Life Outside Uni
I got some photos of mine developed recently and thought I would share them on here – as a change from the regular Uni posts.
Author: George
What Everyone’s Talking About
I’ve spent the past half hour or so reading other students’ blogs and have come across a number of interesting posts. Here are a few of my favourites: Karlee linked out to an informative article on how to identify and… Continue Reading
Reading 06 – The End of Books – or Books without Ends?
Most interesting for me in these extracts is Douglas’ examination into whether narratives which use hypertext may privilege some readings over others. As the reader directs the chronology of the narrative, there will inevitably be many different paths taken. Will… Continue Reading
Opinions on Voracity
Lachlan linked week 4’s symposium to this prank article published in the University of New South Wales’ student publication Tharunka. He questions the voracity of online news due to constant competition among various publications and websites to disseminate news as fast as… Continue Reading
05.1 Landow Hypertext 3.0
Reading extracts from George P. Landow, Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Landow writes about what he defines as “the third kind of hypertext essay”, in which the writer collates multiple networked documents together in… Continue Reading
Networked Revolution
A recent break out of riots in Ferguson ensued the Police shooting of an un-armed black teenager. Subsequently, three teenagers in Georgia designed a smartphone app, “Five-O”, which allows users to track police brutality. Anyone has the ability to now… Continue Reading
Go And Watch This #1
In my never-ending search for gay lit I stumbled upon an Icelandic coming-of-age film by Baldvin Zophoníasson, Jitters. I’ll admit the trailer is not great, however the film itself surpasses in so many ways. The plot centres around 16-year-old Gabríel and his close… Continue Reading
Hypertext
While I was reading Nelson’s writing on Hypertext I couldn’t quite place my finger on what the concept reminded me of. I found it extremely prophetic given what the Web looks like right now, particularly in it’s absolute lack of… Continue Reading
Symposium 04 – True or False
This week’s symposium addressed a number of questions raised by one of the tutorial’s cohort: How can you judge the validity of things on the Internet? What are the limitations of network literacy? How does it differ from print literacy?… Continue Reading
Tom At The Farm
It’s been a long time since I’ve gone to see a film and have not regretted spending my money on a ticket. Admittedly this particular one was playing at MIFF, so there’s some sense of security with the ones they… Continue Reading