Complete creating your documentary about online media. If in doubt about what angle to take answer the following question:
In what ways has both the film industry and audiences benefited from convergence and the Internet?
You should aim to finish this over half term and be ready to screen in on our return.
Wednesday 10 February 2010
Monday 8 February 2010
Work for Tuesday 9th Feb
The Virtual Revolution
Watch this episode and asnwer the following questons:
1. Which continent has just got broadband?
2. What is the name of the man who 'invented' the world wide web?
3. How much of the population is using the web?
4. How many of us is that?
5. Dr Aleks Krotoski refers to the web as bringing about a 'levelling of power, culture and ??????'
6. How many log on every day in the UK?
7. How much money is spent a week on the internet in the UK?
8. How many of us read blogs?
9. Why is it called 'the great leveller'?
10. How do the libertarian values of the internet clash with 'human instincts?
11. How many people use Wikipedia each month around the world?
1. Which continent has just got broadband?
2. What is the name of the man who 'invented' the world wide web?
3. How much of the population is using the web?
4. How many of us is that?
5. Dr Aleks Krotoski refers to the web as bringing about a 'levelling of power, culture and ??????'
6. How many log on every day in the UK?
7. How much money is spent a week on the internet in the UK?
8. How many of us read blogs?
9. Why is it called 'the great leveller'?
10. How do the libertarian values of the internet clash with 'human instincts?
11. How many people use Wikipedia each month around the world?
Friday 5 February 2010
Homework due in Monday 8th Feb
Look at your foundation and advanced portfolios and create a chart using the 12 glossary terms that you were tested on today.
How do your portfolios fulfill or challenge these concepts?
How can you use your products as examples to discuss the issues around Online Media?
How do your portfolios fulfill or challenge these concepts?
How can you use your products as examples to discuss the issues around Online Media?
Tuesday 2 February 2010
Test Results
1. IP= musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual property include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and trade secrets in some jurisdictions
2. Collaborative culture = Social networking sites and online collaboration tools make it easier for employees to collaborate and share their knowledge. Add email and instant messaging (IM) to the mix and the result is a knowledge-sharing system that can bolster communication and productivity throughout an enterprise
3. Remix creativity = an writing, collective writing/creation and vernacular creativity
4. Creative commons = Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[1] The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses for free to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. Wikipedia is one of the notable web-based projects using one of its licenses.
The organization was founded in 2001 with support of the Center for the Public Domain. The first set of copyright licenses were released in December 2002.[2]
5. Globalisation = n ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a globe-spanning network of communication and trade. The term can also refer to the transnational circulation of ideas, languages, or popular culture through acculturation.
6. Knowledge economy = various observers describe today's global economy as one in transition to a "knowledge economy", as an extension of an "information society". The transition requires that the rules and practices that determined success in the industrial economy need rewriting in an interconnected, globalized economy where knowledge resources such as know-how and expertise are as critical as other economic resources.
7. Perfect Storm
8. Digital natives = today‟s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors. They have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV).
Interesting article about digital immigrants v digital natives
9. Peering = Two networks exchange traffic between each other's customers freely, and for mutual benefit.
10. Free creativity = how new technology has enabled audiences to create and share products, without having to pay for hosting of sites
11. Democratisation = allows means of production and distribution to be shared amongst the audience rather than in the hands of the gatekeeping institutions.
12. Globalisation = the concept that as technology, easier travel, etc has made the world 'smaller' or more easily accessible than it used to be. Criticisms however that this is only really accessible to the wealthy and/or the West.
13. Perfect Storm = the combination of 3 elements:
i) technology
ii) demographics
iii) economics
means that all media companies now have to take all of these into account and use web 2.0 in order to be successful.
14. Wikinomics = a term invented by Tapscott and Williams t (2006) to describe the impact of web 2. on economics as well as media.
15. 'We think' , the way we think, our actual brain processes and how we make sense of knowledge has changed in the light of Web 2.0
2. Collaborative culture = Social networking sites and online collaboration tools make it easier for employees to collaborate and share their knowledge. Add email and instant messaging (IM) to the mix and the result is a knowledge-sharing system that can bolster communication and productivity throughout an enterprise
3. Remix creativity = an writing, collective writing/creation and vernacular creativity
4. Creative commons = Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[1] The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses for free to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. Wikipedia is one of the notable web-based projects using one of its licenses.
The organization was founded in 2001 with support of the Center for the Public Domain. The first set of copyright licenses were released in December 2002.[2]
5. Globalisation = n ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a globe-spanning network of communication and trade. The term can also refer to the transnational circulation of ideas, languages, or popular culture through acculturation.
6. Knowledge economy = various observers describe today's global economy as one in transition to a "knowledge economy", as an extension of an "information society". The transition requires that the rules and practices that determined success in the industrial economy need rewriting in an interconnected, globalized economy where knowledge resources such as know-how and expertise are as critical as other economic resources.
7. Perfect Storm
8. Digital natives = today‟s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors. They have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV).
Interesting article about digital immigrants v digital natives
9. Peering = Two networks exchange traffic between each other's customers freely, and for mutual benefit.
10. Free creativity = how new technology has enabled audiences to create and share products, without having to pay for hosting of sites
11. Democratisation = allows means of production and distribution to be shared amongst the audience rather than in the hands of the gatekeeping institutions.
12. Globalisation = the concept that as technology, easier travel, etc has made the world 'smaller' or more easily accessible than it used to be. Criticisms however that this is only really accessible to the wealthy and/or the West.
13. Perfect Storm = the combination of 3 elements:
i) technology
ii) demographics
iii) economics
means that all media companies now have to take all of these into account and use web 2.0 in order to be successful.
14. Wikinomics = a term invented by Tapscott and Williams t (2006) to describe the impact of web 2. on economics as well as media.
15. 'We think' , the way we think, our actual brain processes and how we make sense of knowledge has changed in the light of Web 2.0
Media Guardian on Online TV
The cable TV company Virgin Media recorded 750m views of video-on-demand content last year, a 50% year-on-year increase, driven by the success of the BBC iPlayer and the ITV Player on its service.
In December Virgin Media recorded 76m views of content on its on-demand service, a 6% increase on November.
The most popular shows last month included Gavin & Stacey, EastEnders, Coronation Street, The X Factor, and the Royle Family and Doctor Who Christmas specials.
Virgin Media said that 59% of its 3.9 million TV subscribers regularly accessed video-on-demand content last year, an increase of 250,000 homes compared with 2008.
The cable company said that on-demand views of iPlayer content had grown from 10.5m in June 2008, when it launched, to 20m views in December.
Virgin Media added that Coronation Street, The X Factor and I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! helped drive 25m views in the last three months of 2009 on the ITV Player.
In total 11m movies were watched on demand last year, with December seeing a 29% boost over November usage.
Kids' programming, such as High School Musical, Hannah Montana and Dora the Explorer, generated almost 22m views last year.
In December Virgin Media recorded 76m views of content on its on-demand service, a 6% increase on November.
The most popular shows last month included Gavin & Stacey, EastEnders, Coronation Street, The X Factor, and the Royle Family and Doctor Who Christmas specials.
Virgin Media said that 59% of its 3.9 million TV subscribers regularly accessed video-on-demand content last year, an increase of 250,000 homes compared with 2008.
The cable company said that on-demand views of iPlayer content had grown from 10.5m in June 2008, when it launched, to 20m views in December.
Virgin Media added that Coronation Street, The X Factor and I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! helped drive 25m views in the last three months of 2009 on the ITV Player.
In total 11m movies were watched on demand last year, with December seeing a 29% boost over November usage.
Kids' programming, such as High School Musical, Hannah Montana and Dora the Explorer, generated almost 22m views last year.
Glossary for test
Look up these terms and learn their definition for a test on Friday 5th Feb:
1. IP
2. Collaborative culture
3. Remix creativity
4. Creative commons
5. Globalisation
6. Knowledge economy
7. Perfect Storm
8. Digital natives
9. Peering
10. Free creativity
11. Democratisation
12. Globalisation
13. Perfect Storm
14. Wikinomics
15. We think
1. IP
2. Collaborative culture
3. Remix creativity
4. Creative commons
5. Globalisation
6. Knowledge economy
7. Perfect Storm
8. Digital natives
9. Peering
10. Free creativity
11. Democratisation
12. Globalisation
13. Perfect Storm
14. Wikinomics
15. We think
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