reminders:
- continue/increase group-consulting activity
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— Generate audience: share pages (social networks); contact local/campus groups
- project components (start this weekend):
1. Participation Log (create/update)
2. Rhetorical Analysis of Case Study
- (from Friday) Begin finding/studying cultural relays (memes/viral examples)
→ focus / application: digital rhetoric, “meme logic,” network circulation (recomposition)
* reminder: participation credit; plus, need 10 posts for annotations by 10/31
Stage II Network Engagement — Project Week 4
M 20-Oct Read/Discuss: Lessig, Remim (free eBook, 2008)
— excerpts from chapters 4 + 5 (*readings PDF in D2L)
→ notes/quotes Doc here
- » Discuss lessons of “read-write culture“
+ participatory examples: mash-ups, viral videos, meme culture (student examples)
→ focus/application: 1. analysis (Exercise 3)
2. using examples as “relays” for network rhetoric (group-project techniques/innovation, composing emblem)
W 22-Oct Read/Discuss: Reed, “Emotional Rhetorics Meet Videogame Aesthetics” Currents in Elec Literacy (2010)
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+ View: Jane McGonigal, “Gaming can make a better world” TED.com (2010)
— Quotes Docs below
- » Discuss: contemporary culture + ideas for participation (looking toward group emblem composition)
» Weekly Blog Post: example of network/participatory culture (to analyze for Exercise 3)
(digital rhetoric observed: “language” or vernacular of the memesphere?)
— optional / e.c.: discuss in terms of “public pedagogy” (Portman-Daley + Lessig readings)
F 24-Oct Group Progress Report (brief updates)
- Also, Activity: Exercise 3 warm-up (Due S 26-Oct)
- Preparation: review/compile notes on recent readings (use 3 in Exercise); choose representative example to analyze (posted Wed. or update)
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Optional — read for e.c. blog entry:
- Discuss (optional entry): new technologies & emerging platforms; potential for (increased) network engagement?
Papagiannis: “Working towards Defining an Aesthetics of Augmented Reality” Convergence 2014 (PDF in D2L)
or Gurevitch: “Google Warming: Google Earth as Eco-Machinima” Convergence 2014 (PDF in D2L)
» related: Global Forest Watch (description @ OpenCulture)
// Internet Live Stats
Due (S 26-Oct): Exercise 3 “Memesphere Poetics” — Prompt
The very nature of remixed media makes me feel like it avails itself to many countercultural forces. The most important of these to us being activism. Remixed media has the ability to raise awareness and teach individuals while maintaining a non-academic voice. As the education group has already voiced, using such media will likely give us a better chance of simply catching people’s attention. Personally, I feel it should be the goal of our group to simply make people aware of the issue and to do their own thinking and opinion making.