Digital Media Cultures

Our Second assignment of the year is a 20 word report split into two. As we wil be working in a group of 4, however, 2 of us will work together to write one of these:

1000 word literature review
(5 academic sources: either chapters from a book or a journal). A correctly formatted bibliography.

1000 word synopsis of dissertation to include:
Title/hypothesis; Introduction; 3 chapters; conclusion.

Dave and I chose to do the dissertation, and Ashleigh and Lois did the review.

It took a while for us to get an idea on what well all wanted to write about however, we chose to do about the DAB switchover. Having touched on it briefly when i was in sixth form, I thought it would good because i could direct our group on certain tangents we could research such as radio and how that has been affected, not just Television.

UPDATE

** 11th Feb

The majority of the research we got came from online journals, as when looking for books, we couldn't find anything specific for our needs, as they were very broadly subjected.

We all worked together really on reading all the notes and what we wanted to include, though once the review was done, Dave and I got to work, writing the synopsis.

Though we did find that we were repeating ourselves quite a lot because I don;t think the other two collaborated on what each other were writing, as they mostly contained the same information, so it was hard for me and Dave to write something different about each reference.

Its all handed in now however, and are awaiting the results.

I think as team we did all work good together however, due to aAhleigh being and away i think it malfunctioned a bit because they both sort of wrote about the same ideas..

Presentation Time!

I'd been looking forward to this presentation for a while, because in the end, I think we got really into it, and did and amazing job on the Prezi and research. Although we did in fact have TOO much information on our slides, so we had to cut some of our facts out, and during the presentation, only mention the most important details.

I'm possibly one of the least confident people when talking in front of somebody, or making a presentation, however, I think I did okay with speaking, although I did have my back to the camera the whole way through. Although that's mainly because I couldn't see as I didn't have my glasses! (my own fault)

But i guess what made it more fun and enjoyable was that we dressed up as characters form the shows we individually researched!
Stevie- A zombie from the Walking dead
Josie-Walt White form Breaking Bad (though partly looked like Homer Simpson with her drawn on beard)
Myself- The Doctor form Doctor Who

So Here is our final prezi presentation!

and he's me as the Doctor aha!

Bye for now!

International Research

Having got friend in America, i decided to send them a questionnaire to fill out, to get more of an understanding of what they like in relation to interacting with the shows they like, and if they have that available content.

Unfortunately I've only been able to get a few filled out

Although they didn't enter there gender, they where both females, however, looking at the results, and also researching the American re-make of The Inbetweeners, I have that Most US shows, and websites for them, do not offer as much extra content, or interactive elements for its audience to participate with the shows, therefore it comes to no surprise that in the questionnaire results they said they'd like to be more involved within influencing the storyline and characters, whereas in the the UK questionnaires showed us that we are more interested in the extra online content, like the games and apps they provide for us to be involved.

Doctor Who research

So I've just come across this thing called GetGlued, and basically its an American created online servise, aswell as having an app, that lets you earn stickers though 'checking in' when watching your favorite shows. You can play quizes and games and interact with others who have signed up.

There is also an option to link your Facebook so you can share things on your Facebook Timeline, and have discussions of the shows with your friends, and other people around the world.

Doctor Who has just recently made the site. I've never heard of this before, and i'm still not entirely sure how it woks, as it seems to have more of an American audience.

heres the site link:

http://getglue.com/tv_shows/doctor_who

Reasearch and social media.

Back to uni from Christmas break! Though i loved the 3 weeks off, i've been anxious to get back to work and catching up on research and the presentation for Applied Media Reasearch!

Now, with having done the questionnaires and focus group, we needed to do something that was more engaging for people, So using social networking sites such as Facebook would give us more of an impact, and we found more people participated when doing so, and people are more willing to interact with having such easy access in a click of a button.

The three of us took a poll on our status' and them to choose their favorite show, of the shows we were each research.

Here are some of the results:

We tallied them up and found that

Breaking Bad: 25
The Walking Dead: 18
Doctor Who: 11

I was a little disappointed, being that Doctor Who was my favourite! :(

With the most popular being an American show, we found that we should research into how American viewers differ from the UK's and how some shows are being re-made into American versions such as Skins and Shameless. And how their interactive experiences compare and differ to ours!