Tactical Media Project Proposal

For my tactical media project I am going to investigate existing research on children with a chronically ill parent. I will analyze effects of the disease, and then examine how a parent with neurological impairment may affect the child growing up within the family context.

I am passionate about doing research on this topic because I was raised by a parent who had a viral brain infection and suffered a stroke. This has had a huge impact on my upbringing and life. I hope to connect with others with an ill parent and do further exploration to learn more about what researchers in this field are saying.

I hope to make a contribution by sharing knowledge from my unique experience of being raised by a survivor and by sharing my personal testimony about how it has affected me. I hope to help others and prevent them from suffering in similar situations. I would also like to learn about others’ experiences or even about people that they may know who are also facing difficult circumstances or adapting to an ill parent’s condition. I would like to help others understand the impact that chronic illness, disease, stroke, or brain injuries that cause brain damage can have on the family structure and help prevent the negative effects and risks for the child. This tactical media project will provide information to raise awareness of serious risks, organizations that offer help and support, and provide solutions to help improve family life for the needs of the child.

Author's views in a modern society

          The internet has abilities to mobilize individuals and change the way that a culture is connected, even to change outcomes. Crowdsoucring is an example in Shirky’s perspective of the ability to publicize events and use new technology as a way to keep tract of information to gain attention globally and through mainsteam media. He uses the example of a lost/stolen phone and the ability to publicize and keep tract of events as evidence to change an outcome. Lievourw looks at how the internet of social media can link global information through networking for a broad expansion of communication that is like a commons knowledge created and distributed and evolves in modern society and shapes culture.

            Shirky focuses on how modern society interferes with our ability to share, collaborate, and participate making it harder to connect personally with people but that with network creations technology it’s made easier and could be part of the answer to the problems of modernity because communication not only passes ideas along but also shapes our thoughts and the way we’re all connected.

          Modernity is a time where we mass produce individuality as a collective product that fosters self hood. From Jenkins point of view through participation and interacting people contribute to culture and converge culture in social media. However, in a capitalist community that creates financial competition we are restrained by what the producer allows and authority limits what you can do. Converging old and new media allows the ability to mix and merge new media such as with fan participation and creativity. Using commons knowledge involves a sense of sharing resources but this can be a problem with privatization and intellectual property rights. It creates barriers with authority regulations and increases competition for things valued and desired.

            With the emergence of mass media industries harbor labor and investments with huge finances for managing organizations and maintain regulations that govern interactions in order to have a profitful/successful business. The goal becomes financial success and profit in a capitalist modernized society with individual contributions limited under authority. These large privatized organizations under control of authority and governance get in the way of our natural tendencies to share, collaborate, and cooperate for the good of the whole.

            Shirky supports the idea that without the framework of formal management (with financial motivation) that a democratic society would be beneficial to overcome barriers in a monopolized society. In a modernized society it will be easier to share, collaborate, and cooperate for society as a whole and to connect with new technology as it enables us to with shared efforts from “private” to the general public and without regulations of management or a central authority. This will exhibit the ability to communicate, choose involvement and participate in decisions, and lower barriers of work as with entering into a profession and will better form a common sense and create a common culture and form plans to act on with shared group effort without governance that will be effective to society as a whole.  

Here Comes Everybody

 Part of Ch. 2 and beginning of Chapter 3 for "Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky
Shirky:
In Chapter 2, Shirky proposes that professions are a minority defined by being part of a minority.
The use of social media as a source of journalism in ways can be better and enable more things than professionals but professionals have to focus on things that they have to offer.
Shirky is suggesting that features of journalism today may adapt to a direction for journalists who are from places that are less modernized places in the world instead of a monopoly orientation with the goals of competing with amateurs.
Shirky is skeptic with privatization in relation to rights in regards to natural tendencies of sharing, collaborating, and cooperating. Modernization has gotten in the way with regulations involved within management. He argues for an organization without a central authority making all the decisions in order to permit better communication within a modern society. He promotes anarchism with the idea that chaos could be mediated through decisions of a participatory culture in which individuals can chose what decisions to be involved in to form common sense, create a common culture to form plans and act on them without governance. 
Shirky believes that professions should have low barriers to enter into and that people should be allowed to freely join and freely leave. A network communication technology could provide this for individuals.