Thursday, September 24, 2009

Michael Wesch Explains Web 2.0




1. Give us, IYOW (In Your Own Words), a one sentence thesis for this text - what is this text's central argument?
2. Then, using one sentence IYOW, make ONE critical observation about the text, using the concepts and language from our four tool sets. BE SURE NOT TO REPEAT ANOTHER STUDENT'S OBSERVATION - read previous posts closely.
3. Finally, respectfully respond to another previous student's observation or comment in the C4 "thread" about the text. This must be at least 2 sentences long AND in the first person.

1) We can now due to Web 2.0 take words we are evolutionally only used to seeing on paper or rock to a virtual "space" changing the way we interpret the content, bringing up issues of rhetoric, identity, and image in todays media society. 
                                 
2)The aesthetic shift I noticed was seen multiple times in the video by the mention of television, cell phone, and web time. We now are able to get media on many different platforms. It is with us when we use our phone, turn on the tv, open up a webpage, and walk outside. We have gone from one way to get the news, when all we had was the newspaper in print to complete convergence of all media through multiple mediums. 

3) I agree with what Colt has high lighted when talking about how we have become the machine, and the machine has become us. Describing the shift in that we become flat and Web 2.0 becomes this think tank of information. While looking for supporting posting in my Postman research, I came across a new term I had never seen before, but I think we talked about something similar in class about how because we consume the media we ultimately create it. The term was prosumer. Something also to keep in mind while watching our class video The Persuaders.



1 comment:

  1. Fine analysis here, Molly.

    Please repost this at our COURSE blog, yes?

    W

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