I made an eye that represents Hollywood, soft power and information. One side of the eye is exciting and sparkly to represent how exciting media can be and the other side is plain and creepy representing how technology can be tiring and all-consuming.

We also made glitch and AI art. This is AI art of a sepia classroom with the only glitch my computer could do. It was cool to see what could be achieved.

I enjoyed discussing AI. I recognise the issues it could create for the creative industry but think it will more likely be used to help creatives as long as there are regulations around its use. Below are AI images of Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd and Scott Morrison (terrifying right?!).

The Paasonen reading was interesting but I media nostalgia is such an overdone topic—there are always critics that harp on about the good-old-days when everything was so much better. People have always been nostalgic for a time they never experienced, this has just been proliferated and made a commodity by mass media. Although I agree that more stimulus makes us bored more often, people have always been bored and boredom leads to innovation.

The digital detox reading showed that, while heavy internet use has damaging effects on the brain, our need for self-improvement is overarching. We use the internet every day and so I wonder if it is really possible or necessary to detox from it as long as we use it productively.

Eisikovits, N and Stubbs, A (2023) CHATGPT, dall-e 2 and the collapse of the creative process, The Conversation. Available at: https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-dall-e-2-and-the-collapse-of-the-creative-process-196461 (Accessed: March 19, 2023).

Paasonen, S (2020) “Distracted Present, Golden Past?,” Media Theory, 4(2), pp 11–32.

Syvertsen, T. and Enli, G. (2020) “Digital Detox: Media Resistance and the promise of authenticity,” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 26(5-6), pp. 1269–1283. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856519847325.