Category: Reflection
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Advantages of an interactive and entertaining approach
The most popular way of interactivity and entertainment, in my opinion, is video games. Games, as the ninth art, have a fusion of all the arts of graphics, sound, and text, along with a great sense of interactivity and exploration. Players are able to have an almost perfect immersion in the experience, which allows them…
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Information gathered on the family project and the progress of its production
1.Collection of family stories： This is a collection of 300 poems and stories recorded by some 37 literary figures of my family ancestry. Among them, the stories of the Qing Dynasty’s literal prison period and the Ming Dynasty’s resistance to the Japanese are more painful and heavy narratives, suitable for adaptation as game scripts. This…
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Creative Progress on the Digital Family Platform
Combining the habits of a large number of family members and considering the convenience, I created a small program (a program system that can be used within the WeChat system) in WeChat (the most used SNS software in China). This program can automatically generate a family tree by family members uploading their name, generation, age,…
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Report on the results of recent family history research
In early April I was in my hometown doing fieldwork about my family history. The methods of investigation are: oral history of elders, research on family sites, and documentary research. At the same time, I am in the process of collating the information I have obtained and am thinking about how to create some digital…
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Comment on ‘How Digital Technology Reconstructs Memory Transmission and Identity of Chinese Families?’ Preliminary Conceptualisation
The need for digital entities: Daniel Miller’s material culture research starts from consumption, and regards mass consumption as a creation belonging to the lower levels of human behaviour, the main way for contemporary people to create their own exclusive private life, with the positivity and creativity to resist the vertical of the mainstream ideology; Consumption…
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Perceptions and definitions of human’s ‘symbols’
In my perspective, the human is made of ‘symbols’. But this hermeneutic is too abstract. I hope to sort out my definition and perception of ‘symbols’ through this writing. Firstly, Ernst Cassirer refers to man as a symbolic animal in his book, Theory of Man: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Human Culture. Specific symbols…