SILS - Spring 2020

HI307

MEDIA HISTORY:

Four Modern Revolutions Graham Law

Internet (3): Media Future

Structure of today’s presentation

I Web 2.0 – O’Reilly & Web 2.0

– O’Reilly vs. Berners-Lee

II SF Movies on Media Future: 4 Dystopian Fantasies – Nineteen-Eighty Four (1984)

– They Live! (1988)

– The Matrix (1999)

– Minority Report (2002)

III About the Final Exam (available from Sun. Jul. 26)

I. Back to Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Who coined the term?

When?

Where?

Why?

What does it mean?

What should it mean?

“O’Reilly Media” (Cal.) Conference title 2004

Tim O’Reilly manifesto 2005/9

M. Angermeier (Berlin) “mememap” 2005/11

“CPM Media” Service Mark Registration 2006

Web 2.0: O’Reilly v. Berners-Lee Think about these questions:

– What are the characteristics of Web 2.0 according to the two commentators?

– In what respects are the writers’ positions compatible? In what respects are they incompatible?

– What are your own opinions? Which of the writers do you tend to agree with?

Sources – O’Reilly 1: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

– Berners-Lee: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int082206txt.html

– O’Reilly 2: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/web_20_compact.html

Web-architecture & Interactivity/Collectivity

Business Models & Selling Services

II. SF Movies on Media Future

dystopian fantasy 1:

‘Big Brother is watching you’

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

Directed by Michael Radford

Based on 1948/1949 novel by

George Orwell

Author of The Road to Wigan

Pier (1937), Homage to

Catalonia (1939), Animal

Farm (1945)

dystopian fantasy 2:

‘manufacturing consent’

They Live! (1988)

Based on short story by

Ray Nelson

Off-beat (radical?) director

John Carpenter

Maker of Dark Star

(1974), Assault on Precinct

13 (1976), Halloween

(1978)

Focus Questions (Clips 1 & 2)

What media are represented in

the movies?

Who controls the media in the

movies?

How and Why?

Which clip do you prefer?

Which threat do you think is

more pressing today?

George Orwell: “In our age, the idea of intellectual liberty is under attack from two directions. On the one side are its theoretical enemies, the apologists of totalitarianism, and on the other its immediate, practical enemies, monopoly and bureaucracy. Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution. The sort of things that are working against him are the concentration of the press in the hands of a few rich men, the grip of monopoly on radio and the films .”

‘The Prevention of Literature’ (1946)

dystopian fantasy 3:

The Matrix

– (Fox, 1999)

– dir. Wachowski Bros

– Baudrillard influence

– Gibson concept

– “cyberpunk” genre

– setting = c. 2199

– AI and sentient machines

– human/computer interface

– rebels & agents

dystopian fantasy 4:

Minority Report

– (WB, 2002)

– dir. Steven Spielberg

– Philip K. Dick story source

– setting = 2054

– cops & politicians

– Predestination and Choice

– 3D glass displays

– multi-touch interface

– retina scan recognition

Focus Questions (Clips 3 & 4)

For both clips, think about:

• technological innovation

- media & communications

• social transformation

- freedom and control

Other relevant SF movies?

III. Exam

Final exam (Sun. Jul. 26 ~ Fri. Jul. 31)

Focusing on key concepts/examples/cases

from ALL lecture Powerpoints

Multiple-choice section – 40 questions, select one of five answers for each (10 on each revolution)

Writing section

– a series of four mini-essays (1 on each revolution)

60 minutes in length

Via Waseda Moodle – Any time between | 2020/7/26 | 23.00 | and | 2020/7/31 | 23.00 | both JST

You can use any reference materials you like

But the time available is strictly limited to one hour

Discussion Session

Over to You

Questions & Comments