Author: jsmono

Several essays we read for Wednesday mentioned that post-truth is nothing nascent and has existed for decades, or even hundreds of years. Looking deeper into the statement, it suggests that the soil for the post-truth to grow is always there but something in our modern world allowed it to dominate our time. Looking at 1989 … Continue reading Breeding Post-Truth Environment

When listening to the podcast about QAnon, I was utterly confused at first without knowing what they were talking about, especially when they were reading the tweet with repetitive thunderbolt emoji. It toke me a while to understand the rationale behind the phenomenon and why it has become a phenomenon social media event today. The … Continue reading QAnon, Cult and Social Media

Two of the three games we played for this week manipulate time in ways we don't usually experience in real life. Linking it back to Galloway's discussion of the formal differences between conventional video gaming and counter gaming, the games are fundamentally challenging the natural physics versus invented physics. The embrace of counter gaming elements … Continue reading Invented time in unconventional gamings

As I was organizing my computer files, some notes from my previous jobs made me revisit this week's discussion of audience studies. The essays we read this week in general toke a sociological approach by recognizing one or more phenomenons in society and exploring the reasons behind them. Most importantly, the theories of Lazarsfeld, Radway, … Continue reading The application of audience analysis