As Jenkins states on the second page of the introduction, "the book is about the relationship between three concepts - media convergence, participatory culture, and collective intelligence." In the introduction in particular he introduces and elaborates on the idea of convergence. A number of examples are used to clarify the concept as well as talking about the culture that is affected by convergence. The black box theory is an important topic that he also talks about. Its the concept that "sooner, or later, the argument goes, all media content is going to flow through a single black box into our living rooms."
-"Because there is more information on any given topic than anyone can store in their head, there is an added incentive for us to talk among ourselves about the media we consume."
-"Producers who fail to make their peace with this new participatory culture will face declining goodwill and diminish revenues."
The first quote that I picked out makes me think of all of the information that pops up in a search engine when searching for a topic. It is easier to collect needed metadata when conversing with other people
I think Weinburger and Jenkins do have a connection but just looking a things from a different angle. They both talk about how media is being taken in by its audience and put to use. We are facing new forms of media every day and massive amounts of information through them all. The media outlets are growing so fast that we are having to adapt faster.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Post #4
The overall concept of Weinbergers theory is that everything in our digital world is so miscellaneous that its strategically organized in a way that we cant actually see. As he states in the last chapter, "the miscellaneous is unowned. Anyone can add to it. Anyone can slice it up and reorganize it the way she likes." He makes it clear that with everything being digital and a lump of metadata our brains must learn to understand a realm of information much deeper and its ins and outs. When the world was just books, journals and newspapers all we had to do was obtain the knowledge within them. We now have to know where to find it, how to understand it, ways to search for it, and so sift out exactly what we need. Weinberger loves the thought of miscellaneous and wants the new world to understand that it has made things simpler even though the word miscellaneous is so intimidating and overwhelming. Miscellaneous has actually become our benefit.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Post #3
Chapter 8:
The main point of chapter 8 is to define meaning, in certain cases meaning behind labels or words that signify a meaning. Metadata for example contains these aspects yet can more than often be confusing or irrelevant to what it actually means. The chapter uses a good example of labeling/metadata and what is real about something when it talks about a jar of jam. It has a label and we automatically know certain things about it, yet if you see this same jar of jam on the internet it may have only a few labels or informative words to it. It is not real compare tot he physical roadside jam. Yet this aspect of something online not having as much information can benefit users because it leaves room for more information such as tagging to be added and give it some kind og organization. All together the chapter puts a great light on implicit and explicit information that's present to the public.
It is important as a DTC major because we need to understand all aspects of how information is organized, distributed, and labeled on the internet, so that we can use it to our advantage in our work. Understanding how metadata works is important so that we are bale to present easily to those who don't understand how it works. Our world is on its way to simplifying a lot of things and being explicit is going to be important in our success.
Chapter 9:
Weinberger talks mainly about messiness and the three orders of mess. Today messiness is becoming the new way of organizing. On the internet everything is clumped together yet you can find things easier than in a shoebox of piled information. As everything once was organized such as photos in a shoebox in a closet, it has now been stored on cameras and memory cards. We don't have to print them to see them and we can even share them with more people than we know. Everyone organizes messes in one way or another and these messes make the information more important because metadata is connecting all of the other data that we need, it just seems like one big mess.
This is important as a DTC major because working in the technological field I will be digitally organizing everything as well as finding everything int he same manner. If I don't know how to sift through the organized mess that the internet has formed then I wont be very productive. Organization will be the key to our careers because there are so many components to our work.
The main point of chapter 8 is to define meaning, in certain cases meaning behind labels or words that signify a meaning. Metadata for example contains these aspects yet can more than often be confusing or irrelevant to what it actually means. The chapter uses a good example of labeling/metadata and what is real about something when it talks about a jar of jam. It has a label and we automatically know certain things about it, yet if you see this same jar of jam on the internet it may have only a few labels or informative words to it. It is not real compare tot he physical roadside jam. Yet this aspect of something online not having as much information can benefit users because it leaves room for more information such as tagging to be added and give it some kind og organization. All together the chapter puts a great light on implicit and explicit information that's present to the public.
It is important as a DTC major because we need to understand all aspects of how information is organized, distributed, and labeled on the internet, so that we can use it to our advantage in our work. Understanding how metadata works is important so that we are bale to present easily to those who don't understand how it works. Our world is on its way to simplifying a lot of things and being explicit is going to be important in our success.
Chapter 9:
Weinberger talks mainly about messiness and the three orders of mess. Today messiness is becoming the new way of organizing. On the internet everything is clumped together yet you can find things easier than in a shoebox of piled information. As everything once was organized such as photos in a shoebox in a closet, it has now been stored on cameras and memory cards. We don't have to print them to see them and we can even share them with more people than we know. Everyone organizes messes in one way or another and these messes make the information more important because metadata is connecting all of the other data that we need, it just seems like one big mess.
This is important as a DTC major because working in the technological field I will be digitally organizing everything as well as finding everything int he same manner. If I don't know how to sift through the organized mess that the internet has formed then I wont be very productive. Organization will be the key to our careers because there are so many components to our work.
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