As this is my last semester of my Bachelors Degree I wanted to make sure the electives I chose were going to be useful going forwards. I know finishing a degree can be a bit daunting, questions have been bubbling up in my head any minute it gets the chance to… Where do I go from here? Where do I even look for a job? With that I explored my different elective options on enrolment online and came across the course Networked Media- ultimately I chose this course because of the word networked, I know I would like to be as networked as I can to find a job after the next few weeks.

So as I was sitting in my first lecture of Networked Media, honestly I had no idea what to expect. Would it be a group of students just networking and pitching each-other cocktail in hand where they have worked previously sand what skill set is their best? no idea.

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I came to realise that Networked Media would not be about resume conversations and trying to build up personal network’s but rather about exploring the online networking world. Taking Instagram for example, studying it’s software and dissecting its being. We would learn what the software means and how people interact with it whilst even developing our own projects on it to test our theories. This class was definitely not what I expected it to be but I am looking forwards to learning what it has to offer. Further I believe that the skills I’ll learn from this course will definitely aid my career outside of my degree.