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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...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...
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In earlier posts (“Hatsune Miku,the idol who doesn’t exist” and later posts), I have written about Hatsune Miku being an idol that doesn’t exist, or referred...
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In the previous blog, I have written a post about what Agenda Setting is, and how the traditional Agenda Setting theory has changed with the...
Continue reading...“Mobile gaming isn’t gaming”
Last week at BlizzCon 2018, a gaming convention held by the video game developer Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment announced its newest game: ‘Diablo Immortal’. This announcement...
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Since the rise of new media, the media academia has struggled to follow the new spectrum of possibilities. They had to reassemble almost every theory...
Continue reading...A meme a day keeps the doctor away
“An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.” This definition...
Continue reading...Fan Art and a 41 Minute Piano Medley
In case you haven’t noticed yet, I have an incredible craving for music. I’m always ready for new album releases, new music video’s, new covers… I...
Continue reading...A wave of digital icons
“By the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the digital image […] became a powerful tool for simulating reality that will deceive in future...
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‘Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.’ This was just the beginning of the fairytale of Pinocchio, an animated wooden marionette dreaming of...
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Nothing is what it seems. Not only magicians and politicians are experts at hiding the truth, arguably everyone participating on social media is some kind of...
Continue reading...Hatsune Miku vs Human Voice
In my last two posts, I talked about Hatsune Miku, Vocaloid and utaite (see “Hatsune Miku, the idol who doesn’t exist” and “Mere cover artists performing...
Continue reading...Doomed to fail?
This week I am going to predict something. When I wrote about Tamagotchis a few weeks back I talked about how companies utilize people’s feelings of...
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I have prepared two claims. First regarding gender roles: gender should not choose roles, and second regarding working conditions: women must work hard to reach equality...
Continue reading...A sense of community in the jungle
“While a mosaic respects the diversity of the elements of which it is made up, it brings them together in an organic unity greater than the sum of its parts.”...
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