art ed + web 2.0 + [e]merging media blog

I think that this might mean that many people merge their ideas/ technological advances into one idea that then belongs to no one and everyone.
Julie

I think [e]merging media would be a way to label new technologies that are being created and stumbled upon while using and or merging current technologies.

[e]merging media could also mean that images do not stay fixed, that just like ideas they are used and reused and become parts of other images, like for example all of the art historical images from the desperate housewives intro, or how the mona lisa is reinterpreted in the exhibit at the anderson gallery right now. Media, images, ideas, songs, they become part of a culture and reinterpreted over and over again.

The term "[e]merging media" combines the idea of the internet("e") with both the words merge, and emerge. This might relate to the idea of internet media that combines pictures, moving images, and sounds in different ways, such as podcasts or video casts, and the ease in which these mediums can be accessed, altered, copied, and reposted.

Our students are always watching videos or listening to music on the internet, so why not use the media in an educational way?

Or maybe, it is referencing new media that has emerged from the interest in media that already exists, for example the pod cast follows the ipod, which is relatively new, and the pod cast wouldn't exist without it.

[e] merging media could mean electronic media but it could also mean any other new developing media. As it pertains to art, I would think it has to do with anything computer related or possibly merging new emerging electronic technologies with traditional art forms.

I view [e]merging media, when related to the internet, as meaning (in the merging sense) that various types of media have come together, using each other's strength to best express their intended message. They are essentially [e]merging as a new form of media. As far as art or potential use in a classroom, new digital technologies present the opportunity to merge various mediums such as painting, video, music, theater, dance and photograpghy to form a new type of media. These artists today actually refer to themselves as "new media" artists. Computers, scanners and software allow artists to blur the distinctions between mediums that was traditionally present in our culture. This exciting new experimentation allows new levels of expression and inovation through art.

I saw a commercial today where a man answered a question with parts of a billy idol song. That would be an example of one of the definitions I suggested. The song belongs to the world now, and can reinterpreted, repurposed however one sees fit. People used to sue other people for sampling music, and now its done so often, no one even thinks about it.

In response to Julie:

So perhaps the [e]merging media is what is moving off of the computer and into our daily lives? The phones and portable devices that can be carried with us?

To me (e)merging media is the merging of more than one type of media to create a single new media.

For example, the use of video, audio, graphics, animation, webcam, blogging.

In the classroom this can be used as a means for the students to create a webquest that is interactive and can be shared with other classrooms in other schools.

I think of media as ways to communicate and disseminate information. [E]merging media might refer, then, to ways of communicating and connecting that are 1) electronic and 2) not fully established in our zeitgeist. (I never know what this words means but what I hope it means is something like "shared cultural perspective.") Radio, TV, newspapers--these all feel like familiar media to us. But blogs, wikis, and to some extent websites are less comfortable and less familiar. And although they seem to grow out of what has come before (for example, a news website seems like a logical extension of the 6:00 news or CNN), they are subtly but profoundly different.

It's funny the way things congrue (I don't think this is a word, but what I want it to mean is something like "experiences that come together at a time in one's life at which one is able to make meaningful connections between them"). The way experiences sometimes seem to align to produce thought and learning can seem amazing, but I think it also has something to do with the quote, "When a pupil is ready, a teacher appears." In other words, perhaps the meaning we are ready to make has at least as much to do with where we are internally as with what is happening to us externally. All of which is to say that the class I am auditing at William and Mary and this one have overlapped in my mind in interesting ways. On Tuesday (yesterday? wow), the students were discussing the way language constructs reality (after having read "Politics and the English Language") and I am putting that thought together with what we are learning here to say something like "technology constructs learning." I have somewhat of a syllogism: Language constructs reality. Language is social. Therefore, reality is social? And that since blogs, etc. are social in nature, this has implications for... I need to let this marinate a little more...