Reflection on a Work Vs Uni project

During this process, I came across different challenges, most of which included time constraints and getting the correct information from my participants. During focus groups and interviews the topics tended to go away from my research project and I had to use prompt question to get the topic back on track. Meaning a lot of …

University VS Work – a research project

As a current university student that constantly faces the challenges of balancing the schedules and workloads of work and university, I've noticed that this balance can be hard to achieve and the implications of each tend to affect the other. Its for this reason I've decided to conduct a research project: 'To explore BCM(communications and media) students …

Internet of Things

Information networks, mobile connectivity and big data have come together to result in an 'internet of things'. Imagining a world where everything is connected to the internet is normally portrayed as dystopian, and killer robots are imminent. But what are the real possibilities for IoT? https://soundcloud.com/university-of-cambridge/the-internet-of-things-and-the  Smart home The desire to wake up to the …

The Invisible Battlefield

War with weapons and military has become a thing of the past, the greatest threat has evolved into Cyberwarfare, an 'invisible battlefield'. Why build a missile when you can hire a hacker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L78r7YD-kNw For example, the recent terror attacks in paris were offline but were appropriated into online attacks by putting malware in 'support' images …

HACKING

Generally went you think about hackers, you think of a nerd criminal sitting behind a computer screen trying to get your bank account details. But is it possible that hacking could have its beneficial aspects?It's possible that hacking could be a It's possible that hacking could be a necessity, and possible a more common occurrence …

Little by little

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public” Writing in public as a media audience researcher can be a challenging process, we are constantly encouraged to critically evaluate others and ourselves to gather and record informative results, and with the constant upgrades in types of media audience research methods and technologies, we …

Protest to Movement

Social networks have created many revolutions in connectivity, one of the main revolutions being able to share opinions to mass amounts of people, generate a response and create support easily and very quickly all over the world. Online activists loop on social networks Applying to the beginning author, their audiences, audiences remediations and their audiences and …

VPN

Growing up in school, regulations are a normality, but as technology advances, schools struggle to regulate media use. During grade 8-9 I found it challenging to abide by the regulations my school placed upon media use. We were unable to use phones from the starting bell through to the finishing bell, and if they were …

Be there, even when your not

Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and Snapchat are four common examples of citizen journalism collecting random information into a specific online place. Data aggregation has generated a mass conversion in the way individuals receive information and how we interact with that information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY-l9UQpf0Y   Traditional information sources such as journalists, news articles, and news tv programs are unable …

Attention

As technology advances, we are evolving our style of attention to different things, not just in the form of multi-screening, or switching between different applications/ tv programs etc on your device, but also stretching out to when you're conversing with the people around your or doing different tasks. I decided to conduct a small test to …