Digital Media
On the first day of the year we were given a short introduction into the course. We where shown a short video on the Lumiere brothers video Arrival of the train at La Ciotat where we briefly discussed the development of photography and moving image which led to the modern cinema and photography we have today .Which i have included in my website, we then talked about the creation of the internet and the first computer created. The Z1, and how the army would use this as a form of communication with the troops where they encoded messages, as the lecture proceeded we started to discuss the "rough magic" behind technology and how technology is basically a form of magic and how the more we fiddle with technology the more we create this rough magic.
Second Lecture
During the second lecture we were introduced to dan who helped us use flash and create buttons for our interactive poster on Flash,and we where given ancient media artefacts to research for out interactive posters which we created with ivan we kept blogs of different people which we could use to further develop the content on our interactive poster i kept blogs on F.t Marinetti, April Grieman , and other contributors to media and the ancient media object which i researched was a flip note which is an ancient form of animation, during lectures we also discussed further on Rough magic and cybernetics which is the relationship between a human and technology and the concept of a cyborg e.g a person wearing a watch could be considered as a cyborg as the watch is a physical augmentation of his/her body.
Semiotics
we learned in this lecture about semiotics and its influences on modern media many terms which we discussed are signs/ signification/ signified , iconic / arbitrary denotation /connotation/myth paradigm/syntagm and we researched Daniel chandlers website which is a detailed guide to understanding semiotics on this website the above terms were described and were very detailed i found this website very good for my research as it made me understand the subject of semiotics very easily i would recommend it to everyone we looked at semiotics for a couple of lectures as this particular subject is very long but interesting we were given an assignment to describe the above terms and explain we also had to draw a couple diagrams for illustration
Third Lecture
By the third lecture involved with digital media. We met Cathy and we started using HTML to create a website, By this time we were learning about alan turing and many other people which we could use for research in our website i personally dedicated my website to the origins of cinema as i found that the most interesting on my website i dedicated a page to Georges Melies and the book language of new media by lev Manovich I also included information on the "Magic lantern shows" The development of photography and the Lumiere brothers as we got closer too the deadline we had one on one tutorials with both ivan and Cathy on the development of our website and its content we also touched of the development of newspapers prior to the start of the development of our websites.
Development of newspapers
In this lecture we discussed the evolution of the newspaper we discussed how before the newspaper was invented the only form of communication between towns was the town crier then during the early mid 15th century Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press which allowed more news to be communicated at a much faster pace this allowed the whole world to communicate we then discussed the layout of the newspaper and how that had changed in the beginning there was no particular layout it was just heaps of text which would have been put on a paper the writing was tiny to fit as much information as possible this would have made reading the newspaper very hard as time progressed there was a creation of different lay out styles such as tabloid and broadcast this lecture was quite interesting and much was learned.
Telephone
In this lecture we talked about the creation of electricity an the telephone with Ivan, Long before the telephone, 1729 Stephen Gray (English) transmitted electricity over a wire – sent charges 300
feet over a brass wire and moistened thread 1746 Pieter va Musschenbroek (Dutch) and Ewald Georg von Kleist (German)developed a battery or condenser for storing static electricity 1753 an anonymous physician suggested that electricity might transmit messages 1753 telegraphy was then created which allowed for the use of morse code and later bell created the first telephone which he had doubts on but it later proved to be a success this is what lead to the creation of the modern telephone which we use today this lecture was very interesting.
Radio
In this lecture we discussed the creation and use of the the radio and how this allowed more news o be spread we looked at ancient radio and how this medium has developed at an astonishing rate over the last 100 years Radio refers to the broadcast over radio waves of an audio transmission with
no,or extensive reciprocal communication from the listener to the
broadcaster.
Today radio also describes customisable playlists from internet sites such as
SpoRfy and LastFM, and also radio shows on public access broadcast networks
that include phone-ins with ordinary people, hence involving
reciprocal communication.
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
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