What’s Due Next?
This Week
- Tuesday (today): Keyword Network
- Thursday: Response post to “Network”
Near Future
- Read All You Need is Kill and watch Edge of Tomorrow by Sunday, October 24
- Write Short Response Paper #2: Technology using All You Need is Kill and Edge of Tomorrow for Sunday, October 31
- New! Add a paragraph on the cover page that explains how you used feedback provided for your first short response paper to write this paper.
What’s Coming Up?
- Be sure you’re able to access Apple TV+ (either through free trial or paid subscription) to watch Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson: Episode 1: Auto-Tune
- Begin thinking about how you’ll use ArcGIS StoryMap to visualize the definition of a keyword of your choice from KMS and/or our class coverage
Tuesday, October 5
- How was fall break?
- Did you watch, listen to, or experience any media (or elements of identity or culture) that relates to keywords we’ve been discussing to date?
- Mid-term check-in: Please take a few minutes to complete this anonymous check-in form
Using “Network” as a Critical Lens
Network is “an analytical tool embedded in global culture and information technologies, and their multitudes of connections, messages, and typographies” (Levina, p. 127)
- Analytical tool = critical lens, a way of seeing and understanding something
- Embedded = integral to, part or aspect of
- Connections = relations to other elements
- Messages = communications (both bit-based and meaning-making)
- Typographies = arrangements of features
What characteristics of networks did you find compelling?
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- Networks are related to power structures, the result of other, previously defined power structures: hierarchical, flattened, structural
- Networks are totalitarian in nature; complexity of our existence keeps networks in check
- Actor-network: human and nonhuman actors translating tokens into their own language
What’s actor-network theory?
What nonhuman actors do you see at work in networks, especially related to the flow of information and the way power is distributed?
Consider the difference between the networked self (or network identity) and the material self (or embodied existence). What differs? Why?
How do networks help us understand media, culture, and/or identity?
October 19
Let’s collaborate to draw the actor-network of our class.
- Visit https://app.popplet.com/#/p/6805245 and log in using your richmond.edu email account (create a free account if needed).
- Follow the prompts in the Popplet to contribute to the actor-network of our class.
- Discuss what we uncover during this exercise in the context of the “Network” keyword essay.