The Great Debate - Video Post

Hi, and welcome to my first video blog post! This one is intended as a basic introduction to the current debate surrounding student media. I've taken a rather 'Jekyll and Hyde' approach by choosing to present both sides myself - as both a student media hack, and as a busy Honours student. My aim here was to represent the arguments in a personal manner, focusing not on issues of finance on philosophy, but on convenience (something that most students can relate to). Enjoy!

Technology has changed the way we travel - but are all these changes as positive as they seem?

My final video blog explores the positive and negative aspects of the growing relationship between travel and technology, showing both sides of the argument.

Thank you for tuning into my blogs!

Miyuki Kokshoorn (10449688)

Travel + Technology: Our New Era of Voyage

The growing relationship between travel and technology has created new avenues for the way we travel and the way we communicate with one another.

My initial aims when approaching my topic of travel and technology was to exemplify the changes that have occurred over the years in relation to advances in technology and how this has impacted travel. Growth in technology such as the internet, software and digital cameras have changed the way we travel, starting from how we plan and book our holidays to how we stay connected with one another while travelling.

How to Video Blog
A lazy student’s perspective

Rhys Woolf 10423451

The idea of this series of video blogs is to ultimately document what occurs behind the scenes in relation to creating, filming and editing a video blog project for iGeneration. It follows the step by step process of coming up with an idea, undergoing the required research and finally putting together a credible and significant project in time for submission. In essence it is a voyeuristic look at the challenges and procedures taken by an average communication studies student in order to complete a difficult multimedia assignment.

Meeting new people and facing new experiences, travel is an endeavor that both challenges and shapes people. The act of travel itself is supposed to be the most exciting part of going abroad, however nowadays documenting and sharing experiences with others is become an equally important aspect of travel. The journey doesn’t have to end when your trip ends - the travel experience can be prolonged even when you’ve returned home.

For those people who created continuous travel journals of their time abroad they can rehash their experiences by reviewing or editing their logs. Others who did not can create post-travel blogs or photo sites where they can share and review travel destinations and tips. You can partake in the cycle of connectivity and further travel by sharing your experiences with others.

Distance is no longer an issue or an excuse for not staying in touch with people. Technology has afforded us many different avenues for communication and keeping in touch. VLOG 3 covers the different methods we can use for keeping in touch, and how the camera has become an essential part of travel life.

Photo images used were sourced FreeDigitalPhotos.net.

Print Chic: Text Blog

Much like fashion, media trends flow in cycles. Just as yesterday’s reject bin items become today’s catwalk statements, we now find ourselves standing before a press renaissance. Today’s 'Generation Y' children have been raised on a diet of virtual communication, and they yearn for a return to the palpable. This is evidenced in popular art projects such as PostSecret or PostNoBills, which are both predicated upon the privileging of corporeal post over alienating e-mail. Both these projects celebrate the uniqueness of ‘traditional’ post, and the advantages of the physical that e-mail has not yet been able to mimic. PostNoBills creator Anwyn Crawford commented, “There is an intimacy to letters and to zines and to the kind of mail people send… and a tactility to it that you just can’t derive from an email or a text message… It’s a tangible object. An email or a text message just disappears into the ether but letters are forever” (Frost, 2006).

Title of Project: Facebooking Ulysses.

The claim of this digital project was that transposing Ulysses into Facebook offered the chance to cast social networks under a light that would reveal something about the way they really are. Though it did at times delve into topics of literary theory, owing to the contributions of Kundera (2007) and Jay David Bolter (1991), the project was more interested in the analogy between the conveyance of the human relationship online and the human experience in Ulysses. It found that, despite there being no a priori reason for a social network to manipulate the narrative in a way that is detrimental to its coherency of the story, Facebook’s landscape is too abrupt and unfamiliar to accurately convey something so total as Joyce’s masterpiece.

Ruby Ong Elepano – 10445820

Project Title: Citizen Journalist Project Ruby – The impact of Technology

Sypnosis:

A personal video blog reporting about the impact technology has in the lives of people with four technological examples.

Initial Aims for the Project:

I aimed to produce a personal video blog, with a ‘live’ style of reporting, with similarity to how a news show or segment would look like. This illustrates the topic of Citizen Journalism, which allows citizens to be a (re)source of journalism to the masses, in the mass media. The participation of citizens in this area provides information that is easily accessible, portrays perspectives from the ‘other’ side, meaning the citizen themselves and may perhaps be biased. My blog was to be a video blog about how technology impacts the lives of people in the 21st century and it came from my perspective and personal experience. The project was aimed to focus on particular types of technology commonly used by individuals, even though there are many varieties of other technological gadgets around. Thus, aiming to just focus on Electronic Books, Computers, Mobile Phones and Portable Gaming Consoles, I reported what I thought would be relevant to the subject topic, utilising myself as the presenter for my video blog.