Media and Society Politics in Cyberspace A Study in Cyberculture
Participation, Remediation, Bricolage Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture
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3. Digital culture is an emerging value
system and set of expectations as
particularly expressed in the activities of
news and information media makers and
users online (Mark, 2006)
4. “the artifacts or devices that enable and
extend our abilities to communicate; the
communication activities or practices we
engage in to develop and use these
devices, and the social arrangements or
organizations that form around the devices
and practices” (Lievrouw and Livingstone,
2002)
5. online journalism, blogging, and open
publishing, they are combined in the
structures, values, and practices of
indymeida
6. Digital culture has emergent properties
with toots both in online and offline
phenomena, with links to trends and
developments predating the world wide
web, yet at the same time having an
immediate impact felt all over the world
through the widespread integration of
Internet at all aspects of everyday life
(Mark, 2006).
7. Active agents in the process of meaning-
making (we become participants)
We adopt but at the same time modify,
manipulate, and thus reform consensual
ways of understanding reality (we engage
in remediation)
We reflexively assemble our own
particular versions of such reality (we are
bricoleurs)
8. Participation is that people engage in some
social activities to reconstitute our society,
they are not only the consumers of
information, but also the producers of it.
People want to express their own opinions
rather than receiving from others.
9. Social effect: the standard of social values,
beliefs and norms is changing
Economic effect: marketing strategies
depending
on consumer’s reaction
Political effect: encourage citizens to
engage in
discussing political events
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11. •Bolter and Grusin point that every new
medium is the challenge for older media,
so old media
refashion themselves to survive.
•Mark adds an element of distantiation
inherent
in all contemporary refashioning practices,
it can be seen to manifest itself as
“hyperindividualization”
12. Webloggers tend to do what they do in
personal distantiation form what journalists
do, while remediating some of journalism’s
peculiar strategies, techniques, and even
content.
13. Remediation doesn’t mean distinguish, or
totally discard off the mainstream or
dominant ways of doing things, but rather
as an expression of a distinctly private
enactment of human agency in the face of
omnipresent computer-mediated reality.
14. Hartley defines it as “the creation of objects
with
materials to hand, re-using existing artifacts
and
incorporating bits and pieces”
15. Digital culture provide enough freedom
and endless creativity for the bricoleurs,
but it also challenge their ability of
selecting and using appropriate materials.
16. there is no entrance restriction
people have a new identity
to eliminate the distance barrier
