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A group of four individuals have a ‘live debate’ set up as a traditional/political debate. Their words are taken directly from online debates. The viewer sees a group of four well-dressed individuals standing in front of a black screen, each behind a podium. | A group of four individuals have a ‘live debate’ set up as a traditional/political debate. Their words are taken directly from online debates. The viewer sees a group of four well-dressed individuals standing in front of a black screen, each behind a podium. <div> | ||
''' | '''RESEARCH QUESTIONS''' <div> | ||
• What is the archetypal structure of online debates? i.e. main structural points<div> | |||
• does each individual personify a particular rhetoric style or personality style that emerges online? i.e. the intellectual vs the troll Alternatively, characters are interchangeable – people wearing different masks online<div> | |||
• to what extent is the debate coferent?<div> | |||
• What you write about is the gap between the triangulated points<div> | |||
• What we remember – obscene, vivid = find that point<div> | |||
• what is the tone? Progress from banal to serious?<div> | |||
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'''STRUCTURE OF ONLINE DEBATES'''<div> | |||
-non sequitors<div> | |||
-insulting<div> | |||
- | -absurd strawman<div> | ||
- | -sweeping statements<div> | ||
-Voice of reason is pedantic and always drowned out<div> | |||
-godwin’s law<div> | |||
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need topics to ground it - prevent questioning of topic | '''PHRASING OF DEBATES'''<div> | ||
build mind of the character to be able to write a script | -Bracketed phrases<div> | ||
physical displacement in real time | -run-on sentences<div> | ||
Tino Seghal – performers speak to audience | -CAPS – yelling<div> | ||
postponement | -noises<div> | ||
-words drawn ouuuut<div> | |||
smh/lmao<div> | |||
-colloquial pretention<div> | |||
emojis – bring it out – could lead to something very surreal<div> | |||
<div><div> | |||
'''TOPICS'''<div> | |||
-chicken vs egg<div> | |||
-TV shows/film i.e. harry potter vs LOTR<div> | |||
-moonlanding<div> | |||
-vaccination/holistic medicine<div> | |||
-gun control<div> | |||
-climate change<div> | |||
-cultural appropriation<div> | |||
-BLM<div> | |||
-feminism<div> | |||
-holocaust<div> | |||
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'''NOTES'''<div> | |||
don’t ignore the context of online<div> | |||
– i.e. the silent majority watching entertained<div> | |||
- interaction of people that would never normally interact<div> | |||
-wide location of speakers (maybe actors are in different locations)<div> | |||
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play with different registers\bring out the uncanny\<div> | |||
-guy citing facts – present it as government film i.e. how person means to present it<div> | |||
-then you have 14-year-old girl yelling at the docs from her bedroom<div> | |||
-then the spammer redirects you to an unrelated site<div> | |||
-investing the sign with meaning (in reference to avatars, online personalities)<div> | |||
-purest manifestation of the mass (Baudrillard)<div> | |||
-the translation of personality as spectacle<div> | |||
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need topics to ground it - prevent questioning of topic<div> | |||
build mind of the character to be able to write a script<div> | |||
physical displacement in real time<div> | |||
Tino Seghal – performers speak to audience<div> | |||
postponement<div> | |||
[[Gun Violence example]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 18:57, 8 December 2017
A group of four individuals have a ‘live debate’ set up as a traditional/political debate. Their words are taken directly from online debates. The viewer sees a group of four well-dressed individuals standing in front of a black screen, each behind a podium.
• What is the archetypal structure of online debates? i.e. main structural points
• does each individual personify a particular rhetoric style or personality style that emerges online? i.e. the intellectual vs the troll Alternatively, characters are interchangeable – people wearing different masks online
• to what extent is the debate coferent?
• What you write about is the gap between the triangulated points
• What we remember – obscene, vivid = find that point
• what is the tone? Progress from banal to serious?
-non sequitors
-insulting
-absurd strawman
-sweeping statements
-Voice of reason is pedantic and always drowned out
-godwin’s law
-Bracketed phrases
-run-on sentences
-CAPS – yelling
-noises
-words drawn ouuuut
smh/lmao
-colloquial pretention
emojis – bring it out – could lead to something very surreal
-chicken vs egg
-TV shows/film i.e. harry potter vs LOTR
-moonlanding
-vaccination/holistic medicine
-gun control
-climate change
-cultural appropriation
-BLM
-feminism
-holocaust
don’t ignore the context of online
– i.e. the silent majority watching entertained
- interaction of people that would never normally interact
-wide location of speakers (maybe actors are in different locations)
play with different registers\bring out the uncanny\
-guy citing facts – present it as government film i.e. how person means to present it
-then you have 14-year-old girl yelling at the docs from her bedroom
-then the spammer redirects you to an unrelated site
-investing the sign with meaning (in reference to avatars, online personalities)
-purest manifestation of the mass (Baudrillard)
-the translation of personality as spectacle
need topics to ground it - prevent questioning of topic
build mind of the character to be able to write a script
physical displacement in real time
Tino Seghal – performers speak to audience
postponement