One of our readings for this week was an entry on ‘Audience’ by David Morley in New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society. It begins by describing the history of the term ‘audience’ to discussing the development of mediated audiences in society. The production of daily newspapers gave birth to mediated audiences and […]
Read more "Ladies And Gentlemen"This week’s workshop gave us the chance to regroup and share our ideas with our class. We had to give a rough presentation of our fourth project brief in terms of discussing what our topics our essays will be based on and any relevant findings. The topic for our group is Institution, in particular, Disney. […]
Read more "Rough Presentations"For this week’s lectorial, we had a guest speaker talk to us about copyright. This was quite fitting as we are currently working on our fourth project brief where we are allowed to use copyrighted material for educational purposes. However, it would have also been nice to have a received a lecture on this prior […]
Read more "Copy And Paste"Wednesday this week was yet another good day for me. It was a long day but it was a good day. Having had an early class that day (a catch-up lesson due to the public holiday), I was still set to have good day since I made the decision the night before to check out […]
Read more "Hashtag Brunch"‘Hey, can I please have a large popcorn and an extra large cup of nostalgia. Kthanksbye.’ So for our fourth project brief, my group and I had a change of plans, and I think it’s a brilliant idea. One of our forms of research is to watch Disney films and make notes about the meaning […]
Read more "Frog Kisses"So pretty much it’s for everyone, regardless of age. Surprise, surprise. In addition to not having a lectorial this week, we also were not given any set readings. However, to make up for that, we were asked to make a blog post on a reading that we found in relation to our project brief 4. […]
Read more "Fairytales Are For Kids (At Heart)"For this week’s workshop, we listened to a snippet of an episode on Radio Lab discussing sleep. What really took me by surprise was how it all sounded so seamless and fluid. I mean, there were some pauses here and there, but they were very brief, and everything still sounded so well put together. It […]
Read more "Turn The Radio Up"