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For my Digital Artefact, I have generated my idea by focusing purely on astrology, which is a topic that I love to spend time on. I have utilised Tik Tok as my social media platform, because I have noticed from other people’s Digital Artefacts in the past that it gives you a higher chance ofContinue reading “BCM 114 – Prototyping”

For my Digital Artefact, I aim to focus and create content that I personally find very interesting as that is highly recommended. By doing this I hope to share this with many other people and hopefully they become just as interested in the content as I am. My initial ideas based on what I amContinue reading “BCM 114 – Ideating”

For my Digital Artefact, I am hoping to aim my project around astrology. This is because it’s encouraged to focus on an area that you personally love which will lead to this project being interesting and enjoyable, which is ultimately why I chose astrology. So far, my idea is to create a Tik Tok pageContinue reading “BCM 114 – Pitch”

One social media platform I personally use more often than not is Tik Tok. It is my favourite social app to use out of all the media platforms such as Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook… I’m sure you can imagine the main ones. I feel like Tik Tok is the one app where most people can feelContinue reading “BCM 111 – Global Social Media”

Citizen journalism involves any person from the public who don’t have to be specialised journalists that record or live stream incidents and spread it throughout Facebook, twitter, blogs, podcasts, and newsletters. This ultimately provides immediate images and videos from the case. More in particular, it is used to report breaking news and the exact timeContinue reading “BCM 111 – Citizen Journalism”

Within the Making Media (BCM 114) subject, the most important part of this course is creating a digital artefact that truely represents your own personal desires. There are endless of possibilities, infinite amount of ideas, which almost makes it harder and more overwhelming in attempting to invent the perfect DA that would ultimately impress yourContinue reading “BCM 114 – Digital Artefact Brainstorming”

Popular culture involves the practices, views and objects that exemplify the extensive implications of the social scheme. This includes various exercises such as, entertainment and leisure, fashion and trends, media objects and more. William’s (1983) states popular culture is, ‘… a particular way of life, whether of a people, a period, or a group’ or,Continue reading “BCM 111 – Popular Culture”

For my digital artefact I wanted to make an Instagram account and web page in order to raise awareness and frame the need to save our beautiful koalas that were greatly impacted during the Australian bushfires. This is because as a result of the devastating Australian bushfires, an estimate of more than 41,000 koalas wereContinue reading “Contextual Essay BCM112”

In this week’s lecture we discovered the depths of ‘Privacy, Surveillance, and the Price of Content’ which is extremely terrifying for most people in today’s society. Almost every person I know have shared their fear of their phones listening to them, and so have I personally. There seems to be some configuration that every conversationContinue reading “Blog #9 #BCM112”

In this week’s lecture we discovered the depths of ‘Hardware Platforms, Access Permissions and Ideologies of Control’ and focused on the difference between open and closed sourced platforms on the internet. Open-sourced platforms: Open-sourced platforms is more external on the media and allows anyone to edit and improve (a big example of this is Wikipedia).Continue reading “Blog #8 #BCM112”