Quantity versus Quality

This week in class Prof Strangelove discussed how the audience is viewed as having “interpretive capabilities and the capacity to manipulate meanings and content.” Sure we may have these abilities, but that does not necessarily mean we use them wisely, let alone use them at all. Yes we are a significantly more active audience than [...]

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Media Mash Up

What is a Media-Mash up? Well a media mash up is when a combination of audio/video files which are usually unrelated,  are combined together to create a conglomeration of the originals. Sometimes this is done for humor or parodies. Sometimes though these mash ups can create powerful messages. Mash ups can sometimes create popularity for [...]

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Us and the Power of Our Web 2.0

In class today (today, January 15th), we talked about the introductory chapter of Henry Jenkins’ book, Convergence Culture. He tells us that his book will examine the relationship between three concepts: media convergence, participatory culture, and collective intelligence (Jenkins, p. 2). When I think of all three of these things together, my immediate reaction is [...]

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My First Time. . .

The first time I realized the power of user generated content and the convergence of the our culture with that of the corporate culture, was when I saw the contest for the Samsung Mobil explorers, a part of the WOW campaign standing for “Wireless Olympic Work”.  This campaign was a mobile communications platform that was developed specially to [...]

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Power to the People

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