Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Study Task 3 - Image and Theory

Select and define important terms / concepts you have discovered through your reading (if you do not have any you may choose from the list below)
Aesthetics / Millennials / Automation / Fandom / Influencers / Virtual Reality / Automation/ Cyberculture

Collect and analyse examples / images / phenomena that could be interpreted as following these concepts.

Instagram trends - blogs with a good "aesthetic" do well, visually pleasing = popular. Ideas of "themes" on these sites.
Fandom culture, the things that people (often young teens) follow becoming part of their personality. Especially true with vloggers. 
The idea of amateur production often being totally false - scripted, sponsored etc. Sponsorships of popular posts/videos without audience being made fully aware. 
Nostalgic influences, digital and physical aesthetic of the 80s and 90s coming back into fashion. 
Self-representation online often carefully filtered and mediated - art?

How could they be used to interpret your theme / question? Triangulate with theorists and critics.
You may apply the analysis technique below to examples - to help deconstruct your choices.

Theorists: 
James Bridle 
Donna Haraway (A Cyborg Manifesto)
Alice E. Marwick (Becoming Elite: Social Status in Web 2.0 Cultures)
Sherry Turkle (Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet)

Other:
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/cyberculture.html
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Cyber/mindvox.txt

  • Context / when it was made / where it appears (including when)
  • Subject / content / compostiton
  • Audience / who is it aimed at 
  • Purpose / why was it made / why was it used 
  • Method of production

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