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Week Two – Foundations, Thinkers and Ideas
For the second week of ARTS3091, we explored the theoretical frameworks of media. In order to understand the connection between new media, culture and social change, there needs to be an understanding...
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Week 4: Global Mnemotechnics – Globalising Memory, Thinking and Action
Humanity’s experience of the world has changed heavily since externalising our thought processes. Before it may have been simply a pen to write, however, modern technology has aided the development of...
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Week 5 – Reality (actual, potential, virtual)
The topic of reality is what I expect to be asked at one point in the life of a University student. While studying psychology in first year, I remember one of the final examination questions being: How...
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Week 6 – Data and Media (An Unrequited Love?)
The relationship of data and media is one that I have not considered previously. However, this week’s topic was actually quite intriguing as it opened new concepts and changed my perception of other...
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Week 9 – Social organisation: Micropolitics, Networks, Designing for and...
The animation, The Coalition of the Willing, depicts what they believe to be the current situation of society. One that is driven by consumerism and individualism, where it has moved away from national...
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Week 10 – The Generosity of New Media: Science, Technology and Innovation
Media is a constantly changing phenomenon; in recent years it has found new methods of being applicable to all avenues of life. Before media and science could not have been seen linked together....
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Week 11 – The Future, again—Can we still call say “Media” or “Communications”...
Over the weeks, the change of media has allowed the integration of different areas. Media has transformed all areas including science, politics and economics. However, Rushkoff (2012) argues we are...
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Week 12: “But is it Art?”—the new dynamism of art
New media art is a new genre of artworks that are created with “new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, visual art, Internet art, interactive art, video...
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