“Networked literacy… is being comfortable with change and flow as the day to day conditions of knowledge production and dissemination, and recognising that all of this may change, and appear differently in six months….“ – Miles, Adrian. “Network Literacy: The… Continue Reading
I haven’t posted any pictures in quite some time (sorry Networked Media checklist…. and Jason). Here are some instagram worthy iPhone snaps I took at this morning’s media preview (subtlety reminding you I’m a working journalist) of Jean Paul Gaultier’s… Continue Reading
When we look at the domain name of a website, we are simply seeing a “human readable” version of the numbers underneath. A point I picked up from this week’s symposium was that everything (technology wise) has a unique IP address-… Continue Reading
The diagram is a “distributed network”, a structural form without centre that resembles a web or meshwork… The management style is “protocol”, the principle of organisation native to computers in distributed networks. I’m not very good at technology. I can take/edit… Continue Reading
“Database” seemed to be a key word in this week’s symposium. What is a database? “An organised collection of information,” Elliott tells us. “Everything online comes out of a database” we are told by Adrian. He then tells us that… Continue Reading
In today’s tutorial, we touched on the celebrity nude photo scandal that has “rocked the internet”. Jason posed us an interesting question- when will we start putting internet theft in the same category as physical theft. If a person robbed… Continue Reading
We opened this week’s symposium with a few notes from last week’s symposium. Elliott mentioned that a lot of what we are taught in school is “wrong”, which means our tertiary tutors have to “unpick” and deconstruct what we have… Continue Reading
I threw my hand in the air with great gusto when Jason asked our class “Who has absolutely no idea about HTML?” What’s that they say about never being disappointed if you start expectations somewhere low to begin with? When… Continue Reading
I wonder how ol’ Teddy would respond to a Goosebumps Choose Your Own Adventure book. While I believe hypertext is better suited to the web rather than, say, a book, I think the idea of non linear text systems is… Continue Reading
I write for the web at both of my workplaces. Naturally, we include images in our articles- given that I write predominantly about fashion and beauty, two very ‘visual’ industries, images are a necessity. So how do copyright laws apply… Continue Reading