- * preparation over weekend: compile notes
→ Read closely for workshop discussion: Project Assignment Page & Composing Guide
M 22-Sep Studio (project workshop): led by Groups 1 & 2 (list of groups here)
Due: Inventory of Notes (class preparation) — see below
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» Focus: review/discuss digital identity & networked community?
— 4 “personal databases” & composite “self-portrait“
— Review/Discuss Assignment objectives + approach
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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):
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» 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):
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Bogost
Butera
Fraser & Doyle
Wandel & Beavers
Vejby & Wittkower
Scholz - Readings from Into the Blogosphere
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1. “Weblogs and the Public Sphere” Andrew Baoill
2. article chosen from A-B-C lists
- 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)-
→ like Brown discusses: music — mash-up — Girl Talk / album
» Optional:
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— 1 example (image, detail, reference, phrase, etc,) from each “personal database”:
- Autobiography / Family
- School (major) / Career Field
- Community / Social
- Entertainment / Pop Culture / Media
» 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
» 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
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.
» 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).
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(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)
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.
» 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.
» Workshop Agenda Doc
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