Jenkins Fandom

Reading Summary: Jenkins begins the article talking about how over the past few decades that studies of fandom that have shown alternate theories or ideologies that before. Where it used to be believed that audience members of popular culture or media were just passive in their consumption. Where media was mostly watched to pass time.…

Chapter 8: WMCRWD- Daisy Rodriguez

READING SUMMARY In chapter 8, Smith defines interactivity as what makes “new” media “new”, it is the idea of what is new and improved. Smith emphasizes that interactivity is not just one thing, it can be multiple things. Within media there are different aspects that contribute to the way individuals interact with it, some media…

Friday: “Sorting myths and cyberbole from trends and tipping points” -Daisy Rodriguez

READING SUMMARY Macnamara starts with discussing the concept of ‘endism’, how the advancement and access of technology will be the end of other methods. In the chapter it gives the example of how the internet will be the end of television, and US newspapers. Although these media sources are still present, they have undergone changes…

Friday: Klosterman Articles- Daisy Rodriguez

READING SUMMARY Within the first article, Klosterman discusses how watching things recorded is not the same as watching things live on TV. He states that there are five reasons to why this is the case, in which he splits them into two categories: rational and irrational explanations. Within the rational category, he states that watching…

12/3-Klosterman & Baudrillard- Maggie Robbins

Summary: In the first reading from “Sex Drugs and Coco Puffs” “This is Emo” by Chuck Klosterman he talked about how we fictionlize romance in a lot of our media today. Romance has to be “perfect”. He Brings up the movie When Harry met Sally The film made it reasonable to assume your best buddy…

The Trauma Floor

Summary: The article written by Casey Newton, The Trauma Floor, is the telling of the very chilling and dark job of being a moderator for Facebook who works through a company called Cognizant. The article discusses dark posts that moderators have to sift through like murders, hate speech, pornography, and many other chilling posts. These…

11/12-Macnamara, J- “Sorting myths and cyberbole from trends and tipping points.” -Maggie Robbins

Summary Macnamara’s writing starts with the topic of endism and also discusses how endism is conceptually and practically flawed. Endism refers to all too frequent predictions that new developments will result at the end of other methods and approaches. New technology will predict the end of older technologies. Endism is problematic both conceptually and practically:…

11/22-Smith Chapter 8- Maggie Robbins

Summary In this chapter, Smith discusses the idea of interactivity. How we distinguish between computer games, social networking, blogs, and wikis from “old media” like books, film, television. We all know what interactivity means but defining this for new media seems to have no central definition. Smith discusses how watching tv and movies is almost…

11/5 -Klosterman: Maggie Robbins

Summary: In the first reading “The awe-inspiring beauty of Tom Cruise’s shattered, troll-like face.” Klosterman discusses how people understand the “idea” in a set movie. According to Klostermann, there are fewer and fewer new good movies being released because movies are no longer about deep human concerns that challenge and question reality. Klosterman speaks upon nowadays the…

Ethan Boyer – What Media Classes Really Want to Discuss, Ch. 7 – 11/8/21

Reading Summary In this chapter Smith discusses what exactly a medium is and how we, the audience, interact with it. To begin, Smith describes how society approaches different mediums differently. For example, while it is alright to be noisy and distracting when watching television, it is the exact opposite when going to the movie theater…