Aravinda writes extended and thoughtful reviews on readings, thoughts and classes providing insight from personal experience and from other news sources. One particular blog post focuses on an idea steering away from networked media, focusing on the concept that the choices we make define who we are. I value reading his view on this idea, and i agree to an extent, however it is not just the choices we make defining who we are, or who we become later in life. Choices, firstly, can be from choosing to talk to someone who could potentially become a close, influential friend to choosing between one travel destination and another. I believe that we are initially born as one person, and die another, but we carry throughout life certain goals, thoughts and beliefs that will always remain the same, a part of who we are. I see a human being as a canvas, and the choices we make paint a consistently changing picture, however, the canvas remains the same, the same material and build.
Brady brought to my attention the license of community television expiring at the end of 2015. The communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull says,
‘The Government believes that the best outcome for community television is that, in the future, it uses the internet as its distribution platform’.
Brady makes the valid point that if the future of community television is online, why wouldn’t mainstream commercial television be online?
Finally, Louisa writes a post about the definition of ‘Sonder‘ and the interconnectedness of humanity. It provides yet another example of networks that exist in humanity. I have always thought about how we tend to forget about lives that exist outside our own, taking people around us for granted and how when you take a look at the millions of people that surround us, each and every one of them have their own life filled with others, aspirations and emotions of their own.