Comedy and the Mockumentary
The mockumentary: where the documentary form meets fictional events. Mockumentary productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictional setting, or to parody the documentary form itself [1]. It therefore challenges documentary’s claim…
Reality Television
So what is reality TV? Several things come to mind when I think about reality TV. Firstly, the subjects are typically unknown, they try to represent the everyday man or woman. Secondly they aim to inform and educate with an…
Symposium 0.8
We are in an economy where there are amazing resources that people can access for free and people are happy to donate their labor eg: Wikipedia Difference between protocol and mediation Is the Internet democratic? Well yes, because everyone can…
Week 11 Readings: “Actor Network Theory”, Bruno Latour
This weeks reading came with a warning, which I much appreciated because yes, it was hard yakka. Here are some take aways I managed to glean from the opening of Latour’s piece. There are common misconceptions about Actor Network Theory….
Symposium 0.7
We were shown two really cool things during this weeks lecture, The Faces of Facebook and The Oracle of Bacon. The Faces of Facebook online app has scanned the public profile images of each member, which is equal to one…
The Face of Siri
Susan Bennet, a voice actor from the United States, is the voice behind the American iphone intel Siri. It took a month, recording four hours a day, to build up Siri’s word pool. Here is CNN’s interview with Bennet offering…
Pirates Down Under
After the popular Emmy Award winning series Breaking Bad’s final episode went to air last night in the US, the ABC revealed that there were 500,00 illegal downloads of the episodes. And in Australia, well, we were responsible for 1…
WEEK 10 READINGS – “Database as Symbolic Form”
Lev Manovich starts by clarifying his use of the word “database.” Computer science uses databases to store and retrieve data, fast. Different types of databases such as hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented, use different models to organize data. For example,…