Annotated Bibliography-Papers

Annotated Bibliography-Papers

Andrews, Jim. "Poetry & entertainment in arteroids."Language Ehplosion 2.50 (2005): n. pag. G A M E S , P O , A R T, P L A Y, & A R T E R O I D S. Web. 23 Feb. 2011.

Arteroids is a game project which was by Jim Andrews. Andrews crated this experimental game and treats this project as an artwork. He depresses the concept and the goal behind the game in his assay. My opinion is very similar with Jim Andrews who believes a game can be art if the degree it confronts the problematical issues it raises and the degree to which it questions the assumptions of the world it creates or simulates. But I also believe that if a work was painstaking made, I will count it as an artwork. If a work that can give the viewers, users, and players some experiences, it can be an artwork. Base on this argument, I believe a game can be a type of art if the players can receive different feelings and experiences. Also, art is the most important element for Activism, but only few successful examples for making game for activism. It might be a good direction of my thesis.

Lee, Jason Wen Yau . "An exploration on the use of Facebook as a tool for social support during an intercultural exchange program."  (2010): 1-5.academia.edu. Web. 20 July 2011.

By using Facebook, this study tries to explore the effectiveness of social network in a high school intercultural exchange program. The goal of this study is to create a network connection with peer for better information sharing and unrestrictive manner because participants on an exchange program are not easily to interflow. Also, Lee mentions that if students have already spent time and engine on building the relationship of social networking in daily life, it will be easier to create an educational communities of knowledge. In short, social networking websites is a common way for young generation. Although the connection of social networking is overlapping with the social networking in real life, it might also have the potential to build relationships virtually. I think this study might help for understanding my audiences because this study was done in Singapore. The situation of less communication for participating peer happens a lot in Asia countries, and it has the same situation in Taiwan, too.

Van Laer, Jeroen, and Peter Van Aelst. "INTERNET AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT ACTION REPERTOIRES Opportunities and limitations." internet and social movement Universiteit Antwerpen (2011): n. pag.http://academia.edu/. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

Internet has changed the action repertoire of social movement in two ways, how to attract more people, saving time, and make the action easier in an availability usage and developing new tools for activism. In the article, the writers point out “how the Internet has shaped and shaping the collective action repertoire of social movements pursuing social and political change.  However, the limitations of internet which are digital divide, internet makes it not easy enough, internet makes it too easy, the new media lost their newness, and the internet only creates weak ties are still the disadvantages for using internet as a tool for activism. I think power of social networking website games can offset the limitations of internet or enhance the advantages of internet using for activism. Because the players engage in game always rising the confidence level than normal internet using, they pay more attention when disseminating and receiving information.

Van Laer, Jeroen, Stefaan Walgrave, Lance Bennett, and Christian Breunig. "Digital Media Use of Protest Participants." Multiple Engagements and Network Bridging in Contentious Politics: 1 (2011): 1-30. Web. 20 July 2011.

The usage of digital media is through ICT(Information and communication technology), one can notify his or her political status and strive social changing which are to promote multiple engagements. There are two purposes of this paper which are to promote the use of digital media in the controversial events that extent to which engagement in multiple social movements and the degree of Activism in the cause of the overlapping network of linkages between social changes. Through three different types of protest surveys, this article including nation (keeping constant nation), issues (keeping constant issue), and time (keeping constant both nation and issue) for investigating how digital media have been used in sustaining multiple engagements in different protest events and different movement organizations. Also, Laer want to figure the extent of digital media use that allow the combination of multiple engagements with diverse causes. He analyzes two aspects of this question from individuals (micro-level) and movement organizations (meso-level). Additionally, Laer anticipates that in these different stages of the protest cycles, internet and it power of linkages have different effects.

Vitak, Jessica , Paul Zube, Andrew Smock, Caleb T. Carr, Nicole Ellison, and Cliff Lampe. "It’s Complicated: Facebook Users’ Political Participation in the 2008 Election." VITAK ET AL. 1 (2008): 1-8. academia.edu. Web. 20 July 2011.

Social networking websites played as an important role in the 2008 U.S presidential election, and how about the effectiveness of activists on Facebook for young voters?  Facebook is a good platform for practicing civic skills in a shortest possible time, and it’s effective, and it might enhance the civic-development notion. This study found that the relationship of young people who using social media technology and participating in political movement are complicated, and the involve degree is shallow. There are 65% of social network sites (SNS) users aged 18-29 years have participated 1/5 political group on a SNS. Also, Facebook might encourage the participation of “Slacktivism” which is to participate in inter-based forms of political. Slackivism was formed out of “slacker” and “activism.” In other word, Facebook is a platform for people who are don’t involve in political issue too deeply. Social networking websites can be a assist media for other types of media for Activism.