Online communities, a fluke?
With the emergence of Web 2.0, users are now able to participate within their culture by recreating content with these Web 2.0 sites. YouTube, for example, allows users a chance to be in this...
View ArticleInfographic Love #1
Infographic Love is a series of entries that I have dedicated to my favourite infographics found on the web. These infographics unlock some of the mysteries of our relationship with social media/social...
View ArticleSingapore Takes To Twitter To Voice Discontent
I was this close to blogging about the impact of Twitter on the Royal Wedding but, as fun as it was finding out who designed Kate Middleton’s dress, it seemed a little trivial to be talking about...
View ArticleAre You a Comic Sans Criminal?
Why do people hate Comic Sans so much? Even Time has named Comic Sans as one of the 50 Worst Inventions in 2010. In Comic Resistance, Leo Mertz (2009) drew parallels between the development of...
View ArticleGot Milk?
Alan Lui discusses the use of visual metaphors from older media in Webdesign and argues that such metaphors “naturalize the limitations of the new medium by disguising them within those of older media”...
View ArticleInfographic Love #2
Infographic Love is a series of entries that I have dedicated to my favourite infographics found on the web. These infographics unlock some of the mysteries of our relationship with social media/social...
View ArticleCreative Commons
Following week 10 tutorial’s exercise, explain why you chose the Creative Commons license that you added to your blog and discuss the relevance (or not) of adding the license. This work is licensed...
View ArticleWant to earn thousands? Just be a blogger.
With reference Lovink’s (2008: 3) statement in which he says, “mere empowerment does not automatically lead to worthy content”, I have already mentioned in a previous entry that “worthy content” is a...
View ArticleInternet Filter Bubble
Have we become too comfortable with our own personalised way of browsing the internet? I recently read this great article from the NY Times,”The Trouble With the Echo Chamber Online” by Natasha Singer...
View ArticleInfographic Love #3
Ah my final Net Communications entry, it’s been wonderful blogging on this little space, thanks for all your comments guys! Signing off with one last infographic for the road! Infographic Love is a...
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