May 2011
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Week 2: Performing Me: Maintaining Visibility on the Social Stage
Week 4: New Media, Beliefs, Politics & Ethics
Week 5: Connecting/Narrating/Branding Me
April 2011
3 posts
Week 7: Working In/With New Media
Week 6: New Media, Health & Well-Being
Week 5: Connecting/Narrating/Branding Me
As Bec Newman quotes in her blog, “our life is lived in, rather than with, media”.
Unfortunately however, not quite like TRON (Steven Lisberger, 1982).
In recent years, communication via various forms of media has increased considerably - particularly the massive amounts of time spent using them. In doing so, users are carefully (or sometimes not so carefully) creating and...
March 2011
3 posts
Week 4: New Media, Beliefs, Politics & Ethics
The development of New Media has dramatically changed communication and connectivity, developing from what was once restricted to a limited physical location to something of a global scale. Meaning users are able to be heard all around the world through the power of YouTube, Facebook, and many other platforms.
This radical departure from previous systems has meant that users are also able to far...
Week 3: The New Media Amusement Arcade – Games,...
New Media is a technology that is moving at an incredibly rapid rate and, as previously discussed, is providing users with a way of expressing their online identity. Similarly, content creators such as film studios, record labels, and game designers are also provided with a platform to display their own online presence.
The internet has made the process of illegally downloading content far easier...
Week 2: Performing Me: Maintaining Visibility on...
The lecture and readings for this week were particularly focused on the idea and presentation of online identity within social media platforms, and the costs of social networking that are often overlooked.
In the past, it has been easy to define identity as something directly related to a real-world person or body, however since the introduction of social networking, identity is no longer a...