-The role of digital technology and social media in defining:
-Contemporary Media events
-The structure of feelings informing digital cultures and information society.
-Interaction between and within a complex network of media events.
-Users = consumers - producers of media events
Emphasis of media spectacles and virtual reality.
Facebook Parody:
-Is technology neutral or does it change the way we interact with eachother?
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| It looks like you can have a neutral technology. |
-When a technology happens, does it affect the way in which the medium is constructed? Twitter Vs Tv etc.
-Where does this highly sophisticated technology (Facebook) connect with very primitive ideas (The Wall)
-Very visual
-Global appeal, everyone around the world can access it.
Context: Digital Cultures
-Circulation and mobility of material and symbolic production on a global scale.
-Connectivity - Proximity - more conflict?
-Erosion of cultural boundaries and social spheres.
-A sense of being close to people all the time (Proximity)
-Indicators of time and space have been entangled and are confused.
>Public and private spheres have merged (telephone example)
>Now (instant)
Interaction and participation:
-How their personal opinion can change an event
-How the same event may be portrayed in different forms of media (convergence and diversion)
-New form of labour and new definitions of leisure and 'free' time. Are we participating into social media and are not getting paid? Are we taking our office home with us? Net Slaves?
Guy Debord
"Society of a spectacle" - are we seeing everything through a spectacle?
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