- → Updated Instructions for GroupSite Work (3 sections): Page
» For Friday 8/1:
- 1. One last post (minimum) to group site
2. Read Mihailidis & Cohen, “Exploring Curation as Core Competency…” (2013)
3. Discuss online (here)
— your GroupSite activity and recent post/s
— using terms/ideas from article (plus Arroyo/Carter? Rice & Brown?)
4. Start working on your Annotations (due Saturday)
» Optional (due Friday night) Extra Credit Blog Entry
- — use idea/s from Arroyo & Carter, Mihailidis & Cohen, and/or Reid
- » Optional reading (for e.c. blog):
Reid, “Unlikely Communities of Digital Scholarship, Video, and Social Networks” Enculturation 8 (2010)
S 8/2 Due: Final Annotations of group-site posts (“Curating Digital Culture” assignment)
S 8/3 Due: Group-Site Recap Part 2 tasks—Reflection & Proposal (see prompts)
» Friday 8/1 Class Discussion:
* Required as Attendance & Participation
— First comment (due 12:45pm):
briefly (2−3 sentences?) describe your GroupSite activity and recent post/s
as “curating,” active learning, “media literacy,” generative (ideas toward projects), etc.
→ you can discuss your most recent group-site post as well as your overall activity this week (“curating”) — introducing briefly, the way we do at the start of class most days. (this is a good idea)
* protip: read classmates’ prior comments in order to avoid redundant/repeated points
— Reply to classmate (by 2:20pm):
respond to their post using terms/ideas from article (plus Arroyo/Carter? Rice & Brown?)
→ framing / discussing the value, potential, or application of this skill/work
(e.g. as learning activity, inventive strategy for projects, method of study suitable to digital culture)
#InternetWisdom Twitter account:
This article speaks so much about the importance of curating or collecting various media into one coherent idea. This really resonated with me because that is what we have been doing for this class all along on the group sites. This act of curating has allowed me a new perspective on the content I post about. I have been watching the Yogscast on Youtube for years now, but because of the group site for this class I have considered them in ways I never would have imagined before. In this modern participatory culture the ease of curating so many different forms of media into one location has made it possible to understand things in entirely new ways. I love this because as the reading said curating is an act of problem solving. Also we get to know the person doing the curating even if they are not contributing any original content. This is because they are the ones who compose the curating so their voice comes through. Also speed comes into play when knowing the curator because the speed they choose to utilize in their curating conveys information about them.
I agree very much, I never thought that these weird song mash ups like Girl Talk ever ment anything. But now these readings have shed a whole new perspective for me on how people can express themselves through mix’s and mash ups and allow the viewers to find their own meaning from that piece of art work.
Definitely agree that curation promotes civic involvement in the shaping of new media. Really paying attention to curation and remix and everything that we have been learning in class so far, and applying it to the media I view on the internet has given me a new perspective on things. I like your note about the act of problem solving. That is a very valid point that shouldn’t be overlooked. Like what the other days reading was addressing with education, we can really start to teach and learn in a more interactive way.
I like how you picked up on the topic of Curation as an act of problem solving. As young minds work with technology collaborative problem solving is going to be so crucial in the evolution of digital media. Compiling and organizing media together will give people direction and enables people to work together to find areas of weakness and strengths of online content.
→ great example by Kate of a thoughtful and productive reply-comment: using classmate’s point/example to link or broaden topic & significance, using terms & perspective of new article.
ETA: Michael brings up several really key points — but, let’s reply to other classmates, as well (–scroll down–)
The readings this week really opened a new door to digital media for me. When I read browns article and learned about the dromosphere it really shed a new light on looking at certain remixes and mash ups. From what I posted on my group site about MOGA at the Univirsity of Colorado I can now see from this class the many ways people are able to curate content that isn’t original and turn it into something meaningful to certain viewers.
I agree that the reading about the dromosphere reading made me look at mashups and remixes very differently. For gaming I never really considered the potential for this sort of remixing or mashup because I had always thought of it in terms of music remixes or mashups. Additionally I believe you touch on a very key point that people can curate content that they in no way created, but collect in a way that creates meaning and conveys their voice. It was really interesting to me when we discussed in class the fact that curating doesn’t mean that one’s voice won’t be heard, just that the voice is being expressed in a different way.
Our group site, the film culture group, is an example of curation because we are are bringing together mediums, messages and platforms with our examples. And they range from amateur to professional. The group site promotes civic engagement because it got us involved in the media culture on the internet, and allowed us to explore that medium of literacy. It allowed us to learn via new forms of information.
I agree that film group is an example of curation because that what most films and movies are, they are pieces or ideas taken from other places and put together to form a new creation. the internet is they new way of getting information in our media culture, i think film and media now does promote civil engagement
I hadn’t considered it before, but I like the notion that these group sites are vivid examples of curation. Exploring various forms of media within a specific genre (film) encouraged an exchange of ideas that would be hard to come across in our regular social media circles. Various forms of social media encourage civic engagement in the same way, only your information window is only as large/ diverse as your friends/ followers are.
I really agree with the way that you defined the group sites as an example of curation because the exploration of these forms of media literacy allow us, as members of this participatory culture, to engage with media in a way that benefits our education. Arroyo discusses the way that “‘participatory pedagogy’ accurately reflects learning and working in digital and video cultures” (Tubing the Future: Participatory Pedagogy and YouTube U in 2020), and your relation of this evidence of curation through these groups sites is illustrative of the way that digital literacy is being integrated (though slowly), into our formalized institutions for education. Our interaction with digital media has allowed us a better understanding (as students) as to how digital literacy may be defined as the idea of Electracy is introduced into our society. The combination of these mediums, messages, and platforms really is indicative of our curation throughout this course.
The point about civic engagement is one that I have tried to explore a lot during this class. The idea of participatory culture really shines when those that contribute inspire others to do the same. This idea ties back into the discussion of credibility of information in the Curation article. Not so much pertaining to the validity and truth of information of presented, but the credibility of a person or group of people that are so compelling and driven in their presentation of information, that they drive people to fuel the discussion. They inspire people to contribute and use new forms of media to help them inevitably find the true and credible information. Teaching becomes less about one person taking information and giving it to a group of students, and transforms into groups of individuals all providing insight and information on many subjects. Their students, in turn, reciprocate and find new and creative ways to use media and technology to teach others. A series of proverbial dominoes fall and a limitless, ever-growing cycle of public pedagogy is generated. The individuals that are able to make that happen are the true credible sources within online participatory culture.
Very well-said, observations & ideas really promising for what we might do beyond share/spread/multiply “meaningless” media…
This was an hypothesis explored as one area of potential in my spring course: what if we not only learned from but applied the lessons of participatory culture — Internet public sphere as perpetual platform (as you note; “rhetorical velocity”?) — particularly toward promoting civic engagement (however defined)…?
Maybe it starts simply with the transition from sharing to curating? especially to generate “public pedagogy“
(Joannah Portman-Daley, my source for this term FYI: “Subtle Democracy: Public Pedagogy and Social Media” 2013 Currents in Electronic Literacy article)
After going over the reading, the Curation aspect of the reading really relates to our group post. I say so because we have used preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets as we posted to our group sites. Also the group post has influenced the way i look at social media and how i compile media images.
I agree, after analyzing much of this information it has changed how I compile or use media, making it easy for new producers/compositional methods to be made or shared.
Over the course of this group posting endeavor, I have also looked at the media I have featured in new ways (much like Michael). Sites like Twitch, featuring individuals like Day[9] (aka Sean Plott), have resonated so strongly in the points on digital curation featured in this article. In particular, I look to teaching point #6. The efforts of individuals like him, paving the way for structuring public pedagogy within the gaming community have driven many to follow in his footsteps at asking the same questions raised in this teaching point. I know this because I am one of those individuals; the desire to make my mark on the community have been made stronger through this class and through my reflections on the media I have analyzed. Professor Hink’s lectures have shown me new methods and tools to use in order to do this, showing the ways in which electracy is becoming more prevalent. The actions of others and the wisdom they have been able to impart to the gaming community have inspired me to seek to do the same. This community has been built by some of the most tangible entities within digital culture; they are people that I can relate to and not feel detached from, unlike many of the authors and philosophers providing the readings for this class. I see through my own motivations the dromosphere, the movement of responsibility “down the tube”, being put into action. I ask myself how I might utilize what I have learned in this class in order to fuel the public pedagogy, as those that have the means and knowledge to do so have the responsibility to keep building on the foundations of others.
Your post reminds of all of the youtubers who try and start something big, but in the end they don’t make it. This could partly be due to the fact that many of them jump into with out giving enough thought on why and how they could contribute, SO they create, in the words of browns article, ” a celebration of technological progress that
is blind to the tragedies of the dromosphere.”. Which to me means that they understand the technology and how to copy the form, but what is missing is the real substance that would make them stand out. They were so quick to catch up to the other youtubers that they missed the real part on how they got their respective positions. This is why I like that said you wanted to contribute to the community, but you had a responsibility to keep building on the foundations of others.”
Read my response to Troy’s comment. I think it will really put the idea of “Youtubers that didn’t make it” into perspective.
The article main focus was on curation. Curtaion is the selection and collection and achieving of assets. this is important because the result of this that students have access to a large amounts of information, but also personalize content and remaking it in a way that would be understood by your peers and everyone around you. This relates to a lot of the things that has to do with music and my group work. Like the Mash-up is very similar to this, its a lot of original pieces that make not be your put together to form your own work. remixing could be another example of that because an original work is taken and being re-made which is also a form of curation. in our participatory culture curation come in a few different forms.
The group site has changed the way i looked at making music cause i myself who have made music didn’t realize all the different things that you can use to be creative to create your own work
Also other things that can change the way you look at music is looking at the aurality aspect of things. In the article it shows that making rap music is the same as the literacy part of aurality. Also other things like tubing.
As I am looking through all the posts I have done for the group site I have noticed my focus has been mostly on the DIY self type attitude of the gaming culture. By posting these type of articles have a curated a story on the possibility for anyone and everyone to customize something or make your own. I could even go as far to say as . Such can be seen in my posts about Modding community and Game Making Community. Even when i talked about Xbox live I still wanted to mention XNA which is their game creation tool that was available for everyone. As mentioned in Teaching point 3, I feel like many of my posts could be considered legitimate learning sources. Even though they don’t have the online credibility such as standford.edu. To piggy back on that, many of my posts also help increase diversity within the gaming community. Whether your interested in following Movies based on games or decide to make your own Hoax based on the fallout one. Albeit, you’ll have to have a debate with your moral compass on whether or not the hoax would be cruel or not. Just like the fall out one.
I agree with the idea that diversity of voices and opinions online is to be appreciated. I like the term “information diet”, and I believe also that students should have a healthy balance of varying opinions and ideas. This is where user discretion comes into play; much like your actual diet, your information diet can have various effects on your health.
In your opinion; what would be the best “information diet” when consuming digital media?
Would memes be an appetizer or the main dish?
I also liked the term “information diet,” and how it was used to build on this shift in learning from a passive to active approach. By having a balanced “diet” of consuming messages and creating them, students are able to create diverse stories and viewpoints. Within these learning environments, they are shown the amount of control they have over their “information diets,” and able to explore how they can empower their knowledge through this diversity.
With the Video group I feel we’ve been posting videos or websites that can relate not only to this past reading, but can be related to the very first readings on Spreadability and overall idea of “Viral” and etc. Going back to the site and looking at the posts from what we all have been posting you can see that everything is fairly connected.
Just realized it just now posted my comment– Horrible school internet. But in relation to Arroyos/ Carter I find the idea of Media Literacy, fascinating in that idea that it can be used in our current education system to maybe help certain learners “learn” better. Both my sisters are teachers from Elementary to Middle/ High school, and they tell me all the time they wish they had a more forms of presenting content to capture their students attention. When the smart board came about the students were so much more involved with their education. One of my sisters uses a site that takes the idea of “dissecting” a frog and uses it virtually for the kids who much rather do it virtually rather than actually touching real frog for personal or moral reasons. Which this overall idea to me relates to Curation from the reading and to the idea of digital learning. I personally growing up always learned faster with anything dealing with hands on media/ creation of something. Even at a University level I turn to Kahn Academy for academic help rather than a TA.
I think our group (Video) have been posting media that correlates and speaks volumes for browns article. Brown talks about the dromosphere and how accidents cant be compositional/template for media to be composed. Our media is also contributing to the collections of media to compose or produce art.
Your group blog relates to the JIME article too! It is a great example of collective exploration.
The article explores the concept of curation as an effective tool used to teach media literacy to the ‘digital generation.’ As a creation-driven tool, curation provides students with a framework to understand the influence of media in society. It allows for a new approach to bringing digital and media literacy into the classroom. This idea of bringing media literacy into the classroom is what we have been doing at the start of every class. Sites like paper.li allow for social content curaiton across social media sites. It allows users to tap into the most relevant topics being discussed across digital media platforms. These curation software’s help users discover information and share there curated content on social media platforms.
Totally agree Maria! Our group blog has certainly allowed us to explore different sources, voices and credibility and in class our group talked about teaching point #6 “Appreciating Diversity” as I suggested we find different types of content to support our TV group blog-the tumblr platform has support for a variety of diverse content to distinguish between quotes, audio clips, video and photo medias
I completely agree with you Katie. Our group blog has familiarized us with various composing techniques used across digital media platforms. Like you said, tumblr contains a variety of diverse content. But more importantly, the platform provides the opportunity to appreciate the diversity of online voices and form a new approach to learning. This shift from passive to active learning allows us to create different viewpoints and develop a better understanding of the content. Through the use of hashtags, it helped me understand what diverse content can be found and where to find it.
I love how you say, “The article explores the concept of curation as an effective tool used to teach media literacy to the ‘digital generation.’ “, Its completely true, with the upcoming generation we see them learning from digital sources rather than a book. Some probably don’t even know how to check out a library book, or random things we learned in school like what an Index in a book was, seems meaningless with some of our generation and especially the up and coming generation.
Which your idea here completely relates to the paragraph in the reading that is about how teachers are having a hard time teaching this digital generation because of the vast amounts of facts and ideas that is in reach due to Google and other sources.
“The result is that students not only have access to seemingly endless amounts of information, but also personalize content and reorganize it in a fashion that best allows them to make sense of a topic, and to share it with peers (Lessig 2008). Teachers at all levels of education must be prepared to negotiate the digital realities of their students as they design learning experiences around critical inquiry, analysis, and evaluation. Indeed, educators today have a certain responsibility to focus student skills and experiences in an exercise of participation with the surrounding media (Jenkins et al. 2009).”
The Idea of ENDLESS amounts of information is a key concept within the digital age now. How do you come up with a concept of teaching when its so “endless.”.
ah, “Thinking & Composing in the Information Overload Age” — good course/book title/focus!
→ project 2, as multimodal assemblage, tests potential for “personal expression in the networked media ecology” ^_^
I love the way you looked into the way digital literacy is introduced into the classroom. I also agree with the idea that integration of electracy and formalized institutions allows for a growth in a specific type of knowledge for the students interacting with this media. I believe this concept relates to Rice’s idea of the influence of aurality because, though not immediately recognized by the viewer, the inclusion of auditory input is a process that has been planned, practiced and thoroughly contemplated by the creator of this digital composition, and this is ultimately a form of specialized knowledge in itself. The integration of digital composition as a product of students in the classroom is evident of their critical thinking and interaction with the digital media that has proved to be an undeniable influence in our modern society.
So curate comes from the Latin Root “The cure.” I feel this is a very relevant term to use when talking about digital culture because curating the mass amounts of digital content was a very big issue as digital culture evolved. One of the earliest forms of online curation would have been through an email “Spam” folder, as participatory culture developed over the web curation has been able to evolve into a collaboration of peer work such as our group blog. Search engines started curating information for tubers to browse multiple pages within the same genera and through search words. This evolution has opened up the webs ability to preserve collaborative trends. By teaching curation alongside digital literacy people obtain valuable skills from problem-solving to the power of civic engagement.