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This week’s lecture really got me thinking about the times I’ve seen ads that were somehow being shown to me but I hadn’t gone looking for them. They were simply items that I had talked about to friends or family. This is clearly an example of some sort of surveillance. It may not be aContinue reading “Algorithmic Control III: Privacy, Surveillance, and the Price of Content”

This week’s topic in particular really interested me because I finally understood what a meme was and their purpose. A meme does not always need to be funny which is what I believed prior to beginning BCM112. A great meme conveys an idea and has a purpose. Whether that idea or purpose is for politicalContinue reading “MEME WARFARE, WHAT DO YOU MEME?”

In this week’s lecture, we continued to explore the internet paradigm and more specifically the two different ways we have been able to deliver our messages. These two forms being monological media and dialogic media. Monologic media was the way we all once received messages through mediums such as radios, televisions and newspapers. It allowedContinue reading “Networked Participation and Collective Intelligence”

To continue with the topic of the medium is the message, we learnt about the different types of digital production and the network economy. The internet paradigm has allowed for millions of people to take an image and change its meaning. Essentially the internet is a giant photocopying machine but with each copy we haveContinue reading “The Medium is the Message II: Digital Production and the Network Economy”

By reading the title I too was also confused. My first thought was WTF does that even mean! So don’t fear, Liv is here! I’m going to try my best to help you to understand how the medium is in fact the message. McLuhan defines what the ‘medium’ is as “any extension of ourselves”. TheContinue reading “The Medium is the Message”