Just hoping I don't fall off any more cliffs
Starter packs are the ultimate way for outsiders to frame a subculture looking from the outside in, they pull from the most well-known stereotypes.
CrossFit is a subculture that gets stereotyped and framed in the media fairly often. When people within the CrossFit subculture now that this is what really happens in the CrossFit world:
With the development of transmedia, media itself has opened itself up to the audience to become the storytellers. There is no longer a single person delivery the world news, everyone can tell anyone what the news it, and make up their own version of the news.
This has followed in the physicality of making hardware; such as 3D printing.
Anyone in the world who has access to a 3D printer can now print art:
Print prosthetics:
And print a gun:
With hardware platforms becoming so accessible to all people it allows for a wider range of ideologies to become represented.
Transmedia is the new age of communication; it’s when one story is played out across multiple platforms and engages the audience in all ways. Almost all things that take place in today’s media is through transmedia. The royal wedding:
The royal wedding was streamed on youtube, live on @KensigntonPalace Instagram story, being live-tweeted by a large amount of the world, and being discussed on most social media platforms.
The purpose of using transmedia is to make us all more connected to each other. But does this connection actually succeeded in making people closer, or does it draw people out of the experience in order to participate in the transmedia world?
Some people think that it is a powerful use in storytelling:
http://athinklab.com/transmedia-storytelling/we-live-in-a-transmedia-world/
But I believe that overusing transmedia in everyday life, and big moments can take away from the experience.
Copyright protects peoples ideas and thoughts and creations from being stolen from them and used without their permission. But it can also prevent creators from being inspired by someone’s ideas and using them to create something new. Most things that are created are inspired by something and will be a reflection of the thing it was inspired from. Shakespeare and Juliet was an adaptation of a poem by Arthur Brooke called The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Iuliet, written in 1562. There have been countless adaptations of Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet as well, from movies to books.
Though copyright is important in some respects, in a lot of others it hinders creativity and the ability to continue the evolution of a concept.
Meme warfare has become an important part of international policy; especially with who is currently residing in the white house
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xyvwdk/meme-warfare
Memes are simply a way to frame an idea to a young generation without them realizing that they are being fed propaganda. Something that terrorist groups take advantage of, and have been doing a good job of implementing. Meanwhile, international governments, especially the united states, have been falling behind on the meme creation. It is important for federal agencies to begin to focus on this type of warfare as it is the most direct link to people.
Journalism used to be a one-to-many form of communication with the news anchor, newspaper writer, or radio speaker held all the power.
Today, journalism is anyone with access to the internet saying whatever they think is happening in the world; and if someone believes them, than it’s news.
News and journalism no longer exist on an elevated plane, with single organizations and people delivering the way that entire bodies of people perceive a single topic. News has now become regulated by the entire public, allowing people to speak out when journalistic evidence is being contrived or misused. But this also means more people have platforms to say whatever they want and call it news, generating more clutter within journalism.
http://scalar.usc.edu/works/cultures-of-social-media/journalism
The internet has given every person with a computer, tablet, smartphone, or any other smart device, the ability to be a journalist. Any person can put information on the internet claiming it to be real. And any person can read that information, believe it, and have it alter the way they perceive the world. Media is no longer filtered through newsrooms and handed out to the public by a select number of journalists and producers from news corporations.
News can be thought of by anyone, created by anyone, produced by anyone, and put into the public sphere by anyone; lending itself to the creation of fake news.
This has altered the flow of information in all aspects of our society and can cause all people to believe ideas that go against the facts. But it also always anyone to dispute anything in the media as fake news. The existence of fake news itself casts an automatic shred of doubt across all media, all news outlets, and the whole internet.
Back in the day, craft was creating a tangible object — like a wooden chair — with human hands. If you wanted to sell that chair you could only do so to someone standing directly in front of you.
I do not plan on making any dank memes for my DA. But I will use memes throughout my DA; which is going to be a travel Instagram/blog. My memeage/medium will be through the framing of my Instagram profile. When using Instagram as the medium it lends itself to needing to be incredibly careful in the quantity and quality of content sent to the consumers. The meme can only be conveyed in a single picture, a few words, and some hashtags. That is why framing can be incredibly important. As a travel blog; it’s important to keep bright, saturated colors and make sure that the meme of travel envy gets conveyed to all the consumers. No one follows a travel blog because of boring pictures.
I’m an American, but no, I’m not at UOW on exchange. I’m a second-year transfer student from a university in Iowa and didn’t want to live in a cornfield anymore. I grew up in the Chicago ‘burbs and have all the makings to be a basic white girl; so I figured why not embrace it and make my digital artifact about travel. So I’ll post some pictures on Instagram and maybe Facebook. Throw up some Snapchat adventures. Stay tuned; exciting and basic things to come 
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