Contents 1 Necessary Links 2 Compendium of Communication Concepts 2.1 Time and Space 2.2 Globalization 2.3 Media Ownership 2.4 Control 2.5 News Media 2.6 Symbolic Process 3 Tropes are Metaphors on Steroids 4 Class Midterms 5 Quality Twitter Interactions 5.1 Filling in a Classmate 5.2 Compliments on Midterms 5.3 Wiki Down 5.4 Homework Reminder 5.5 Homework Confusion 6 Media Saturation Survey 7 Final Project 7.1 Important Tweets 8 Video Conversions for the Final

Necessary Links

• Home sweet Home.
• Write Steph a message
• Syllabus and Assignments.
• Ereserves.
• Tweet me.
• Tumblr
• Wiki Makeover.

Compendium of Communication Concepts

Time and Space

Globalization

Media Ownership

Control

News Media

Symbolic Process

Tropes are Metaphors on Steroids

(notes from the chalkboard, 3rd class session, 27 January 2010)

In terms of a logical progression from

1. WHAT are we talking about?
2. SO WHAT that we're talking about it, that "it" happens - is it important? do we care? are there implications?
3. NOW WHAT do we do in response?

Tropes are relevant to all three stages in the progression of developing knowledge. The concept was introduced in class during a review of David Gerrold"s Introduction to a book of essays about The Matrix (called Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix). The first stage, "WHAT," concerns the question, "What if we are in a matrix?"

• are machines in control?
• are institutional forces taking over? Have they already?

Note this link to 10 Films Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind. While googling for a link to the book, I not only came across that list, but the same site was pitching a blogentry on "gear." Why might information on our uses of/interactions with technology catch my attention at this time in our class' development? Steph^(talk) 07:30, 5 February 2011 (EST)

Tropes are a phenomena of language. Metaphors, for instance, are a basic kind of trope. A metaphor compares two things - usually something familiar with something unfamiliar, in order to aid comprehension of the less-familiar thing. The trope aspect of a metaphor involves the whole system of relationships about the things being compared. There are different kinds and types of tropes as well. Functionally, tropes are tools or uses of language intended to facilitate understanding. Looked at from the opposite direction, using a particular trope reveals the way of thinking of the person using it.

Tropes can be

• controlling
• powerful

Tropes involve the use of

• symbols
• archetypes
• mythologies

• Individuals may or may not be aware of using tropes in their language, and/or they may having varying degrees of awareness of their own tropic ways of thinking.

• Tropes persist in time - they are notions to follow over a generation(s): are they stable? Do they cycle? Are there sequences or periodicities to the evolution or shift in the popularity or disdain of certain tropes?

• Because tropes are an artefact of thought and language, they are an "underlying" phenomena, something one reads "between the lines." Tropes occupy a nebulous "place" - where is a trope located? "In" your mind? "In" words? "In" interaction?

• a trope is a bubble within which you conceptualize something; a focused idea.
• ...a metaphor on steroids
• tropes are like an abstract "place" in your thinking, they can act like boundaries on your awareness because they steer your attention to make certain associations and not others.</span>

Class Midterms

• What We See Today
• What We See Today no audio

Quality Twitter Interactions

Filling in a Classmate

• bgeary8880: @kimdelehanty hey what did we go over, I couldn't get to class today. thanks
• Kimdelehanty: @bgeary8880 http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Class:COM121_-_Media_and_Culture_%28RAP%29_-_Spring_2011/Syllabus/computer_lab_day #LbLLP
• Kimdelehanty: @bgeary8880 http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Class:COM121_-_Media_and_Culture_%28RAP%29_-_Spring_2011/Syllabus#due_3_March #LbLLP
• Kimdelehanty: @bgeary8880 the 1st link is everything we went over and the 2nd is the upcoming hw. if you look over all of that you should be good #LbLLP
• bgeary8880: @kimdelehanty thanks for this quality twitter interaction we just had.

Compliments on Midterms

• Kimdelehanty: @ddavies315 that song is perfect for the video. good job! #LbLLP
• Ddavies315: @kimdelehanty thanks kim! do you know which one you're going to use? #LbLLP
• Kimdelehanty: @ddavies315 no I'm still working on it. maybe i can find one as relevant as yours #LbLLP
• Ddavies315: @kimdelehanty I just googled songs about technology or something like that and found this one If uneed any help you know where I am! #LbLLP

Glad I've fialnly found something I agree with!

Wiki Down

• Sgershlak: My comp is having troubling going into the wiki.... anyone else havin the same problem? #LbLLP
• Kimdelehanty: @sgershlak yeah it's not working for me either. looks like the whole wiki is down and not just our page #LbLLP
• Sgershlak: @kimdelehanty Yeah its odd... winder when it will be up again?? #LbLLP

Homework Reminder

• Ckmetz: signed up on the wiki page for the homework. #LbLLP
• Kimdelehanty: signed up for tomorrow's homework. now to relook it all over #LbLLP
• Ddavies315: Just signed up for the homework. Thanks @kimdelehanty for letting me know about it! #LbLLP
• Kimdelehanty: @ddavies315 don't thank me thank @ckmetz for saying it first. #LbLLP
• Ckmetz: @kimdelehanty @ddavies315 glad i could inform u about signing up for the hw. twitter can be very helpful #LbLLP

Homework Confusion

• Ckmetz:is everyone writing down the scenes they want in the final videos, or does someone know how to bring them in??? #LbLLP
• Kimdelehanty:@ckmetz i'm going with writing them down. i feel like i'll mess things up if i try to copy them #LbLLP
• Ckmetz:@kimdelehanty yeah, better safe then sorry

Media Saturation Survey

Technology Survey

• Questions 23,27,28,39,43,45A,50

Final Project

Important Tweets

• ddavies315: "Our intimate familiarity with the media often allows us to take them for granted. They are like the air we breathe, ever present yet rarely considered" (Croteau &Hoynes, pg3)#LbLLP
• ddavies315: "The matrix is entertainment for the age of media convergence,integrating multiple texts to create a narrative so long that it cannot be contained within a single medium."(pg97, searching for the origami unicorn) #LbLLP
• ddavies:If I could unplug from the internet and my cell phone, I would get so much more work done on time and not make myself so stressed. #LbLLP
• ckmetz: reading an article about the Millennials, and it's talking a lot about how our generation are bad at communicating b/c of technology #LbLLP
• demifo14: Thinking about the EFFECT that young adults actions in the media have on society #LbLLP
• wallybeckler: "it is media that most often act as the bridge between people's private lives and their relation to the public world." (pg 18) #LbLLP
• ckmetz:"this is communication, it doesn't mean anything unless you make it mean something"
• hbcohen91: "You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is CONSUMED. "- The Matrix #LbLLP
• nathanielfoy: "words disappear as soon as they are spoken"
• hbcohen91: Hard to hear everyones voice today, perhaps that's what were trying to figure out, whether our voices matter in todays society. #LbLLP
• hdanfort: #LbLLP how do you incorporate someone that can't hear, they don't percieve media the same way we do. #Deaf #Interpreting
• BrittR00: "Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe." #LbLLP
• KimDelehanty: that video in class was really cool. ASL is mindblowing. #LbLLP
• Kim Delehanty: my internet wasn't working for 2 hours. i have never accomplished more in my life. #LbLLP

Video Conversions for the Final

To upload videos to the Udrive from Windows Movie Maker

• Copy the scene you want from your original project and open it in a new session of WMM
• Edit the scene to how you want it and save it
• Publish the video! My version allows me to publish it to my computer which you should do if you can. I know another version doesn't have that option so publish it to YouTube instead.
• If you can publish it to your computer, save it and rename it so you'll know this is the version you want.
• If you upload it to YouTube, click the option to show in folder when you get there. Rename it so you know it's the version you want.
• Go to mediaconverter.org.
• Click upload a file in the conversion wizard and select the clip you just made and click OK and go to the next step.
• Select mov or m4v as your output and start the conversion.
• When it's done click download.
• Your video should now be in the proper format and should upload to the Udrive.