Çudamani: Gamelan and Dance of Bali combined several key elements of theatre including dance, music, set, digital projection, and elaborate costuming and makeup. These aspects of the performance served to enhance the dancers and musicians in their telling of the chosen stories. As explained by the Master of Ceremonies, each suite was deeply rooted in cultural tradition and historical significance…. Read more »
What’s Due Next? Tuesday (today) Readings Identity The Best Four Years of Your Life? Thursday Response post to “Identity” keyword Next Tuesday, September 7 Reply comments to “Identity” post Readings for next week: Gender & Feminism What’s Coming Up? Start watching I Am Not Your Negro and consider how it illustrates or explains any of the keywords in the Identity… Read more »
The majority of you have posted your response to the “New Media” keyword. If you’ve not posted yet, please do so. Initial posts were due by Thursday, August 26. Thanks to all how have posted and started adding reply comments. Overall, good work on this initial post. The goal of these posts is to engage you in the keyword as… Read more »
The idea of “new media”, a term that has seen many definitions since the inception of media, is extremely intriguing. While the term was coined during the Cold War, it and the anxiety that comes with it has been applied to new forms of media throughout history. Over millennia, at one point or another, books, newspaper, radio, and television were… Read more »
The term new media is all relative to the generation that is using it. For our generation, new media can be shown as technology or even as social media. For example, whenever Apple releases a new iPhone or the new MacBook, it is essentially new media. The old media is large desktop laptops and landline phones when the new media… Read more »
Overall, author Lisa Gitelman suggests that the purpose of new media is “to study the contemporary moment” and follows the “perennial newness of media”. In her discussion of American exceptionalism, I was forced to contemplate both the advantages and burdens in our current climate of continual advancements in media. Significantly, I believe that “new media” contributes greatly to our ability… Read more »