May 26, 2009 at 11:14 am (http://mdia100.newsouthblogs.org, mdia 1000, mdia1000 tutorial, mdia1000create, mdia1000tutorials)
The little thing under the bed is an alarm clock, when it is clicked on it rings and you hear the sound-file “No! I’m still tired.” Also when you click on the word sleepy ‘z’ comes out and you hear snoring. The word tired floats onto the bed from a blank screen.
April 3, 2009 at 12:14 pm (http://arts1090.newsouthblogs.org, http://mdia100.newsouthblogs.org, mdia 1090 tutorials, T15A)
When I first heard that reality television star Jade Goody was dieing I frankly didn’t care. For about two months I hear about her everywhere, constant updates and interviews. When they finally announced that she had passed away I felt a pang of sadness. She was a real person that had died from a real illness and after hearing so much about her I felt like I could almost say I knew her.
“Is it still appropriate to speak of a ‘public’ event when it ‘takes place’ and is ritually performed, at least partly, ‘at home’ and ‘in private’” pg. 106.
I thought of my reaction to Goody when I read about the family that “shut [business] for the day” to mourn the death of Princess Diana. They watched the television all day “drinking tea and crying…until she reached her final resting place” pg. 105. That is how Diana’s funeral was played out in their life, regardless of how it actually happened in the physical place of her funeral. When an event or a person is made public everybody interprets it or them in their own personal way. You could almost say it begins to belong to the public.
The concept of ‘Double Placing’ goes beyond the “double reality” pg.103. Apart from our mind being elsewhere, we feel as though both of the realities we are in are equally under our control. For the woman arguing with her boyfriend in ”far-from-dulcet tones”pg.29 on the train, she disregards the fact that she is on public transport and yells at the man looking at her “Do mind?! This is a private conversation” pg.29
Our sense of being in public is distorted because on one side she is having a private discussion but on the other the private discussion is juxtaposed with the public environment in which it is being conducted. We feel a sense of entitlement to our own reality as we become accustomed to public events, public people and public places being intertwined with out private lives and ‘belonging’ to us.
Bibliogrpahy
Moores, Shaun. “The Doubling of Place: Electronic Media, Time-Space Arrangements and Social Relationships’ In Couldry, Nick. and McCarthey, Anna., Eds. Media Space: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age. London: Routlage, 2004. 21-37.
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