User:Naomi.Kay/Notities week 1

Notities week 1

Introduction A book about what happens when people make things. Connection between online and offline will be made, for instance how Victorian art critic John Ruskin on medieval cathedrals can have affected the understanding of YouTube videos. More examples will be explained in relation to how analog art techniques effect the digital world of today.

Making is connecting Making and connecting

• making is connecting, connect thing together to make something new
• making is connecting, act of creativity usually involve social dimension and connect people
• making is connecting, through making things and sharing them in the world, increase engagement end connection with our social and physical environment.

Three Reason why i wanted to write this book 20 years ago, the main media people could see was produced by professional organisations, and the focus was on what other people created. Whereas now, when the World Wide Web came along everyone can make and share with each other.

Which is why the autor considers that creating is making because creating is shared with other people. Before the World Wide Web when he would make something it would be just for himself, he would enjoy doing it, but it would have no audience. Now with the internet we can like and share our and each others work, whether its writing, photography or drawing.

The writer wanted to explore the idea that making is connecting.

Web 2.0 as an idea and a metaphor This book does not suppose that creative activities have suddenly appeared in the story of human life because someone invented the World Wide Web. However, the Web has certainly made it easier for everyday people to share the fruits of their creativity with others, and to collaboratively make interesting, informative, and entertaining cultural spaces.

The ‘sit back and be told’ Culture The ‘sit back and be told’ culture came about as a result of the changes in the school systems. Originally teachers would transfer their knowledge onto the students and include their own perspectives on the matter. Which made learning more interesting and inspring. Nevertheless the school system changed in the 1960s and 70s to fit the social norm of knowledge and how knowledge is tested over a certain amount of time. This continues throughout the early 2000. Meanwhile the 20th century was emphasised as the era of ‘sit back and be told’ media. Leisure time became staying in one place for a long period of time watching a screen, instead of going out.