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The Digital Future: fears, ghosts and mediumsThe Digital Mediascape: Week Twelve
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Outline
Research essay pointers
Futures
Fears of technology
Catfish (Schulman & Joost 2010)
Course thematic overview
Essay
Can be handed in as a blog.
But otherwise to be handed in to John Medley 2nd floor school office by 5pm with cover sheet.
Need envelope if you want feedback. Otherwise there will be no feedback left on your essay.
10% per DAY late! (cruel and unusual)
Contact me if you need an extension BEFORE IT IS DUE
Essay
Case study questions
Can be a media form, can be a specific film, game, website, software, whatever
Can choose something off-the-wall
Can choose something not from the course
An essay is a genre
Always, always have an argument
Don’t ask rhetorical questions (unless you plan on immediately answering them, but even then, don’t do it son)
Own your argument (“I argue...” not “I would like to argue...”)
An essay is a genre
Don’t try and build surprises in your structure
Don’t use PR or journalistic language
But do be lively, if you want
Style
Australian spellings: analogue, digitalisation, etc
Decades look like this: 1980s, ‘80s. Not 1980’s, 80’s
Don’t double space at the end of sentences unless you’re working on a typewriter
Star Wars (George Lucas 1977)
Portal (Valve 2007)
Research
Do you hate this article because you disagree, or because you aren’t interested?
If you can’t say it simply, you probably don’t understand it very well
Don’t let your quotes be the most interesting thing about your essay
Get jargon right
The Digital Mediumsscape
Medium = singular
Media = plural
Don’t begin with a grand statement
Usually not actually anything to do with what you’re arguing
Also usually completely unprovable and meaningless
Use the Academic Skills Unit
Be specific
Why Futures?
1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
Douglas Adams: ‘How to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet’
L’arrivée d’un train á La Ciotat (Lumiére Brothers 1895)
TheMoral Panic
Is the trailer fake?
Is Megan fake?
Is the film fake?
The untruths of the image
The untruths of the word
The untruths of people
Themes of The Digital Mediascape
How do digital media relate to each other?
- appropriation, structure, remediation, history
- through innumerable links
- through a common set of cultural practices
How does digital media relate to us?
- as part of a singular being
- as a shaping force
- through processes of work and leisure
How does digital media change culture?
- through interactivity and structure
- through frameworks for space
- as new/altered/shaping tools
Thank you!
And GOOD LUCK!