![]() ![]() To what extent has convergence transformed the media? (technology’s impact- mobile devices, tv online, etc).How is consumer behaviour and audience response transformed by online media, in relation to the past? (audiences and the difference the internet has made).What has been the impact of the internet on media production? (does it allow more people to produce their own media? what effect has it had on mainstream media?).How have online media developed? (change from the past).If we look at the bullet points in the Specification, which defines what should be studied, we should be able to see what kinds of question can come up: However, this focus on ‘difference’ does mean you have to be thinking about what the media was like pre-internet. So long as you read the question carefully to see which angle it is looking for, you shouldn’t have a problem. Questions tend to focus on what difference the internet has made (‘revolutionary’, ‘changed everything’, ‘exaggerated’, ‘transformed”opportunities and threats’) but also looking at audiences and producers. ![]() Discuss.ĭiscuss the extent to which the distribution and consumption of media have been transformed by the internetĮxplain the extent to which online media exist alongside older methods of distribution in 2010.Įvaluate the opportunities and the threats offered to media producers by the internet. “The impact of the internet on the media is exaggerated”. “For media audiences, the internet has changed everything.” Discuss “The impact of the internet on the media is revolutionary”. Watch rare footage of Einstürzende Neubauten performing in the desert.This is from Pete’s Media Blog and he writes for Media Magazine. It's available to stream from today on iTunes, Apple, Amazon, FandangoNOW, Google Play and Vimeo On Demand. Whether a precursor to bigger things or not, the film documents the power of DIY culture at a time when more traditional punk was moving aside for hardcore. Swezey’s desert events were closer to those weekends than anything offered by their big time supposed-spawn.” It reminded me that there were more than a few of us back in the day who would regularly drive out to Joshua Tree, rent a cabin at the 29 Palms Motel and spend the weekend running around the desert while tripping our brains out. ![]() Kim Gordon, in recent autobiography Girl In A Band: A Memoir, described the Gila Monster Jamboree as “a magical night, one of my favourite shows ever.”Īlthough the film makes links between Desolation Center shows and the formation of larger commercial festivals like Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella, in his review in The Wire 429 (available to subscribers), Byron Coley disagrees: “I had occasionally thought this myself,” but, he continues, “after watching Desolation Center, I am less convinced. Punks and industrial fans travelled on rented school buses into the far reaches of the Mojave Desert for a programme of gigs documented by LA Weekly as being “like some bizarre ritual at the end of the world.” Following that, Joy at Sea had punters take a boat to a floating space in the San Pedro harbour, while for Mojave Auszug and the Gila Monster Jamboree they returned to a secret location in desert's expanse. The first of these events, dubbed Desolation Center, was called Mojave Exodus. ![]() Directed by the creator and organiser of the original events, Stuart Swezey, the 94 minute documentary features interviews and rare archival footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, Redd Kross, Einstürzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories, Savage Republic and others. WATCH DUBPLATE DRAMA ONLINE SERIESReleased in November 2019, Desolation Center tells the story of a series of guerrilla music and art performances that ran between 1983–85 in the Mojave Desert, California. ![]()
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