This week’s reading was definitely way more easy to digest than previous readings. It seemed to more directly link to what we are actually doing. It was seemingly more relevant – probably because it was more understandable. The reading was… Continue Reading →
Just a quick blog post to highlight how media plays such an important role in my life. So, yesterday morning I made a status on Facebook – It was quite meaningful and definitely deserving of a few ‘likes’. I received… Continue Reading →
Oh look, now I’ve got your attention. Sex is very natural and very intimate, but imagine trying to perform this sacred act all for the sake of media– for television and film. I imagine it would be extremely awful and… Continue Reading →
Right now I’m sitting on my phone as I’m stuck in traffic on the 11 tram- trying to make my way into the city to get to class on time. I’m looking around the tram and literally every single person… Continue Reading →
This week we looked at online communities and the roles that we play with our online presence. This lecture seemed to take me back to early on in the course where I was trying to establish myself as an online… Continue Reading →
The World Wide Web is a tool for global communication. This actually links to my pop culture topic that I’m studying at the moment– globalisation and how the world’s reduction in size due to transport and communication has created global… Continue Reading →
I’m going to give you a little insight into my experience with computers thus far. In 2014 I was given a Mac Book Pro for my birthday. It was an exciting new toy that I was going to use for… Continue Reading →
Okay, so this morning I was laying on the floor scrolling through my Instagram (as a way to procrastinate the dreaded project brief 3 assignment) when I came across the 7/11 Instagram page. A sudden thought hit me. 7/11, particularly… Continue Reading →
Simulacrum or Simulacra (plural) A diverse (seemingly dystopian) term I had never heard of let alone attempt it’s pronunciation. It is a historically ingrained term based around the theory of Jean Baudrillard where representations imitate reality. It is broken… Continue Reading →
Technological Determinism– The age where technology determines change. This relates back to the Victorian era to mean social progress. This idea describes technology as independent with its “own course of development and it’s own of consequences.” All these technological tools are… Continue Reading →
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