T101 Day 10!

Welcome to Summer

•Assignment 1

•Creative Class

•Special Guest: Siyabonga Africa

•This week: exam review, creative industries, creative cities and social media and social psychology.

•Office Hours today: Until 12:30 or 1pm, find me in RTV 319

Today:

According to Florida, what is the difference between a “Creative City” and a “Nerdistan?”

Nerdistans are bland, uninteresting places with acre upon acre of identical office complexes, row after row of asphalt parking lots, freeways clogged with cars, cookie-cutter housing developments, and strip-malls sprawling in every direction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6h-gm01Fb0&feature=related

How does this connect to the media life perspective?

The key idea in a media life is that reality can be created by youas an individual (the reality of what work you do where and how you live your life, and the kind of person you are)

This notion is not new; what is new, is that we now see this asan individual’s responsibility instead of something we do togetheras a society.