In the ideating module of my project ‘awholesomeblend’, watching Ted’s Week 2 lecture encouraged me to think into what my skills, knowledge, interests, hobbies and passions are, and how these can influence my idea for a DA. Georgia’s brain was panicking and the best way for me to overcome this was to make a mind … More Ideating through my DA: awholesomeblend
Hi everyone, I have just uploaded my Project Pitch to youtube to check it out click the video below! For my project it is a accumulation of Instagram, Facebook and Blog Posts promoting a healthy lifestyle to other uni students with a limited budget. In particular I am aiming this project at other uni students … More Project Pitch – awholesomeblend
The first week of uni has already kicked off and my body has been stuck in camping mode from the 4 weeks before hand. This meaning that no words were really making sense let alone the unfamiliar term of a digital artefact. However I was soon to learn, that this in fact entails the main … More Digital Artefact Brainstorm
A public sphere is a space where people come together to exchange ideas and information and the feelings they have towards a particular idea or topic. Jurgen Habermas is the man behind the theory of a public sphere and described it as ‘the space in which citizens debate about common concerns.’ Originally it was largely … More Lets Talk Issues
In today’s social media obsessed world, I gain majority of my news sources off facebook, due to the convenience of picking up my phone wherever I go and scrolling through its news feed! Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook which is now used worldwide to stay connected with friends and family, to keep up to … More Are we being brainwashed?
Models of communication are developed to distribute a message to the consumers of media. Aristotle’s, Laswell’s and Shannon and Weaver’s linear communication model’s pictured below only have a one-way flow. Is there a problem with this? Linear models lead to the ‘magic bullet’ theory, or the ‘hypodermic needle’ theory which both lead to causality, where … More A Kinder Surprise Egg is Illegal?!
Media audiences have drastically changed overtime. In today’s media saturated world, audiences have evolved from sharing an experience in the one room, to a more dispersed and fragmented audience. ‘The most obvious cause of fragmentation is a steady growth in the number of media outlets and products competing for public attention’. (Kziasek, Webster, 2012) Checkout the … More Netflix Binge Watchers Fan-Club
Georgia Woods 