ARTS1090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Foxtel, Time Shifting, Temporalities
31 May 2018
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What do we mean by it's not what media do to people, BUT what people do with
the media that is important?
What is a media ritual?
What is the social function of a celebrity?
Why is the 'home' an important framework for understanding the meaning and
significance of media technologies and devices in our everyday lives?
Temporality
Different notions of time
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Objective time: linear, universal, abstract, institutional, scientific and
industrial
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Subjective time: experiential, lived, personal - "my time", temporality
(phenomenological experience of time), phemenology.
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"GroundHog Day"
Different notions of time and 'media time' circulate in the film Groundhog
Day.
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Seasonality
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The 'care-structures' of dailiness
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Eternal recurrence
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"We live in the routine repetitive cycle of days, weeks, months, years"
Scannel, pg 153.
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Broadcasting
Television constructs dailiness through: program format, serial narrative
structure, underlying sense of 'liveliness' to the medium - transmission is
always live, olympic coverage (timing of events), 9/11/2001; the news cycle,
media events, sport.
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In doing so, it articulates the 'care-structures' of the 'public'
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Time shifting
SVOD services: time-shifting, on-demand, "binge-TV"
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Digital television: Foxtel IQ…"live pause", "the planner", taking control of
you’re A/V diet rather than making an appointment with your TV.
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Newspaper Time
News -24 hour news cycle
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The printed newspaper - time and space
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Compare that with the temporalities of online news.
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How do different time pressures shape the news?
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How does that shift - transform cultural relationships?
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Week 3 -Lecture
Friday, 16 March 2018
9:52 am
