Media Boundaries

The story of this man's video postings and the community that built and comforted each other online after he passed away. Quite the character. see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edarem

I'm sure that the young lady who wrote this as a part of her Facebook profile didn't expect it to be immortalized by a professional voice actor and an animator.

The Guardian posts about Renaissance nudes altered to fit contemporary ideals.

If you've not enjoyed an episode or several of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (or MST3K), this article provides and excellent overview. Hodgson teaches a master class on riffing, focusing on the art of storytelling and relating it both to the story being told (film) and the audience experience. Interesting points are also lightly touched on regarding the implications of something like movie riffing in the age of social media.  Also, if you've not done so previously, I recommend RiffTrax, the downloadable mp3 tracks meant to be played along with popular, contemporary movies, as opposed to the B-list flicks riffed on in MST3K. (These tracks are not paired with the movies themselves due to, of course, copyright issues.)

my kids are obsessed with this station....interesting illustration of some of the convergence between radio & social media discussed in reading this week...

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?

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? 

Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary analysis should awaken to the importance of media-specific analysis, a mode of critical attention which recognizes that all texts are instantiated and that the nature of the medium in which they are instantiated matters. Central to repositioning critical inquiry, so it can attend to the specificity of the medium, is a more robust notion of materiality. Materiality is reconceptualized as the interplay between a text's physical characteristics and its signifying strategies, a move that entwines instantiation and signification at the outset. This definition opens the possibility of considering texts as embodied entities while still maintaining a central focus on interpretation. It makes materiality an emergent property, so that it cannot be specified in advance, as if it were a pre-given entity. Rather, materiality is open to debate and interpretation, ensuring that discussions about the text's "meaning" will also take into account its physical specificity as well. [End Page 67] Following the emphasis on media-specific analysis, nine points can be made about the specificities of electronic hypertext: they are dynamic images; they include both analogue resemblance and digital coding; they are generated through fragmentation and recombination; they have depth and operate in three dimensions; they are written in code as well as natural language; they are mutable and transformable; they are spaces to navigate; they are written and read in distributed cognitive environments; and they initiate and demand cyborg reading practices.

Let's read this at the end of the term!

Jonathan brought this up in class. Information on suits, claims, etc. around copyright infringement and the "chilling effect" on creativity.

we discussed this 5/1/12 issues of access, identity via mediations

5/1/12 re:mapping Inforgraphics are big now- "Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized!"

the xkcd map we were discussion, navigating relationships and connections: http://xkcd.com/802/

first in a series of articles exploring how the Met's longstanding & successful HD simulcasts of productions might be "changing" opera as a form...

I knew that the Cinemark 17 in Springfield actually airs a few annual performances, so I checked today and the Italian Opera La Traviata by Verdi played at 6:30, I would have liked to have gone. This Opera will be playing at the Hult Center next December. I think its great that in remote areas such as Springfield, Oregon, people can see these high caliber performances live for a much cheaper ticket of about $20.

Boundaries galore--how much time do you allot to different media? 

"The Secret Life of Pronouns examines how and why pronouns and other forgettable words reveal so much about us. Partly a research journey, the book traces the discovery of the links between function words and social and psychological states." Relevant due to its use of social media as a means to uncover how the use of language both affects and shapes our lives or reveals something about our personality traits or states of mind.

Also here's some fun toys to try. http://secretlifeofpronouns.com/exercises.php Sites like 750words.com are also into creating statistics/algorithms of word usages and what that "means".

in 2006, I would use this little internet survey as a means of testing my own sense of self-identity vs. what others might have perceived me as being.

The article John mentioned in class today

Youth and social networking as mentioned in class: http://dmlcentral.net/newsletter/05/2012/analytical-take-youth-social-networking-and-web-20-few-moments-amanda-lenhart

Richard Prince is an art world superstar. His paintings sell for millions, and many hang in the world's great museums. But one recent series of works cannot be shown in public - at least, not lawfully. Last year, a judge found Prince liable for copyright infringement for using the photographs of another artist without permission. A federal court in New York is set to hear Prince's appeal Monday, and the outcome of that appeal could have major implications for the art world and beyond.

The Portland Mercury and historic Hollywood Theatre have come together to bring you HECKLEVISION, an all-new series that will permanently change how you think about movie-going. Here's how it works, in three easy steps: 1) We (Merc & HWT) pick a hilariously horrible movie (but one we secretly love). 2) Through the magic of MuVChat technology, you text your heckles, jokes, and commentary from your seat and they appear onscreen below the film 3) We all drink beer and laugh a lot.Sound awesome?  Then charge up those cellphones, limber up your thumbs, and get ready to launch your best text lobs at our screen!

media boundaries. 

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.

I think this one counts as topical, as well because he's slicing out the conventions. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/facebook_suck