A world where the commodity revolves around time and content terrifies me. We are already being systematically programmed by computers to utilise their functions to achieve a high degree of efficiency. However, where is the balance of time vs efficiency. …
Category: DIGC 202
Amazon Ecwho?
The way that materiality is now conceptualised transcends the homogenisation of space and time in the notion that information can be accessed immediately. We can now instead of asking our parents a stupid question, ask the cloud of which can …
I Google Myself, What Of It
To think that everything that is posted on the internet is completely private and safe is extremely naïve thinking. Your information of which you post online is readily available for anyone to find, even your friends and family. Googling yourself …
A Hackers Bread and Butter
Hackers like what they do, and they’re good at it. Individuals have hobbies because they are interested and enjoy whatever it is they are undertaking. Is that not the same with hacktivists and hackers? The notion of ‘The Game’ (there …
#StopGamerGate: One Tweet to Ruin them All
From birth we are told that our ‘actions speak louder’ than our words, so what do our tweets, posts and online presences fall into? The internet is a powerful source, not only does it allow for the freedom of any …
You know what they say, 140 Characters can say a Thousand Words
Twitter as a facet of social media and the new paradigm of user aggregation, curation and production encapsulates the idea of collective intelligence demonstrating itself. Allowing for the leveraging of power law distributions, the long tail and the aggregate as a concept. …
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A Spoon full of Freedom makes The Closed Source go Down
For as long as I can remember I have always thought of Apple being the superior technology in relation to mobile phones, computers and basically every appliance in my home. However, is this only because I enjoy the comfort of …
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My Best Friend Metadata
A brilliant point brought up by my lecturer Ted Mitew made me realise how disturbing our society online truly is, and how these ‘walled gardens’ are able to grasp hold of our deepest darkest secrets better then any human being …
The Worlds next Top ‘Aggregation of Content’ Model
Okay so we are down to three finalists. Two legacy media. The other being the world wide interwebs which allows individuals to post, curate, create and produce whatever they want to the entire world at the click of the button. …
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