Many of you conducted conversations with your parents for your posts this week. Although the arrival of the Internet was not remembered as a punctuated event, it is a welcome addition to most homes. For their generation and your own it was fairly unanimous, that in order to maintain friendships and the desired lifestyle, a […]
The Week 3 blog task appeared to be the most challenging for you so far. Reading over some of your posts I can see that your understanding of qualitative research and collaborative ethnography is still crystallizing. Traditionally researchers have treated humans as object-like data sources. This makes the notion of taking a collaborative approach difficult to […]
Exploring the tapestry of memories of television across your blogs this week has been really enjoyable. I’ve noticed that there was only one television in many homes and it was regarded as a most desirable object to have. Control of it was an indicator of authority. Children were often allocated floor space or lower, casual […]
Why add to the tumult of the world? – Melissa Pritchard, A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write Why are you being asked to add more drops into a vast sea of content in the hopes of making a splash? What can you add when one could drown in what already exists? The thought […]
As it does, time has gotten away from me and it is now less than a fortnight before semester 1, 2016 (the Autumn session) gets underway at UOW. Here I am, tying up some loose ends from last session’s subjects. I’m always quietly amazed by the creativity and tenacity of our students. We give them […]
This week, develop a step-by-step guide (day by day if you must) to complete your project. Are you partying on Saturday, and thus will lose Sunday? Then set aside Friday to finish. Before you do, and for your reflection, I’m asking this question: What is at stake in your writing? For context, it comes from this […]
I’m aware some students still feel lost in the final assessment task. That’s okay, there is plenty of time and part of the whole point of the project is for you to show that you’re finding your own way. If you get to things a little later than you might hope, so be it – […]
In the remaining weeks of session, we are working on the third assessment task – the digital research project. Here’s an outline: design, implement and evaluate a small [digital storytelling] project communicating something about how media practice is spatial in nature that demonstrates familiarity with some research in the area and demonstrates that you can […]
This week in BCM240 we’re thinking about how media audiences are regulated, or regulate themselves. The term ‘media dinosaurs’ comes up in at least one of the readings, because one of the ways in which regulations on media usage have been imposed is by older forms of media seeking to impose controls – through courts and […]
Last week’s lecture on attention produced all sorts of results, but my favourite so far has been the detour through the phenomenon of adult colouring books. (If you’re like me, you might well have completely the wrong impression when you read “adult colouring in”, but what we mean is the sudden publishing phenomenon of colouring […]
Media Audience Place 