Marrying your idol? I’m pretty sure some of you out there have dreamt of such a thing. Marrying your favorite virtual character? I don’t know about...
Continue reading...November 2018
Differences that Occurred Due to New Media
On previous few blogs, I have been writing about how traditional media theory has been affected by the digital media, especially the new media. For today’s...
Continue reading...Motivations
In my final blog post, I will be discussing motivations. What are some of peoples’ motivations in consuming digital media? People use digital media for various...
Continue reading...Archiving the digital
Not so very long ago most computer users printed everything. They held onto their paper texts, probably also because the average pre-millennium (Windows) computer was quite...
Continue reading...It’s leaking again
If you are someone who enjoys playing video games you are probably familiar with the feeling of excitement you get when a new game that looks...
Continue reading...Scientology and the stars
In my previous blog I discussed the Anonymous banner and what it’s used for. The event that changed their status from ‘trolls on 4chan’ to the...
Continue reading...Video games: eternally controversial
In class, we discussed how gender roles have been portrayed in video games through time. There were some worrying discoveries we looked at, something which really...
Continue reading...Part II: Facing AI ethics
Last week I promised a Part II on Faces and the Digital based on an interesting podcast: The Digital Human: Visage, but this has morphed into...
Continue reading...Spiral of Silence
On the last blog post, I have talked about the Cultivation Theory and how it has changed. Today, I will be talking about the Spiral of...
Continue reading...Exploring diversity in video games
Digitalisation has created incredible and powerful dimensions in which human behaviours and cultural interpretations can be influenced and modified, but also innovative methods, through which the...
Continue reading...Something lost. . .
Usually I write this really upbeat blog, but today will be different. So prepare yourself for a change of pace. Normally I talk about all the...
Continue reading...Bellingcat
The transparency movement has finally come of age. Power has shifted to the users. Their trust has to be earned in different ways now says Jay...
Continue reading...Anonymous
If you’ve read some of my blogs, you probably figured I’m intrigued by closed societies, online groups of dissidents, that kind of thing. For this course...
Continue reading...VR and the courtroom
With our exploration of the history of VR in class, came very interesting stories. One that specifically caught my attention was the early sexual assault case...
Continue reading...Lemon, Loser, Lost History
Today, I am going to think ‘out loud’ again. Please bear with me. 213M Views in eight months. 25M Views in four weeks. Yonezu Kenshi, currently...
Continue reading...Part I: What’s in a Face?
High-Tech Faces The World’s first AI news presenter developed by Xinhua (China state news agency) and Sogou (Chinese search engine company) was recently unveiled ‘during China’s...
Continue reading...Humanity through VR
“It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I’ve never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people’s perception of...
Continue reading...Everything Must Come to an End?
Does everything have to come to an end? According to Nelly Furtado, ‘all good things come to an end’. But how right is she? Is there...
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