Last week we were told to make a short video from the completion we have contribute to our class google drive. We were to make a short clip about a haiku, a traditional Japanese short poetry. Usually describing natural beauty, for me the unique part about haiku is the simplicity, describing beauty in it’s most abstract form, yet it still…
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Learning With Media
In Response to David Gauntlett’s video David Gauntlett Changed my view of media. Some people may argue the now some form of media is dying away. But it’s not dying, it’s simply fading away, transforming into other forms. David said that media studies is not learning what media is all about, instead media studies is us learning with media. Because…

Why Virtual Reality Can Be So Much Fun
Whenever I play an online game, I am bound to talk to the other people who are playing with me. We would talk about the subject that we are interested in (for this: the game itself), and if we hit it off, we would add each other as friends. Whenever we are online, we would join together and do various…

Imagination
Our imagination is powerful, it’s incredible, and still we can’t predict what our imaginations can do. It helps us innovates, it is the foundation of our creativity, and it helps us in our daily life. Imagination helps us fill the gaps between things we sometimes don’t understand. Comic artist gives readers the chance to use their imagination in their comics,…

INSPIRATION WEEK
Yesterday was the woman’s international day. I am using this opportunity to show you one of the you tubers that greatly interest me and inspire me. Anna Akana is an american Youtuber, director, producer, actor and many more. What I like about her videos is that her content has a value in it, she likes to talk about current social…
Sharing is Caring
It’s time to present the media artefacts that we’ve made over the past week. And to grade each other’s work, we had to use the six thinking hats. A method of discussion where each participant wears (metaphorically) a different colour of hat, that had a different role in group discussion. I got the Yellow one, It meant I had to…
Who I am
MEDIA 1, 1st Brief Photos This is me. Now I’m always so engaged with my phone, I always bring it everywhere i go, whenever I have free time, i would unlock, open any social media, and check all my friends’s timeline. My family is back in Indonesia, But i use Skype to chat with them whenever we’ve missed each…

It’s not boring if you’re doing it for others
Responding to Cal Newport’s “The Passion Trap: How the Search for Your Life’s Work is Making Your Working Life Miserable” We have to know, and we probably already realise this, but not all of us are going to get the dream job we wanted. We dream big, we read quotes, we go to seminars, we try everything we can to learn…
Federation Square, Media All around
Melbourne has a vast media objects, here are some pictures we took at Federation Square
- Advertisements at the tram stop
- Big TV screen at Federation Square
- Billboards
- Satellites
a sample video of the Federation Square
Other things that we found at Federation Square
- writing and arts carved in Ground
- advertisements on the floor
- Trucks with advertisements
- SBS Building
- My phone

All Seeing Eye
When we discussed about our goals in Networked Media, one of my classmates mentioned “to be able to give opinion with critical thinking, without any elements of discrimination”. I realised how powerful the social network is and how important it is to have network literacy. Network literacy means the ability to use networked technology. in this age, you can not…