May 2008
3 posts
Understanding Web 2.0
We live in a society where the web 2.0 generation like ourselves gradually keeps moving up. We have been caught up in the internet since a young age and have witnessed significant changes over the past few yeas that we probably would not have imagined when we first started out with the computer. Where anyone at all can get their media out there on youtube, blogs, among several other sites, we...
Looking Critically
We learned a lot about how we, as media consumers, should be looking more actively at the media around us. Now that I understand the ideas behind encoding messages, I’ve been looking at the media around me with a more critical eye, especially the news both on TV and on the web. We also talked about how unintentional messages can also be sent depending on several aspects of the production...
Owning the Message
Following up our discussions about Marxism and those who own the means to produce own the message as well, we now have endless options in front of us with the web to get our own message out there. I really enjoyed our work in Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash - Adobe Pro apps I have not had much experience with. From our magazine designs to the appropriations, it reinforced the idea of how easy...