In Week 10 you were introduced to digital storytelling for Task 3 via an online lecture and in your tutorials. Execution of this task exposes your competencies in research, inquiry, creative expression and analysis. And, as we begin understanding storytelling, we know it involves being vulnerable, authentic and reflexive. But why are you afforded so much […]
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Is the only way to keep something private or sacred not sharing it? As soon as it enters media space it takes on a boundless life of its own. Whatever ‘it’ is is no longer intimate or entirely ours. We constantly run up against the challenge of freely sharing and formation of our digital self […]
Spanning time. Time. Our most precious commodity. How are we spending it? Are we paying attention? What does that even mean? This photo booth scene from Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo 66 humorously invites us to laugh at ourselves, to think about what we are doing, who we are doing it for and how we fabricate and showcase […]
During Week 6 we explored the ethics of street photography and public screens. The mix of posts you produced teased out some of the complex aspects of both and inspired further questions. Many of you set out with your phones and cameras, capturing us experiencing the world, that some argue we are not actually experiencing. Through […]
“You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything’s changed. The thread’s broken. What you came to find isn’t there. What was yours is gone” – Giuseppe Tornatore This week’s posts were either observational accounts or memory conversations about cinema-going experiences. Reading through them revealed that […]
This week I had planned on reading posts about the networked home and your thoughts on the fast or the furious NBN. However, many of you are catching up on blog posts and there has not been a large variety available to read. So instead, I would like to acknowledge some of the different spaces […]
Collaborative ethnography involves more than simply working together to extract and disseminate information. It includes co-authoring, co-creating, sharing and keeping what is mutually valuable. You were invited to dive deeper into the advantages and disadvantages of this approach to research. Many of you used Luke Eric Lassiter’s Guide to springboard into understanding the practice better. You also located […]
