Following on from recent discussions with my supervisor, Samuel Brooks I have again looked at Prensky's source material on digital immigrants and digital natives to see whether what he is actually saying is that yes, digital immigrants, and digital natives think differently; and yes, that changes the way that they understand the world are in; but more fundamentally, that the type of stimulus that the digital immigrant has grown up with; as of its self demanded a change in the consumer's mindset. And that is this change, that sits, at  the heart of the clash between digital immigrant and digital natives.

Looking at my dissertation, what I'm starting to see a new idea  it's not simply Transmedial narrative that and the active consumer that is at the heart of the digital immigrant native battle within the law courts around copyright ownership. But for the new media forms of themselves, because of the way they are used demand change and effect change that is the tension between the digital natives and a digital immigrant.

 When it comes to this idea of intellectual property and property rights. Within this new Transmedial space. What's really being said, yes, there needs to be change. And yes,  Transmedial narrative and it is the use of the active consumer in the creation of the finished artistic piece creates challenges for copyright; But that there is a deeper and more fundamental issue at play here and that is that the new media technologies demand a new response in those who are using them and create a necessity for new regulations and business models. This is not a new phenomenon. This technology led demand for change can be seen  time after time within the development of copyright over the last 400 years.

The example I already have of this within my reading is really looking at that movement from a read/ write artistic culture of the 19th century, where effectively, if you want to enjoy a piece of music you had to play yourself or find somebody who could (because there was no way of recording in capturing a performance) to the read only culture of consumer consumption created in the 20th and 21st century. In the read only culture the professional artist creates creates the piece of work and the audience passively consumes it.

Digital natives, digital immigrants part to
notes on Mark Prensky second essay
do they think differently.


Prensky begins this essay by pointing out that digital natives have been socialised in ways fastly different than those of their parents and digital immigrants. Before he or she leaves college with digital native will have on average, played 10,000 hours of video games, received over 200,000 e-mails and instant messages, spent over 10,000 hours talking on a digital phone, watched over 20,000 hours of television, mostly of the high-speed MTV quick editing by, seen over 500,000 commercials. But read that most only 5000 hours of books.

Neuro plasticity -Prensky points at research in neurobiology, which shows that stimulation of various kinds actually changes brain structure and affect the way people think. The brain constantly reorganise itself. Throughout our childhood and adult lives. This ability to reorganise is known as neuro plasticity.

Social psychologists have shown that people who grow up in different cultures do not. Just think about different things, they actually think differently. The environment and culture in which people are raised and effects, and even deep determines many of their thought processes.

The brain and thought patterns don't change overnight, a key finding within this area of plasticity research has been done. Brain reorganisation takes place only when the animal pays attention to the centre of input and the task at hand. It requires hard work, focused attention, and it would seem that the students to gain this kind of reorganisation into spent 100 minutes a day. Five days a week for 5 to 10 weeks to create the desired change. Prensky suggests that that's exactly what kids have been doing since the 1970s, playing computer games and watching fast cutting television.

This retraining will be human brain to perform in a new way is not new. Since reading became accepted as a basic requirement of life. Man has struggled to retraining sprang to read. Reading has a different neurology, are things that are hardwired into the brain like spoken language. One of the main focuses of schools. Last couple hundred years has been retraining our speech oriented brains to be able to read again the training is involved several hours a day. Five days a week, up sharply focused attention. I

I can attest to this myself. Having struggled terribly to read as a child between five and 10 years old, and then discovering comics and finding my reading age, shot up from 7 to an average reading of 12 and then moved on from there.

Prensky suggest just as we've now more or less retrained and brains to take on reading. We retrained and they can television, and nothing to change again. And now our children are furiously training their brains to cope with these new inputs

Remediation:
http://www.ebook3000.com/Remediation--Understanding-New-Media_112289.html
Remediation: Understanding New Media By J. David Bolter, Richard Grusin
Publisher: MIT Press 1999 | 295 Pages
Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning "remediation," and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.