We Media is the distribution of different forms of media without the input of Large media institutions that controls broadcaasting and the news ect such as the BBC. We Media is produced by the public "Grassroot journalism" and can be distributed in many ways.
2 forms of media that can be used to promote We Media productions are Social networking sites (Facebook) and the use of Films / Videos (Youtube). these are both very well known and easy to use programmes in we media.
Friday, 28 January 2011
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Script for xtra-normal video
To begin with I guess we should explain what WE-media is. We-media is the form of media which lets anybody broadcast or share the news that they feel is important to them and the wider public. Websites like youtube allow people to share any content (within reason) with as many people as they want.
The two specific media areas we have decided to study are social networking and films/video. Social networking has been transformed by the concept of We-media. Social networking by its very name is a concept which attempts to gather everybody in and unite them through the internet- Facebook is at the front line of social networking with an estimated 'population' of 600 million! We-media is reporting and showing news/events and of course social networking has been galvanised by this and has helped to galvanise we-media. Both concepts 'bounce off' each other to improve individual and aspects.
Films and videos is the second media group we have studied. Just like social networking, films and videos are now easily shared by using the concept of WE-media. Youtube lets anybody with an internet connection view videos that have been uploaded from all around the world. Videos and feature films (broken up in some cases into parts) are accessible to anyone by just searching the internet- there are sites dedicated to showing episodes of 'South Park' and 'the Simpsons' (amongst others).
Contemporary media theories and practice answers are the final 2 parts in this script.
Henry Jenkins theory about participatory culture applies heavily to WeMedia as a culture and especially to social networking and video. Henry Jenkins argues that participatory "Fan cultures" have been around long before the web but the web has served to expand those already existing and also create new ones.
This applies to WeMedia because it doesn't only apply to "fan cultures". It can apply to any group of people who express themselves through the web. For instance online forums, Facebook and Facebook groups, wikipages, youtube videos and video responses to those videos or of course fan cultures.
This also allows almost anyone access to almost any collective culture. For example movie making was previously only accessible to those with a large budget and support from producers.
In 2004 Mark Zukerberg and some friends of his independently founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard university. This social networking phenomena now houses the information of 600 million people and allows people to find, add, message, chat to, upload pictures of and play games with All of their friend, relatives and basically anyone that they have ever met.
The two specific media areas we have decided to study are social networking and films/video. Social networking has been transformed by the concept of We-media. Social networking by its very name is a concept which attempts to gather everybody in and unite them through the internet- Facebook is at the front line of social networking with an estimated 'population' of 600 million! We-media is reporting and showing news/events and of course social networking has been galvanised by this and has helped to galvanise we-media. Both concepts 'bounce off' each other to improve individual and aspects.
Films and videos is the second media group we have studied. Just like social networking, films and videos are now easily shared by using the concept of WE-media. Youtube lets anybody with an internet connection view videos that have been uploaded from all around the world. Videos and feature films (broken up in some cases into parts) are accessible to anyone by just searching the internet- there are sites dedicated to showing episodes of 'South Park' and 'the Simpsons' (amongst others).
Contemporary media theories and practice answers are the final 2 parts in this script.
Henry Jenkins theory about participatory culture applies heavily to WeMedia as a culture and especially to social networking and video. Henry Jenkins argues that participatory "Fan cultures" have been around long before the web but the web has served to expand those already existing and also create new ones.
This applies to WeMedia because it doesn't only apply to "fan cultures". It can apply to any group of people who express themselves through the web. For instance online forums, Facebook and Facebook groups, wikipages, youtube videos and video responses to those videos or of course fan cultures.
This also allows almost anyone access to almost any collective culture. For example movie making was previously only accessible to those with a large budget and support from producers.
In 2004 Mark Zukerberg and some friends of his independently founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard university. This social networking phenomena now houses the information of 600 million people and allows people to find, add, message, chat to, upload pictures of and play games with All of their friend, relatives and basically anyone that they have ever met.
Script Information
Make a start on the scripts - all scripts must include the following:
*An explanation of your theme : what does we media mean?
*Indicate which two media areas you are looking at, what specific examples you have researched. : Film and Social Networking Sites.
* Include reference to at least two contemporary media theories and how your specific examples prove or disprove the theories : (We Media and We Think)?
*Include a summary of how you would answer each of the 4 prompt questions using the media theories and your textual examples.
The 4 Questions:
1. What are 'We media'?
2. Where/how has 'We Media' emerged?
3. In what way are the contemporary media more democratic than before?
4. In what ways are the contemporary media less democratic than before?
*An explanation of your theme : what does we media mean?
*Indicate which two media areas you are looking at, what specific examples you have researched. : Film and Social Networking Sites.
* Include reference to at least two contemporary media theories and how your specific examples prove or disprove the theories : (We Media and We Think)?
*Include a summary of how you would answer each of the 4 prompt questions using the media theories and your textual examples.
The 4 Questions:
1. What are 'We media'?
2. Where/how has 'We Media' emerged?
3. In what way are the contemporary media more democratic than before?
4. In what ways are the contemporary media less democratic than before?
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Meida Therios - "We Think" & "We Media"
Charles Leadbetter - We Think :
Leadbetter believes argues that the way we think and make sense of knowledge is fundamentally shifting into the online age.
This means that before the revolution of the internet personal opinions or theories had to be distributed via books which need publishing and cost money and also by word of mouth ect. To follow this he says that open access knowledge building communities on the web allow ideas to be shared and tested more quickly and efficiently, this opinion is prooved due to websites that allow open communications with the ability to upload videos that can express a range facts/opinions to gain a response from the online people, websites such as facebook give people the opportunity to upload whatever they want and have a potentially large viewer base. Also Youtube provides all people the chance to upload and broadcast videos of whatever the like within reason.
Essentially the sharing of information has changed from physical aspects such as the publishing of books to how the entire population can upload and share via the internet which is very low cost and can have a large viewer base which is good to promote what leadbetter calls "We Think", this is linked to "We Media" in the fact that it distributes public / unofficial productions that can cause response gaining it popularity.
The internet allows free hosting of information whether it be films of opinions ect. David Leadbetter finally states that it leads to more creativity and innovation separate from institutional constraints and I believe that the quality of videos are getting better due to the range of technology the public have access to such as phone cameras or HD hand held cameras and this raises the quality of the competition / responders and can make others create their own products as it is cheap and easy with a large viewer base. It is easier to get a direct response and therefore is easier to build its popularity.
My media areas are Social networking sites and Film what Leadbetter believes is supported within my media groups as social networking sites are open access online communities linking the use of film to distribute opinions of people that upload it. Knowledge based forums cover a wide range of subjects and sites such as Wikipedia have a very large knowledge base therefore the way we think and make sense of knowledge may be fundamentally shifting into the online age.
Dan Gilmore - We media
Dan gilmore believed that large media institutions such as Sky, Google and the BBC control who produces and shares media however the vast amount of better technology such as video and phone cameras is becoming increasingly accessible to the whole public therefore enabling them to recored their own film for example expressing their own opinion or music video in which they aim to get a response and these films can be distributed on social networking sites such as Facebook as they can easily be uploaded and what they called "commented" on or "liked"
Dan gilmore:"The power of media institutions is a catalyst by ordinary citizens to share their own news "
Our media areas provide the chance for the entire public to distribute their forms of we media.
An example of how a Social Networking Site (Facebook) can distribute information and cause response. Particular forms of we media can be used to discuss the debate on EMA which is a large part of the commercial media institutions News but has a large we media response for example groups and pages on facebook that allow open discussion for all facebook users this is good because there is a large base of people willing to debate and share their own views on a subject. Here is a link to a facebook group which promotes the discussions about everyones views on the Political subject of the removal of EMA which is distributed via different forms of we media whether it be peoples direct opinions recored and made into films which can be uploaded to Youtube or groups on Facebook that allow open discussion.
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-are-AGAINST-taking-away-EMA/122306421131428
Leadbetter believes argues that the way we think and make sense of knowledge is fundamentally shifting into the online age.
This means that before the revolution of the internet personal opinions or theories had to be distributed via books which need publishing and cost money and also by word of mouth ect. To follow this he says that open access knowledge building communities on the web allow ideas to be shared and tested more quickly and efficiently, this opinion is prooved due to websites that allow open communications with the ability to upload videos that can express a range facts/opinions to gain a response from the online people, websites such as facebook give people the opportunity to upload whatever they want and have a potentially large viewer base. Also Youtube provides all people the chance to upload and broadcast videos of whatever the like within reason.
Essentially the sharing of information has changed from physical aspects such as the publishing of books to how the entire population can upload and share via the internet which is very low cost and can have a large viewer base which is good to promote what leadbetter calls "We Think", this is linked to "We Media" in the fact that it distributes public / unofficial productions that can cause response gaining it popularity.
The internet allows free hosting of information whether it be films of opinions ect. David Leadbetter finally states that it leads to more creativity and innovation separate from institutional constraints and I believe that the quality of videos are getting better due to the range of technology the public have access to such as phone cameras or HD hand held cameras and this raises the quality of the competition / responders and can make others create their own products as it is cheap and easy with a large viewer base. It is easier to get a direct response and therefore is easier to build its popularity.
My media areas are Social networking sites and Film what Leadbetter believes is supported within my media groups as social networking sites are open access online communities linking the use of film to distribute opinions of people that upload it. Knowledge based forums cover a wide range of subjects and sites such as Wikipedia have a very large knowledge base therefore the way we think and make sense of knowledge may be fundamentally shifting into the online age.
Dan Gilmore - We media
Dan gilmore believed that large media institutions such as Sky, Google and the BBC control who produces and shares media however the vast amount of better technology such as video and phone cameras is becoming increasingly accessible to the whole public therefore enabling them to recored their own film for example expressing their own opinion or music video in which they aim to get a response and these films can be distributed on social networking sites such as Facebook as they can easily be uploaded and what they called "commented" on or "liked"
Dan gilmore:"The power of media institutions is a catalyst by ordinary citizens to share their own news "
Our media areas provide the chance for the entire public to distribute their forms of we media.
An example of how a Social Networking Site (Facebook) can distribute information and cause response. Particular forms of we media can be used to discuss the debate on EMA which is a large part of the commercial media institutions News but has a large we media response for example groups and pages on facebook that allow open discussion for all facebook users this is good because there is a large base of people willing to debate and share their own views on a subject. Here is a link to a facebook group which promotes the discussions about everyones views on the Political subject of the removal of EMA which is distributed via different forms of we media whether it be peoples direct opinions recored and made into films which can be uploaded to Youtube or groups on Facebook that allow open discussion.
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-are-AGAINST-taking-away-EMA/122306421131428
The fact that people use Facebook and other sites to distribute their forms of we media is good because it can highlight certain issues that people may not know about, for example in this case people may not be as politically minded as others and not involved in watching the news however they may be a member of facebook and seeing what their friend has joined will draw their attention to the subject.
Art as We Media.
In these Modern times The Arts have become an aspect of media. In years gone by a talented artist would only be successful or recognized if they were able to attend a reputable university, had money, were working in a contemporary style. the only way you would be able to really view art would be in a museum or a gallery which you would need to pay to get into and perhaps is completely impractical to get to. Nowadays you can view Masterpieces by simply typing the name into Google. Because of this anyone with access to the internet can get inspiration from a simple search on the web.
Also Websites like Deviantart.com let you show your art to the entire world via the internet.
Also Websites like Deviantart.com let you show your art to the entire world via the internet.
Friday, 14 January 2011
We-Media and the Impact of 2.0
Web 2.0 definition and implications for AS Film and Media courses.
Need to finish for tuesday
Need to finish for tuesday
Concerns of Media Institutions about WeMedia in their respective areas.
The most important concern of Media institutions regarding WeMedia in their Areas, I imagine would simply be rivalry. Take for instance a local newspaper. If a few independent journalists and photographers start writing and distributing their own little informative paper, then the main thing the larger newspaper would be interested in would be; the quality of their reporting and photographs, the number of papers that they are distributing, the areas in which they are distributing the paper, how they are distributing it and possibly most importantly how much they are charging for it.
These things are almost guaranteed to be less than the Larger paper. But perhaps the WeMedia paper has better journalism, better pictures and it costs nothing. then the Larger paper would have to assess their situation, see how much this effects them and act accordingly using what assets they have. Of course this applies everywhere in all media institutions like television, music, film, etc.
So in conclusion Rivalry covers all concerns of media institutions about WeMedia in their area.
These things are almost guaranteed to be less than the Larger paper. But perhaps the WeMedia paper has better journalism, better pictures and it costs nothing. then the Larger paper would have to assess their situation, see how much this effects them and act accordingly using what assets they have. Of course this applies everywhere in all media institutions like television, music, film, etc.
So in conclusion Rivalry covers all concerns of media institutions about WeMedia in their area.
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