Hyper-reality and the digital renaissance

1) Read the article from Media Magazine: Hyper-reality and the digital renaissance (Dec 2009). Use our Media Magazine archive, click on MM30 and go to page 59.

2) Create a new blogpost called 'Hyper-reality and the digital renaissance' and make notes from the article under the following headings: 

examples

  • telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876
  • cinema, tv, music videos, computer games
  • television in 30s and 40s
  • Wasweaered Muybridge's cinema pinonair of stereoscoprioc images
  • internet in 1990s + 
  • laptops, wireless and broadband tech 
  • social networking
  • september 11 viticms 


 theories 

  • the proliferation of media technology


  • Frankfurt 
  • School theorists like Theodore Adorno - destracting working class
  • Baudrillard’s - hyper reality 
  • bandura - bobo doll study
  • Mark Zuckerberg, - bullying


    •  positive aspects of new technology (or 'digital renaissance)

    • interacivity 
    • predjuice no longer matter 
    • eithout costs


     negative aspects of new technology on audiences and society  

    • no diffrenentaion 
    • body image issues


     3) The article was written in 2009. Offer three examples of more recent social networking sites or uses of technology that support the idea of a 'digital renaissance'.

     snap chat- providing live videos on the stories and allowing people to quickly send images to a wide range of people. 

     Tumblr - social injustice blogging usually takes place

     instagram - also a platform for viral trends, videos and images creating strong awareness 

    4) How do live streaming services such as Periscope or Facebook Live fit into the idea of a 'digital renaissance'? Are these a force for good or simply a further blurring of reality?

     both can be used in positive ways such as through citizen journalism bringing forth cases of injustice however it could be blurring the lines of reality as everyone develops a 'is this genuine' ' is this staged' attitude constantly questioning their reality. 

    5) How can we link the 'digital renaissance' to our case study on news? Is citizen journalism a further example of hyper-reality or is it actually making news more accurate and closer to real life?

     i feel that citizen journalism does both. It both creates a more realistic representation of the news but it doesn't do so without providing a bias representation of the occurrence providing one areas view over another. This isn't the most valid and realistic way of providing the news and is instead creating a news layer of hyper relativity than we have see n before. Audiences will soon become desensitised and presume that showing online support is the same as taking social action.

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