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 →

We understand the world through some constant glasses called frames. How we perceive and interpret a piece of content is dependant on it's assembly and intended frame, as well as our own association chains. These chains are made up of things like personal experiences and things we have learnt since being alive human meat sacks.... Continue Reading →

Legacy media were once the gatekeepers of the worlds secrets, but the move of many-to-many networking has kind of fucked that up. We've made the transition from monologic media > dialogic media, and the news is no longer is our sole information source. Collective intelligence allows users to communicate with each other, which can be... Continue Reading →

Meme warfare as a topic honestly sounds like a piss take, however, boy is that wrong. The US Government are getting ready to load their overly populated guns with pepe the frog and mass posts of the awkward Hillary Clinton parody video. CIA Proposal - Source https://youtu.be/Elvrsn0c1YQ Distributed media changes the dynamics of content creation... Continue Reading →

The internet homes so many niche online communities that it's actually terrifying. There is something out there for everyone, always. The reason it is so accommodating is because rather than waiting for representation or regulated content from legacy media, we now make our own. Credit: u/zenbox101 Making content, like memes, can be be low budget... Continue Reading →

This weeks lecture left my brain boggled, I didn’t really grasp the concept, and in all honesty it still might not be fully grasped. Marshall McLuhan's idea of the medium being the message is explained as: “…the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from... Continue Reading →