As much as the scepticism against the trend of online diagnoses is relavent, I find the availability and practicality of the internets role in our health is somewhat overlooked. There is indeed the…
When you are sick, going to the doctors can be a time consuming and costly process, only to make you wish you were back at home in bed. This however can be solved at the click of a…
In her post for week 5, Katrina argues that, “new technologies are blurring the boundaries between the producer and the consumer, where the content is produced by the ‘players’…
Week 5 Connecting/ Narrating/ Branding me
To what extent is your life embedded in Media? Is it fair to say you are not living with media but in it? (Deuze in Dueze 2011,138) We are getting…
“The speed of digital communication does not create new forms of immorality…But it makes it possible to commit immoral acts so fast that one hardly notices”
(Hamelink, 2006, p. 118)
The new…
New media technologies are integrated into everything we do, work, rest, play, we now connect with friends, family and colleagues through mobile phones, emails, social networking sites and much…
This week’s readings examined the ways in which we as individuals identify and exhibit ourselves through technology.
The great emphasis made by all readings is that technology is both unavoidable…
Let me start with an intriguing quote that Heidi Cutlack mentioned in her blog:
“When it all come’s down to it, the power lies in the hands of the common Social networker; which do you…
