For many years in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba people would see strange, curious signs spread throughout the city; in lampposts, walls, fences. The signs are simple inscriptions written on a white board with capitalized letters usually in blue or black. The messages are describing positive attributes of Brazilian or international celebrities in very …
Author Archives: Life in Media
Video Game Escapism
When it comes to technology and media (since usually media demand technology involvement) someone can come along a lot of examples where people want to use media in order to lead to a change or at least this is what they think they are doing. Personally, probably my biggest “achievement” towards changing reality was probably …
Laura Salonen – A resignation that made people think of quality over quantity
A few months ago Marina Shifrin danced away from her current job. She was working for a video producing company and decided to give her resignation by honoring the company she was working for; by making a video. However, she wasn’t very content with this particular company and decided to share her feelings on the …
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Changed reality – Could it be that our Facebook personas are as scripted as reality television?
“These are my wonderfull, talented children” and “this is how much my boyfriend adores me.” The social networking site Facebook is being used by many to create an online identity. But some people argue that Facebook has blurred the boundaries and that identities have become ambiguous. Photoshopped photos just to make you glow that tat …
Yangjuan Hu – Could circusee make a change?
Today’s class gave us some basic concepts about the media life which we are living and three perspectives – artifacts, information and social arrangements – to look at it. As a group of people who are living in media, how can we change reality? This question reminds me of a controversy in China three years …
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Marie Duperier – Canon advertisement “à vous d’aller plus loin” (go further)
This advertisement is interesting because it claims with a Canon camera you can see the reality in another way which seems to be better. Thanks to a Canon camera the reality becomes better, more funny and exciting, “see the world from another angle”. And the advertising slogan “go further” seems to mean you can create …
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Tiiu Särkijärvi – Cartoons out of reality
I don’t know if my topic directly is about making a change in the world, but it is manipulating reality through media and as a phenomenon I find it interesting. Today in class we briefly discussed the cultural differences when using social media. What I have noticed is that in Finland, the things we post …
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Tytti Rintanen – Running for charity
Some time ago I learned from a classmate, that people are earning money for charity while they work out. This weird phenomenon, where someone sponsors your exercise even if you’re not a professional athlete, became familiar to me already in primary school: we had Unicef Walking -campaigns, where students were sponsored for their kilometers, and …
Lauri E. – Re-run your day?
Today we ended the class with a discussion about how new media enables us (and also creates the urge) to change and edit the reality. We in a way want to apply the same media-life-logic of continuous play, pause, edit and delete to our IRL-lives as well. This reminded me of the latest must have …
Jete Laanemägi – Media in one single minute
After watching Life in a Day in todays class I remembered a small media-project that took place in my home country. The essence of the project was to capture a minute of your life at 1pm on the 24th of February – the Independence Day of Estonia. By that way one minute of history was written down …
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Why I Heart My Media 