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Week 3: Appearances Matter
This post will draw upon lecture content as well as readings from Week 3. The question to be discussed is as follows: While discussing YouTube, José van Dijck argues that the site’s interface...
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Week 4: Blogging, The New Source Of Information. Well.. Maybe Not.
This post will draw upon lecture content as well as readings from Week 4. The question to be discussed is as follows: Russell (et al.) compares elite media and institutions with bloggers and ponders...
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Week 5: The Issue of Privacy on Online Social Networks
This post will draw upon lecture content as well as readings from Week 5. The question to be discussed is as follows: Analyse critically the following statement by Mark Zuckerberg while comparing it to...
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Another Post About WordPress Functions
As the title explains, this is another short post about WordPress and the various difficulties I have encountered. This time, the problem was with WordPress automatically ‘eating’ up my line spacings....
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Week 9: All Hail The Ol’ Mighty Mass Media
This post draws content from Week 9 lectures and readings. The question to be discussed is as follows: A) Burgess and Green argue that: ordinary people who become celebrities through their own creative...
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Week 10: To Be Or Not To Be (A User Of The Creative Commons License)
This post draws upon content from Week 10 lectures as well as readings. The question to be discussed is as follows: Following Week 10 tutorial’s exercise, explain why you chose the Creative Commons...
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The Internet, Chinese Style.
Saw this article which struck me as amusing at first, then provoked a couple of thoughts. Firstly, as one of the world’s most censored country, China organising a large-scale online activity made me...
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This Gives Me Hope.
This article is about how people in Syria which could face civil war any moment make use of the Internet, despite threats. While it is quite difficult to find positivity in this whole matter, something...
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Skype Why You No Work!
Skype outage affects users Servers down, according to Skype reports, affecting users around the world Published 27th May, 2011 by Penny Jones Popular online communications tool Skype suffered another...
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Cookies (The Bad Internet Kind :/)
Could the cookie crumble for websites? Companies with websites and online businesses have been given 12 months to implement a new EU directive that means they will need to ask permission from users to...
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