One constraint for all the films we have looked at in my Art of Persuasion class is that they have to have a political nature, but what does it actually mean for a documentary to be political? This is something we explored in class which I think was necessary to clearly define and nut out […]

When I first began this course, in the first class, all I knew is that we would be focusing on documentaries and that we would probably be making a few. At this point in time, when i thought documentary I was imagining David Attenborough on one of his journeys out to the wild, spurting out […]

Mixed Media Creative Essay Network Media With the phenomenal pace at which network media is developing and constantly changing the part we play within society, it is important to consider what it is we must be doing to adapt to this change by identifying how it affects us in our day to day lives as […]

I couldn’t agree with Felicia more, Humans of New York is probably one of the best things that has ever happened to my Facebook feed. It amazes me that no one has ever been able to capture such a great part of human nature as well as this man has through his photography and sell it […]

So it is time once again to tackle the weekly readings and I’m going to be completely honest with everyone, this week’s reading has rendered my brain into porridge. Bill Seaman, i am certain that what you have to say about Recombinant Poetics and Related Database Aesthetics is very important and interesting in the Network […]

I took up the challenge after this weeks symposium to discover what was the largest number of links between Kevin Bacon and a celebrity of my choosing. It is probably one of the most confusing, frustrating things i have done in my life. The ones i thought were really good, and there was no way […]

so there are a whole lot of cops crusin around on terrorism watch, my roommate is seriously talking about buying shares in armoury, and the pope is freakin out – not sure how much longer we can all STAY CALM. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29190890    

This weeks reading is called “Theoretical Frameworks” and on the topic of technological determinism. For all those who are not quite sure, as i still was when i began the reading, technological determinism refers to the belief that technology is the agent of social change. As the article progressed, the author discusses a scholar who […]