As I look back over the past year, my online involvement with new media has been more as a customer consumer than that of a creator consumer. I learned about those two terms in Miller's article, A View from a Fossil, (2004). The idea is that the customer consumer fuels the all-powerful consumption economy, whereas the creator consumer tries to exercise online creativity and remixing of all kinds of ideas or culture, all the while outwitting the copyright trolls and laws.
I have though, in my continuous learning, produced a couple of avatars and loaded them onto Youtube. They were to add interest to my input in adult education courses. I also worked on a number of group projects of website presentations. Both the avatar site, Xtranormal, and the website SlideRocket no longer support previous creations. They have had to fine tune or rework their business plans, leaving me without access to what was a part of my schooling.
Nonetheless, those previous encounters with new media, and this course, have emboldened me to more frequently add my voice to blogs and Twitter feeds. Not everything I state on Twitter has the #comm2f00 added to it as part of the course requirement. I am adding to the community at large in a new and interesting way. But, I am a bit nervous of this whole idea of the creative industries economy, since news agencies and urban legends have given reports about copyright lawsuits going after some unfortunate soul who had inadvertently shared some information on a social media site but had failed to get the appropriate permission.
I think I would like to be more of a creator consumer of new media. I would like to be a part of a blog at my place of work, one that can help instructors and adult literacy learners alike in learning new skills and promoting best practices in ways to learn. Hopefully, at the end of this course and with some team input, that will be a reality in 2014. After all , blogs help promote ideas and build alliances (Jenkins, 2004). In light of possible changes to adult literacy funding, it may be a good idea to have more of a voice and more online partnerships. The difficulty can be in trying to maintain a good blog site. It's not a one shot deal. But, if you don't at least start, you'll never achieve anything worthwhile.
And I believe promoting use of new media is a way to promote a cultural commons where community can be enhanced and both individuals and groups can take part in formal or informal learning. But how does one deal with restrictive copyright laws? Jenkins in his journal article, The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence, (2004), states that blogging can be a vehicle for those who want to build community and have free access to learning without constantly infringing upon copyright laws. He suggests that people today are aggressively choosing what media they want to consume and when, and that even though the convergence of producers and consumers may not be equally balanced, traditional corporations had better pay attention to the ability of consumers to choose. Corporations need to recognize that both creators and customers want their voices to be heard. New media technology can quickly adapt to demand and easily enable grassroot communities to promote their interests and it is a capability that large media corporations and governments should pay attention to.
So, here's to blogging, now and in the future. Linda.
References:
Jenkins, H. (2004). The cultural logic of media convergence.International Journal of
Cultural Studies, 7(1), 33-43. doi10.1177/1367877904040603.
Miller, T. (2004). A view from a fossil. International journal of cultural
studies, Volume 7(1): 55–65 DOI:
10.1177/1367877904040605.
I have though, in my continuous learning, produced a couple of avatars and loaded them onto Youtube. They were to add interest to my input in adult education courses. I also worked on a number of group projects of website presentations. Both the avatar site, Xtranormal, and the website SlideRocket no longer support previous creations. They have had to fine tune or rework their business plans, leaving me without access to what was a part of my schooling.
Nonetheless, those previous encounters with new media, and this course, have emboldened me to more frequently add my voice to blogs and Twitter feeds. Not everything I state on Twitter has the #comm2f00 added to it as part of the course requirement. I am adding to the community at large in a new and interesting way. But, I am a bit nervous of this whole idea of the creative industries economy, since news agencies and urban legends have given reports about copyright lawsuits going after some unfortunate soul who had inadvertently shared some information on a social media site but had failed to get the appropriate permission.
I think I would like to be more of a creator consumer of new media. I would like to be a part of a blog at my place of work, one that can help instructors and adult literacy learners alike in learning new skills and promoting best practices in ways to learn. Hopefully, at the end of this course and with some team input, that will be a reality in 2014. After all , blogs help promote ideas and build alliances (Jenkins, 2004). In light of possible changes to adult literacy funding, it may be a good idea to have more of a voice and more online partnerships. The difficulty can be in trying to maintain a good blog site. It's not a one shot deal. But, if you don't at least start, you'll never achieve anything worthwhile.
And I believe promoting use of new media is a way to promote a cultural commons where community can be enhanced and both individuals and groups can take part in formal or informal learning. But how does one deal with restrictive copyright laws? Jenkins in his journal article, The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence, (2004), states that blogging can be a vehicle for those who want to build community and have free access to learning without constantly infringing upon copyright laws. He suggests that people today are aggressively choosing what media they want to consume and when, and that even though the convergence of producers and consumers may not be equally balanced, traditional corporations had better pay attention to the ability of consumers to choose. Corporations need to recognize that both creators and customers want their voices to be heard. New media technology can quickly adapt to demand and easily enable grassroot communities to promote their interests and it is a capability that large media corporations and governments should pay attention to.
So, here's to blogging, now and in the future. Linda.
References:
Jenkins, H. (2004). The cultural logic of media convergence.International Journal of
Cultural Studies, 7(1), 33-43. doi10.1177/1367877904040603.
Miller, T. (2004). A view from a fossil. International journal of cultural
studies, Volume 7(1): 55–65 DOI:
10.1177/1367877904040605.