“Chris Argyris: Theories of Action, Double-Loop Learning and Organizational Learning.” http://infed.org/mobi/chris-argyris-theories-of-action-double-loop-learning-and-organizational-learning/. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 July 2013.

As I read the intro to this reading all I could think was “oh God this going to be bland and boring” however I found myself surprisingly enjoying piece by the end. It was very interesting and made points about learning I had never before considered nor realised.

However I must say I struggle to see the relation between this information and the learning we engage with in Network Media. I don’t quite understand what would have compelled the course coordinator to include this text as a part of the prescribed reading list.

Nonetheless it was very interesting and more interesting than other texts read so far for this course.

Miles, Adrian. “Network Literacy: The New Path to Knowledge.” Screen Education Autumn.45 (2007): 24–30.

Gonna start off with a rather irrelevant comment but I’m a pretty big fan of the fact that many of the prescribed readings for this course are authored by the (un)lecturer Adrian. I can’t pinpoint why but far out I absolutely love that he regularly plugs his own work. By no means am I mocking or criticising this, I really genuinely appreciate his writing.

Anyway, on a more important and beneficial note I suppose a collection of thoughts on this reading should be shared.

I found that it simply reiterated what was proposed during week 2’s symposium, the concepts discussed about our unconscious processing of books and the likes. Print literacy as a whole is a concept I’ve certainly taken for granted up until this moment. Yet it makes a whole lot of sense and I’m left wondering why I’m 18 and only just starting to learn about this kind of thing, why it’s only just been brought to my attention. This stuff is important. I reckon it can have a huge impact on how we understand and engage with culture and print culture in particular.

As I read the chapter I felt that network literacy is a whole bigger can of worms that that of print literacy. Perhaps because that’s so foreign to me, and print literacy is easy to grasp since I have grown up with it. I feel there are so many more issues and factors that influence network literacy and the way that it’s an ever-expanding web. However in saying that I guess that doesn’t really change what it means to be network literate. In summary I think it would only be fair to say that my thoughts and ideas about this will continue to grow over this semester as we tackle this concept week by week.

I’m finding it hard to get passionate and excited about maintaining this blog. I want to do well in this course and in uni, and I really do enjoy blogging. I have a Tumblr account too, and despite using that blogging site for more than 4 years I also find difficulty committing to regularly updating that.

I don’t know why this is. I love writing, I’ve enjoyed it since I first learnt how to use a pencil. And a lack of interest in media certainly isn’t the issue, it’s one of the very few passions I’ve had since a kid. So I continue to wonder what it is that prohibits me from regularly contributing blog posts…

If anything, I would have to say it may be an issue of being time-poor. Or lazy. Or perhaps a combination of the two. I’m sorry to the tutors assessing this blog, I know I could have done better with my progress to date as I begin week 3 of the semester.

Something about blogging for uni just doesn’t quite sit right in my mind. I think if I had total freedom over how I could document my learning, I’d choose to make voice recordings of my experiences and developments. Perhaps that’s just because I’m much more of an audio learner than visual or written. I’m doing my best to come to terms with idea that multimedia blogs are vital to a well-rounded and successful media career. I see dozens of established journalists, producers, directors, etc., using blogs every day. I’m hoping it won’t be long before I accept that I too must maintain a thorough blog to prove some kind of credibility.

But here’s hoping I muster up the motivation to get going! To future me at the end of the semester, I really hope this blog is full of ace posts not only in relation to Network Media coursework but rather a whole array of different topics and experiences documented.

It’s been a week since this un-lecture and my mind is still f r e a k i n g  o u t .

The main idea that I took away from the hour of intellectual mayhem was the way we humans obsess over and crave stories. Movies, TV shows, radio shows, novels; they all have a beginning, middle and end as they tell a story.

But then there’s the internet – no man’s land. There’s no beginning here, there’s no crisis that shakes up the lives of the characters, and there’s no dramatic finale with a big celebration of closure to the story.

And yeah okay, to an extent I can agree with this. But then there’s a little part of my brain, the very literal side of me, that can argue against that.

To me as an individual, there are many experiences that are kind of a beginning to the internet. And there’s an end. For example. Not long ago I opened my laptop and started up Google Chrome. That’s the beginning of this encounter with the internet. Then I logged on to Media Factory and started catching up with everything that’s been happening with our Network Media blog system. And then I started typing this post. Afterwards I’ll probably write a few more posts. And then I’ll log off… (the ending of the story is coming)… And then I’ll close my laptop. And there’s my internet story. I started, some things happen, but then those things stopped happening and the story was over.

Perhaps a far too literal interpretation of this idea, maybe I’m mad, but I reckon I’m on to something good here if I do say so myself.

http://www.artslaw.com.au/info-sheets/info-sheet/legal-issues-for-bloggers/

To be awfully upfront and blunt I have to say this reading was a bit of a bore. But on the other hand I am fully aware that the information noted throughout this webpage is crucial in deepening my knowledge on my rights as a blogger. But to go from cute cartoon YouTube video to long and informative article on legal rights was obviously never going to be a good time. Perhaps if I were clever I would have approached the readings in the opposite order.

I do appreciate the wealth of information dot-pointed throughout this reading and I’ve saved it to my browser’s favourites so that I can quickly find it in future as I know just how important it it; not only for this media-related blog but also for my personal blogs too.

I never knew just how many issues there were within the laws of running a blog. And as I read through them, I couldn’t stop thinking about the dozens of blogs running through my head that I knew were breaking those laws. Whilst I appreciate these laws in that they protect my work and that of others, at the same time I know these laws are rarely implemented nor are people punished for breaking them.

A Youtube video for a uni reading?! Madness!

I’m very quickly coming to learn what the point of this course is and just how accurate the title Networked Media is. I’m beginning to comprehend the infinite links between the many different types of media online and how intertwined it can all become.

I enjoyed the visual component of this reading, I found it a lot more engaging that the usual essays or articles we read. It was something out of the ordinary which added to the enjoyment.

In terms of the content of the clip, it was brief yet efficient and very informative on the different types of Creative Commons licenses. Of course a topic that’s very important for this course, as in future I understand we’ll need to be incorporating many images/videos/sounds in to our blogs. On a basic level I feel confident in my grasp of these licenses and how I’ll go about using Creative Commons media in future.

Miles, Adrian. “Blogs in Media Education: A Beginning.” Australian Screen Ed 41 (2006): 66–9. Print.

I found this reading to be relatively straight forward, as expected of the first week of the course. It clarified a lot of my concerns and confusion which arose during the first tutorial, being due to the mayhem of first week of semester and the inevitable struggle to try and wrap your head around every thing that’s happening in each class. I’ve now put that mayhem to rest and feel confident in my understanding of the purpose of this blog.

I liked that it was authored by Adrian as this in a way assured me that I was in for a semester of professionalism and expertise – although in saying that I’ve never had any doubt of this from any of my lecturers.

Overall I now feel prepared and excited for this Networked Media.