Global Village works as an extension of our own every day made possible through the advancements of the internet. Marshall McLuhan predicted the ideological global village – “one world connected by an electronic nervous system, making it part of popular culture.” The internet allows the opportunity for people who wish to become apart of communities […]
In the past, myself and blogging have been in a love-hate relationship. I enjoyed being able to express my ideas, opinions and interests on an online domain, available for all to potentially see – but also groaned and grizzled at the thought of its tediousness and up-keep. This ‘Sad Sally’ mostly occurring when being prodded and […]
Last night I finally got to see one of my favourite Melbourne bands, City Calm Down, at the all typical Melbourne venue, The Corner in Richmond. It was a sold out shot, and it was an absolute rippa. Starting the night feeling a but woozy from an on-coming fever that day, I thought it’d be […]
Networked Media // Week Five Reading The week five reading is a continuation from Landow (2006), in which I think truly helped to consolidate my understanding of hypertext/hypermedia. Alright, so time for some more talk on hypertext. What I found most interesting in the reading was the mentioning of how ‘electronic linking’ has had an affect […]
Fifty years ago, exercising the latest technology of the portable film-camera, anthropologist and filmmaker, Jean Rouch, and sociologist, Edgar Morin took to the streets of Paris to ask the city’s people, Are you Happy? in their short video Chronicle of a Summer (watch below). Now half a century later with the assistance of more advanced and globalised technology, […]
Networked Media // Week Four Reading At first, the idea of hypertext/hypermedia within network literacy seemed quite daunting and complicated to me. From reading this week’s assigned text however, I have realised that it is a far less complicated notion and is rather simple. So simple that I have unintentionally created a blog that highly […]
Only a few moments ago, Annie introduced me to a deadset amazing website TasteKid. This site recommends and helps you to discover new music, movies, TV shows, books, games and authors. It is bangin. It’s super easy to use too! Just punch in a band you like under the music section and a bunch of similar […]
Down right love emojis alright. Use them all the time, because the just get me. I am sure a lot of people agree with this. But sadly Media Factory/Wordpress/whoever runs this site, has no support system for them. Not even a dodgy version like those ones on Facebook. All the time I find myself blogging away, […]
Networked Media // Week Three Reading Directed to an Arts Law Australia website for this week’s reading, it was all about copyright, moral rights and Creative Commons. All of the information provided about these areas of legality definitely helped myself in understanding what is and isn’t appropriate or even legal to post on this blog […]
The second workshop of Networked Media had us continuing to customise our blogs as to make it a bit more us. As to put into our blog what we thought best represented ourselves, including its overall theme and look but also what, and how, we write as an author to a piece of writing, namely our voice. […]