There are many different examples of interactivity. For instance on my previous blog i spoke about pyschological interaction and psychical interaction. On the web, an example of a website that includes psychical interaction would be http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/; a website which specialises on online gaming. This type of interaction would encompass 'Immersive navigation', the opposite being hypertextual navigation (Lister 2003:21). Peter Lunenfeld (1993 in Lister 2003:21) commented on this idea by comparing two paradigms of interaction 'immersive' and 'extractive'.
Firstly, 'hypertextual navigation' which is 'extractive', enforces users of the web has to create their own texts from a various amount of texts on offer, the web obviously using hypertext, in which objects (text, pictures, music, programs, and so on) can be creatively linked to each other. Thus making the web non linear and push a user to extract whats on offer into an individualised text. Online gaming being 'immersive navigation' would make it 'immersive'. Different from 'hypertextual navigation' because some games involves the use of 3D. This means that the users of online gaming would have to understand this 3D world, obviously being a different form of a media text. Nevertheless, there's also 'registrational navigation' (Lister 2003:22). If we were to look a website that specicialises in forums http://www.teenhut.net/; the user is able to write back to a text, expressing their opinions or even create their own. Or if we were to use online gaming, this could refer back to MUD'S and MOO's.
Ultimately, theses types of navigations wouldnt be possible without the use of hypertexts; 'a hyperworld -a new realm of published texts and graphics, all available instantly: a grand library that anybody can store anything in' (Nelson 1982 in Lister 2003:26). This is what makes the web so popular, moving from web 1.0 to web 2.0. It creates a democracy, something thats unstructured, allowing people to communicate with people at anytime of the day with people that they might not talk to everyday life. This may cause problems with people not being who they say they are (peadophiles). However many websites do have controls, whereby people have to type in personal information and even have gatekeepers, monitoring what people say. This could question whether thats allowing people to be free, but for the most part people are allowed to express their feelings freely http://www.craiglist.com/ for example; seems like anything is possible.
Lister et al (2003) New Media - A Critical Introduction, Published by Taylor and Francis
Showing posts with label week 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label week 2. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Topic 3 Week 2 - My Blogs
My experience so far, of blogging and online seminars has been interesting. The time that it takes to read, write and comment on other group members makes it completely different t other seminars. A normal seminar would last for 50mins, but this requires constant attention and it has taken me a while to adjust to this. I feel like because of this, the rest of my groups blogs have lacked response from me and even my blogs havent recieved responses. This is an obvious difference when compared to normal seminars; here you dont get direct responses.
However i have enjoyed how instead of relying on other people to teach me what i need to know; i have to contribute; by reading and getting more absorbed in the work and even having my own opinions.
I might not be myself, but who is online? I keep wanting to use slang words, as im so used to writing to peers on facebook and im never this confident around fellow students. Plus i know that im being assessed.
What i do like about blogs is that it allows you to take time in structuring what your saying and hypertext allows me to be a 'produser'. Sonya Livingstone stated that hypertext may lead people to create a new form of literacy to understand it. However, being brought up on this new media, doesn't affect me.
However i have enjoyed how instead of relying on other people to teach me what i need to know; i have to contribute; by reading and getting more absorbed in the work and even having my own opinions.
I might not be myself, but who is online? I keep wanting to use slang words, as im so used to writing to peers on facebook and im never this confident around fellow students. Plus i know that im being assessed.
What i do like about blogs is that it allows you to take time in structuring what your saying and hypertext allows me to be a 'produser'. Sonya Livingstone stated that hypertext may lead people to create a new form of literacy to understand it. However, being brought up on this new media, doesn't affect me.
Topic 2 Week 2 - Asychronous Online Communication - How Does It Feel?
There are many apparent differences if were to compare the online seminars with the norm. The navigation aspect has is the obvious one; instead of face to face interaction and direct response, the user has to use different interactions (typing, clicking the mouse etc). The non-direct response can be an issue which could be avoided if the seminars were in real time; involving a completely different type of communication. However, there might be a case where a group member may not turn up, therefore still creating the problem. Therefore being able to write a blog and have the option for people to view it at their leisure ensures that what you've got to say is heard; in the form of a blog.
The benefit of having online seminars may also include confidence. In real life, you may hold back on something because of a lack of confidence, or even be shadowed by someone else. Blogging however, allows people to express their opinions more freely.
The benefit of having online seminars may also include confidence. In real life, you may hold back on something because of a lack of confidence, or even be shadowed by someone else. Blogging however, allows people to express their opinions more freely.
Topic 1 Week 2 - Question D
Is there a clean break between analogue and digital media (cf. Bolter and Grusin’s concept of ‘remediation’)? Can you identify any commonalities? For example, is email based on the language of ‘letters’ and ‘the postal service’ because we have tried to fashion its communication functions in terms we are already familiar with?
DAB (digital audio broadcasting) is an interesting concept, a technology first developed in the late 80’s because it guaranteed three benefits; firstly more channels could be accessed, secondly that there was better sound quality and finally a clean interference free reception. Furthermore, sales of the DAB receivers since the 80’s have been increasing, with ‘28% of homes according to RAJAR’ (Campaign, 2008:14) having possession of them. In the book New Media - A Critical Introduction, Lister breaks down new media into 'manageable parts' (2003:3), one of which would be that new media brings about 'new relationships with subjects' (3), so with reference to DAB radio, this may be how people are able to recieve a better sound quality, how theres more plurality within stations etc.
However going by a modernist myth of the new, Bolter and Grusin, in their book titled Remediation (2000) stated that that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by refashioning earlier media. They call this process of refashioning 'remediation'. Basically nothing is really new, its just altering what was originally there. Therefore referring these concepts radio, you could argue that thats exactly what DAB radio is conforming to, is improving sound quality, creating something completely new?
(2008) Campaign, 24th October 2008, pg 14
Bolter, J, Grusin, R (2000) Remediation - Understanding New Media, Published by MIT Press
Lister et al (2003) New Media - A Critical Introduction, Published by Taylor and Francis
DAB (digital audio broadcasting) is an interesting concept, a technology first developed in the late 80’s because it guaranteed three benefits; firstly more channels could be accessed, secondly that there was better sound quality and finally a clean interference free reception. Furthermore, sales of the DAB receivers since the 80’s have been increasing, with ‘28% of homes according to RAJAR’ (Campaign, 2008:14) having possession of them. In the book New Media - A Critical Introduction, Lister breaks down new media into 'manageable parts' (2003:3), one of which would be that new media brings about 'new relationships with subjects' (3), so with reference to DAB radio, this may be how people are able to recieve a better sound quality, how theres more plurality within stations etc.
However going by a modernist myth of the new, Bolter and Grusin, in their book titled Remediation (2000) stated that that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by refashioning earlier media. They call this process of refashioning 'remediation'. Basically nothing is really new, its just altering what was originally there. Therefore referring these concepts radio, you could argue that thats exactly what DAB radio is conforming to, is improving sound quality, creating something completely new?
(2008) Campaign, 24th October 2008, pg 14
Bolter, J, Grusin, R (2000) Remediation - Understanding New Media, Published by MIT Press
Lister et al (2003) New Media - A Critical Introduction, Published by Taylor and Francis
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Interactivity
New media is interactive. In contrast to old media where the order of everything is fixed, the user can now interact with the media object. In the process of interaction, the user can choose which elements to display or which paths to follow. Suggesting that new media is more interactive.
However after i read a book by Lev Manovich, titled 'The Language of New Media', i realised that its not only new media thats interactive, 'old' media was/is interactive too. For instance if someone was to look at a piece of abstract art. They would have to interact with the piece, trying fill the gaps and work out what the art is conveying. The type of interactivity that's pyschological.
However after i read a book by Lev Manovich, titled 'The Language of New Media', i realised that its not only new media thats interactive, 'old' media was/is interactive too. For instance if someone was to look at a piece of abstract art. They would have to interact with the piece, trying fill the gaps and work out what the art is conveying. The type of interactivity that's pyschological.
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