Well I’m pushing myself to finish this part, I can handle a lot, but one thing i’m missing is 25 February 2010, 0:15
1. Rogue Wave (band) is playing Boston in a few days. I got a ticket as my Valentine’s Day present, which is sehr exciting.
2. I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting this blog, but it’s thesis crunch time (and will be, for the next six weeks, and especially the next three weeks), so my advance apologies if I don’t write that often.
If you’re wondering what I’m writing my thesis about, I’ll give you some example sentences from my introduction, which I plan on finishing in the next few hours:
My thesis explores the overall trends in production of live-streaming mobile videos from producers around the world, and focuses more narrowly on the motivations and practices surrounding the production of civic content. I document production by both general users as well as those who self-identify as activists, journalists, educators and community leaders.
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I lean on Henry Jenkins’ interpretation of civic media as that which fosters civic engagement, and I am looking at its production through what Ito and Okabe (2005) have called a technosocial approach, which uses anthropological analysis to interpret the technologies which underlie social activity.
Oh, sorry, did you fall asleep? Wait til I’m done the charts and graphs summarizing the data from my quantitative analysis of civic content! You can’t even HANDLE it!!!
3. I’m also getting married. In a couture yellow dress. In a brief, private ceremony which you’re not invited to. Or your mother. Or my mother. I’m really sorry, but it has to be this way. Don’t complain. You can come to the potluck party, once we schedule it.
View from A’s window, Prenzauler Berg 7 February 2010, 1:12
I don’t take photos to collect nice pictures; I take them to remember where I’ve been. This was my favorite photo.
A few images from my Europe trip 7 February 2010, 0:50
Real film, of course. Scanned.
Today’s moment of zen 3 February 2010, 20:11
While you were shoveling snow today, someone in Taiwan was filming the cherry blossoms with their mobile phone. This is courtesy of my thesis case study on Qik.com content. If you’re at all familiar with the Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda, you’ll appreciate the style. It’s like a visual haiku, isn’t it?