C'est la théorie que je préfère!

For an assignment in my Communication Studies class Definitions of Media and Technology, I was to find four concepts, three theorists and write about it or present it. Here are the results of my research.

INTERFACE
http://prezi.com/8lzyn7-pkimd/interface/

NOSTALGIA
In analogue format only. Submitted in-class on Tuesday October 30, 2012.

PARTICIPATION
http://soundcloud.com/corneggs/participation

TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION
http://youtu.be/c1eKVR1I7Q4

Enjoy. Feel free to put comments in the dialog box below.

Bibliography

Armitage, John. 1999. Paul Virilio: An Introduction. Theory, Culture, Society, Vol. 16(5-6): 1-23.

Bertelsen, Eve. 1996. Post mod-cons: Consumerism and cultural studies. Critical Arts: A South-

     North Journal of Cultural and Media Studies, Vol. 10(1): n.p.

Bolter, Jay David and Grusin, Richard. 2000. Remediation : understanding new media. Cambridge, 

     MA: MIT Press. Available from http://www.scribd.com/doc/27114772/R%CE%B5m%CE

     %B5diation-Und%CE%B5rstanding-New-M%CE%B5dia-Bolter-Grusin.

Cubitt, Sean. 1999. Virilio and New Media. Theory, Culture, Society, Vol. 16(5-6): 127-142.

de Souza e Silva, Adriana. 2006. From Cyber to Hybrid: Mobile technologies as interfaces of hybrid     

     spaces. Space and Culture, Vol. 9(3): 261-278.

Gane, Nicholas. 2006. Speed Up or Slow Down? Social theory in the information age. Information, 

     Communication and Society, Vol. 9(1): 20-38.

Gane, Nicholas and Beer, David. 2008. New media : the key concepts. Oxford ; New York: Berg.

Gauntlett, David. 2011. Making is connecting : the social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting 

     to YouTube and Web 2.0. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press.

Harvey, David. 1989. The condition of postmodernity : an enquiry into the origins of cultural change.

     Oxford, England ; New York, NY, USA : Blackwell.

Jenkins, Henry. 2012. Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Grassroots creativity meets the media 

     industry. In Michael Mandiberg (Ed.), The social media reader (pp. 203-235). New York : New York   

     University Press.

Jenkins, Henry, Purushotma, Ravi et al. 2009. Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: 

     media education for the 21st century. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press.

Johnson, Steven. 1997. Interface culture : how new technology transforms the way we create and 

     communicate. San Francisco : HarperEdge.

Lessig, Lawrence. 2008. Remix : making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy New York :  

     Penguin Press.

Manovich, Lev. 2001. Understanding new media. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press. Availabe from  

     http://www.manovich.net/LNM/Manovich.pdf.

McLuhan, Eric and Zingrone, Frank. 1995. Essential McLuhan. Concord, ON: House of Anansi.

McLuhan, Marshall. 1969. The Gutenberg galaxy : the making of typographic man. New York : New 

     American Library.
---1965. Understanding media : the extensions of man New York : McGraw-Hill.

McQuire, Scott. 1999. Blinded by the (Speed of) Light. Theory, Culture, Society, Vol. 16(5-6): 143-159.

Olivier, Marc. 2011. Civilization Inoculated: Nostalgia and the Marketing of Emerging Technologies.

      The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 44(1): 134-157.

Postigo, Hector. 2012. Cultural Production and the Digital Rights Movement: Framing the right to

     participate in culture. Information, Communication and Society, Vol. 15(8): 1165-1185.

Ruggill, Judd Ethan and Ken S. McAllister 2011. Gaming Matters Art, Science, Magic, and the

     Computer Game Medium. University of Alabama Press.

Ruppel, Marc. 2009. You are then, this is now: nostalgia, technology and consumer identity at CES

      2007. Social Identities, Vol. 15(4): 537-555.

Schäfer, Mirko Tobias. 2011. Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural

      Production. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Schwarz, Ori. 2009. Good Young Nostalgia: Camera phones and technologies of self among Israeli

     youths. Journal of Consumer Culture, 9(3): 348-376.

Sobchack, Vivian. 1999. Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of QuickTime.

     Millennium Film Journal, Vol. 34: n.p. Available from http://mfj-online.org/journalPages

     /MFJ34/VivianSobchack.html

Sutton, Oliver. What is Social Acceleration? Part Five: David Harvey on Time-Space Compression. 

     Accessed October 16, 2012. http://socialacceleration.blogspot.ca/2010/05/what-is-social-

     acceleration-part-five.html

Valtysson, Bjarki. 2010. Access culture: Web 2.0 and cultural participation. International Journal of   

     Cultural Policy, Vol. 16(2): 200-214.

Virilio, Paul. 1999. Indirect Light: Extracted from Polar Inertia. Theory, Culture, Society, Vol.

     16(5-6):57-50.

Winget, Megan A. 2011. Videogame Preservation and Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing

     Games: A Review of the Literature. Journal of the American Society for Information Science

     and Technology, 62(10): 1869-1883.

Circus

Every time I live in Quebec, somehow I get involved in the circus. How very Gallic to have a professional circus as an Institution of the nation, my stereotyping self thinks. But oh how very cool. Le spectacle is a term that doesn't translate well. The circus, especially one without live animals, is one of wonder, fantasy, fascination, incredibility. The people performing work hard to do this kind of stuff.

When I was in Quebec City in summer of 2009 I was lucky enough to be there during the city's 400th anniversary. There was a free outdoor show being put on by Cirque du Soleil because of the anniversary. Now I'm in Montreal. This weekend there was a 3-day "culture days" province-wide arts event going on. Montreal, the hometown of Cirque du Soleil, is host to the National Circus School. This weekend they were holding an open house with free shows and an inside look into the training grounds of national and international circus performers. How many people can say they've seen that?! Sure, you can say you've seen it on TV - I'm sure I've seen a special about these kinds of things. Anyway, to turn something that one runs away with when one is discontented with one's life, into an institution that requires training and is a million-dollar entertainment industry, and to have it in an already creative city like Montreal, is nothing short of, well, spectacle-ular.

A culture that is able to laugh at itself is one that knows how to live.

Update

I am now studying for a Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies at Concordia University.

Since my last post, I've travelled in Nicaragua, through Europe and through Southern China and I've moved to Montreal.

Now that I'm forced to think of media for school, I will update more often so keep reading!