Week 6 – Readings
This week we are once again met by George Landow’s ideas on hypertext and Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Glabalization. He opens this chapter by reminding us that the digital world and image, even on the…
Week 5 – Readings
In this week’s reading George Landow discusses the idea of hypertexuality and how it radically changes the experience that reading, writing and text signify. Hypertext moves the boundary of power away from the author to the reader, which changes the…
“DOWN-UNDERdecision 2013”
One of my favourite clips from the past week. Stand in host of The Daily Show, John Oliver, compares American and Australian election campaigns. Please note: this is simultaneously embarrassing and hilarious. Check it out here.
Week 4 – Symposium 0.1
Firstly welcome back Brian, love your work. It was great to see a change of formula in this week’s unlecture turned ‘symposium’. The content was derived from student questions with all four tutors providing different thoughts and ideas. I thought…
Week 4 – Readings
Bush Vannevar begins his discussion by asking, “Of what lasting benefit has been man’s use of science and of the new instruments which his research brought into existence?” Firstly, we have more control over our material environment such as…
“How to survive and succeed in Journalism” with Sandra Sully
Last week I signed up for an online Podcast hosted by Pedestrian TV Coach with Sandra Sully about being a journalist in the current media climate. Below are some take away ideas/tips from the talk. She expressed the importance of…
Week 2 – Unlecture and Tutorial
This week’s lecture stressed again that ‘knowledge is constructed’ and this course is about the simultaneous production of both knowledge and graduates. As the semester progresses and students become a little bit more settled, it’s interesting to see the division…
Blackout
At 9:30 last night we lost power. Media Watch was rudely interrupted, as the howling winds were victorious over South Yarra’s electrical supply. My first response was one of annoyance. Then came the realisation that my iPhone only had 12%…
‘Cashing in on Curiosity’
I came across an interesting insight in the Financial Review into the business side of one of my Favourite blogs by Australian Lucy Feagins The Design Files.
Week 2 – Design Fiction
Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling explains that Design Fiction relies heavily on a diegetic approach to creating future objects and services that strive to tell worlds rather than stories. The emphasis is on the design and not the fiction component….