Week 4 Summary
The week of the artefact. The theme I wished to present was clear from the outset…or so I thought. The film festival has made apparent that different people can love or hate the same film, find it entertaining or disturbing to watch and consider something meaningful or just regard it as existing without meaning. I initially intended to demonstrate the use of digital culture during an average day in my life and how there can be conflict within a digital culture; creating utopia or dystopia. Whilst I initially (and naively) considered these two states to be polar opposite I began to realise that in fact the distinction between utopia and dystopia was guided by application/purpose/acceptance of the digital technology and social context. A slideshow of how the worlds merge seemed an obvious medium for demonstrating this continuum. YouTube was an obvious place to present my artefact as it allowed audio/visual without distorting my artefact and provided an opportunity to practice uploading, at no cost, a product I have created for the mass market.
The artefacts created by the class were brilliant. The variety demonstrates my earlier reference to the way that people have exposure to the same event (in this case course content) but from it draw different conclusion and relate more with one aspect than another…I continued to do this in my commentary on some of the other artefacts though must investigate whether these comments can be fed to my otherwise hungry lifestream.