Illusions from Hybrid Media Pseudo-news

• Main Authors: Hsiao-Cheng Huang, 黃孝承
• Other Authors: 許素朱
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4rmts8

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 科技藝術研究所碩士班 === 97 === The thesis regards to the illusion from hybrid media pseudo-news. The author provided two internet artworks to explore “Illusions from Hybrid Media Pseudo-news” in the thesis. Because of the hybrid media environment and the man-made mistakes, it will affect people to recognize the truth of news. Author shared the confusing about presented news. Facing such prevalent pseudo-news and hybrid media environment, author discussed and concluded four possible factors of pseudo news: the consequence of man-made news, people’s presumption toward news, the uncentralization of network and the immediateness of network. “The consequence of man-made news” indicates today’s “news-manufacturing” industry make it possible for low-quality, or even pseudo news. “People’s presumption toward news” refers to that people tend to misunderstand the news with their preconceived opinions. “The uncentralization of network” comes from the development of network. Everyone is now capable of delivering and receiving great quantity of information, which makes it difficult to judge the validity of news. “The immediateness of network”, news may be created based on incorrect information from speedy network. The author created “Newspaper Vender Machine” and “TV News Wall” to explore this issue in the thesis. “Newspaper Vending machine” is an interactive artwork. It is an installation which can produce a newspaper front page and also can sell it. It collects real time news from the Internet and captures the viewer''s image through a webcam or a random image. The news and images are re-edited virtually. “TV News Wall” is an internet art where the news video randomly from internet and the subtitles are from different blog. The pseudo-news of these two art works are created by the hybrid media constructed by different message in internet. To face the pseudo-news of such a hybrid media environment, we have to deliberate how it affects our life.