- What are your main insights and ideas from the given L&K chapter?
- This chapter was quite long and drawn out about current technology that is being used. I’m really not sure why this chapter needed to be as lengthy as it was to be honest. It was almost like a chapter from a Technology for Dummies book. Anyway, I digress. I think the part that stuck out the most to me is the part about copyrights. I found myself thinking, “Oh yeah, I forgot about that!” It is much easier to have copyrights violated these days because the internet allows instant access to so much. I have made quite a bit of money using images from Google and arranging them into birthday invitations that people have printed. Is this a copyright violation because I used the image and the people print it? Is it a copyright violation if they only used it digitally? Is it only a violation because I make money on the service of designing the invitation? The lines get rather blurry when you bring in technology.
- What unique terminology, jargon, buzzwords, and other concepts appear in this reading that required your careful attention and definition? What are your interpretations of these words and concepts?
- In this chapter I found myself googling the world ‘ontological.’ This word means “the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.” Honestly this definition didn’t help me at all. Upon reading a little further, I came across this: “Principal questions of ontology include: "What can be said to exist?" "What is a thing?" "Into what categories, if any, can we sort existing things?" "What are the meanings of being?" "What are the various modes of being of entities?"” These questions I can understand. Well, I can understand the questions. The answers are a bit harder to come by. These questions seem like the basic fundamental questions that we all ask yet we can never answer. These are the questions that we will ask at the pearly gates. It was interesting to learn that there was a word for this philosophy, although I have no idea why it was in a book about literacy.
- How does this reading challenge/expand/contradict your definition of (digital) storytelling?
- I enjoyed reading about the Chinese group that made a movie inside World of Warcraft. This is an interesting type of storytelling because World of Warcraft was not meant to be a vehicle for digital storytelling yet it did become that. It especially did not mean to be a position piece about this group’s stance against the Chinese government. I would like to find this video and watch it although I probably couldn’t understand it. This expanded my definition of digital storytelling because this group was able to tell a story within a game. It makes it clear that you can use many different modes of delivery for a digital story.
- I enjoyed reading about the Chinese group that made a movie inside World of Warcraft. This is an interesting type of storytelling because World of Warcraft was not meant to be a vehicle for digital storytelling yet it did become that. It especially did not mean to be a position piece about this group’s stance against the Chinese government. I would like to find this video and watch it although I probably couldn’t understand it. This expanded my definition of digital storytelling because this group was able to tell a story within a game. It makes it clear that you can use many different modes of delivery for a digital story.