Week 12

Hurrayy it is the last week of RWAV!! I’m in Vietnam now so I couldn’t attend at this week’s studio, yet I still try my best to catch up with the folks. A few day ago (Tuesday i reckon) I finally I know how to…

Creative Essay

Since the beginning of the digital media era, network literacy has become a debatable topic. There are various definitions for network literacy. However, in his article: “Network literacy: the new path to knowledge”, Adrian Miles (2007) provided a clear and detailed explanation for this complicated…

Week 11 reading

“The old sovereign societies worked with simple machines, levers, pulleys, clocks, but recent disciplinary societies were equipped with thermodynamic machines’ . . . control societies operate with a third generation of machines, with information technology and computers.”‘   The life that is evolving around us…

Week 10 wandering around

Callista: Narative form, which can be found in print and movies,  belongs to the modern age. Whilst the Database form ( a structured form of data and is organised for a quick retrieval in computer) belongs to the post-modern age .  

Thinking about networked media and network literacy

Since the beginning of the digital media era, network literacy has become a debatable topic. There are various definitions for network literacy. However, in his article: “Network literacy: the new path to knowledge”, Adrian Miles (2007) provided a clear and detailed explanation for this complicated…

Week 10 symposium

HOw to write essay: the flipped cone instead of the usual cone. ‘normal cone’: where we started the essay broadly and as we reach the end/conclusion it get narrower and deeper. But this time, Adrian suggested the other way around, which is starting broadly and…

Iphone 6 and iphone 6+

I’m so into the new iphones, can’t wait to have them.  but Iphone 6plus is way too big for a phone, it’s half the size of a mini ipad already!!  

Week 8 wandering around

I found these ideas interesting from 3 of my friends’ blogs: Anna Shang: ” I found the discussion of the neutrality of technologies an interesting angle of thought. Adrian explored different categories of technologies – how they are designed to be used in comparison to how they…

Media in the age of networks: the decay/evolution of advertising models

The Association of Publishing Agencies first International Content Summitwas a great event to attend, as a speaker and a delegate. As well as the many inspiring and useful speakers, it was the ambition and optimism of the industry there that was striking. This is the contract publishing industry,…