FINAL REVIEW

today we will review the material for the final.

THE FINAL IS ON WED.  the 10th AT 9:30AM... THE LAST DAY OF CLASS

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More on Andrew Keen: Cult of the Amateur

Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen claims that today's new participatory Web 2.0 threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement. In today's self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated and anyone with an opinion, however ill-informed, can publish a blog, post a video on YouTube, or change an entry on Wikipedia, the distinction between trained expert and uninformed amateur becomes blurred.
When bloggers and videographers, unconstrained by professional standards or editorial filters, can manipulate public opinion, truth becomes a commodity to be bought, sold, packaged, and reinvented.
The anonymity that Web 2.0 offers calls into question the reliability of the information we receive and creates an environment in which sexual predators and identity thieves can roam free. Keen urges us to consider the consequences of supporting a culture that endorses plagiarism and piracy and weakens traditional media and creative institutions.

Author Andrew Keen discusses his book "The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture" as part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place June 5, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

Authors@Google: Andrew Keen

for Monday Dec. 8th Please bring in an example from the news/media that you would consider for the most part to be "factual" information. (non-fluff or entertainment). This can be any article you feel is "news-worthy"

The Day Music Died [part two]

1. class evaluations...

2. open text Blog entry about "the way music died [side b]"....answer the questions about the reading in the form of a blog entry. (you can use the handout, and wikipedia, or other internet sources as a reference)
link to questions (also passed out in class)

3. If time permits we will start to watch excerpts from "CHOICE 2008" about pres. elect obama-->
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1. A New Comer that steals the show 8:54
Illinois State Senator Barack Obama's life changes overnight after he delivers an electrifying speech at the July '04 Democratic Convention.

2. The Path to the corridors of power 15:38
As a community organizer in Chicago and then as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama learns about coalition building, hones his political talents.

3. 12 year political assent 16:20
Obama learned how to play hardball, build coalitions, find mentors, seize opportunities. In '07, he starts his run for the presidency.

4. Hilary and the Primaries 8:18
He had to mobilize coalitions, test whether whites would vote for a black, and confront a formidable obstacle -- Hillary Clinton.

5. Last Laps of the Primary Campaign 9:44
Obama deals head-on with the Rev. Wright issue by delivering a speech on race relations. McCain works to unite his party and gets a key endorsement.

6. The Chicago School 3:53
Since he first ran for public office in 1996, Barack Obama has lost only one election -- to former Black Panther Bobby Rush, a popular incumbent who beat the pants off him in a Chicago congressional race. Ever the quick study, Obama learned valuable lessons about coalition-building, picked himself up, and never looked back. The rest is, well, you know what the rest is.

Special Thanksgiving Topic: The Day/Way Music Died

THE WAY (OR DAY MUSIC DIED)
1. Questions about Flash animations?
2. Overview of Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur
3. Music as the Toy at the Bottom of the Cornflakes Box

4. view 2004's "The Way Music Died"

In the recording studios of Los Angeles and the boardrooms of New York, they say the record business has been hit by a perfect storm: a convergence of industry-wide consolidation, Internet theft, and artistic drought. The effect has been the loss of billions of dollars, thousands of jobs, and that indefinable quality that once characterized American pop music. (more) »

"It's a classic example of art and commerce colliding and nobody wins," says Nic Harcourt, music director at Los Angeles's KCRW-FM. "It's just a train wreck."

In "The Way the Music Died," FRONTLINE follows the trajectory of the recording industry from its post-Woodstock heyday in the 1970s and 1980s to what one observer describes as a "hysteria" of mass layoffs and bankruptcy in 2004.

5. Reading Due December 1st From Cult of the Amateur- The Day Music Died [side b]

Creating a New Online Youth Culture / Turn in Flash Animations

The PBS Frontline documentary, Growing Up Online, is an exploration of the digital world that kids are spending a lot of time in these days. Frontline may tend to put a hard spin issues like this, but this one was SCARY... And I'm not even a parent! If this is not a fair depiction of American youth at present, one can easily imagine it in the near future. Educators take various worthy positions on the form media education should take into schools -- teach about media without technology, teach about media through collaborative production (wink), etc. Whatever position you take, it is clear, evidenced by videos like this, that emerging digital technologies impact kids' identity formation and what it means to be a citizen in our culture, and the it is the responsibility of schools to adapt to that influence one way or another.
- from The Media Spot

1. If you haven't turned in your Flash Animations, then you can quietly work on them during this video. I can help those who need it.

2. Watch Growing Up Online

3. Blog Entry for 11/24:

• Write an analysis of "Growing Up Online"
• some ideas could include:
  
• Analyzing how advertising is enmeshed and personalized on MySpace
• You could also Investigate the terms target audience, datamining and advergame and make connections to other social networking sites
  

FLASH WORKSHOP II

1. Learn how to create (publish) a .swf file from your flash project file (.fla)

2. You will have today's class to finish your animations and publish your files.

3. name your finished file like this ( yourname_com155.swf )

I will be available in class today to answer any questions, and collect your .swf files when finished.

Flash Workshop

I will be available today to check your articles and help you set up and start your animations.

Using your an example of a media article concerning unequal power relationships between men and women, social classes or different ethnic groups create a flash animation that illustrates the following:

• Is there more than one kind of ideological position/perspective evident within the media content?

1. Collect a series of images and text that can be used in a simple flash animation visually representing the ideological discourse that occurs in your media example.

2. Today you will show me the article, and start to create your animations

3. .fla files should be finished by mon. the 17th

4. .swf files can be turned in on wed. 19th