Media – Week Two

Now  that I have survived and enjoyed my first week in Media at the University of Adelaide I can settle down a bit, and try to organise the various strands of information that I have been absorbing.

Buses kept whizzing by before I had a chance to board them – but I was getting a feel for how often they were running now.  Our heatwave has been unabated all week; with little relief, even at night-time. I’m getting into a routine of catching a bus into town and then walking home.

I am gradually accumulating an appropriately large amount of books and course readers. I still need to purchase the most expensive of these . . . next week.

Now that I know where all the lecture theatres and tutorial rooms are it is a bit easier to find my way around without rushing, or getting lost. I’m making some sense of the way my timetable is structured so that I can keep some sort of work flow happening. I’ve just posted a list of my assignments so I get started on the ones I haven’t begun yet, and to prioritise a little; I’ve got two due in the same week, and two more the week after.

 I found the mature aged students room and joined this exclusive group of older people. I couldn’t find a wheel chair though. I couldn’t find a computer in there either. That would have been a plus.

I had some frustrating moments trying to get stuff printed. Below the mature students room is a computer room. I sat and printed a heap of pages . . . but when I got up to walk to the printer . . . there wasn’t one . . . I couldn’t find a printer anywhere. Time to race off to the next tutorial, maybe I could print off something before it started – but someone else had thought of that. I’d print some pages later. Which I did. I walked up to this printer; it had a large sign on the top – “OUT OF ORDER”.

I couldn’t get the printer that Dad had given me to print anything. So I found a nice printer at a second-hand shop for $3 (that’s right, three dollars). Of course I had to buy an cartridge for $30 – but at least now I have a working printer. I think it must be a year or so since I’ve been able to print anything. Perhaps next week I can get a colour cartridge.

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Dig_Rev Lecture

Australian Classics Lecture – The Getting of Wisdom

Media Theory Lecture – Semiotics and Reading Media Texts – Structuralism – Reading Texts (in a broad sense) – Barthes, Bignell, Burdon, de Saussure, Peirce, Eco

Australian Classics Tutorial – The Getting of Wisdom – Patriarchy / Imperialism-Colonialism / Feminism – Gendering / Compliance – Perpetuation / Conformity / Australian life and identity / Landscape / Class struggle / Genre / Ending

Dig_Rev Tutorial – on our Professional Portfolios

Critical Histories Tutorial – image analysis Branston & Stafford (11-32)
Assignments
1 image analysis 4 April 750 words bring an image to next tut
2 collection of images
3 issue or topic for research

Critical Histories Lecture

Media Theory Seminar