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Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Future of protests is in the hybrid
Another type of protest. Protest as meet-and-greet. Face to face leads becomes website to website, inbox to inbox, and then back into the streets. What happens when it gets back into the streets. It's lazerfeld gone crazy.
This is also a sign of the decentralization of media. Organizers no longer need the attention of centralized media to spread their message. The growth of the diversified network (new kind of mass media?) carries digital word-of-mouth extending it beyond geographical boundaries.
What about cultural boundaries? The benefit of unified media content was that cultural likeness was more pervasive and allowed easy communication between fellows using the same sample sets of reference points. Now, the media channels are decentralized, but the culture is more fractured which, ultimately, makes communication more difficult. Many people may agree that government is the problem, but half of them think it is a problem inherent in the institution, the other half just want to find better people to run it. They may be unified in their disgust, but they are also separated by their predispositions toward solutions.
"One irony for Obama is that the Tea Party movement is using his own organizing techniques against him: Meetup.com announcements, Twitter tweets, viral videos, e-mail trees and all the other innovations falling under the politically potent umbrella known as social networking. Indeed, in the online age, the whole purpose of physical gatherings has changed. Real crowds draw virtual crowds, and vice versa, as David DeGerolamo, a Tea Party organizer from North Carolina, explained during a seminar in Nashville. Recounting how he built a statewide operation from scattered local groups, DeGerolamo said he started with a rally. "I went around and contacted as many of these groups as I could find and invited them to Asheville for what we called the first N.C. Freedom Convention." That was last May. When everyone was gathered, DeGerolamo coaxed the groups — notoriously prickly about their independence — to join under the banner of a single website, NCFreedom.us. Next, he convened a town-hall meeting "for one reason — to get YouTube videos," DeGerolamo said. "YouTube is one of our best allies in terms of becoming a communications network." Today, DeGerolamo's group sends out more than 6,000 e-mails a week, stages informal protest parades called Rolling Tea Parties and posts dozens of videos of the movement in action."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1964903,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct#ixzz0fuRlFgdW
This is also a sign of the decentralization of media. Organizers no longer need the attention of centralized media to spread their message. The growth of the diversified network (new kind of mass media?) carries digital word-of-mouth extending it beyond geographical boundaries.
What about cultural boundaries? The benefit of unified media content was that cultural likeness was more pervasive and allowed easy communication between fellows using the same sample sets of reference points. Now, the media channels are decentralized, but the culture is more fractured which, ultimately, makes communication more difficult. Many people may agree that government is the problem, but half of them think it is a problem inherent in the institution, the other half just want to find better people to run it. They may be unified in their disgust, but they are also separated by their predispositions toward solutions.
"One irony for Obama is that the Tea Party movement is using his own organizing techniques against him: Meetup.com announcements, Twitter tweets, viral videos, e-mail trees and all the other innovations falling under the politically potent umbrella known as social networking. Indeed, in the online age, the whole purpose of physical gatherings has changed. Real crowds draw virtual crowds, and vice versa, as David DeGerolamo, a Tea Party organizer from North Carolina, explained during a seminar in Nashville. Recounting how he built a statewide operation from scattered local groups, DeGerolamo said he started with a rally. "I went around and contacted as many of these groups as I could find and invited them to Asheville for what we called the first N.C. Freedom Convention." That was last May. When everyone was gathered, DeGerolamo coaxed the groups — notoriously prickly about their independence — to join under the banner of a single website, NCFreedom.us. Next, he convened a town-hall meeting "for one reason — to get YouTube videos," DeGerolamo said. "YouTube is one of our best allies in terms of becoming a communications network." Today, DeGerolamo's group sends out more than 6,000 e-mails a week, stages informal protest parades called Rolling Tea Parties and posts dozens of videos of the movement in action."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1964903,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct#ixzz0fuRlFgdW
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Types of protests
What kind of mass protests exist? What are the reasons people gather to protest?
There is the pitch-fork protest. This involves people massing to take an action. This type of protest presumably includes an expectation of some concluding response. Such as a picket line or vote recount (Ukraine).
There is an awareness/message outreach protest. This is the most common American model used to garner the attention of the mass media. A dance?
Civil/uncivil disobedience is another directive of the mass protest. Some may peacefully take up counter space or block interstate traffic. Others may employ violence to disrupt business. This may have a goal of getting media attention as well.
Boycotts?
Change through action versus change through awareness...through action.
-- Mobile and Free
There is the pitch-fork protest. This involves people massing to take an action. This type of protest presumably includes an expectation of some concluding response. Such as a picket line or vote recount (Ukraine).
There is an awareness/message outreach protest. This is the most common American model used to garner the attention of the mass media. A dance?
Civil/uncivil disobedience is another directive of the mass protest. Some may peacefully take up counter space or block interstate traffic. Others may employ violence to disrupt business. This may have a goal of getting media attention as well.
Boycotts?
Change through action versus change through awareness...through action.
-- Mobile and Free
"Art is the signature of a civilization"
Kate Raudenbush "Art is the signature of a civilization." --Beverly Sills
February 10 at 11:02am · Comment · Like
MrSpaceman LaVigne, Michelle LaVigne and 5 others like this.
Rich Cleland Spelled in the letters of its culture.
February 10 at 11:30am ·
Kate Raudenbush ...or song, or dance, or painting, or sculpture, or theatre, or architecture,
February 10 at 11:35am
Rich Cleland all culture.
February 10 at 11:36am ·
Zoë Knight Culture is an art form.
February 10 at 12:18pm
Rich Cleland I think culture is the medium out of which art is comprised. Which is not to suggest that art is limited to composition from a single culture. An artist draws from a tool set of cultural symbols (including cultural attitudes and memes) and applies her technique (or technical skills or techne) to create a new expression.
The aesthetic quality of the resultant artifact may be appreciated for skill in construction, cultural aptness, or both. In this case, I'm not using "aesthetic" to mean a sense of what has beauty, rather to say what has resonance.
This resonance is the manifestation of the artifact's translation into the cultural library of the viewer. For example, a work of art may provoke unequal resonance among an audience. I think, this disparity arises out of the capacities and dispositions of those individual libraries. Some people get Kabuki, others love Noise Pop. One person is disgusted as the sacred is made profane; which may be what another person appreciates most about it.
However, regardless of whether or not its intent is misconstrued, all art is ultimately communication (though, as is evident here, not all communication is ultimately artful:). An artist assembles a message by choosing words, colors or harmonic registers, etc. which necessarily reside (or resonate) in her own cultural library.
It is possible that, through the synthesis of these aspects, some artifacts are so profound that they open the way to infectious, new cultural avenues with definitions of their own, but even the most iconoclastic owes something to the cultural antecedents it seeks to flout.
Therefore, I may agree that culture is an art form, but, in that case, I would then be reluctant to agree that there were any other forms.
February 10 at 2:21pm ·
Rich Cleland By way of explicating my position further, let me say that it is my personal belief that the basic, underlying message most artists seek to convey through their work is, "I'm not alone in this, am I?"
February 10 at 2:25pm ·
Orion Keyser art is so many things, and then there's craft, these things deceptively entertain one another.
February 10 at 3:06pm
Kate Raudenbush Rich, you are quite the elucidator today!
February 10 at 9:14pm
Deborah-Dr Deb- Windham art makes you happy
February 10 at 9:41pm
Rich Cleland I blame it on this Neal Stephenson book i'm reading. He has a tendency to activate my head and get me chatty.
I agree with you Dr. Deb, and sometimes it makes me sad, which makes me happy, too.
February 10 at 9:49pm
February 10 at 11:02am · Comment · Like
MrSpaceman LaVigne, Michelle LaVigne and 5 others like this.
Rich Cleland Spelled in the letters of its culture.
February 10 at 11:30am ·
Kate Raudenbush ...or song, or dance, or painting, or sculpture, or theatre, or architecture,
February 10 at 11:35am
Rich Cleland all culture.
February 10 at 11:36am ·
Zoë Knight Culture is an art form.
February 10 at 12:18pm
Rich Cleland I think culture is the medium out of which art is comprised. Which is not to suggest that art is limited to composition from a single culture. An artist draws from a tool set of cultural symbols (including cultural attitudes and memes) and applies her technique (or technical skills or techne) to create a new expression.
The aesthetic quality of the resultant artifact may be appreciated for skill in construction, cultural aptness, or both. In this case, I'm not using "aesthetic" to mean a sense of what has beauty, rather to say what has resonance.
This resonance is the manifestation of the artifact's translation into the cultural library of the viewer. For example, a work of art may provoke unequal resonance among an audience. I think, this disparity arises out of the capacities and dispositions of those individual libraries. Some people get Kabuki, others love Noise Pop. One person is disgusted as the sacred is made profane; which may be what another person appreciates most about it.
However, regardless of whether or not its intent is misconstrued, all art is ultimately communication (though, as is evident here, not all communication is ultimately artful:). An artist assembles a message by choosing words, colors or harmonic registers, etc. which necessarily reside (or resonate) in her own cultural library.
It is possible that, through the synthesis of these aspects, some artifacts are so profound that they open the way to infectious, new cultural avenues with definitions of their own, but even the most iconoclastic owes something to the cultural antecedents it seeks to flout.
Therefore, I may agree that culture is an art form, but, in that case, I would then be reluctant to agree that there were any other forms.
February 10 at 2:21pm ·
Rich Cleland By way of explicating my position further, let me say that it is my personal belief that the basic, underlying message most artists seek to convey through their work is, "I'm not alone in this, am I?"
February 10 at 2:25pm ·
Orion Keyser art is so many things, and then there's craft, these things deceptively entertain one another.
February 10 at 3:06pm
Kate Raudenbush Rich, you are quite the elucidator today!
February 10 at 9:14pm
Deborah-Dr Deb- Windham art makes you happy
February 10 at 9:41pm
Rich Cleland I blame it on this Neal Stephenson book i'm reading. He has a tendency to activate my head and get me chatty.
I agree with you Dr. Deb, and sometimes it makes me sad, which makes me happy, too.
February 10 at 9:49pm
Cultural Vibrancy
Chalk one up for the global culture collision. The content is very nearly unbearable, but it indicates something about the vibrancy of this particular cultural meme that its adherents not only tolerate, but seek out and venerate new variations on a theme based on the intrinsic qualities of the content rather than artificial structures such as the nationality, race, geography or cultural purity of its producer.
Identities are like languages, the ones with the best built-in structures promoting adaptation and inclusion of the "foreign" are going to win.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/beckii-cruel-14-year-old_n_458566.html
Identities are like languages, the ones with the best built-in structures promoting adaptation and inclusion of the "foreign" are going to win.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/beckii-cruel-14-year-old_n_458566.html
Friday, February 12, 2010
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