As explored in my previous posts that detailed and mapped my media niche of vegan food and wellness YouTubers, this week it's time to put it all into perspective in regards to its validity as a project.  Problematisation  The vegan food online community comes with quite a lot of spectacle, and often backlash. These creators... Continue Reading →

Stepping back in time and dissecting this world's means of communication really puts into perspective how far the advancement of technology has come using the foundations it was built on (and how useless this degree would be without it).  I truthfully thought Morse Code had no important place in history and was just a movie... Continue Reading →

Building from my previous post on my media niche, this week I tried to narrow and define my field site of Vegan Food Content.  My Field Map A field site can be mapped by recognising the spatial characteristics of a field-based research project, focusing on the way and how the relevant interactions take place (Burrel... Continue Reading →

The internet is full of information on the wildest range of topics you could ever imagine, however not all of this content is true (or helpful). Being a coeliac individual and following a plant based lifestyle, I am no stranger to self proclaimed health gurus, ‘dieticians’ and weird people trying to sell herbs as a... Continue Reading →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcremI3pAwU BCM214 Digital Artefact When developing my artefact for our innovation, Life-Alert, I wanted to highlight first and foremost the need and utility of it. As shown in the video, the makeshift device, a black box, has purpose in being there as compared to when it was not there to be of assistance. Juxtaposing the... Continue Reading →

The exploration of my particular research topic was initially due to the fact that I could personally resonate with nerves due to public speaking at University, and the discovery that I am not alone has been quite comforting. I went into this project expecting the majority of the answers I received, an overwhelming amount of... Continue Reading →

Public speaking in a University environment can evoke a range of emotions from students, the most dominating feeling being a type of nerves. These feelings are still increasingly common in tertiary students with 18% of a student population rating public speaking in front of their peers as more fearful than death (Dwyer K. & Davidson... Continue Reading →

Do interpersonal skills like public speaking and oral presentations improve through your degree as you get more comfortable at University or does it depend more on the personality type?  My intended topic is to look at  Students public speaking skillsThe potential anxieties around it If their skills change throughout their degree [How does University improve life... Continue Reading →

There are some things in your second year of University that you expect to have changed since the year before, for me that was ice breakers. Much to my dismay, in the first tutorials of this year they still made my knees buckle and voice crack like a floundering child. I tried to plan and... Continue Reading →