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Unit 2: Iden­tity in Par­tic­i­pa­tory Culture
Project: Class Wiki
→ first tasks: edit­ing exist­ing entries (Mon-Wed) & draft­ing page 1

 
Week 9

M 10/19   Focus: Wiki Project — refine top­ics (below)

» Wiki Edit­ing (5 points, due Wed)

  • link to wiki page/s edited & dis­cuss ratio­nale in blog entry (200 words, informal)

 
 
W 10/21   hybrid work :

  • due: wiki edits
    → dis­cuss in Blog Entry (by 3pm, on your blog)
      *Class­mate reply optional (par­tic­i­pa­tion extra credit)

     

  • Watch PBS Dig­i­tal Stu­dios video (choose from list)
    → optional/bonus par­tic­i­pa­tion: in brief com­ment below, dis­cuss video watched
    — in terms of lessons for com­pos­ing (rhetor­i­cal, writ­ten, media) wiki entries
     
  • Begin draft­ing your first page (ready for edi­tors Friday) 

 
 
F 10/23   Work­shop:

  • Wiki for­mat­ting & edit­ing; col­lab­o­rate with section/category peers
     
    *activ­ity: develop “cri­te­ria for good entries” col­lab­o­ra­tive doc
  • intro: cre­at­ing video (“screen­cast”) for entries 

     
    → dis­cuss videos watched; lessons for appli­ca­tion? (from examples) 

  • look­ing ahead: begin edit­ing class­mate entries; begin draft­ing page 2 

 


 

7 Responses

  1. G Hink
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    » Col­lab­o­ra­tive Top­ics Doc

     

    1. G Hink
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      » Email Reply to Stu­dent about Revising/Refining Topic:

      poten­tially a good way to refine/revise topic, focus­ing on cre­at­ing and sharing/publishing/circulating.
      (mak­ing it less about the genre itself; although surely, as you men­tion about remixes, it is one of the more preva­lent gen­res being made by “ama­teurs” — not that the wiki entries need to explain/argue why.)

      With this approach, impor­tant to make it less about EDM itself and more about the cul­ture form as activ­ity and expres­sion — as I dis­cuss in video, in terms of roles/behaviors on a pas­sive — active con­tin­uüm (lis­ten, com­pile, share, dis­cuss, learn about, test, share, pub­lish, get feed­back, revise, cir­cu­late, etc)
      Maybe now look for “com­mu­ni­ties of prac­tice” (see Jenk­ins) to see this in play; not like a pop­u­lar artist’s YouTube/Vevo or a well-known remixer’s Sound­cloud but “more aver­age, reg­u­lar peo­ple” as you say.
      Again, avoid­ing argu­ments or need­ing to explain how, for instance, “EDM is pop­u­lar because any­one can make it” (prob­a­bly the con­trary?); rather, high­light­ing cer­tain sub­gen­res (“scenes”?) that show high level of par­tic­i­pa­tory cul­ture activ­ity from tech­nol­ogy & social angles (either or maybe both). As I men­tioned “sub­gen­res,” maybe help­ful to see what peo­ple are tagging/classifying, in their uploads (lis­ten­ers can’t add genre tags, right?)

  2. G Hink
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    » For Wednes­day — watch video (before start­ing your wiki entry)
    —view for ideas & com­po­si­tion mod­el­ling for Project 2 (espe­cially con­sid­er­ing mul­ti­ple audi­ences and dis­course, schol­arly + public/popular)

    Videos (poten­tially rel­e­vant) to Select (* = GH recommended)

    Choose based on your inter­est and the cul­ture form you plan to dis­cuss in wiki entries.

     

    PBS Idea Chan­nel  YouTube Chan­nel

    Playlists:

     

    “How Is Tech­nol­ogy Chang­ing TV Nar­ra­tive?” *

    “Is Vine The Future of Cinema?”

    “Is Insta­gram the Best Thing to Ever Hap­pen to Photography?”

    “Are Mashups the End of Music Gen­res As We Know Them?” *

    “Is Twit­ter the Newest Form of Lit­er­a­ture?”

    “Is Home­s­tuck the Ulysses of the Internet?”

     

    “Are Memes & Inter­net Cul­ture Cre­at­ing a Singularity?”

    “Are LOL­Cats and Inter­net Memes Art?”  *

    “Is the Web Browser Replac­ing the Art Gallery?” 

    “How Does Glitchy Art Show Us Bro­ken Is Beau­ti­ful?” *

    “What do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?”

    “Can Video Games Become the Next Great Spec­ta­tor Sport?”

    “How Do We and The Sims Per­form Gender?”

    “Is Real­ity TV The Future of Space Travel?”

     

    PBS Off­Book  YouTube Chan­nel

    “Are YouTu­bers Rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Enter­tain­ment?” *

    “The Worlds of Viral Video” *

    “Ani­mated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium”

    “What’s The Deal With Inter­net Comedy?”

    “Can Fan­dom Change Soci­ety?” 
    “Fan Art: An Explo­sion of Creativity”

    “We ❤ Retro Media: Vinyl, VHS, Tapes & Film”

     

    “The Cre­ativ­ity of Indie Video Games”

    “The Rise of Videogame Economies”

    “The Rise of Com­pet­i­tive Gam­ing & E-Sports”

    “The Impact of Kick­starter, Cre­ative Com­mons & Cre­ators Project”

    “The Art of Glitch“

    “Is Pho­to­shop Remix­ing the World?”

    “Will 3D Print­ing Change the World?”

    “ Are Emoti­cons the Future of Language?”

    “The Future of Wear­able Technology”

  3. Rebeca
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    I watched the video “Are Bronies Chang­ing the Def­i­n­i­tion of Mas­culin­ity?”. It explains what a “bronie” is, a man who watches My Lit­tle Pony and how they cel­e­brate the teach­ings of this par­tic­u­lar TV show with­out any reser­va­tions and un-ironically. It relates to our project as it explains 1. what the terms are 2. insight on their com­mu­nity and 3. a short ana­lyza­tion of this group of peo­ple who are break­ing social restrictions.

  4. Jamison Schaffnit
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    I watched a video titled “Will Kick­starter Replace Hol­ly­wood?’. It is about the web­site kick­starter which allows for under­funded and small pro­duc­ers of projects (typ­i­cally media), gain the finan­cial sup­port they need to pro­duce what­ever it is they are cre­at­ing. This fits into the idea of par­tic­i­pa­tory cul­ture because it is a way for fan com­mu­ni­ties to gen­er­ate a siz­able source of rev­enue for a project that they want to see through. The best exam­ple of this I know of, is the Blue Moun­tain State TV show that was widely pop­u­lar through­out the United States. Because of scream­ing demand from fans, the pro­duc­ers started a kick­starter cam­paign in order to fund the movie pro­duc­tion costs. This is becom­ing more and more promi­nent, and great way to look at fan par­tic­i­pa­tion and how it relates to the pro­duc­tion of film and other cul­tural media forms.

  5. Abby Hunt
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    I watched the video “Are YouTuber’s Rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Enter­tain­ment.” My favorite quote from the video was that “YouTube was cre­ated by the peo­ple that used it.” This quote speaks to the fact that the peo­ple who use YouTube and even the peo­ple who do not cre­ate videos, but watch and com­ment on videos, ulti­mately shaped the YouTube cul­ture. This video also talked about how YouTube has a very fast feed­back loop. This means that peo­ple com­ment­ing and watch­ing are always giv­ing their feed­back and advice so peo­ple cre­at­ing con­tent know what their fans enjoy and what they should do to keep them enter­tained. The responses on YouTube are imme­di­ate and there­fore it becomes a more per­sonal way to con­nect with other peo­ple and for YouTuber’s to cor­re­spond with their subscribers.

  6. Betsy Main
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    I watched the video “Is sad music actu­ally sad?” It brought up the new idea that the lyrics might be sad but the music itself truly is not. Peo­ple have had “cul­tural train­ing” from past expe­ri­ences to con­nect music sounds with emo­tions. An exam­ple would be a song remind­ing a per­son about an ex. Peo­ple can then con­nect to oth­ers in that com­mu­nity who may have felt the same way about a song.

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