He knows and simultaneously, through compartmentalizationand disavowal, keeps himself from knowing the ways in which his work feedsinto a global system of American war making
We know that cheap clothing comes from unjust and unethical work in sweatshops but we buy the clothes anyway.
the wide-spread American realization of dependence on interlinked technologicalsystems.26
Die Hard - Live Free or Die Hard - Like the fire-sale that wipes out Americas networks such as traffic lights, electricity and water.
As he drifts through Manhattan, Nick feels like a “stranger” inthe city. He feels somehow lost, realizing that he only knows it “at streetlevel, fitfully.”
Like a town centre filled with shoppers in the daytime it becomes a different place at night when the shops are closed and the clubs are open...so that when drinking during the daytime the town centre becomes unfamiliar and you feel like a stranger, and likewise, walking through the town centre through the throng of party revellers, sober at night after a trip to the cinema for example, also has an alienating effect.
“because this is the dot theory of reality, that allknowledge is available if you analyze the dots.”
Is the baseball a dot?
airly disruptive during a performance, adding afurther dimension to the experience of working with a virtual body.
The virtual body would be the background used to represent Christopher's brain, his complex network of neurons. It is also a hybridisation since Christopher is also present on stage in the physical sense. It could also be surmised that Shavaun, in narrating Christophers novel to the audience, acts as a projection of his inner self, her external voice projecting his inner thoughts and feelings that he is unable to verbalise work to calm him in stressful situations
agery in so much as in the former, a perceived object is physicallypresent whereas for the latter objects are ‘seen’ which are not being actu-ally viewed and these images can be changed at will. Memory also playsa role since visual images are built on visual m
Think about how Christopher's memory of his mother was staged.
In the short-term, Watergate led to many political reforms, including, much to the discomfort of the ultra-conservatives, greater public oversight of intelligence agencies and attempts to clean up US politics, including campaign finance reform.
Example of how whistleblowing affected democracy?
scale-free networks
what is this?
. Criticism followed as initialclaims were not fulfilled.
The former has not been fulfilled YET and so should not really be a criticism.
their blogs and websites or they can contribute to large-scalepeer production projects, and to a large extent all this happens outside of the marketsphere
which is great if the average Joe Blogs can back up what the information they are sharing by facts but can be very dangerous when simply expressing an opinion based on something they have read that might not have been factual. Having said that, it is not just average individuals who can share fake news. Ref Sky news naming murder suspects without evidence and before a conviction.
journalists being the main contributors
This can present the problem of what is and is not fake news
which peer production and sharing have a significant role.According to Benkler the most important aspect of this economy is the possibility itopens up for reversing the control focus of the industrial information economy andreversing trends of concentration and commercialization
Like activists. Assange defence for example. Activists and whistleblowers facing persecution can spread their message far and wide and individuals can follow and participate.
sell audiences as target demographics to advertisers
or politicians - think algorithms also, the audience is the commodity. Is the fact that we can access information freely a trade-off for the billions of pounds that big data companies earn from the data we provide them
hese large concentrated media industries arepursuing profit as their main goal and users are not able to influence them easily.
Think about Google Books and the effect of their copyright infringements on authors.
e digital technology, do things that previously needed differentanalogue tools, the limitations they faced in running their real world businesseschanged. This means that convergence is more than simply a technological shift and itaffects changes that shape relations in a society. As Jenkins tells us “convergencealters the relationship between existing technologies, industrie
Thinking of surveillance programs of the NSA and the uk the technology is probably more sophisticated now than when Snowden exposed them.
On the other side, the Internet is acommunication tool that is intensely used by citizens, activists and NGOs, as itfacilitates efficient and far-reaching communication
Use for activists and whistleblowers
www.internetworldstats.com
Look at this for up to date data
Lev Manovich identified some main differences between old and new media (Manovich,2001). There are five main characteristics of the new media, according to Manovich: 1) thenumerical representation of the object, i.e. its digital code that enables algorithmicmanipulation of the digital object - media becomes programmable; 2) modularity of theobject - media elements (images, sounds...) are represented as collections of discretesamples. These elements are assembled into larger-scale objects but they continue tomaintain their separate identity. These two, more material characteristics, enable 3)automatization of many operations with new media, as well as 4) the possibility that manydifferent versions of the same “media object” exist, i.e. its variability, that have more deepcharacteristics with far-reaching consequences. 5) Transcoding is the last characteristic thatManovich describes - to transcode is to translate something into another format. Thus newmedia becomes unrelated to a particular hardware and it also means that the computer layerand its logic and cultural/content layer influence each other creating a new media logic thatcultural sectors must take into account. The described characteristics of the media andcultural objects change our understanding of them.6 For Pierre Lévy the concept “virtual” has at least three meanings: a technical meaningassociated with IT, a contemporary meaning and a philosophical meaning. In itsphilosophical sense, the virtual is that which exists potentially rather than actually. As it iscurrently employed, i.e. in its contemporary meaning, the word virtual often signifiesunreality - reality implying a tangible presence (as in virtual reality). In its technicalmeaning, related with ICT, virtual means the possibility of generating information based onexisting digital data and users instructions. As Lévy says “within digital networks,information is obviously physically present somewhere, on a given medium, but it is alsovirtually present at each point of the network where it i
Example, a photo that appears online can be edited by many and used for different purposes, for example propaganda. In this way perceptions can differ through different cultures.
Technology does not just linearly cause certain effects, butin combination with many other elements it creates conditions of possibility “thatsuggest possible futures rather than determine them
A common theme in speculative and science fiction novels.
The discussion about what kind of society we are creating is ongoing – democraticand inclusive “knowledge societies”, or commodified and commercialized“information society”
There are elements of both
They mostly reflect the deterministic view that
See footnote below
Second, digital technologies and new media are able to provide writers and authors with instant readership so they have to be ready for the expansion of their “fandom” and community of followers. New audiences are easily engaged with the author’s work and it is no longer necessary for authors to desperately seek an audience, especially when it comes to Web-based literature—“if you write, they will come” (
Authors have webpages, blogs and social media communities where they interact with readers, often posting videos, podcasts or going live to answer reader's questions. This does not only apply to writers. Justin Bieber found worldwide fame as a child when he posted videos of himself singing on YouTube
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Authors need to learn how to use digital tools in order to get the best from their ideas. Editing their work using software probably speeds things up, however, it will no doubt change the story in some way. If an author uses recommendations from the software they are using then it could be said that the software is a co-author. For example, if the author uploads their work to Voyant tools, they might see a pattern they do not like, such as using perhaps too many times. Or if they upload to Grammarly and Grammarly makes suggestions on restructuring sentences based on active or passive voice, or just simple coherence.
Theshowtakestheformofascreen-within-a-screen,
Gogglebox is a good modern example of the screen-within-a-screen.
Americaisn’tjustaplacewherewelivebutisajourneyofapeoplethroughtim
We see this in reality TV. We are not simply viewing the lives of reality stars as they happen, they are often based on a back story and usually always a struggle or a past trauma. By sharing (or concocting) stories, the reality star can garner sympathy from the audience, make more money for the charity or business they have adopted as part of their narrative, and keep themselves current, ensuring financial security.