[-empyre-] social media as revolutionary technology?

[Jon Winet]

Johannes | all  -

To be clear, re:
==
 "Jon Winet thinks of these "screens as collective and individually
electronically-mediated experiences".

Maybe I misunderstood. But I don't think so.  Big Screens have not
propelled me in my life, ever."
==

I didn't qualify the "Big Screens" as socially positive experiences,
which I understand to be Johannes' point about propulsion - but as
arguably, and increasingly undeniable, parts of [urban] consciousness.
I speculated that BIg Screens will ultimately|in the near future be
linked to a hand-held screen ux.

Many New Yorkers for better or worse carry an image of the Big Screen
-saturated Times Square in their psyches. Tens of millions of people,
from Durban to Oslo and Dublin to Osaka, opted to watch matches in
recent  FIFA World Cups, not in the comfort of their homes among their
"mates," but on temporary screens set up by municipalities in the Town
Square. Concurrently Twitterverse traffic was filled with fans
commenting on the game. Twitter in this instance, may in fact
constitute a low-tech version of the Big Screen | handheld screen
interaction I was trying to poke at in an earlier post.

The  brilliant journalist, theorist, fiction writer and forever
literary hero of mine George Orwell had some prescient thoughts on
screens in his dystopian vision of 1984. And it appears there will be
an opportunity to evaluate his vision and ideas up ahead. A quick
search turned up the following item in the March 21, 2012 edition of
the _Hollywood Reporter_:  Title: "Orwell's '1984' Getting New Film
Adaptation at Imagine Entertainment (Exclusive)"  with the startling
sub-title:  "Shepard Fairey, the street artist perhaps best known for
creating the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster, was instrumental in bringing
the project to Imagine and LBI Entertainment and might take a producer
role."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/orwells-1984-film-adaptation-imagine-303003

The deconstruction possibilities here may well give me a massive headache.



On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Johannes Birringer
<Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> PS.
> I think i was not entirely evocative enough in the street dialectics i wanted to bring in,
> away from the hi-tech concepts floated here on "design" of public interactives, or the
> metropolitan spectacle of BIG SCREENS.
> Jon Winet thinks of these "screens as collective and individually electronically-mediated
> experiences".
>
> Maybe I misunderstood. But I don't think so.  Big Screens have not propelled me in my life, ever.
>
>
> Yes,  where is the low  streetlife?   (Dale asked this.
> <<Our use of mobile devices was very much to enhance the discovery of a place and to some extent the place's discovery of you>>)
>
> when and how does it discover you?
>
> and all those rural roads?
>
> regards
> Johannes
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