Blog #6

What are the key points/terms from Jenkins?

The key points from Jenkins are about the youth of each generation building social networks in the mediums of the radio, the internet etc. to impact and have a voice as youth. One example is of the bowling leagues of the 1950's. Bowling was the central hub of social life and networking. Nowadays games like World of Warcraft, Fifa connections, Farmville for example is a community that people interact on. A place of exchange does not always need to be rooted geographically. Protests in China are being conducted on the internet in space where they can protest. This is all great for civic engagement as Jenkins points out, but is scary times for journalism and the truth of information. Harry potters army is a good example of youth challenging the newspapers and the government of the time. Aaang Ain't white is another great example of how young people are recognizing the white washing of characters of other nationalities, and how hollywood continues to cast white characters. Another great one are people dressing up as the Navi, from James Cameron Avatar to represent oppression and genocide.


Key terms are ones such as Participatory Culture, which needs the attributes of 1.relatively low barriers for engagement 2. strong support for sharing creations with others. 3. informal mentor ship 4. members believe there contributions matter 5. Care about others opinions of self and work. Most importantly all must feel free to contribute, even if they don't continually, they must feel that when they are ready, what they contribute will be appropriately valued.

How do they (or do they) connect with the key points from Weinberger?

This does relate to weinberger because he states that classifications are political. The fact that many schools, businesses and those of the older generation want to keep facebook and myspace out of kids hands is harming their connection to a cultural phenomenon. Therefore the way many young adults networked at the bowling alley, many kids are finding there civic engagement via the internet and these social networking sites. The fact that we can have things like collective intelligence and the fact that it is not being embraced by schools, that are places of learning is odd. So many teachers do not let you cite sources on the internet, but as we progress i know the internet is going to be the main place for many people to go to obtain information for schooling, research, social, buying power etc.

Blog #5

Weinberger, relying on German philosopher Heidegger, says that "the meaning of a particular thing is enabled by the web of implicit meanings we call the world" (170). First, describe what he means by this.

Weinberger means that the web is a world unto itself and the meaning of individual tags, links etc. is something tangible to the world of the web. To take it out of the world would not mean what it does within. We could call going to the grocery store a link, or a hit on the location, but it does not have the same affect as going to amazon.com and buying something lets say. Meaning such as metaphor is tangible to us because we understand the hidden meaning. The internet has its own hidden meaning implicit within it that we cannot translate into this world. A Hammer, as was the example, may not be relevant to your understanding of the world, so you break down the potential uses of a hammer. Meaning for each person is individual, the reason why i look wonderwall is not the same reasons why you like or dislike the song. We may connect the hammer to nails... nails to wood, wood to a tree and the list of associations go on and on.

Second, explain how this is relevant to the third order of order.

The third order of order is bound by the physical so we do not need metadata like a card catalog. When we google a phrase, we are able to add multiple meanings to it. Kind of like ho a toaster can also be a toaster oven, but times like 10. We can do this with our own personal meaning also.


Third, draw/sketch/photoshop the following: choose a song that is important to you in some way. Draw the implicit web of meanings that make this song important to you. That is, make the implicit explicit. Ask yourself: what would a computer need to know in order to understand the relevance of this song in my life? (yes, a computer)



"Wonderwall"

Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

Backbeat the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody feels
The way I do about you now

And all the roads we have to walk along are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
I don't know how

Because maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me ?
And after all
You're my wonderwall

Today was gonna be the day?
But they'll never throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you're not to do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do
About you now

And all the roads that lead to you were winding
And all the lights that light the way are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
I don't know how

I said maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me ?
And after all
You're my wonderwall

I said maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me ?
And after an
You're my wonderwall

Said maybe
You're gonna be the one that saves me
You're gonna be the one that saves me
You're gonna be the one that saves me