Yes, I know. Its only early days and I am already two weeks behind. I could babble on about the reasons why and how working full time and studying through the open university is a challenge, but that would be making excuses. Many apologies.
Ahem, now that’s out of the way, in week two’s material, we were asked all sorts of questions by our lovely tutor Leanne – like what is our favourite media text and have we ever done a mash up?? Well, most people referred to television shows and other video and I wanted to be different....I tried! But ...I am obsessed with UK Shameless at the moment and watch it whenever I can – I have knocked out 7 seasons in the last month alone. In my defence, I feel Shameless while entertaining, also highlights various social issues within the british working class society. But that will have to be argued another time.
Also while I have never personally done a mash-up, I am intrigued and thinking I will attempt something along the lines of my favourite mash-up as per below. Please don’t press play if you are offended by sexually vulgar lyrics, but please click play if you wish to see a well executed piece of remediation! Its Peaches - F*$ck the Pain Away, as sung byt the wonderful Miss Piggy.
On a more serious note, it was time to start thinking about participatory culture and convergent culture. I was able to identify, after the weeks themes lecture (which was great by the way) and watching Jenkins (2009) vid on participatory culture – that participatory culture is the way which consumers use various platforms to create and share information and the convergence is the interaction between the participant and the corporation behind these platforms (we’re talking the big boys – Google, Apple, Facebook ect).
Finally, after the weeks reading “Four Puzzles from Cyberspace” (Lessig, 2006) I got thinking about the participatory culture in terms of online identities and what is possible. I feel all the case studies had a very strong message – “Borders” showed us how living in a virtual life seemingly unlimited with possibilities was guided by moral considerations rather than legal laws and physical restrains we experience in real life. On the other hand, the example of “Jake’s Communities” exploring moral dilemma’s and imposing real life laws on an online identity really hit home that while cyberspace can be used to participate in a world without the offline restrictions we face, it isn’t necessarily all positive and needs to be policed to a certain degree.
Jenkins, H (2009) Henry Jenkins on Transmedia. Retirieved from http://cinematech.blogspot.com/2009/05/great-video-w-henry-jenkins-on.html
Jenkins, H. Purushotma, R. Weigel, M. Clinton, K & Robinson, A.J (2009) Confronting the challenges of Participatory Culture, Media Education for the 21st Century. London, UK: MIT Press.
Lessig, L. (2006). Four puzzles from cyber space. Retrieved from https://www.socialtext.net/codev2/four_puzzles_from_cyberspace
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