“Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.”
For our last weeks task before compiling all our footages and finally making our behind the 30 min behind the scene, we where asked to as a group is to identify ‘a smell’ that is significant and meaningful. We were then asked to identify how we can communicate, know, and say something meaningful about the smell. …
Continue reading Group meeting….Task 5 Researching the Sensory
Todays lecture was structured on what are our scenes? and what is sensory ethnography?..... We spoke about Aristotelian hierarchical order of scenes and that how humans senses is Sight Hearing Smell Whilst animals Taste Touch Research is an embodied process, and creates an awareness of how our bodies feel and experience the contexts that …
For this weeks task we were asked to identify the kinds of knowledge that you can produce by conducting interviews and focus groups. We then chose one of these methods to address the issue of friendship in social media and create an interview schedule/focus group agenda and conduct your interview/focus group with carefully justified participant(s). As …
Todays task was about researching people. In this class we covered Interviews Topic Guides Focus Groups Practicalities Advantages/Disadvantages When to use Focus Groups A formal meeting or conversation such as on conducted by a reporter where statements are recorded is referred to as Interview. Interviews doesn't mean you have to be face to face …
The task set for this week was to analyze a fictional TV program of your choice (drama or sitcom) to determine whether its representation of diversity can be considered meaningful based on Mary Beltran’s criteria. For this weeks task …
Continue reading Group Meeting….Task 4 Researching the Visual…
Today's topic was one my favorite topics. I really enjoyed having a lecture about this topic which was very interesting. Researching the visual was what we studied in class today. Analyzing the television was talked to about in the class it was discovered that a television was characterized as multifaceted medium of communication,needs and an …
For this weeks task we were asked to research our own experiences of engaging with digital media. Drawing on our knowledge of other research methods, we were asked to create a group vlog on ‘being a media student’ for our Behind the scene footage. For this weeks class me and my group members decided that every …
Continue reading Group meeting…Task 3 Researching the Digital…
Todays class was a presentation on Researching the digital. Todays topic was a discussion on the Front end (were users interact) and Back end (where the owners have access) of the social web. Techno-Utopia are analytic focuses on front end meaning people control technology, whereas Techno-Dysopia are analytic focuses on back end meaning the technology …
Media And Communicataion Studies 