Media and Democracy
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chuck on 2003/09/29:
„I'm not quite ready to work through her discussion of American TV news as antithesis of duration (55), but her reflection on "television democaracy" (the term was used by Ted Koppel in a Nightline analysis of the popularization of camcorders, VCRs, and home computers). The suggestion that these technologies "democratize" the media seems to me a somewhat generous fiction, and not just because of the economics of access. In part, it is the "policing" that Koppel himself performs in this report, recasting the video footage of the Romanian revolution (the event that prompted Koppel's report) as only tenuously reliable, leading Morse to ask“
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„More specifically, we will analyze traditional modes of viewing older media forms and the challenges that new media present to these understandings of spectatorship. Beginning with theorizations of visuality and cinema, the readings trace out reconfigurations of the gaze and new conceptualizations of space within digital media forms, with a primary focus on digital video as a media form. Practice will illuminate theory as we use a variety of software environments (Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Flash, Strata VideoShop 3D, Media 100, and Director) to explore the nature of digital artifacts and create video texts that comment upon modes of new media involvement.“http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~strain/courses/ 4330.html - Cached
„The return of the masses is an unavoidable result of two reinforcing tendencies: the ongoing growth of the number of users combined with a further concentration of web content in the hands of a few media companies, resulting in a (relative) decerase of user skills.(emphasis mine). I always suspected.“http://www.whatsgrowing.com/jon/cyberold/ 2004_02.html - Cached
„And thus the voiceover is a mediation between addressing outsiders, and addressing the interior 'I's' of the filmmaker. Its apparent continuity and homogeneity guarantees a constant stream of desire addressing somebody/something, and being addressed by somebody or something. Film theorist Margaret Morse writes: "In Benveniste's linguistics, subjectivity is based in discourse between subjects in a here-and-now." For Morse "subjectivity is characterized by the reversibility of 'I' and 'you', as shifters or empty positions." In this sense, the voiceover functions as a shifter, which is at the same time peopled with voices and eerily empty.“http://www.obn.org/reading_room/writings/html/ she_wants.html - Cached
„An International Workshop Thursday 16 May 2002 Introduction by Renée van de VallThe aim of the workshop is to bring together scholars working in the field of new media in order to delineate the phenomena, issues and problems that are indicated with terms like ‘interactivity’ and ‘multimedia’. These are vague and inaccurate terms, but they somehow indicate what we think is distinctive about such new media objects as games, websites or VR environments. We would like to explore what possible theories, concepts and methodologies are available to describe, analyse and understand new media objects, what new tools we would have to develop, what are important questions to ask and problems to investigate.“http://www.fdcw.unimaas.nl/is/report.htm - Cached
„Ethan and I will be leading a discussion called Emergent Democracy Worldwide at the Digital Democracy Teach-In in San Diego on February 9. Ethan has posted a critique of Jim Moore's Second Superpower and my Emergent Democracy paper. He asks some important questions.“http://joi.ito.com/archives/2004/02/.../ ethan_zuckerman_begins_emergent_democracy_worldwide_discussion.html - Cached
Found at a page of Joichi Ito, posted on 2004/02/04
„The subject matter under discussion is how the mediaundermines American democracy and society. Over theyears the media has changed dramatically. One of whichis how the media is now a tool for propaganda.“http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/archive/ 20020601-media.html - Cached
„Fish, it should be noted, is by no means an extreme figure on this issue: he was one of the only voices to speak up against what seems to me the horrific agenda of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, about which I have written elsewhere, at the group’s recent annual conference.“http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/3525.html - Cached
„In this regard, Harrison retorted: "I am afraid to say that the American media of thatevent (December 13 attack on the Indian parliament) did not reflect the magnitude ofthat event. Particularly, I have been distressed by the fact that the way in which thiswas covered did not define that fact that Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, whichwere identified by India as the groups responsible for carrying out this event, groupswhich are primarily composed of Pakistanis." Harrison thought the nature of theacuteness and seriousness of that event was not accurately conveyed and more broadcastwas needed.“http://www.media-watch.org/features/3.html - Cached
„From 19 year old Zack Rosen's work with americansfordean.com, to teenage writer, coder, and hacker Aaron Swartz's involvement in setting internet standards, it was clear at this year's iLaw Seminar at Stanford University that once again, youth were leading the cutting edge of bringing technology to culture and politics. Listen to short audio interviews (mp3s) of Zack and bay area college student Ryan SuttonG, as well as college student Emily Posner's thoughts on young women in technology, kids and innovation, and on her own studies.“http://www.listenup.org/cyberlaw/archives/ cat_articles.html#000108 - Cached
Found at a page of Colin, posted on 2003/07/08
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