WRTG 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clay Shirky, Roland Barthes, Media Ecology

• School: University of Utah
• Department: Writing and Rhetoric Studies
• Course: WRTG 2010
• Professor: Daniels

Document Summary

There is a field of study called media ecology. Media ecology of just twitter, facebook, videogames, etc. When the phone buzzes at dinner and we cant stay off the phone. Even though it allows us to do shallow things, it is allowing us to connect. He wants to take a more calm look. Used to tell the truth, lie, tell people how we are feeling, entertain, Entertainment (gotten into the mindset that games are purely for entertainment not true) He talks about photography to introduce the point that videogames can convey different meanings. Videogames are not art because the player is constructing the meaning. Roland barthes: as soon as the author writes on the paper. The only thing that matters is what the reader interprets. Rhetorical question: a question that the audience fills in the blank without answering. There is an argument whether videogames are art and what art even is.