43 NMIX 2020 2 30 3 20 Pr Shamp Filters for Tragedy September 10 New Media In Terrible Times They ve always had a role during catastrophic times They didn t just tell us about it they shaped and determined how we would think about the event and the technology after the event was over It shared what we thought about ourselves Titanic It was the maiden voyage of the unsinkable ship 1517 people were lost There was no media at the actual sinking David Sarnoff He worked for the marconi company that manufactured wireless ship communication using radio signals He received reports from the ships that picked up the titanic survivors and stayed there for 72 straight hours during the rescue days He eventually became the RCA of the company When the titanic sank there was a lot of confusion and miscommunication about how many survivors there were and where they were located Carpathian ship went to help survivors but radio signals were very crowded Federal Radio Commission was created out of this to control regulate he radio This tragedy is still shaping and working with us today because of the regulations that waves created as a result Hindenburg Explosion Luxury zeppelin that went from Germany to America in 2 days It originally used helium but the US cut off Germany s helium supply because they didn t want the Germans to surpass them in technology As a result they used hydrogen to fill up the zeppelin When the Hindenburg was coming into NJ a spark hit and the entire thing went into flames Herbert Morrison was the radio broadcaster during this time and he made this more personal subjective and emotional by broadcasting it live over a radio signal Events went from being said in print to something we experience more profoundly JFK Assassination 1963 Osborn There was a motorcade going through dallas texas whenJFK was shot by Harvey 43 44 NMIX 2020 2 30 3 20 Pr Shamp television and shot him Challenger Explosion 1986 Rodney King being acquitted 9 11 thousands of people Abe Zapruder has just purchased 8mm film and he shoot 26 second film that showed Kennedy being shot which was later spread throughout the country Jack Ruby stepped forward when they were transferring Lee Harvey Osborn on live Pressure to launch The first time we had a civilian passenger on a space shuttle a teacher It was much colder temperature 74 seconds into the flight the Challenger explode It got so cold that there were o rings that became bittle letting gas to escape Rodney King was stopped by police on the road and across the road there was a hotel where people got out a camera after hearing the sirens This was the first time that we had video of police beating and tasering someone Nationwide riots erupted referred to as The night of fire in response to the policemen Live television showed planes crashing into the towers and eventually they fell killing They shut down all air traffic for 4 days straight Even at this point in time the media made a point of not showing certain images like When this happened all networks broke down because almost all communication was Flight number 93 found out that the planes crashed and that their planes were being people falling from the buildings hubbed in the world trade center hijacked as well One passenger got on the phone with his wife and told her he loved her and then fought the hijackers even though the plane crashed We saw a huge influx of ameatuer videos circle the country with footage of the crash The internet broke down during this time and shifted below bandwidth since the towers were a huge hub Saddam Hussein all slurs though Virginia Tech 2007 They decided they were going to execute Saddam and that no media would be present at A cell phone video taken by someone on the mission was leaked that included political This proved that you can t keep secrets anymore 44 45 NMIX 2020 2 30 3 20 Pr Shamp Khaled Said uncontrollable force Other examples Katrina Chernoff phone call Students filmed the shooting on campus and you could hear the bullets This was the first time that people needed to be warned about being citizen journalist Khaled Said was an egyptian student who supposedly had video footage of a corrupt policemen so policemen captured him and beat him to keep him quiet Social media spread the message regardless of not having the footage and it created an Communication through cell phone let government officials know how many people were left in the stadium Haiti People started using google maps to start their own relief efforts Deep Water Horizon We had underwater video of the oil leaks Beheading of James Foley Terrorists filmed the assassinations of journalists We are being exposed to a new way of seeing hearing feeling and connecting Mediated first hand we are seeing it in an unfiltered manner and it feels like we re almost When we first had tragedies media companies had days to filter through it Now media companies are not privileged groups with the ability to keep information from If you talk to your parents ask them what they imagine when they think about these We ve created these icons that represent these tragedies and it s shaking what they We ve created a fantasy medium But we don t have a better understanding of some of these tragedies just more exposure and information that we can remember or connect to New Power of presentation participating it s more real New Intimacy reaching us Collective Consciousness tragedies mean to us Media Context Is Seeing Knowing 45 NMIX 2020 2 30 3 20 Pr Shamp mediums We believe these images contain the truth and some people watch it on repeat How different would your understanding of different events be if you didn t have these 46 46 NMIX 2020 2 30 3 20 Pr Shamp 47 47 48 NMIX 2020 2 30 3 20 Pr Shamp Announcements September 12 Digital manipulation the New Reality Be here on the 26th Explain your project in less than 15 seconds what is the problem your group has chosen to address and give us a glimpse of what technology you re using to fix it If you come and look bright and energetic then he will reward us by giving us another group gathering day Elsie Wright and Frances Griffith took pictures in a garden with a Midg Quarter Camera They manipulated the pictures by overlaying faires on the film During this time 1917 there was a spiritualistic movement and high interest in communication with other worlds The effects of WWI and women s rights were in play too Ex Fox sisters could supposedly connect with the dead People were having a hard