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DCD 231 (Module 4 (Social Media (The Social Network (Movie about the…

- - - - Movie about the creation of Facebook and all the aftermath that ensued. Story follows Mark Zuckerberg as he tries to make Facebook into the major social media website it is now
    - - Debate if the Internet is makes us smarter or dumber
        
        Nicholas Carr: The internet is "turning us into scattered and superficial thinkers.
        
        William Poundstone: The internet is making us "Meta-Ignorant"
        
        Shirky: the internet "can create enormous positive effects.
    - - Does social media make us less social?
        
        Keith N. Hampton believes it makes better relationships not replace the,
        
        Larry Rosen believes it makes us less sociable and that our connections are not genuine
- - - - With the high costs it becomes less and less justifiable to go to a physical college class
    - - Is the cost of college worth the experience gained?
    - - Cheaper alternative to school that removes the social aspect and has a low success rate
- - - - Creating objects and placing them in real space in the room of the user
    - - A "Second Life" where the user creates an online avatar to either represent their life or a life they wish they had
    - - Creating a virtual around the viewer to transport them to a new location or time era
- - - - The idea that we are not retaining information due to our reliance on Google for answers to our questions
    - - Sherry Turkle ted talk about being in the same room with people but not interacting
    - - Creating Apps based on the needs of college students
- - - - The Gaze (as we use it)
        term derived from 1970s film theory describing “ways in which viewers look at images of people” (Chandler).
      - spectator’s gaze
        the spectator viewing the text
        intra-diagetic gaze
        character’s gaze upon another character/object in the text
        extra-diagetic gaze
        character address the viewer (breaks the 4th wall)
        look of the camera
        the film director’s gaze
    - - Referential
        Most basic analysis.
        Describes things that happen in the plot.
        Explicit
        Moral of the story.
        Obvious events/actions in the film.
        Implicit
        Less obvious.
        An inference into the growth, change of characters in the film.
        Symptomatic
        Complete interpretation about the broader context in society.
        Relates film to prevalent themes in culture.
      - Formalist
        Examines the narrative structure and form of the film (characters, plot development, mise-en-scene). Discusses the effects of techniques (camera angle, cinematography, editing, sound) on the viewer.
        Realist
        How a film represents reality. Discusses cinematic techniques and how they represent the reality the filmmaker wants the audience to experience (insanity, love, panic, etc.).
        Contextualist
        Considers the film as part of a broader context. The particular time, place in society that influenced this film. Includes sub-criticisms such as Feminist, Marxist, or Dualist.
    - - Movie about falling in love with a computer system. Movie uses color, contrast, and dialog to create moods of happiness, and loneliness
- - - - Example:Smart Tv's, and Web 2.0
    - - "The medium is the message"
      - High Priest of Pop-Culture, he understood the media and the possible future before people even understood what he was talking about
    - - Example:Social media, online radio, apps,