Unit 1: Network Rhetoric & Identity
Project: Analysis Webtext
Project Instructions Page
Week 4
M 09/14 choose 1 chapter to read (and take notes):
The Social Media Reader (Ed. Mandiberg, 2012) — eBook (download or read online)
- Post chapter selected in comment below, plus one key idea from your reading
- activity/discuss: share key concepts/terms from chapter
— connect with topics from Exercise, toward Project - begin developing ideas/topics for analysis essay
W 09/16 Hybrid Work:
- watch: Reid (2011), “Virutal Community, Virtual Exposure” (16:00)
- watch: Idea Channel video(s) — see below
→ consider when viewing: genre, style/formality, discourse (specialized, field, terms/concepts); publication platform/venue, and audience (implied/suggested)
» Blog Entry 2: 200 words, informal, due Wed. night (on your WordPress)
- discuss potential topics for your analysis essay, also identifying key concepts/terms
- Reminder, comment on classmate’s blog also required (due Thursday)
— especially from The Social Media Reader chapter selected (or a different one)
→ discuss potential use/role in your project. Be sure to include and connect with ideas/categories from prior readings / Exercise 1 (see more below)
F 09/18 Discuss: Essay objectives, ideas, topics
- Discuss Analysis Essay (Webtext Project)
- focus/activity: review & share ideas from exercise/blog
→ create outline (during class)
→ see Outline Guide/Template & Example (Google Doc, CU Sign-in) - also review writing resources & guides (to consult later)
→ over weekend, draft essay for Mon workshop
Additional videos for Wednesday:
» Blog Entry 2:
- 200 words, due Wed night:
discuss potential topics for the analysis essay
— identifying key concepts/terms, especially new material from The Social Media Reader chapter selected (one you read Monday or another).
→ Discuss role/use — “how I could use” — of readings/authors for project (like we did Monday), with specific ideas.
Be sure to include and connect with ideas/categories from prior readings / Exercise 1 (“inventory” of key concepts for essay).
Finally, you might mention rhetorical considerations for audience and discourse/genre (with lessons from videos): composing analysis essay for academic readers, with new insights (not explanation) enhanced by visual media.
* Note, think of this approach as considering initial sections/components of essay, not simply 3–4 terms/concepts. Further, try connecting terms topically, to begin developing parts of your analytic discussion (to arrange in essay outline/plan, for thoughtful organization, Friday).
To this end, you should also include explicitly in your blog entry the key topics of the prompt, perhaps discussing how the topics (and examples?) address these issues: digital identity, network technology & multimedia, social activities & rhetoric (including uses of culture forms).
Because the chief objective of the project is discussing insights about the connection, impact, and/or effects of these three issues, your blog entry should mention this at least to some extent (sentence?) as warm-up — perhaps following from Exercise 1, connections you recognize now between concepts/terms…?
» Classmate comment (required, brief reply; 2 sentences?) suggestions:
— address, elaborate, recommend question of “how to use in project” (in which ways): analytic “lens,” context, definition, complement/supplement, etc.
— or question of considering rhetorical situation (composing approach & decisions): purpose, audience, genre, “specialized discourse” of project
I read Sharing Nicely by Yochai Benkler. He stresses a paradigm shift in our economic policies. The key term that stood out to me was Shareable Goods. Which Benkler defines as “technically lumpy, and of midgrained granularity”. By which he means These goods are easily accessible for most in a specific society, and they perform tasks for the individual not the whole.
I read chapter 1 The People Formerly Known as The Audience. It discusses The Active Audience who are people who participate online like in debates, discussions and can share ideas. As an audience member I want to take part to show others who I am but in order to make it worth your while I have to do something creative and original that can inspire others. “The people formerly known as the audience are simply the public made realer, less fictional, more able, less predictable.” As part of the audience we entertain other audience members by sharing, commenting or recreating something we find of interest.
The new audience is an active one who wants to control the media instead of having the media control them.
I read chapter 8: Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls by E. Gabriella Coleman. She writes about the history of the hacker which starts with telephone hackers and ending with internet trolls. Coleman points out that the meaning behind the “hacker” label. Telephone hackers would scam people from their money, and through the evolution of the hacker towards an anonymous person with infinite outlets who’s main goal is to mock or flame a person who’s put themselves out there.
Chapter 1 People Formerly Known as the Audience
The new audience is active, they want to control the media instead of having the media control them.
Chapter 6: Participating in the always-on lifestyle
Being online constantly is a new lifestyle, but it is not determined by our generation. Also, the definition of being always-on is subjective. We are all connected.
I read the chapter on “Culture as Open Source.” This article described the growing trends behind copyright and the privatization of innovation in our new digital era of human creativity.
Ch. 1– The People Formerly Known as the Audience
There has been a shift in power between the media people and the audience who interacted with that media
I read the first chapter of the Social Media Reader. One of the main ideas that I took away from this chapter was the idea that once we have some sort of control over our media, we don’t ever want to get it back. We used to be more of the audience but now we are also participants.
I read chapter 1 “The People Formerly Known as the Audience”. The audience of various media platforms have taken control over what they want to see.
I read Chapter 17 “Between Democracy and Spectacle.” A key point from this chapter was the idea that as the usability of the social web increases, our user rights decrease. By signing up for these platforms, we in a sense become dependent on them for their capabilities, but accept their terms and sign off a bunch of our rights off the bat. For example, Google gains 98% of their revenue from their advertisements that they cater to the user based off tracking their web habits without our direct consent.
I read chapter 8 Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls. This essay really talked about why people choose to hack and troll people online. From personal reasons to just being a nuisance. It really made good points on why people were involved in underground societies so to speak.
I read Chapter 1, “The People Formerly Known as the Audience.” There’s both an idea of an expanding audience and the idea of expanding the audience’s role. I briefly touched on these ideas in Exercise 1 on my blog regarding Snapchat.
I real Chapter 4, What Is Web 2.0? Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software by Tim O’Reilly
Introducing the new age of the internet that began in the mid-2000’s and explaining just what Web 2.0 means, and how it can be utilized.
The People Formerly Known as the Audience
“You don’t own the eyeballs. You don’t own the press which is now separated into pro and amateur zones. You don’t control production on the new platform, which isn’t one way. There’s a new balance of power between you and us”
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I read chapter 1, titled “The People Formerly Known as the Audience.” The key term here is the idea of the “former audience.” This is essentially about how us people (the readers of the media) can now choose how, when, where, what device, etc. we want to use when we want. The media can’t really control what we see or how we see it anymore.
Chapter 1– The People Formerly Known as the Audience. Key concepts: How we are a changing audience.
I chose to read and analyze chapter 6 of “The Social Media Reader” called, “Participating in the Always-On Lifestyle”.
Key Concept: conceptualizing the shift in modern communication as an augmented reality that involves its users as part of the network versus mere consumers of information.