Jessie’s post is here.
Hi Jessie,
I enjoyed your rendition of this task tremendously! Reinventing this task as an ‘unboxing’ vlog is pure genius, and your execution of the video makes you look like a pro 😉
I have to admit, I think of videos as more visual mediums, which is why I shied away from them for this task, but the conversational style of your vlog made me realize the visual was secondary and the orality of your piece was fundamental to it, (reminiscent of Ong’s claim of a return to a second orality).
I found your ‘unboxing’ performance authentic, fun, engaging and informative, as well as checking off many other boxes (entertaining, thoughtful). There was a point when I forgot this was graduate work/study, and consumer-me took over and started clicking on product links, all off on tangents. For me, that marks the integrity of your work, its ability to elicit a variety of spontaneous responses different from those perhaps intended. It also embodies the New London Group’s idea of multiliteracies, calling attention to the dynamic nature of “language and other modes of meaning,” which are “constantly being remade by their users as they work to achieve their various cultural purposes” (Dobson & Willinsky, 2009).
A final note; I also greatly appreciate your explanation/breakdown of how you executed the task because it motivates me to experiment with the media/interfaces you have used.
References:
Dobson, T., & Willinsky, J. (2009). Digital literacy. In D. R. Olson & N. Torrance (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of literacy (pp. 286-312). Cambridge University Press.