week 6 new media publics group 3
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Today…
Quick review of readings and discussion
General blog feedback
Individual blog feedback/time to work on this weeks’ posts
Warner (2002) Publics and Counterpublics
Publics
Self-organised through discourse
A relation among strangers (even if indirect or imagined)
Can be imagined but need some sort of social basis.
Mediated by cultural forms.
Address the individual indirectly as part of a public community.
Written or spoken communication; A set of signs, understandings, ways of speaking, descriptive formations that produce particular ways of talking about a topic, a way of framing it. E.g. the discourse around refugees: can frame them as ‘illegal immigrants’ or as ‘asylum seekers’ denotes different ways of conceptualising them.
Warner (2002) Publics and Counterpublics
Publics
Require the attention and active participation of constituent members.
Temporal circulation – strategically circulating discourse to extend reach.
Cultural reproduction/translation quicker circulation and mutation? Twitter, memes…
Reciprocity and feedback
Your publics
Warner (2002, 53): ‘multiple publics exist and one can belong to many different publics simultaneously’
How do you belong to a public/publics?
Communities/Groups
Online/Offline
What connects this public? Common interest? Action?
Mediated Publicsboyd: ‘a mediated public could consist of all people across all space and all time’ (2008: 126).
five defining factors of mediated publics: persistence, searchability, replicability, invisible audiences and scalability. (boyd, 2008; 2011)
Papacharissi and Gibson (2011) add a sixth element: shareability
Social and constantly changing
Depend on users providing flows of information
Counterpublics
Counterpublics differ from publics in that they do not adhere to hegemonic discourse, i.e. dominant cultural understandings.
But: ‘Counterpublics are publics too’ (Warner, 2002, 81)
Create counterdiscourses to shape (group) identities that stand in opposition to dominant discoursesBUT these counterdiscourses confirm hegemonic discourses as dominant.
Inclusion and exclusion defining groups by who is in and who is out
Media RefusalConsciously cutting media consumption out of daily life.
Non-participation is also an action. Not just a passive process.
Self-help response to media addiction/invasion
Ascetic practice of self-care BUT use of these tools can also be an intentional practice of attending to self, working on self, understanding self…
Form of resisting dominant/mainstream culture.
Performance of taste and status.
see: Portwood-Stacer (2012) Media refusal and conspicuous non-consumption: The performative and political dimensions of Facebook abstention (journal article on BB File Exchange)
Josh Harris: Quiet: We Live in Public
Human experiment that tested the effects of media and technology on the development of personal identity.
100 artist living together in a human terrarium under NYC, sleeping in pods, followed by webcams (á la Big Brother) enabling them to monitor one another and to be be monitored by the entire internet-watching population.
Josh Harris: Quiet: We Live in Public
Video: Josh Harris on the project
Pessimistic view of the loss of privacy on the internet
Documentary made about the project and Harris’ other experiments (2009): We Live in Public
Weighing up costs and benefits
New media users are faced with weighing up a loss of privacy with the gratifications of public online communication (Taddicken and Jers, 2011).
Westlake: making private information public on the internet is ‘surveillance driven by desire’ (2008, 38).
Papacharissi and Gibson remind us that ‘sociality has always required some (voluntary) abandonment of privacy. In order to become social, we must give up some of our private time and space so as to share it with others’ (2011, 78).
Weighing up costs and benefits
Surrendering privacy online means an increase in possibilities for surveillance.
Modern demand and desire to be visible in the public realm.
Referencesboyd d. (2008) Why youth [heart] Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life. In: Buckingham D (ed.) Youth, Identity and Digital Media. MIT Press, 119-142.
boyd, d. (2011). ‘Social Network Sites as Networked Publics – Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications’ pp. 39-58 in Z. Papacharissi (ed) A Networked Self – Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites. New York: Routledge.
Papacharissi, Z., and Gibson, P. L. (2011). Fifteen minutes of privacy: Privacy, sociality, and publicity on social network sites. Privacy Online: Theoretical Approaches and Research Perspectives on the Role of Privacy in the Social Web, 75-89.
Taddicken, M. and Jers, C. (2011). The Uses of Privacy Online: Trading a Loss of Privacy for Social Web Gratifications? In: S. Trepte and L. Reinecke (eds.) Privacy Online: Perspectives on Privacy and Self-Disclosure in the Social Web. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 143-157.
Westlake, E.J. (2008). ‘Friend Me if You Facebook: Generation Y and Performative Surveillance’, TDR: The Drama Review 52(4): 21-40.
Blogs
• Generally, I was happy with what you did
• No failing grades
• Come collect your feedback
BlogsUse the marking criteria! • Engage with readings
• Do further readings• Construct new meanings
beyond what was discussed in tutes.
• Write concisely• Create flow• Edit – no spelling and
grammatical errors!• Stick to word count.
• Correct referencing! • Interact: Comment and
RESPOND discuss• Use features well.
Blogs – Key pointers1. Show you’ve done the reading(s) Briefly: key points and how you understand them (don’t just quote)
2. Synthesise what did the readings get you thinking about?
3. Further research what further readings did you do and how do they connect? Read scholarly articles Give real-life exampleS
4. Reflect more generally on New Media: Internet, Self and Beyond what are the implications the use of new media has for wider social processes (communication, identity-formation, privacy, information-sharing etc.
Blogs – Common Problems
Don’t waste words on names and titles of readings!
In his article An Introduction to the Information Age Manuell Castells (1999) suggests that …Clay Shirky, author of the paper The Political Power of Social Media: Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political Change (2011), claims...
Castells (1999) suggests that ... Shirky (2011) claims...
Blogs – Common Problems
Similarly: Avoid long-winded “warm-up” sentences/words. Be concise!Eg. “I really enjoyed this weeks’ readings on Health and New Media and they made me think about a lot of different stuff”
Be more critical – doesn’t mean criticise (necessarily) but engage with on a deeper level; explore the “grey areas”; i.e. don’t paint a black and white picture.
Blogs – Common Problems
Make sure your posts are related to NEW MEDIA
Don’t go off topic
Relate your experiences, stories, opinions back to readings and back to new media.
Avoid sweeping statements and technological determinism:
“there is no doubt that the internet has completely revolutionised the way in which all of us go about our daily lives”
Blogs – Use of Features
TagsDon’t forget!
3-10 keywords that describe the key aspects of your post – less is (can be) more.
Don’t use ‘#’
Can be more than one word – no need to collate phrases into one word (e.g. networksociety); simply separate with commas.
Blogs – Use of Features
HyperlinksDon’t link to Wikipedia, About.com, encyclopaedia entries, etc.
Don’t link to generic sites like Google, Facebook, Second Life.
Don’t link to images integrate them.
Hyperlinks are there to enable you to provide further relevant information about the topic.
Blogs – Use of Features
Embedding Media
Add images and incorporate videos to illustrate the content of your post ( well done in Portwood-Stacer reading this week)
Comments2 comments per week
ENGAGE this means respond, interact, discuss...
Customise Profileadd themes, backgrounds, etc.
Blogs – ReferencingQUT HARVARD STYLE!!!
http://www.citewrite.qut.edu.au/cite/qutcite.jsp#harvard
In text:boyd (2008) suggests that the use of new media...
Westlake (2008, 38) states that making private information public on the internet is “surveillance driven by desire”.
When there are more than four authors, name only the first one in text followed by ‘et al.’. In reference list, list all authors.
‘et al.’ is an abbreviation for ‘et alii’ which is Latin for ‘and others’. Using it denotes that there are more authors. Therefore, the verb following the authors needs to be pluralised. I.e. “Smith et al. (2010) state” NOT states
Blogs – ReferencingQUT HARVARD STYLE!!!
Reference list – see Word document on File Exchange
http://www.citewrite.qut.edu.au/cite/qutcite.jsp#harvard
Blogs – Individual feedback
Time for individual feedback.
Get your site ready.
I will come around.
Use time to write your post for this weekdue Sunday, April 14.
FIRST ASSESSED POST! (material up on File Exchange)
Next Week
Week 7: New Media Transgressions
Required Readings:1. Thompson, J. (2011). Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private Life in Theory Culture Society 28(4), pp. 49-70. Available on CMD.2. Breazeal, Cynthia (2011). The Rise of Social Robots. 14 min talk on the possibilites of intelligent, emotional robots.
Presentations:1. Maddie Humphreys and Jenny Collier2. Amy Gian and Isaac Guo