The 4th Screen

We have a Transition Year student in with us this week, and he’s going to be researching telecommunications from his point of view using the internet, and blogging. So the team here at CTVR are giving him lots of avenues to explore, from Student Union Elections, to Programming Hardware, to talking about telecommunications, what it is and how ‘it’ works. So in this frenzy of excited learning, I decided to do a very brief search of my own on telecommunications through YouTube and came across this…

…It’s quite a sophisticated form of narrative advertising – and communicates a kind of  technological utopianism.

I’m hoping that after our first ‘Inspired by…’ talk at the Science Gallery that we will be able to tour a talks/workshop program to Cork & Limerick, two of CTVR’s research hubs. It would be interesting to discuss the nature of Telecommunications through the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies in Limerick, and to get a ‘utopian’ perspective on the Eames film A Communications Primer.

It all comes back to the Primer, oh yeah…

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