The last blog already. And what better way to start it then with a quote from Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind? For this last blog I want to summarize what I have been trying to do with all these past blogs. When I started to do the course Digital Media, Society and Culture the class was told to do all these…
So, all these weeks I have been blogging about all these different ways to make history fun and more modern using digital means. Today I would like to look at a more serious approach. I want to get a spotlight on the different learning networks and different ways that you can use nowadays to learn about history online. So, all these weeks…
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 reasons. Let’s take email as an example. These days, people use email on an extremely regular basis as part of work, where email is the main communication function. Emailing serves as a way to communicate with…
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 like it is right up your alley gets announced. Oftentimes such an announcement is made months, if not a year, before the company is planning to release the game. That can be frustrating because you just…
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 Silence model and its modifications due to digital media. <What is Spiral of Silence?> Spiral of Silence model explains that people (the public) stays silent due to the fear of isolation, if their opinion differs from…
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 I want to link that to digital media and research the relationship between the online world and its digital minorities. Anonymous might be the perfect example of this. If you’ve ever seen something from this group…
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 something good in the world that is infinite? The earth seems to be finite; global warming underlines that fact. Life in general is finite, as people have not found the formula for immortality (yet). The end…