This weeks lecture and seminar turned our contextual attention to postmodern art forms and it’s appropriation. To put this term briefly, postmodern media and appropriation is how texts pay tribute to one another. Roland Barthes- Barthes is renowned for writing “Death of the Author” as a way of conveying the message that ‘originality was impossible”Continue reading “Postmodern media and appropriation”
Category Archives: Media In Context
Activism
Due to personal reasons, I was unable to attend this session, however was briefly informed as to what both the lecture and seminar were covering in terms of activism as well as caught up via the powerpoints uploaded onto Blackboard. What is Activism?: To put it briefly, the term ‘activism’ is an act of attemptingContinue reading “Activism”
Audience Theories
This week, both the lecture and seminar covered the topic of ‘audiences’ and in particular the different theories such as the hypodermic needle and Stuart Hall’s reception theory, both in which I’ve covered previously. Applying both theories to a media text more convenient to myself, aka music, I strongly feel like Hall’s reception theory isContinue reading “Audience Theories”
Media, histories and futures
This weeks lecture and seminar was more like a refresher session for myself as what our lecturer delivered, was a contextual area in which I studied as my previous University before making the transition from film studies to photography, in which focused on traditional and emerging forms of media, therefore giving me a better andContinue reading “Media, histories and futures”
Black Mirror
In the session of Monday 20th January 2020, as part of the Media in Context module we watched an episode from the Netflix series‘Black Mirror’ titled Playtest, an episode that evidently demonstrates the semiotics and mise-en-scene, both which are technical requirements within the television and film industry, however can also provide relevance and intertextuality inContinue reading “Black Mirror”
