Overtime the digital age has changed the way content is produced and the quantity of its production. Mass production in the industrial paradigm can be shown through the assembly line in a manufacturing factory. Nothing can be altered or changed… no risks can be taken. Emergent media has since changed this idea, allowing millions of creators to produce their own content, express themselves, take risks and to create their own aesthetic. Emergent media and the internet paradigm have allowed people to create craftsmanship allowing modification.
Within this internet paradigm, there are no boundaries, content flows freely. Following the idea of internet aesthetics and the internet being a ‘copy machine’ by Kevin Kelly, I created a gif demonstrating a glitch in technology. In this digital age technology can be difficult and can mean on accident we can freely alter content. In fact, glitches in technology, broken images have become a way people are producing content. With growing technology and the availability of hundred of platforms on the internet, we are able to use Kevin Kelly’s idea of the ‘copy machine’ to utilise what we have, or what we already see online and create content. So much so, that the glitch aesthetic has become a huge trend on social media. This open process is called “eternal beta”, reiterating that the internet paradigm and emergent media has no boundaries, as long as there is consumers.
Overtime production has taken a big leap from legacy media, where mass production meant a higher risk of failure with a high product cost, to a process with the lower risk of failure and a low cost process, what we now call emergent media.
-T
References:
-Kelly, K, 2008, Better than free, https://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-better-than-free
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From someone who had a hard time following this weeks lecture, this was a great summarised breakdown! i love your adaptation of the material in your ‘broken aesthetic’, a great supporting visual! Keep embedding sources like you did for the assembly line, that was a great idea for people that want to read more about it without disturbing the flow of your own post!
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Thankyou! I struggled to make sense with it so I kind of just tried to focus on one thing 🙂
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I’m in the same boat as madirose. Frazzle city but this helped a lot! I liked how you explained how technology is always changing and glitching. Studying graphic design over the past 3 years, you can see the massive change in the design world with technology glitching and upgrading. Very interesting. Keep up the goods x
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Thankyou for your feedback! I’m so happy it made sense and helped you out
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