The broadcast era is over. The twentieth-century broadcast model of centralised, one-way transmission of pre-packaged content to large, simultaneous audiences is increasingly challenged and complemented by newer approaches. Content, distribution channels, geographical constraints, production values, business models, regulatory approaches and cultural habits are changing as the new media technologies empower users in unexpected ways and increasingly recast TV as something that audiences create as well as watch. Cheap hardware and software allow anyone to produce original or 'mashed-up' videos. The ubiquity of camera-phones and CCTV redefines reality television. Higher-quality resources bring near-broadcast quality to video blogs and citizen journalism. Affordable editing resources allow creative re-mixes of low-brow soap-operas. And sites such as You Tube demonstrate the online demand for such non-traditional video productio
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Here are 3 points I’ve read “between the lines” while reading Chapter 1: 1. In information age information becomes the biggest power. 2. In information age everyone can become a celebrity (ChillOne, Wezzie, Dan Bollinger are celebrities in their circle). 3.
Show’s producers can be interested in “spoilers” as this can attract
viewers and raise the show’s popularity (I don't mean that Survivor's
producers ARE interested, but they can...)
Possible questions: 1. What are the peculiarities of information society? 2. What at last will prevail in information society, so-called “collective intelligence” or the expert paradigm? Why? 3. If you were producers of the “Survivor”, how would you percept the fact of “spoiling” and what would you do with that?
‘Workshop is a productive space in which people deal face-to-face
with issues of authority’ (Richard Sennett, The Crafstman, p.54). For
me now the main workshop is The New School itself. That is the place
where workshop ‘balances tacit and explicit knowledge’ (Richard
Sennett, The Crafstman, p.78). I am going to make use of classes,
libraries and other resources the school offers. For example, this
semester I’m taking a class Immediacy: Creating an On-line Journal
where each of the students actively participates in the creation of
Web-journal both in editing and design. So, I am coming closer to the
area of my interest (which is web-media).
The next step of the
workshop will be internship (which applying Sennett can be called
‘apprentice’s issue’). New York City offers plenty of opportunities in
this area.
But the most important resource is “who you know resource”, or applying Sennett “face-to-face
sharing the information”. The New School gives us vast
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One thing that surprises me in reality shows that they have nearly no cultural or
mentality borders. Reality shows are on the top in rating as in US, as
in Ukraine, Russia, Western Europe, Asia... That is an interesting
thing. As usually American shows which are popular here (for example
'The Oprah Winfrey Show') are not very popular in my home country (may
be due to the difference of mentality)... But Ukrainian copies of
'Survivor" or 'American Idol' beat all the ratings... That is an
interesting point to consider...
