Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture

• Name: HUI GUO• Student Number: 307116190• Lecturer: Amit Kellkar• Course name: Digital Research and Publishing

Visual imitation Instant communication

Digital placeConfigured code Language in words

TECHNOLOGY FORMDiff erent transports

Transfigured Rewritt en XML HTML

Grafic representationcreation PIXELInformationHyper-fi cti on

Hyper-text

transformati on

DiffusedCircuits cyberWar

EndNET MetacultureDigital culture

What is digital culture

The components of digital culture

Media theory worldwide shift

•19th-century Print culture

•20th-centuryElectronic culture

•21st-centuryDigital culture

Digital cultureThe emergence of digital culture as amplified

and accelerated by the popularity of network computers, multiple-user software.

The underdetermined praxis is conceptualized as consisting of participation, remediation, bricolage.

Participation individualized society in a globalized world. Explosion of digital technologies. computer and share content online journalisms open publishing new media – enable and extend our abilities to

communicate thus develop devices, social arrangements or organizations.

Indymedia – journalistic genre. humans and machines interact in the context of ever –

increasing and emerging digital culture is expressed.

Remediation

• Remix of old and new media

We adopt but at the same time modify, manipulate and thus reform consensual ways of understanding reality.

Every new medium diverges from reproduce older media whereas old media refashion themselves to answer the challenges of new media.

Example : weblog

Bricolage

• Highly personalized, continuous and more or less autonomous assembly, disassembly.

• The creation of objects with materials to hand, re-using existing artifacts, incorporating bits and pieces.

•The literature on the challenges posed by online journalism

•The arisen of open publishing initiatives independent media centers

•Popularity of weblogs and podcasts

Differences

What is credible informat

ion

The challenge to traditional

culture

• personal experiential account• professional detached observation

• heralding openness• access based on the basis of authority

• provide bottom-up platform• top-down delivering of messages

conclusion