Studio

 

 
 
M 22-Sep   Stu­dio (project work­shop): led by Groups 1 & 2 (list of groups here)

Due: Inven­tory of Notes (class prepa­ra­tion) — see below

    » Focus: review/discuss dig­i­tal iden­tity & net­worked com­mu­nity?
    — 4 “per­sonal data­bases” & com­pos­ite “self-portrait“
    — Review/Discuss Assign­ment objec­tives + approach

 

    Dis­cuss notes + project ideas in com­ments below (before + after class)

» Due (late/updated): Notes (page on your blog)

 
 
W 24-Sep   Stu­dio (project work­shop): led by Groups 3 & 4 (list of groups here)

  • prepa­ra­tion for “assem­blage por­trait” (lists, notes, sketch, out­line — using 4 data­bases)
    test site (Word­Press pages, Wix, etc) & soft­ware
     
    » Focus/Activity: dis­cuss + test dig­i­tal com­po­si­tion tech­niques
    — Review/Discuss Com­pos­ing Guide & begin Web-work

 
» Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit

 
 
F 26-Sep   Project Work­shop (praxis):

    » Activ­ity: “tech-support” + peer feed­back
    (work-in-progress due)

 
 
» Due (S 27-Sep): Project 1

    update: Poet­ics sec­tion due S 9/28
    (post on Project 1 page on your Word­Press site)

 
 

 
 


 
 

Inven­tory of Notes (Project Preparation

 

      → post list on new page on your blog
      (cre­at­ing Page is sim­i­lar to Posts; FYI instruc­tions here)

 
 
    » Brief list com­piled: 12 total items; 1 note each min­i­mum (unless noted)
    — key point, term, con­cept, etc. help­ful for approach and/or appli­ca­tion (project 1 & group work)

 

  • Elec­tronic Mon­u­ments chap­ter, “Intro­duc­tion: The Emer­A­gency” (2 notes min­i­mum)
     
  • Jenk­ins, “Why Par­tic­i­pa­tory Cul­ture Is Not Web 2.0
     
  • Face­book & Phi­los­o­phy chap­ters (pick 3 for notes):
      Bogost
      Butera
      Fraser & Doyle
      Wan­del & Beavers
      Vejby & Wit­tkower
      Scholz

     

  • Read­ings from Into the Blo­gos­phere

     

  • Rice, “The Mak­ing of Ka-knowledge: Dig­i­tal Aural­ity” (PDF in D2L)
     
  • Brown, “Com­po­si­tion in the Dro­mos­phere” (PDF in D2L)
     
     
  • The net­work plat­form ana­lyzed for Exer­cise 1 (iden­tify):
    — expe­ri­enced pub­lic sphere? imagined/actual com­mu­nity? sense of being net­worked?
     
  • Your favorite cul­tural form (film, TV, music, game, online video, mul­ti­me­dia, etc.)
    with spe­cific exam­ple (include image/video/audio)

 
 
» Optional:

    — 1 exam­ple (image, detail, ref­er­ence, phrase, etc,) from each “per­sonal database”:

    • Auto­bi­og­ra­phy / Family
    • School (major) / Career Field
    • Com­mu­nity / Social
    • Enter­tain­ment / Pop Cul­ture / Media

 
 
 

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9 Comments

  1.  
    » Sec­tion 028 Groups

    Group 1
    Con­nor
    Mea­gan
    Tyler
    Kyle

     
    Group 2
    Jenna
    Junior
    Matt
    Alex

     
    Group 3
    Dylan
    Jeff
    Nuni
    Sabra
    Tamarah

     
    Group 4
    Jonah
    Mikayla
    Whit­ney
    Zach
     

  2.  
    » Sec­tion 034 Groups

     
    Group 1
    Abby
    Con­nor
    Iris
    Michaela
    Mikki

     
    Group 2
    Colin
    Dave
    Ken­neth
    Zach

     
    Group 3
    Chelsey
    Han­nah
    Juliet
    Rachel

     
    Group 4
    Garima
    Jeremy
    Nicki
    Shelby
    Luke
    Vince
     

  3. How I view this project is sim­i­lar to the Geog­ra­phy and the Blog­sphere. We are going to link and con­nect both self made and other made mate­r­ial to our blog to cre­ate a net­work­ing identity.

  4.  
    » Reply to student’s email ques­tion about get­ting started:

     
    — con­cern­ing orga­ni­za­tion or for­mat, maybe start by look­ing at (and test­ing) a few dif­fer­ent options:
    Wix, Prezi, or using your Word­Press site (eas­i­est) — sev­eral pages (5?) linked

    In class Wednes­day, we’ll dis­cuss spe­cific suggestions/instructions on the Com­pos­ing Guide page

     
    The sim­plest way to put it: you’re cre­at­ing a “com­pos­ite sketch,” a self-portrait for your expe­ri­ence (“being net­worked,” your iden­tity and group par­tic­i­pa­tion; along with a story from a community)

    The series of linked frag­ments (pages or how­ever you orga­nize in Wix or Prezi) present the mul­ti­plic­ity of this expe­ri­ence, both objec­tive and sub­jec­tive dimen­sions — thus our using “mate­ri­als” from vari­ety of per­sonal sources.
    It is both thought­ful (crit­i­cal think­ing) and expres­sive (cre­ative), apply­ing and test­ing some of the con­cepts and com­pos­ing tech­niques unique to new media that we’ve learned so far (plus your obser­va­tions and expe­ri­ence).
    […]

    (what to use to com­pose)
    remem­ber that the con­tent is unique to you — both in terms of “topic” (net­worked experience/identity) and “mate­ri­als” (to com­pose the self-portrait).

    Might be help­ful to use a favorite cul­tural form of your own:
    for instance, Rice & Brown dis­cuss music and the tech­nique of sam­pling + mash-up, as guide for dig­i­tal com­pos­ing.
    Com­edy in visual cul­ture, like par­ody videos or satir­i­cal memes, is another guide for com­pos­ing a self-portrait as “per­for­mance” (one that might not “make sense” in ratio­nal way but is highly expres­sive)
     

  5. My idea for the project is to have sep­a­rate “mood” for each of the four per­sonal databases;

    Auto­bi­og­ra­phy is the me that not many peo­ple know about except the peo­ple I grew up with. It who I really am and where I feel most com­fort­able and relaxed.

    Dis­ci­pline: This is who I want to be and who I want peo­ple to think I am. The mood is more tense and seri­ous, so I appear most con­fi­dent, pos­i­tive, and in charge.

    Com­mu­nity: This I want to relate back to soft­ball because I have been a part of that com­mu­nity for so long. It’s a place I feel com­pet­i­tive, pas­sion­ate, and accepted.

    Enter­tain­ment: for me, when I am using my time as pure enter­tain­ment, I like to watch funny or scary movies, just things that are really dis­tract­ing me from the really world. This sec­tion for me is going to hec­tic with a lot going on.

  6.  
    » reply to student’s email look­ing ahead to Fri­day work­shop (specif­i­cally about orga­ni­za­tion)
     
    — remem­ber that we need to do more than document/represent: the key chal­lenge + task is con­vey­ing the lived dimen­sion, per­sonal expe­ri­ence of being net­worked. recall our fre­quent dis­tinc­tion between “writ­ing about” (describ­ing, lit­er­ate analy­sis) and “per­form­ing” (the 2 arti­cles learn­ing from music). If we don’t have a “voice” in medi­ated iden­tity, how to con­vey the lived dimension?

    through other modes of text (quotes, story, jokes, phrases) images, media

     
    Another tech­nique is the sim­ple mat­ter of arrange­ment: per­haps gath­er­ing, “mash-up” style, dif­fer­ent mate­ri­als from “unre­lated” per­sonal data­bases (auto­bio + school/career dis­course + community/social + entertainment)

    The “scenes” [in Prezi] can have both images/videos and quotes; remem­ber that these need not be related as cap­tions.
    The logic of the web (cul­ture, enter­tain­ment) is humor + play after all: might not “make sense” but surely con­veys some­thing, if only for the cre­ator.
     

  7.  
    » Work­shop Agenda Doc
     

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