an argument for the "seated ovation." Who set these cultural expectations to begin with? Who/what sustains them? 
1More

Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America - 1 views

www.amazon.com/...0674390776
shared by Mary Morgan on 12 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Mary Morgan on 12 Apr 12
     
    re: Jenkins chapter 2 & 3, we spoke of binaries/dichotomies as boundaries. I have used this book before and its a really great exploration of these issues from an historical perspective that catalogs shifts in cultural change.
2More

RSUBOX - 0 views

www.rsub.com/rsubox transmedia boundaries culture media digital culture
shared by Tara Wibrew on 12 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Tara Wibrew on 12 Apr 12
     
    The creators of Central Toilet and other animations, distributed online.
  • Mary Morgan on 12 Apr 12
     
    can't wait to see the story of toilets in the office...
1More

The Flight From Conversation - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...-flight-from-conversation.html technology culture conversation nytimes social media digital culture day3
shared by Tara Wibrew on 22 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Tara Wibrew on 22 Apr 12
     
    Sunday Review opinion piece from the NY Times that questions how much our use of media may or may not lead to "connecting" with others. Is technology keeping us from learning how to carry on a conversation? How to interact with human beings in-person? How much is one's self-curated (and self-edited) identity representative of the total package that is the self?
2More

This is the web right now - The Oatmeal - 0 views

theoatmeal.com/...state_web_spring technology culture social media digital culture oatmeal boundaries
shared by Tara Wibrew on 24 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Tara Wibrew on 24 Apr 12
     
    A comic state of, well, The State of the Web. This is part of a quarterly series done by The Oatmeal and addresses many of the topics we've been touching on regarding ownership, social media, etc.
  • Mary Morgan on 25 Apr 12
     
    I think this one counts as topical, as well because he's slicing out the conventions. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/facebook_suck
1More

Descriptive Camera Prototype| Technology News Blog - Yahoo! News - 0 views

news.yahoo.com/...to-rather-image-182725275.html technology culture digital culture boundaries camera prototype photo
shared by Tara Wibrew on 25 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Tara Wibrew on 25 Apr 12
     
    New technology: take a photo with a web-enabled camera, and receive a short description of said photo, provided by a real, live human! Will this really change the way we take photographs? The reasons we photograph? What about questions of editing, curating, filtering?
1More

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 2 views

www.theatlantic.com/...8930 culture boundaries day5 media social media facebook social digital culture
shared by Tara Wibrew on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • Tara Wibrew on 01 May 12
     
    Stephen Marche wrote this piece for the Atlantic Monthly, arguing that Facebook (used here as an umbrella term for most, if not all, social media platforms) is responsible for an increase in loneliness and a contributor to "social disintegration."
5More

Museum of Contemporary Photography - 1 views

www.mocp.org/...lee_nikki_s.php NikkiSLee photography identity day4
shared by John Fenn on 02 May 12 - Cached
  • From schoolgirl to senior citizen, punk to yuppie, rural white American to urban Hispanic, Lee’s personas traverse age, lifestyle, and culture. Part sociologist and part performance artist, Lee infiltrates these groups so convincingly that in individual photographs it is difficult to distinguish her from the crowd
    • John Fenn
      John Fenn on 02 May 12
       
      obvious connection to Cindy Sherman's work, but with the added (and quite rich) element of immersion in the "real" social world...
  • Lee’s projects propose questions regarding identity and social behavior. Do we choose our social groups consciously? How are we identified by other people? Is it possible for us to move between cultures? Lee believes that “essentially life itself is a performance. When we change our clothes to alter our appearance, the real act is the transformation of our way of expression—the outward expression of our psyche.”
  • meghanadamovic on 02 May 12
     
    I'm interested in how Nikki S Lee crosses boundaries of her identity and how she can so easily move from one to the next. This is more easy for most people to do online where you don't have to physically become someone new.
  • Mary Morgan on 03 May 12
     
    It also sort of shows just how eager society is to classify and group others for their own convenience. Of course, Lee must be an amazing chameleon of an actress and participant/observant, but I am still surprised at how easily her groups will take to accepting what is essentially a deception or farce.
1More

Passing Stranger :: East Village Poetry Walk - 0 views

eastvillagepoetrywalk.org passing stranger poetry walk digital culture convergence
shared by John Fenn on 10 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • John Fenn on 10 Apr 12
     
    Passing Stranger is a sound-rich chronicle of poets and poetry associated with the East Village. Narrated by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, it contains site-specific poetry, interviews with poets, archival recordings and music by John Zorn.
5More

I'm a former corporate lawyer who's decided to use my powers for good. I've made an ope... - 4 views

www.reddit.com/...ate_lawyer_whos_decided_to_use day1 usability technology share convergence digital culture social media media boundaries
shared by Jonathan Lederman on 14 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Jonathan Lederman on 14 Apr 12
     
    From the website:  "LibraryMixer is a free website where lovers of music, movies, TV shows, games, software, books, pictures can list what they have in their libraries. You share your library list with your friends and recommend stuff you like that they can get directly from you. You don't need to upload anything onto LibraryMixer! The best way to learn more about LibraryMixer (besides using it!) is to watch the introduction video or read the text version. https://www.librarymixer.com/info/faq"
  • ...2 more comments...
  • Jonathan Lederman on 14 Apr 12
     
    I linked to the Reddit page because it has the beta key. The official website is http://www.librarymixer.com
  • John Fenn on 23 Apr 12
     
    In prowling around the site, I'm running up against questions such as "what constitutes 'social' in the current media environment" or "what is 'sharing' all about today?". These are not so much questions of moral import, but more of practice and the "boundaries" around doing things: listening, talking about, exchanging, debating, etc. What does an experiment like LibraryMixer push us to think about here? How's it different from other options (legal or not)? Also, this is an Open Source effort: what are the relationships between "open source" and "social" in regards to media boundaries?
  • Jonathan Lederman on 24 Apr 12
     
    (I haven't been able to use the program for more than half an hour so far ... a lot of this will probably end up moderately incorrect.) Rather than ripping off music from anonymous users on sketchy p2p networks, or grabbing thousands of fragments from hundreds of nodes to synthesize a final piece of content, LibraryMixer combined with the Mixologist allows for personal interaction and communication about an item. The program and website integrates an instant messenger with a check-out system. The check-out system allows individuals to browse the general library, and select things they have, they want, or that they can review. Based on this information, users communicate with others via the friends list and instant messenger. From here, individuals directly connect with one another to transfer, or 'lend', the desired items. Physical items can be posted on the website too, but they require different methods for loaning items. I don't see any way to determine whether an individual rightfully owns a file they loan to others. I'm also not sure about if the file is copied to the transferee's machine and remains on the original, or is removed from the original machine in the process. However, there must be a direct connection made between the content owner (in whatever sense of the word 'ownership' we mean) and the individual loanee. This direct connection also ensures more privacy during a file transfer than p2p networks and bittorrent. (Unless you don't know the person. This is also exactly how trojan viruses and backdoors would be installed through AIM.) I think a good example of 'open source' in relation to 'social' would be the sheer amount of activity on discussion boards like http://ubuntuforums.org/. The lessons learned in this type of place regarding collaborative problem solving are not only abundant, but also applicable to tasks like coordinating large-scale real-world events
  • Jonathan Lederman on 24 Apr 12
     
    I've used the website a bit further. It seems that the community infrastructure is there for a helpful, friendly, personal community. This is entirely unlike anonymous discussion boards where people love to put on the ring of Gyges and succumb to ... well, I don't have any friends on the website yet so I can't really tell. Again, seems like solid community infrastructure in comparison to a site like bt.etree.org or demonoid.
1More

Sherry Turkle - the flight from conversation… a response » Dave's Educational... - 2 views

davecormier.com/...t-from-conversation-a-response day3 conversation digital culture social
shared by John Fenn on 23 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • John Fenn on 23 Apr 12
     
    A response to Sherry Turkle piece posted by Tara (from the NYT)...
1More

How Technology Makes Us Better Social Beings | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine - 2 views

www.smithsonianmag.com/...s-Us-Better-Social-Beings.html social media digital culture technology day4
shared by John Fenn on 24 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Brant Burkey on 03 May 12
     
    This article points to more political engagement and social interaction using various forms of social media. But is there a qualitative difference from offline political engagement and social interaction? Tired of being the Luddite devil's advocate, but still wondering if more is being gained or lost in the translation.
1More

high-five! - 0 views

i.imgur.com/HTQ4l.jpg media boundaries internet screen machine barrier digital culture
shared by Jonathan Lederman on 25 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Jonathan Lederman on 25 Apr 12
     
    media boundaries. 
22More

Pepe - 3 views

www.uic.edu/...3191 social media digital culture social day4
shared by John Fenn on 25 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • With the growing permeation of online social networks in our everyday life, scholars have become interested in the study of novel forms of identity construction, performance, spectatorship and self–presentation onto the networked medium.
  • Though the novel’s story transpires in a pre–digital age, the volatile play of identity that ultimately destabilizes Moscarda has only increased since the advent of online social networks.
  • How would Moscarda’s tragedy play out in the inherently networked world of today? This article hopes to shed light on contemporary dilemmas of identity constructivism and self–representation while simultaneously re–evaluating one of the most celebrated works of one of Italy’s profoundest thinkers on identity and personhood.
  • ...17 more annotations...
  • Again, the process of anticipating, interpreting, and assimilating the perception of others — similar to Moscarda’s attempts to experience the outsider gaze — is a key notion in Goffman’s work and is echoed in the work of contemporary theorists writing about online identity (b
  • We attempt to reframe this notion in a contemporary context, by posing the question: how would Moscarda perform the mirror experiment were he alive today?
  • we speculate that a present–day Moscarda would be as concerned about the public perception of his physical persona as that of his virtual one. In other words, a Moscarda of the day would be curious to explore how he is portrayed and perceived both off–line, in the real world, and online, on social media
  • sites the basic function of a profile is to present one’s identity. A personal profile is thus the component of one’s online identity that best approximates one’s physical, public appearance.
  • t is important to differentiate between these categories because they constitute three different levels of authorship and three different mechanisms by which aspects of one’s identity are revealed.
  • This constant digital embellishment of one’s profile points to the role of the social network as a performance stage, or a “space for performing the self” [21]. Users of online social networks “perform” and construct an online identity via a constantly updated stream of text (microblogging messages, biographical notes, photo comments), videos, and images.
  • Reflecting on the importance of the photographic medium in everyday life, Susan Sontag notes: “We learn to see ourselves photographically. To regard oneself as attractive is, precisely, to judge that one would look good in a photograph.”
  • but the bulk of his social activity would have gone largely undocumented, or confined to informal discourse and gossip. The systematic documentation of Moscarda’s social whereabouts and activities (e.g., “Moscarda is now friend with ___”) together with the traces left on his profile by third parties (e.g., a wall post from a friend reading: “hello Moscarda, it was great to see you yesterday at ___!”) represents a crucial departure from the traditional ways in which one’s identity is presented to the world.
  • s beings birthed into pre–existing societal constellations, we are outfitted with ready–made scripts and roles which we can choose to adopt, perform and even improvise on.
  • In its original sense, the rubric “performative” was intended to apply to certain “illocutionary” speech acts that were neither true nor false, but “performative.
  • How would Moscarda go about enact a similar performative construction and deconstruction in today’s networked reality?
  • he could post embarrassing photos of himself or his friends, publish unusual, rude or politically incorrect comments, drastically change his profile information, publicly reveal personal secrets, or remove some of his crucial contacts. The list is potentially endless and not limited to a single social network. Modern social networki
  • Facebook is a forum in which multiple communities and societal roles necessarily meet: these days, your parents, your children, your colleagues, and your friends are all on Facebook.
  • acebook, however, allows its users a very limited range of identity maneuver. By encoding prescriptive or formulaic alternatives within its system (gender: male or female; religious views: Christian, Jewish, etc.; Political views: liberal, conservative, etc.), by slotting its users in preset geographical or associational networks, by enforcing the authenticity of user profiles, and by cloning everyone within the same spectrum of light blues and unadorned walls, Face
  • If for Butler, mimicry and masquerade form the essence of identity, then Facebook offers a padded playpen in which to explore the polyglot nature of the self, while at the same time homogenizing its adherents by excluding the radical and the troubling
  • As noted by van Kokswijk (2008), this identity proliferation does not necessarily undermine the integrity of one’s “real” identity. Rather, he contends that by having different profiles and wearing different habituses, Dida (or anyone) does not decentralize or diminish her identity; rather, she multiplies it infinitely.
  • Yet, these efforts are counteracted by the thoroughly dynamic, immediate and interactive nature of social networking sites that tacitly or often explicitly coerce their users to constantly act upon their social circles: “Unlike everyday embodiment, there is no digital corporeality without articulation. One cannot simply ‘be’ online; one must make one’s presence visible through explicit and structured actions.” [32] In this vein, most Facebook users are incessantly prompted to contact friends who they have not been in touch with lately (“Write on ___’s wall! Send her a message!”), and to browse through endless lists of suggested friends (“People you may know”), and even to provide a description of their past activities (“Add a Life Event to your Facebook Timeline”). B
  • John Fenn on 25 Apr 12
     
    Uno, Nessuno, Centomila (One, No One and One Hundred Thousand) is a classic novel by Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. Published in 1925, it recounts the tragedy of Vitangelo Moscarda, a man who struggles to reclaim a coherent and unitary identity for himself in the face of an inherently social and multi-faceted world. What would Moscarda identity tragedy look like today? In this article we transplant Moscarda's identity play from its offline setting to the contemporary arena of social media and online social networks. With reference to established theories on identity construction, performance, and self-presentation, we re-imagine how Moscarda would go about defending the integrity of his selfhood in the face of the discountenancing influences of the online world.
  • Tara Wibrew on 03 May 12
     
    Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author provides another interesting facet to this discussion. In the play, a family of characters arrive at a rehearsal-in-progress, begging for the producer, playwright, and other actors to write down and perform the family's story. The family members do not exist outside of their interactions with the rest of the family; the characters themselves cannot exist without the acknowledgement and assistance of the artists; and, despite traditional lines between real life and fiction, every family member character and "real-life" character is altered by the interaction. How much are our identities--as we experience them--dependent on others for validation? Are we performing our lives for others? At what point do we (can we) draw boundaries between spectator and performer, especially in relation to identity creation?
1 - 20 of 43 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page