week 5

Question 1

disciplinary society

Answer 1

identified by discrete institutions, bounded space, rigid categories, and containment of subjectifying processes within these specific discourses, power operates through a domain of pliable
material forces (Deleuze)

Question 2

control society

Answer 2

continuous modulations, instantaneous communications across space, and decentralized diffusion into everyday life, the disciplinary power now flows throughout the networks of the socius (Deleuze)

Question 3

broad trends in RTV

Answer 3

1. interchangeble individuals to integrate into game design
2. testing their bodily/mental limits

Question 4

powers of transformation in RTV

Answer 4

consistent intervention of objects and private spaces and transforming the audience into participants

Question 5

etymology of reality

Answer 5

fixed or immutable property (of a sovereign power)

Question 6

reality software

Answer 6

the key operation is the very ability to become exchangeable with reality itself (Hardt)

Question 7

shifts in sovereign power

Answer 7

1. control is found in the network of everyday life
2. subjects/objects become variables modified in relation to each other
3. these variables are plugged into RTV, compromised of the most interpersonal/intimate relationships

Question 8

dividual

Answer 8

characterized by the microcapacities to divide and distribute itself in continuous variation

Question 9

“whatever identity”

Answer 9

infinitely flexible placeholder for identity that replaced the fixed, social identity

Question 10

process of desubjectification

Answer 10

participants learn to stop asserting themselves as isolated actors and begin to recognize themselves as variables and merge with the game design

Question 11

Interveillance

Answer 11

non-hierarchical and non-systematic monitoring practices, distinguished from surveillance

Question 12

social location of media

Answer 12

distinguishes the contemporary media landscape from what it used to be

Question 13

“social media logic” framework

Answer 13

programmability, popularity, connectivity, datafication

Question 14

connectivity

Answer 14

the socio-technological affordance of networked platforms to connect content to user activities and advertisers

Question 15

platformed sociality

Answer 15

sociality on platforms are turned into economic value

Question 16

prosumer

Answer 16

producer and consumer of media content

Question 17

lateral surveillance

Answer 17

peer-to-peer monitoring, use of surveillance tools by individuals (Andrejevic)

Question 18

social surveillance

Answer 18

closely examining others content and looking at own content through other people’s eyes (Marwick)

Question 19

theory of recognition (Honneth)

Answer 19

a basic requirement for the individual to establish a sense of security in his/her capability of thinking, reflecting and acting independently of other individuals

Question 20

individualization

Answer 20

making an individual distinct; individuals are free from oppressive structures, but there is also increased anxiety/vulnerability among individuals

Question 21

organized self-realization

Answer 21

self-realization becomes ideologically normalized as a biographical goal (eg. individuals working on their identity/personality for benefits in society)

Question 22

connectedness

Answer 22

meaningful social connections between individuals and groups

Question 23

premises of recognition (Honneth)

Answer 23

1. positively affirmative
2. actualized through concrete action
3. explicitly intended