Exploring the world of Communications
This has been an interesting project for me. I would not consider myself someone who asks a lot of questions. So for me, I found this project quite hard to envision. Overall, I think that the project was moderately successful. While, I didn't receive as many responses as once hoped, I did receive a range …
Continue reading "Reflection on ‘Social Media in a BCM World’"
This journey of 'Social Media in a BCM World' is coming to a close, and there is a lot of new and interesting information that I have learned on the subject that I am excited to share! So I am going to dive right in! On this journey, I asked many questions to my peers …
I have never really considered myself a curious kind of person. Don't get me wrong, I am still persuaded to further my knowledge on SOME things, but that is only with things that I am passionate about. Something that I am passionate about is mental health, and how it effects others directly or indirectly. And …
After the process ideating and prototyping, the next step is making... This is when it gets real. It's important the processes of ideating and prototyping have been undertaken to actually get a successful creation process and outcome. While others were making their projects, I ran into quite a few troubles. My computer would not open …
Where do I even start? This project has been a real pain. My original idea for this Digital Artefact was to have a motivational YouTube channel, and also make it niche by having merchandise. However the process of making merchandise was a really long one. During this process of making and remaking, I was also …
A couple of days ago, my dad came home. When he walked in the door, before he said I to any of us, he said "Hey Google, I'm home..." and she immediately says "Welcome home Darren." started playing music for him... Weird I know. But this actually a small part in a very large web …
Continue reading "Hey Google, please don’t steal all my data!"
In 2011, cyber threats were finally declared real threats in America. By this time though, Russia had already been hacking our systems for over 10 years -- we're a little late right. Everyday, computer systems all over the world are being hacked and infiltrated. And it has only just recently been acknowledged. The question comes …
Similar to the last blog post, digital resistance is the questioning of the morally correct way to use the internet. For example; WikiLeaks. "WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes news leaks, and classified media provided by anonymous sources. " Basically, they leak classified information about companies and such. Their informants are anonymous and …
You know that whole trend that's happening at the moment, when someone posts something about an issue, then everyone jumps on it? Now all of a sudden, every social media user is seeing this same post. Well it's a whole thing in the internet world. And it is called social network revolutions. Back in the …
I do not watch the news anymore, nor do I read the newspaper, and yet I am still informed on the happens of the world. 20 years ago, if someone didn't watch the news or read the newspaper, they would have no idea of what is happening in the world. So how can it be …
Lilli Hessenberger 