The Echo Chamber Project
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A Brief Introduction
Completed as a work requirement for RMIT University's Integrated Media students (School of Applied Communication), this Wiki is using Kent Bye's Echo Chamber Project as the means of discussing network environment, social software and mainstream versus collaborative news and media. Drawing on concets raised in David Weinberger's book Small Pieces Loosely Joined, The Echo Chamber Project is used as a springboard to discuss deeper issues associated with the network and how it functions in today's society.
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The Echo Chamber Project
The Echo Chamber Project discusses and critiques the role of contempory media in society. It champions a collaborative approach to the production and distribution of media. It also utilises new technologies like online collaborative video editing software, RSS feeds and blogging.
The project consists of an open source, investigative documentary piece which explores how the television news media was an ineffective echo chamber to the Executive Branch, leading up to the war in Iraq. By creating a collaborative film, the project hopes to invite a broader range of voices and perspectives into the mainstream media as well as to examine the transmission of news in an online forum.
Outline of Intentions
In order to complete this assignment, we have chosen to present our collaborative research, findings and ideas through similar means to the sources we intend to examine. As social networking is perhaps our central issue, we decided that it could be both a productive and an interesting feautre of our Wiki if we were to mirror this through our design. Hence, each of us has adopted our own online 'identity', per se, through each adopting a colour to identify our individual contributions:
This encourages us to conduct more of a conversation around the issues at hand, responding to one another's opinions, findings and contributions. Therefore, the approach we are taking highlights and exemplifies the information we are presenting.
There is also a definite hypertextual element to our Wiki. We have utilized links in a manner which invites readers to explore the page in the way that best suits them. They are welcome to browse at random, follow a path that best suits their interests or access a contents page that will collate posts according to topic areas and contributors. We hope that this will give our page a huge advantage where usability is concerned.
