Symposium week 11

This week I have really struggled to come up with a take away idea from the lecture/symposium. To be honest, a lot of the time, what is being discussed and talked about in these symposiums goes right over my head. It’s quite frustrating as I feel like I should be understanding and comprehending more of the information being shared – But I really am just not doing that so well.

So on that note, these are the extremely brief notes I typed out while sitting in this weeks symposium.

. Gift economy – Free – good and effective – not yet competitive  with paying structures and such.

. Internet protocals –

Galloway notes that the future is already here but not uniformly distributed (paraphrasing William Gibson).

. virtual – viable future – actualised – becomes true

. Cowbird – web project. – eg gift economy – people contributing media on their own terms.

. narratives are intentional cause and effect

As next week is the final week of this course, I know that I will try my best to find a decent take away idea to write about. Until then though, notes will have to do.