Twitter Feeds

I have put two RSS feeds in to Wesch and Shirkey's Twitter feeds in the right hand list of gadgets. Immensely useful for Year 13, a useful grounding for Year 12 thinking about next year.

Sennett and Gauntlett

Today's tasks one and two for those who did not get to finish:

TASK ONE:

Research, understand and write about in the form of a blog post the Craftsman theory by Richard Sennett. The link below take you to a review of one of his books and is a useful starting point. You may find you only need this one link as it is very thorough; feel free, however, to do further research if it raises any questions or you just want more detail.

Craftsman – Richard Sennett http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/feb/09/society

TASK TWO:

Research, understand and write about in the form of a blog post about David Gauntlett’s Media Studies 2.0 theory. This is useful, potentially, for both Section A (your own development as a media student) and Section B (media in the online age).

a)      In your own words, what were the seven characteristics of Media Studies 1.0?

b)      Read ‘History and Emergence…’ section. EXT: Sum up this section in a couple of paragraphs.

c)       Read William Merrin’s piece on Media Studies 2.0 (http://mediastudies2point0.blogspot.com/) . Write an explanation of AT LEAST 5 problems faced in a post-broadcast world.

Media Studies 2.0 – David Gauntlett  http://www.theory.org.uk/mediastudies2.htm