During industrialisation, the procedure of creating something was broken down into two steps: 1) The conceptualising of an idea, and 2) Doing an act so as to produce or execute your thought. However, as time progressed so did civilisation and its technologies,the increasing affordances of creating things digitally ultimately allowing for these two steps to be …
According to Jurgen Habermas, a theorist who justified ‘The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere’, ideally the ‘public sphere’ is a space in which citizens are allowed to voice and debate their mutual concerns. A public domain which comes to mind besides the literal, is of course the media and all of its platforms. In …
Well, guys, I am officially here to report to you that I have made it! Results are in, their analysis was done and, the Final Report…(you guessed it!) has been written. So, before I give myself a high five up high, all I (and my subject’s rubric) believe there is left to do is one … Continue reading
Okay readers, welcome back to my page and my Part 2 Project Progress Post! (Alliteration, I know, how titillating already). As you probably gauged from my first post, my research question initially assumed a universal perception of the media as being a source of contradictory information. Instead, it aimed to determine whether this attribute of … Continue reading
As a millennial, I regularly find myself bombarded by the media with a million ways that will classify me as a healthy person. Considered healthy by what standards, healthy by whom…I do not know, but I can say confidently that I have never had a clear, holistic idea of how it is I can maintain a … Continue reading
5 years ago, if I as a student had been asked what curiosity meant to me, I would have responded with a loosely vague definition of having thirst for knowledge on a particular subject. Now, while that textbook response is neither wrong nor shedding doubt upon my knowledge of the meaning of the word itself, … Continue reading
“This most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me by a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.” – Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2. Through time, society has constantly been made aware of the differences between how something appears and the reality … Continue reading
The arrival of the internet and open source mediums have left society’s members weak at the knees in fulfilling their inherent desire for content control. Not only has the evolution of the roles of producing and consuming information afforded users to become increasingly involved in the process of content creation, it has made them increasingly … Continue reading
Just one more link 🙂 https://www.instagram.com/thegoodquote/ This Instagram page also aspires to encourage happiness within its audiences. Its phenomenal 8.5 million followers indicate that the content it uses and the way it is presented successfully resonates with viewers in the same way I wish too. Personally, I am not a fan of the posts … Continue reading
