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 →

As outlined by Jürgen Habermas, the public sphere generally conceived as the social space in which different opinions are expressed, problems of general concern are discussed, and collective solutions are developed communicatively. Thus, the public sphere is the central arena for societal communication (Habermas 1989). Being an 18 year old girl who lives out of... 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 →

The media ownership in Australia is currently dominated by the big dogs. Rupert Murdoch, as a one man band and former CEO of NewsCorp, owns over over 10 different newspapers alone. Although Murdoch owns the media channels to a certain degree, does he have any jurisdiction over what is broadcasted? Facebook IconSource Everything we use... 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 →