Frames Of Experience: Visual Culture, Teenagers, And Identity
Frames of Experience: Visual Culture, Teenagers, and Identity
“Reception in a state of distraction, which is increasing noticeably in all fields of art and is symptomatic of profound changes in apperception, finds in the film its true means of exercise . . . the film makes the cult value recede into the background not only by putting the public in the position of the critic, but also by the fact that at the movies this position requires no attention. The public is an examiner, but an absent-minded one.”
-- Walter Benjamin, the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936
While Walter Benjamin recognized the growing ‘apperception’ aligned with the advent of film as a growing artistic medium in 1936, he very well could have been writing …show more content…
As the face of technology is changing so too the face of adolescence is changing. Mark in Journalism 2.0 quotes Francis Pisani as saying “change comes quickly among the younger generation of users, and a lot more slowly for us (older generations). . . (youth are) using the Web in ways we can hardly imagine, and if we want to remain significant for them, we need to understand how. Yet news organizations have been all too slow to notice movement in places that are away from what has been their center.” Even though Pisani’s concerned are rooted in journalism, the same can apply to educators. We are often too slow to move with incipient trends that instead we must embrace. Henry Jenkins’ theories of media and cultural convergence perhaps best highlight the shift in the sort of ‘digital renaissance’ that is taking place. In his “Convergence? I Diverge,” Jenkins explains:
We are living in an age when changes in communications, storytelling and information technologies are reshaping almost every aspect of contemporary life -- including how we create, consume, learn, and interact with each other. A whole range of new technologies enable consumers to archive, annotate, appropriate, and recirculate media content and in the process, these technologies have altered the ways that consumers interact with core institutions of government, education, and commerce
“Reception in a state of distraction, which is increasing noticeably in all fields of art and is symptomatic of profound changes in apperception, finds in the film its true means of exercise . . . the film makes the cult value recede into the background not only by putting the public in the position of the critic, but also by the fact that at the movies this position requires no attention. The public is an examiner, but an absent-minded one.”
-- Walter Benjamin, the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936
While Walter Benjamin recognized the growing ‘apperception’ aligned with the advent of film as a growing artistic medium in 1936, he very well could have been writing …show more content…
As the face of technology is changing so too the face of adolescence is changing. Mark in Journalism 2.0 quotes Francis Pisani as saying “change comes quickly among the younger generation of users, and a lot more slowly for us (older generations). . . (youth are) using the Web in ways we can hardly imagine, and if we want to remain significant for them, we need to understand how. Yet news organizations have been all too slow to notice movement in places that are away from what has been their center.” Even though Pisani’s concerned are rooted in journalism, the same can apply to educators. We are often too slow to move with incipient trends that instead we must embrace. Henry Jenkins’ theories of media and cultural convergence perhaps best highlight the shift in the sort of ‘digital renaissance’ that is taking place. In his “Convergence? I Diverge,” Jenkins explains:
We are living in an age when changes in communications, storytelling and information technologies are reshaping almost every aspect of contemporary life -- including how we create, consume, learn, and interact with each other. A whole range of new technologies enable consumers to archive, annotate, appropriate, and recirculate media content and in the process, these technologies have altered the ways that consumers interact with core institutions of government, education, and commerce