The World of ConnectionsLectorial Week 10Krystina Benson

Please Note:

• LEX is seen to be one of the main measures of individual as well as team teaching efficacy at QUT

• As a result of feedback from last semester (for those who did do KCB201, sem 1, 2010), the unit schedule is being rearranged and unit assessments are also being refined. The unit has also been renamed New Media: Internet, Self and Beyond to reflect its focus more accurately.

• This unit - KCB 202 - is still under reconstruction and your feedback is vital to its improvement. Personally, as your tutor I find it highly useful

to read your feedback. I think about it, reflect on it and incorporate it into my teaching.

TO ACCESS LEX: Go to QUT Virtual under Student Messages box, under the Welcome tab, a Learning Experience Survey message will appear. They then click on the link 'Complete the survey'.

LEX is here . . . From now until Week 12

Agenda

Notices

Attendance

Tools to help you with your case studies

Engaging with the readings

Video – watch portion of youtube ‘reading’

Wiki time, question time, case study time

Assignment 1: Individual Wiki Contributions

Due date: This week - Week 10, Friday, 24 September, 12 midnight

No contributions after this date will be included in your evaluation, however you can contribute as much as you like…

Please Note:

No lecture this week.

Please Note:

No lectures or tutorials during the week of 27 Sept. - 1 Oct.

Databases to start your research from

Proquest

Project Muse 

EBSCOHost

Swetswise

Factiva

QUT Liaison Librarian’s recommendations are also online

Some Journals for Research

Theory, Culture & Society

European Journal of Communication 

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

First Monday, online journal

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), online journal

Fibreculture, online journal

M/C Journal, online journal

Ctheory, online journal

Discourse & Communication  

Theory, Culture & Society

European Journal of Communication 

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

First Monday, online journal

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), online journal

Fibreculture, online journal

M/C Journal, online journal

Ctheory, online journal

Referencing Management Software

EndNote: software and training available to current QUT students

Zotero: online, free and integrated into Firefox. No training from QUT

Tutorial Exercise

We are going to write and explain an absence from a pre-arranged appointment….

Grab 1 piece of paper from each bag

They tell you’re the medium in which you are writing

And the person to whom you are writing it

You have 10 minutes to write your note

We will read these aloud and try to guess the medium and audience

And see what we think about it….

Reflective Questions

What was the medium?

Who was the intended recipient?

Did this note work well? Yes or No – why?

What does this tell us about media?

What does this tell us about media audience?

Week 10 Readings

(1) Anthropological introduction to YouTube

Presentation delivered by Michael Wesch, June 23, 2008, U.S. Library of Congress, 55 mins, 33 secs. Available online at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

(2) The Social Affordance of the Internet for Networked Individualism

Wellman, B., et. Al., (2003). Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Vol: 8 Issue: 3. Available online at: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue3/wellman.html

Anthropological Introductionto YouTube

Why different than a world based in text?

Separation of form and content

“Not just about information its about linking people, and in ways we haven’t before, and in ways we can’t predict”

Discusses - User generated content and user generated ranking (Digg, Delicious), user generated organisation (iGoogle page), user generated distribution – why is this important?

Integrated Mediascape – not just youtube

Not content, not tools, but “media mediate human relations”

How goes these concepts relate to Actor Network Theory?

Consider the communication technologies as actants and how they play a role as an active part in the development of a network, rather than simply inanimate tools that only achieve meaning when utilized by human beings.

Anthropological Introductionto YouTube (Wesch, 2008)

“Media as mediating human relationships.…When media

changes, human relationships change”

(Michael Wesch, 2009)

Even before the coming of the Internet, other social, economic and technological phenomena affected the transition from groups to networks:

Social Changes: Birth control and liberalized divorce laws and dual-career families have both reflected and driven the transition from a place-to-place to a person-to-person mode of domestic and community life.

Land-Use Changes: Zoning separation of residential from commercial and work uses meant that people had less contact with coworkers in the community and that their travel time had eaten into their community networking time.

Technological Changes: The proliferation of car ownership, expressways, affordable air transportation, and inexpensive long-distance telephony enabled people to have more frequent meaningful contact with physically distant relatives and friends

The Social Affordance of the Internet for Networked Individualism (Wellman et al, 2003)

“More importantly, we argue that citizenship (including e-citizenship) is affected by the ways in which Internet use is in a positive feedback loop with the turn away from solidary, local, hierarchical groups and towards fragmented, partial, heavily-communicating social networks” (Wellman et al, 2003).

What are the potential consequences of this?

The Social Affordance of the Internet for Networked Individualism (Wellman et al, 2003)

NumaNuma…Infectious Happiness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o

The Machine is Us/ing Us

Your turn – what do you watch on YouTube?

Come up and show us.