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Whilst reflecting on my first year as a digital cultures student, not only did I look back on what I learnt and gained I also looked at what I felt I missed.

Reflection

My ‘reflective’ blog, my first year over and somehow this blog is harder to write than my first.

Your System Has Been Officially WANKed

Worms Against Nuclear Killers, or WANK in this text, was the first computer worm that held a political message.

What Do Journalists Do?

As I mentioned at the beginning of this blog I am studying Journalism, with the end result hopefully being a feature writer. With that in mind I should probably know what it is a journalist does and what world I am hoping to enter.

Virtual Learning

A few weeks ago we were discussing learning through games and on computers.

Online Coffee Houses

Online politics and power has been something I didn’t know anything about. And, if I’m honest, something I didn’t think I would be interested in.

However this week, I didn’t learn just about digital power, I learnt that power through journalism is still current from the Habermas days.

Habermas’ coffee house theory was that journalism was for the elite, newspapers were hard to come by and therefore people of a certain stature would gather in coffee houses where they would share newspapers and news.

This is still seen in the online world, people use the internet as a tool to gain and increase power right from major elections down to niche groups and clubs. 

The Digital Divide

This week we were looking at globalization and the digital divide.