!["We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a very narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.... Because they have to be... a hard man...And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller" This is one of the best passages about feminism and how it affects both men and women. I would never have heard this passage spoken if not for the virality of Beyonce's Flawless.](https://www.mediafactory.org.au/hannah-tepoorten/files/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-18-at-9.05.25-PM-2czikx9-150x150.png)
Feminism: How Media Has Shaped My Opinion
Feminism first came across my social conscience in High School when I was spending a lot of my time online on Hitrecord.org. At the time, HitRecord (created by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) had just had a big relaunch. The interface went from…
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Networked Media Exercise: Multimedia on my blog
Today’s exercise is to upload media (video, audio, or photos) to my blog and discuss how they add to the theme. As I’ve already uploaded media in all of the above forms to this blog I want to focus on…
![Introduction // What I'm Here For](http://www.mediafactory.org.au/hannah-tepoorten/files/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-04-at-1.29.30-PM-21dvcub-150x150.png)
Introduction // What I’m Here For
This Blog is to be used throughout my journey in the Bachelor of Communication – Media Course at RMIT. I am to use this blog to reflect on all elements of my studies (my work, lectures and tutorials, my peers…