Assumed Identity May 29, 2009

The key idea within Simon During’s article “Debating Identity” is that one’s cultural beliefs, and societal location,  have adverse impacts when obtaining an identity. During makes several mentions of how the three concepts, culture, location and belief,  are interrelated in defining one’s identity, stating that “societies, identities and individuals do not exist independently of one another, and at a theoretical [...]

Represent me. May 20, 2009

“Former Prime Minister John Howard today succeeded in ensuring a struggling university student (me), was made to pay for his hopelessness.” Who’s the audience coerced into siding with here? The “struggling university student” or “former prime minister John Howard?”    This is a clear demonstration of how the wording of text can be manipulated in [...]

The linguistics of blame. May 20, 2009

Blame, it’s everywhere, whether it be from one political party to another, pointing at an nrl referee, or found within a reason for why this post is 4 days late, it’s all around. But, as I have only recently discovered, blame is most apparent within the textual media. Kate Clarke’s text, “The Linguistics of Blame”, [...]

Let the force be with you. May 8, 2009

Are we simply a mass audience? One that continues to view and consume media from limited outlets and even fewer spatial realms? The answer is a simple no. Nick Couldrys text, ““The Extended Audience: Scanning the Horizon”, outlines an argument put forward by Longhurst and Abercrombie, establishing us as that of a “diffused” audience. One saturated [...]

When, where and how do we wish to consume media? May 1, 2009

Oh how this world is changing. No longer does one need to conform to structuring their lives around the linear and cyclically re-occurring nature of broadcasting. Teresa Rizzo, in her text ‘Programming Your Own Channel’, uses three key mediators to establish such a point. Referring to PDR’s (such as Foxtel IQ), YouTube, and the Apple [...]

Beautifully submersed communication. April 9, 2009

Damn these Japanese youths. Incorporating their communicative processes in and around the power structures of complex society, so damn easily. Breaking no rules, no boundaries, and interrupting no established moralities within the Japanese system of values that circulate around everyday life. Rather, secretly communicating in and around them.   These are the ideals and ideologies [...]

Diminishing space as technologies pluralise place. April 2, 2009

As i finally snap my self out of the realms of procrastination, it has indeed come time for me to divulge my ideas to the ‘world’.But of which world do I speak? One relative to the notion of the ‘physical world’ that I currently rest in a physical sense? Consisting presently of my mother and [...]

The cyclically recurring, yet objectively linear, dailiness of life March 27, 2009

Scannel’s ‘Dailiness’ is a text seemingly based around, or possibly in reply to, that of Martin Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’. Incorporating and reiterating many of the beliefs within it. In this, Scannel argues that the notion of ‘Dailiness’ directly relates to the idea of ‘everyday production’. Scannel suggests that the, taken for granted, everyday rhythmically [...]

An evolved approach for contemporary society. March 16, 2009

As I sat down (nervously) to my first ever reading, countless thoughts of doubt flowed through my mind, whilst long lost feelings of intellectual inferiority ran through my body. Doubts to whether or not I would understand the it (the reading), comprehend it, connect with it. After all it had been two long and somewhat [...]