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Gender Based Violence Following the blog series of Women in the realms of social justice issues, this weeks blog will focus on gender based violence. In considering gender based violence, it is important to note that it is a systemic social issue caused not only by one action of violence, but how systems challenge both the victim and the abuser to allow gender based violence to occur. Violence…

Social Justice can be seen in many forms. One form of injustice still seen in the modern world is that of child marriage.

The rights of a child are somewhat overlooked in many developing countries. In examining the United Nations Rights of the Child, it can be seen that there are several articles that can be specifically applied, and many more that apply to a life free of child marriage (UNICEF…

In continuation of the last blog post, the series of inequality and social justice will continue with the theme of women and this week discuss the issue of the gender pay gap.

On average women earn 70 % of what mean earn (ILO 2013). This as a statistic shows the need for change in terms of social justice. In achieving equal pay, the social justice that will occur will change more than the lives…

With a presentational media format , there will be issues surrounding what is real or fake or legitimate. The Huffington Post article seems to think things like a Twitter Bot is a negative aspect of this new media shift. The facts from the bot are informative, and it is produced instantaneously through a system, being more efficient, so really if we don’t start to accept these and embrace them, we will just lag behind the technology.

  I think the fact we can analyse our social network in itself speaks louder than words. We can analyse our every interaction.

Harner from MediaShift tends to think our presentational media ways have led us into a path where we overcompensate on what we present but still miss the point. That I tend to agree with- is it really necessary to post EVERYTHING on twitter, like does anyone care what you ate for breakfast, answer is people probably do.

So do we still have a personality with our new found love of online personas?

Platforms, Permissions and Ideologies in Technological Convergence #bcm112

So we are in a world full of products, but also in a world full of control and lack thereof.

Apple gives us a product. Google gives us control.

Open Source 3D Printing

So what do we as consumers/ produsers want? What do we want to be?

There seems to be a negative view of each opposing side from the other. What must be taken into account is there is a reason that each is just as individually…

Fiorelli makes the statement about knowing your audience, and that is the key to success in using transmedia. Knowing your audience is the most vital key for success, and you have to know all of your target groups. One group may be teen boys, whilst your other target group may be middle aged men. Two different demographics, interested in the same story, but through different platforms and way of engagement. Knowing the facts about your audiences means you can take your transmedia story to totally different places and be successful in all of those areas. Take for example, Superman.

All of these products from one storyline.

“Whats your life motto?”

“Embrace every opportunity you get and make the most of every situation. A lot of bad things can happen in your life, and a lot of good things too, but you just have embrace it and work with it because it shapes the person you are. Try and embrace how hard it can be and make it into something good.” – Erin

Copyright.

The devil or the angel?

It allows us to creatively express ourselves with the security of knowing that no one else can steal our ideas or our content. That’s awesome right?

Well not always. These days, with so much content out there, how do we not somehow come up with the same ideas? Now its just a race to see who can get their ideas out there first.

Theres a saying “copying is the…

    https://soundcloud.com/ashleigh-bailey-794954398/beatzzzz

  Some people like it.

Some people don’t.

Doesn’t really matter either way.

The point is it can be done. It is being done. And all of it is the same, but different.

So why are we so obsessed with remix culture these days? Why do we want to change everything so badly?

I think that everyone wants to be able to think that they are a…