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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.

More Flow Needed

This week we enhanced our learning of the gaming world.

Art & Technology - Worlds Apart?

When we think about art we normally think about Picasso, Lichtenstein or even Banksy.

Gaming Culture

For the past two weeks I have been learning, and thinking, about gaming and the games culture. I have been thinking and talking not only about playing games but about the effects that game playing has on the players.

Working For Nothing

I’m sure you are all aware of the phrase “if you pay peanuts you get monkeys”, but what about if you pay nothing at all? It seems this is what many of us are working for and may not even know about it.

The Semantic Web and BIG DATA

This week I have been learning about the ‘semantic web’, what it is and what it has helped to achieve.

Can Anybody Hear Me?

This week I was looking at the topic of the digital voice. Before I could specify the area I wanted to focus in on I needed to gain a broader knowledge of what was meant by the ‘digital voice’.

Open Access

Before I can try to talk to you about open access I needed to be certain about it myself. So I set about the World Wide Web in search of an explanation that I both understood and could translate into my own words. 

Along my search I started at the most obvious, Wikipedia, which told me open access was: “the practice of providing unrestricted access via the internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles” and is also “increasingly being provided to theses, scholarly monographs and book chapters”.