Posts tagged: Internet

Hypertextualizationingness

This week’s lecture by Adrian Miles on Hypertext was available online for us to download and watch. We were then told to do a Blog entry about the lecture, hence the existence of this post. I had already created a little blog post on Hypertext earlier on in the course, yet this lecture inspired me [...]

Monday September 20th, 2010 in , , , , | No Comments »

Web Design

In this week’s lecture we had an interesting presentation from Dr. Miek Dunbar, who specializes in Web Design. This lecture was particularly important for me, as I found much of the information useful as we begin to design our Hypertext essay for the second part of the assignment. Miek’s main statement for the significance of [...]

Viral Videos and Images

What is constantly popping up across broadcast television are many comedic, interesting or controversial videos that have been made popular due to websites such as YouTube, which already has an established web audience. It is not only the established audience that motivates a particular video’s popularity, as it is arguable to be more the distribution [...]

Sunday September 12th, 2010 in , , , | No Comments »

New-age web browsing

As the web’s content is decentralized and distributed throughout the web, information must be presented and organized appropriately in order for a particular web page or series of interconnected web pages to be successful in their intentions. Therefore, in this week’s lecture, Hugh Davies stepped in to shed some light on the art of creating [...]

Friday September 10th, 2010 in , , , , , | No Comments »

Meme-ified

Ok, so I’m not exactly sure if we the mid-semester break counts as one of our weeks that we are supposed to be doing 4 or more blog entries, because I am certainly lacking in that department. I think the whole “Break” title gives me the impression that this is supposed to be a holiday, [...]

Thursday September 2nd, 2010 in , , | 1 Comment »

The Uneasy Side of the Internet

In my last post I showed you a picture from the “Advice Puppy” popular blog, where a picture of a puppy shares some hilarious, ridiculous advice. These types of images are called memes, which is defined in Wikipedia as a unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to [...]

Friday August 27th, 2010 in , | 2 Comments »

Advice Puppy

I had to share this, It’s from a blog called “The Advice Puppy”. There are many blogs across the Blogosphere, which generate a lot of followers based on the repetitive nature of their posts. The humorous posts combined with the repeditive nature to the blog provides the reader with reasoning to subscribe via RSS. Another [...]

Tuesday August 24th, 2010 in , , , | 1 Comment »

Accessibility = Obsession

The one thing about the growth of the Internet, is the accessibility you have to endless amounts of all kinds of information. I somehow relate this rapid increase in information to the phenomenon of Obsession, especially in today’s age. Let me explain… My favourite show would have to be the UK’s famous teen drama, Skins, [...]

Saturday August 7th, 2010 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

Print -> Media -> Networked Literacy

Within the first week’s Lecture in the course, ‘literacy’ was defined across ‘print’ to our advancement in ‘media’ and ‘networking’. It is interesting how only just a single generation ago, people were brought up through the education system on the paper format. All it had taken was for the internet to be introduced in order [...]

Interconnection of the NEW Web

See that image above? You would have seen that if you had logged into YouTube recently. To further extrapolate on the idea of the Web coming into a new generation, this is a clear example of how the Internet is, in the present day, not only seen as a useful resource for information, but also [...]