Monday has rolled around again, and so it means that I am once again updating my blog. In terms of NCT, the week was productive, in terms of other things in my life quite slow.
The Friday lecture of NCT was interesting to say the least. As required for the course I had spent all day Thursday reading my newly acquired text book up to the end of chapter 4 to get ready for the lecture. The term dialectic was pretty easy to understand and it seems pretty integral to the course.
Basically it means the process especially associated with Hegel of arriving at the truth by stating a thesis, developing a contradictory antithesis, and combining and resolving them into a coherent synthesis. That was taken from the text book, Communication and New Media by Martin Hirst and John Harrison.
In the lecture itself we looked at the evolution of media (Media Theory) and how it differed in the US, Europe and then UK. Prof. Stockwell also showed us the paper that hen wrote on Media Theory, and suggested we check it out, but also said that he doubted we would find it useful as we won’t understand it.
In the second half of the lecture we watched a screening of a French New Wave movie (the name of which I forget, lol) It was about the third world war and the underground experiments of trying to communicate with the past and present in the hopes of saving the human race. It was a black and white still frames film, but it was nonetheless enjoyable.
I assume that the point of the screening was to show that communication is available in many ways, even though the film was obviously science fiction.
In the Tute for NCT, which I had today we just added friends to our blog from the class and updated it. Heaps of 'work' hey! :)
As for the rest of the week I have basically been taking it easy, I downloaded seasons 1 and 2 of the US version of the Office and have been watching that, as well as playing Gears of War on Xbox Live.
The NRL season kicks off on Friday night with two games on Channel 9, but what I am waiting for is next Monday when the Roosters kick off their season vs. South Sydney, GO EASTS!!
That’s it for this week, link dump:
http://www.gearsofwar.com/
http://www.nrl.com.au/
http://www.theoffice.com/
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Hey Ryan
Nice Blog man
hey remember on the table 1 spot is the differance between being in the top eight and just missing out or more relevent to where you were, getting the wooden spoon or being one above haha anyway your right it will be a great season, im pumped up for it. nice to meet you mate. take it ezy
**MattyC**
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