Student Led Facilitation SessionTransgression 2.0 Chapter 9, 10 ,11 & 14

By Robby Riehle

Chapter 9-Abusing the Media

Chapter 9 Mark Nunes

Main Ideas• Subversive tactical media attempt to undermine power structures through the use of large-scale forums like the Internet. • New media attributes to peoples access and ability to send, receive, and relay information. “If information is power, then this new technology—which is the first to evenly distribute information—is really distributing power . . .[And] can give a voice to even the weakest signals. (Trippi 159)• The subversion succeeds if “information” (the signal that travels from sender to receiver with as little noise or interference as possible) exploiting the “equivocation” (the degree on uncertainty that the message received was the signal sent) within the system.

Gatekeeping & Agenda setting in New Media

Are these pranks and hoaxes “burning bags of poop” or politically engaging transgressions?

“Computer-mediated communication in the web can undermine the censorship of authoritarian regimes that try to control and repress public opinion” (Hambermas)

In new media the hoaxes become less trivial and more meaningful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnBvXtbaWQQ&playnext=1&list=PLAB4B95866BFE0C5D&feature=results_main

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNhb24iIEyQ

Rapid speed at which information is sent (true or not true) reveals that the relay of such information is more important than the source from where it was received.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/07/washington-post-writer-fa_n_707132.html

http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/2012/07/10-fake-celebrity-deaths

http://lemmetweetthatforyou.com/

Dismissal of such moments . . . “is to ignore the viral as a forum of communicative action with validity.” (162) Example: Persiankiwi

Conclusion:

The goal is to understand how the triviality of noise created by the subversion allows for political engagement, divergent from the issue, which it is commenting on. It instead comments on the legitimacy of the media system as a whole through a discourse agenda.

Breaking the New: Power and Secrecy in the Age of

the InternetChapter 10 Ted Gournelos

“The primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East, But we also expect to be of assistance to people of all religions who wish to reveal unethical behavior if in their governments and corporations.” (171)

“Can the release of documents leaked by a third party function under the same logic as circulating music through Napster or movies through bit torrents?”

Popular Culture News Discourse programs:The Daily Show, The Colbert Report & South Park. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE

[. . . ] The Internet is potentially an open society, in which total freedom of information connects with public relations as a tool of the masses rather than elites (Gournelos 173).

My Day of Fame on Digg.comRace, Representation, and

Resistance in Web 2.0Chapter11 Vanessa Au

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 “Web 1.0 is best characterized

under the general rubric of data: primarily Web sites and tools that allowed for massive amounts of archiving, data collecting, dada manipulation, and searching, sites and tools mostly created by experts or commercial interests.”

Whereas Web. 2.0 has made it possible for far greater user interactivity and user participation such as commenting, sharing, and ranking. For example Wikipedia allows people to post written submission becoming the formidable user-generated encyclopedia. And Facebook which coined the term Social Network which allows people to post photos, status’ and comment them that resembles a virtual society. These advances mark the evolution of the Web.

Constructed Ideology of Racialized Online Other 1. User Rankings and, as a result, hierarchical structuring of the

web content.

2. The sharing/reposting of web content (to indicate approval or disapproval of the content).

3. Functionality that enables users to hijack or colonize web space to display the author’s content with oppositional, often racist views.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmQ8nM7b6XQ

Monsters in the Metropolis Pirate Utopias and the New Politics of space

Chapter 14 Debra Benita Shaw

Main Idea New technology has changed the way we think about space. Making city

architecture and cyberspace mutually constitutive.

In the same way homelessness or squatting affects the physical society. Hacking “like a parasite, takes place and by occupying and feeding off a host . . .”(Shaw 251)

Although the transgressive potential of cyberspace has only been realized as [. . .] a substitute for resistant activities and a space which recuperates those activities while reconstituting the dichotomies of public/private and open/closed (Shaw 253)