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For me, the Public Secrets website felt like a prison. The motif of the entire website is very angular, which brings to mind the walls of a prison. The design is black-and-white without much embellishment, which seems to reflect the stark reality of incarceration. Many of the women interviewed expressed hopelessness, anger and pain. Their […]  Public Secrets is more effective than similarly self-guided sites like Highrise because it leverages the viewer’s imagination. Apart from being an effective way to establish themes of schism, rupture, and worlds apart, the producer’s invocation of Holbein’s “The Ambassadors” offers a lesson in leveraging accessory content and engaging users’ creativity without succumbing to the […] I went from the Bubbling Springs of Mono Lake to the California Correctional Women’s Facility in the space of 20 minutes. I traveled from peace and beauty, to fear and ugliness and from preservation to destruction. If you were to ask me which site I prefer, I’m not sure I could answer. The contrasts – […] In what is probably a weird case of serendipity or happenstance, a few weeks ago I spent part of my dinner thinking about aporias (perhaps best described as a point of undecidability or a philosophical puzzle). Earlier that day, I had found a copy of Jacques Derrida’s Given Time, in which the late French philosopher […] Engaging the community can be a little like going deep into a jungle that has various trails going every which way. The discoveries off the beaten paths can be rewarding but they can also have their pitfalls. Sometimes, we can just simply be befuddled and lose our way. This is when a decent compass would […] Collaboration, the act of working together towards a common goal. All of us have had to collaborate with someone in our live, hell we are all doing it right now in this very class with our group projects. But collaboration in participatory media must also involve the people who we are trying to reach with […] Storytelling and content aside, I found the form of the Localore site intriguing by the way the navigability alone enhanced my experience with each project. Jenkins, et al describe this as a “total engagement experience” (137), where storytellers can expand on “fictional worlds, to construct backstory, or explore alternative points of view, all in the […] Community: A perfect title for this week’s web immersion + viewing. Localore Reading about who AirMediaWorks is and what they are about, I really liked how descriptive their About section is. I found the phrase ‘new taproots’ being a great way to describe what they want to achieve: dig deep into a community and become […] The examples of participatory media that we looked at this week are intriguing in that they offer new and unique ways for audiences to delve into the subject matter. Localore invites visitors to explore the cultural richness of different areas of the United States by clicking on a different region of the interactive map. (Side […] In the narrative facet ofthe “Bear 71” multimedia documentary, the anthropomorphized female grizzly bear quoted an old saying that put this week’s theme into some perspective: “A pine needle fell in the forest. The eagle saw it fall. The deer heard it. The bear smelled it.” It’s interesting to speculate what the sage who thought […] |
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