Sensitive topic this week guys…. Misogyny. I know it’s a big one, wasn’t really how I planned to say farewell to you all, but it is a serious issue in todays digital age so let’s take a look at Misogyny online and in the media. It’s no secret that although its cowardly unfortunately its common … More Hot girls we have problems too.
New word for you all this week Clicktivism’ or Slactivism, are used to describe the use of social media and other online media platforms as promotion for a cause. The rise of social media allows for almost anyone to post an opinion online, from your next door neighbors Facebook status, Justin Timberlake’s Instagram … More Bring Back Our Girls.
Re-re-re-re-REMIX. The culture of remix emerged as consumers no longer wanted to be merely consuming but rather wanted to engage and be a part of this technological revolution. A remix is an alternation or appropriation of existing media forms in order to change its original meaning. The emergence of this remix culture has been beneficial … More Its not even summer why does the DJ keep on playing Summertime Sadness.
I hope you enjoy reading these blogs, they allow me to literally rant on about something for 300 words, but you have the patience to sit there and read through my dodgy opinions and some research that I have done on Transmedia and Snapchat fused together to make a beautiful creation I like to call … More Do it…. I dare You.
Week 6 is here, its not long now until we depart from each other for a week as we head into the Easter festive season. Guess who’s back, back, back…back again… Snapchat’s back…tell a friend. Personally I believe that with a technology as new as Snapchat it is hard to use a research essay from … More “My Story” more like “my night out”
It’s week five and I hope we’ve become a bit familiar with each other, hopefully broken past the awkward “do we handshake”, “do we hug?” situation. Snapchat is a user based application so without its people it would be nothing. As we all should know, Snapchat is a predominantly used by a younger demographic. Among … More Back in my day we didn’t have mobile phones
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat CEO “The relationship between media industry and consumer has traditionally been established on the basis of hierarchy, as in “show-and-tell” adversitings or ‘telling people what they need to know’ journalism.” – Jenkins, Henry (2004), The cultural logic of media convergence, International Journal of Cultural Studies. With this statement linking directly to the … More Better than $3billion dollars ?
Today’s copyright laws are becoming tighter, however with modern day technology the breaking and infringement of these laws is becoming extremely difficult to filter and deal with. Snapchat is the most controversial phone application on the market and for a good reason. The time limit of a photo can give people the feeling of security … More The World’s Biggest Lie
Snapchat is a photo messaging phone application released in September 2011 ,and was developed by two Stanford University students, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy. Snapchat was designed to send other people photographs and videos taken within the application, with the option of adding text or drawings to the photo . The recipient list is controlled … More add me on snapchat
At first I thought my first ever blog post would be difficult but then I discovered this “Talking about ourselves triggers the same sensation of pleasure in the brain as food or money.” – @uberfacts So I guess this will be much easier than I thought, time to self indulge. My name is Alec Edward … More A is for Awesome L is for Laughing E is for Excited C is for ….. communications? 😉
Alec Bennett 