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.