The hip hop music genre is widely recognised for its deep roots in the history of African Americans and their previous and past oppressions as a marginalised group. The lyricism in these songs traditionally reflects adversity and takes an anti-authortian stance. It made comment on the injustices of hyper-criminalisation and contributed to a hip-hop culture,... Continue Reading →

The science fiction film Avatar was released in 2009, and has only recently been dethroned as the ‘biggest movie of all time’ by Avengers Endgame.  Avatar was produced in the United States, which does not end up as westernised as it sounds. The film is set in the mid-22nd century when humans are colonising Pandora,... Continue Reading →

A big defining factor of Paige (me) as a human being is being a pain in the ass to feed. Being a coeliac vegan, I felt as though it was my god given right to play my snowflake card to the best of my ability, and get some content out of it. I reflected on... Continue Reading →

For my Digital Artefact this semester I plan to make recipe and food video content for fellow coeliac vegans, but mainly for myself. I really want to pick up the knack for video editing, with my pitch demonstrating my below base level knowledge. The videos will be uploaded to Youtube to start off with, and... Continue Reading →

Being a millennial teen that doesn’t watch the Block on Channel 9, as per most, I tend to find myself leanings towards television shows that aren’t particularly from around here. By ‘around here’ I mean series that have been produced in a place that exceeds local, regional and national boundaries of Australia.   Factors like age,... Continue Reading →

It's not meant to be a pun, it's the pronunciation, ok cool. So basically China is the country love child of Big Brother and that one Black Mirror episode. It has made the call to enlist a social credit scoring system that rates you, kind of as a human being. We have credit scores in... Continue Reading →

Closed sources provide solid software, that cannot be easily altered by the public. Open sources allows public collaboration, discussion and assistance. Both are ~valid~ and have their own points of use, and I think it is a matter of personal preference, however that can be swayed on functionality and aesthetics. I am not a technologically... Continue Reading →

UOWFits aims to showcase what students at the University of Wollongong are wearing, and WHY. UOWFits is a functioning and public business Instagram page. One post is dedicated to one individual or group, it has different photo points of their outfit, and the caption includes their name, what they are studying and “Why they are... Continue Reading →

I thought my title of my blog post was pretty funny, could possibly be original, however once it's posted, it is no longer my idea. It is going to be sent into the abyss. I'm not a creator that has work to rip off, but golly gosh if I was, there isn't a whole lot... Continue Reading →

In all honesty this topic flew over my head and I struggled trying to make a remediation for concepts I don't really understand, hence the Imgur cop out. https://imgur.com/0MMe5JB 4 stages of a sign There are 4 stages of a sign 1. reflection, 2. mask, 3. illusion, 4. simulacrum I think something that helped my... Continue Reading →