- What have you found particularly interesting about the lecture and the readings?
- Over the course of one day, note down all the kinds of media (using the broadest definition possible) you use and what for (radio for local news, ipod for sharing music with a friend, phone for text and sharing photos, television for national news and sport, book for looking up a map, computer for email and newspaper headlines etc.). What sorts of activities does each medium enable, and what does it discourage?
Computer is used to gain updated news as well as socialising on facebook, banking, research, sharing animals from the pound, emails, listening to music, sharing photos & playing games. The computer is basically the umbilical cord to the outside world for me, everything that I can do on the computer, I will including online shopping. I also use the computer to do my online studies. I can't really see the computer discouraging anything except perhaps causing me to exercise less away from the computer. I will also use my computer for research be it getting directions or looking up extra information to aid my studies.
Ipad for playing games and also occasionally sharing pictures or socialising on facebook. I also have electronic books and recipes stored on my Ipad. It currently discourages the internet, as I don't have a portable modem for it. So need to be at home when I want to go online with my ipad. When I'm out though, it still serves it's purpose of entertaining me in waiting rooms with the dowloaded books and games.
I have a mobile that I use most as a camera, or for receiving texts. It never lets me send text and since I forever seem to be out of credit, I rarely make calls using my mobile.
A second mobile I have I also use as a camera. Both mobiles also double as my address books where I store my contact numbers.
Finally, I have a good old fashioned cordless telephone which I use for making & receiving calls.
- Poynting et al suggest that the Australian media use metaphors to structure our understanding of events through ‘frames’ which position readers in particular ways. Can you think of other examples which support (or contradict) their argument?
- Looking at your list from question 1, to what extent do ‘old’ media exist within new media, i.e. has mms replaced the postcard? Has the online newspaper made the print version obsolete? What happens to different narratives as they move through particular media forms, i.e. did any of your examples from question 2 transform as they move from print to electronic media or vice versa?
The online newspaper will never replace the print version. There will always be people, both in this country and overseas, that choose to live without internet access or have no choice to. For this reason, there will always be a market for not just printed newspapers, but printed books also. Nature too, has a way of showing how weak the internet can be. All it takes is a solar flare, a flood, an earthquake, a tidal wave to destroy electrical equipment and cause all data online to be lost. Newspapers, books and anything printed, although can be damaged, can often also be salvaged, or due to multitudes of copies, can be stored away somewhere safe. That's not always the case online. Also, with online, there are hackers to contend with.
As to emails, although they are a convenient mode of communication, it's not intimate and for people preferring intimacy may prefer to stick to letters.
Many books have been written that were a collective of letters from famous people, i.e, letters written by the Queen whilst she was still young. Not many books have been written that are a collective of emails.
As to 2nd part of this question. I plan to stew on it some more. Although I understand this question and have a partial answer in mind, it still requires a response for question 2, which I'm currently lacking.
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