Well, the New Communication Tech text book seems to be eating my bag literally. Which is a baddd thing but good for my student study habits. Last week I managed to read a chapter of Communication and New Media under a tree, which was very calming. Except then ants started to gnaw my legs which wasn't too good for the concentration. The second chapter was read this morning (Friday) because at work a flight was delayed until 11pm (I work at a cafe the airport) and then the plane got struck by lightning on arrival, which meant the flight was cancelled. That made me ultra tired as I was supposed to finish at about 8:30 and then go home and read that chapter. BUT NO!! God works against me, in the form of a lightning bolt. But the good thing is, I managed to read the second chapter this morning. The second chapter is about Vectors, which I understand in the physics sense, but not the technology sense. But now I do, I guess. I never knew the "science" of communication technology was so very complex.
Today's lecture was very interesting. It was interesting to see the history of media theorists, especially the media studies in the UK. The realm of communication seems to be a very broad and complex study area for many theorists, as discovered today. Stanley Cohen's works on "Moral Panics" is something I would like to read into in more detail. The Mods and Rockers phenomenon of the 1960s would be a facinating read as his insights into the Uk's media reaction of such a phenomenon is exposed.
La Jetee (see main photo. Photo from http://daily.greencine.com/archives/la-jetee.gif, accessed 9th March 2007, 4:21pm) was a film we watched in the lecture today. A 1962 french new wave film, this film composed of a mixture of black and white photographs and a little motion scenes with voiceovers and heavily dramatic music. I say the genre was mostly sci-fi, with time-travel encapsulating most of the film. It was a love story in many cases, with memory acting as a strong element. Paris seemed to be destroyed and the end of the world seemed eminent. There is one thing the french do best in cinema and that is their scripts. Many quotes in that film were very sweet and true to love. It was a very haunting film, in a good way, because the script was very complex and left one thinking.
I don't think I have fully introduced my "blog" so I guess I should start. I should start in the fourth paragraph, haha. How professional. This is my blog for New Communication Technologies for my first year Journalism subject. The point of this blog is not one of personal issues (you can find that on my myspace site :p) but rather an informative guide on what and how my research and progress is for this subject, so I can get a lovely assessment at the end of the semester. Woohoo! So I hope you enjoy this, I do like to ramble however. I'm off to do, see, and learn.
Today's lecture was very interesting. It was interesting to see the history of media theorists, especially the media studies in the UK. The realm of communication seems to be a very broad and complex study area for many theorists, as discovered today. Stanley Cohen's works on "Moral Panics" is something I would like to read into in more detail. The Mods and Rockers phenomenon of the 1960s would be a facinating read as his insights into the Uk's media reaction of such a phenomenon is exposed.
La Jetee (see main photo. Photo from http://daily.greencine.com/archives/la-jetee.gif, accessed 9th March 2007, 4:21pm) was a film we watched in the lecture today. A 1962 french new wave film, this film composed of a mixture of black and white photographs and a little motion scenes with voiceovers and heavily dramatic music. I say the genre was mostly sci-fi, with time-travel encapsulating most of the film. It was a love story in many cases, with memory acting as a strong element. Paris seemed to be destroyed and the end of the world seemed eminent. There is one thing the french do best in cinema and that is their scripts. Many quotes in that film were very sweet and true to love. It was a very haunting film, in a good way, because the script was very complex and left one thinking.
I don't think I have fully introduced my "blog" so I guess I should start. I should start in the fourth paragraph, haha. How professional. This is my blog for New Communication Technologies for my first year Journalism subject. The point of this blog is not one of personal issues (you can find that on my myspace site :p) but rather an informative guide on what and how my research and progress is for this subject, so I can get a lovely assessment at the end of the semester. Woohoo! So I hope you enjoy this, I do like to ramble however. I'm off to do, see, and learn.
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