As I read your responses and reply comments to the keyword agency, I realized that I’d provided a more limited account and illustrations of the keyword than I intended. My research in modern rhetorical theory leads me toward assemblage agency that combines the actions and humans and technologies in creating meaning. But agency itself isn’t assembled. In and of itself,… Read more »
What’s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keyword Flow Thursday: Response post to “Flow” Near Future Next Tuesday: Reply comment to “Flow” post; read keyword Gaze We’ll also watch Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson: Episode 1 – Auto-Tune during class next Tuesday, November 23 What’s Coming Up? Short Response Paper #3: Convergence is due Friday, December 3 (this is a… Read more »
What’s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keyword Assemblage Thursday: Response post to “Assemblage” Near Future Next Tuesday: Reply comment to “Assemblage” post; read keyword Flow What’s Coming Up? Continue 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, November 9 Assemblage Focus Areas Immanence over… Read more »
Agency within our modern-day technological and media atmospheres revolves around the concept of connection between action and effect. Technology and platforms are reliant on human interaction to gain information which can then be allotted as future actions, thus it can seem like personal privacy is limited in this day and age. When I think about agency within technology, I first… Read more »
In Media studies, agency refers to the level of human autonomy available in an increasingly technological world. As discussed in class, human and technological agency in a digital world is, in reality, conjoined. Meaning, the technology is reliant on human agency to make meaning while human agency is also manipulated by that meaning. According to a 2018 Pew Research study,… Read more »
I think that a coherent definition to what agency is, is ambiguous, as simply put, it can be the “dozens” of things that are happening after a simple action. An action could be searching something in google, following someone on a social media, etc.; agency can be anything that involves submitting an action towards the “gain” of something else. Whereas… Read more »
What’s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keyword Agency and ancillary reading Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People Thursday: Response post to “Agency” Near Future 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 What’s Coming Up? Continue thinking about how you’ll use ArcGIS… Read more »
What’s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keyword Data Thursday: Response post to “Data” Near Future Access the full text of Keywords for Media Studies to select an original Keyword to read and report on during class on Thursday, October 14 What’s Coming Up? Grades for Response Paper 1 (I’m working on it and hope to finish by Friday) Grades for Field Experience Report… Read more »
Although Blackboard is available to us, we’ll be using this course site for the majority of our course work. The rationale for using a blog as a course site is that technology and new media are among the “keywords” we’ll be using as critical lenses to study and understand media, culture, and identity. We’ll use the very technologies we’re seeking… Read more »