The main thing that Henry Jenkins talk s about is media convergence. He starts by telling a story about a high school kid making photo's titled "Bert is Evil," all of which have Bert from Sesame street in "evil" situations. Long story short the images of Bert with Osama Binladen end up creating quite the controversy. This is when Jenkins begins to talk about his first topic, convergence. Jenkins starts out with this, "convergence represents a cultural shift as consumers are encouraged to seek out new information and make connections among dispersed media content" (Jenkins 3). He continues to go over convergence and further explains what convergence is and the different aspects of it with a couple of examples while still relating back to "Bert is Evil" when needed.
Jenkins relates to Weinberger in a couple of ways. It seemed like a lot of stuff that Jenkins was saying related to Web 2.0. Weinberger has a similar view of Web 2.0 in that its information is infinite and there are tons of different ways of seeing or obtaining that information. Also how anyone can publish what ever they would like to on the web. Jenkin's discusses social networking sites and schools and I highly agree that these things should be okay in schools and possibly one day even taught in schools. The working world is beginning to use these tools more and more and the knowledge of how to use them at an early age can only help.
The last thing that I noticed is that Jenkins and Weinberger both notice different things about the web and its infinite amount of information. Weinberger focuses more on how all the info on the web is organized and "tagged." While Jenkins sees people taking parts of that information and changing it to their liking. But in the end Jenkins views users as less in control of that info and Weinberger sees them as having almost total control.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
#5 implicitly explicit
"the meaning of a particular thing is enabled by the web of implicit meanings we call the world"
What Weinberger and Heidegger are saying is that without any implicit meanings, the world would be just definitions. Based on peoples experiences with different things, specific objects can mean any number of things to different people. Like when I see a pencil I don’t just see something to write with. I see something that I can make art with and create different marks and messages through something other than just writing. Yes, there are other people out there who think the same way as me but there is any number of people out there who see the pencil as something very different. The same thing goes for every object in our material world and with every object every person could have an entirely different definition for what that object really means. The “web of implicit meanings we call the world” helps give each person definitions for each object.
The third order of order fits into this because with the way people order things now, we can add an unlimited amount of tags to anything, including implicit definitions. In doing so we are labeling things with more than one definition. Weinberger gives good examples of this using Walmart product suggestions after purchasing items online. Anything can have any number of labels and we can define things differently with the use of images, videos, articles, blogs, dictionaries, etc. Because we are able to do this we gain a better understanding of the world around us and in the end we can label things however we would like to as long as it works for us.
What Weinberger and Heidegger are saying is that without any implicit meanings, the world would be just definitions. Based on peoples experiences with different things, specific objects can mean any number of things to different people. Like when I see a pencil I don’t just see something to write with. I see something that I can make art with and create different marks and messages through something other than just writing. Yes, there are other people out there who think the same way as me but there is any number of people out there who see the pencil as something very different. The same thing goes for every object in our material world and with every object every person could have an entirely different definition for what that object really means. The “web of implicit meanings we call the world” helps give each person definitions for each object.
The third order of order fits into this because with the way people order things now, we can add an unlimited amount of tags to anything, including implicit definitions. In doing so we are labeling things with more than one definition. Weinberger gives good examples of this using Walmart product suggestions after purchasing items online. Anything can have any number of labels and we can define things differently with the use of images, videos, articles, blogs, dictionaries, etc. Because we are able to do this we gain a better understanding of the world around us and in the end we can label things however we would like to as long as it works for us.
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