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Opinions on Voracity

August 19, 2014George Leave a Comment

Lachlan linked week 4’s symposium to this prank article published in the University of New South Wales’ student publication Tharunka. He questions the voracity of online news due to constant competition among various publications and websites to disseminate news as fast as… Continue Reading →

Questions, Symposium fiction, internet, news, pranks, truth, voracity

05.1 Landow Hypertext 3.0

August 19, 2014George Leave a Comment

Reading extracts from George P. Landow, Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Landow writes about what he defines as “the third kind of hypertext essay”, in which the writer collates multiple networked documents together in… Continue Reading →

Readings blogging, hypertext, Landow, private vs public

Networked Revolution

August 19, 2014George Leave a Comment

A recent break out of riots in Ferguson ensued the Police shooting of an un-armed black teenager. Subsequently, three teenagers in Georgia designed a smartphone app, “Five-O”, which allows users to track police brutality. Anyone has the ability to now… Continue Reading →

Misc app, injustice, networked, police brutality, revolution

Go And Watch This #1

August 18, 2014George Leave a Comment

In my never-ending search for gay lit I stumbled upon an Icelandic coming-of-age film by Baldvin Zophoníasson, Jitters. I’ll admit the trailer is not great, however the film itself surpasses in so many ways. The plot centres around 16-year-old Gabríel and his close… Continue Reading →

Film, GoAndWatchThis film, goandwatchthis, icelandic, jitters, review

Hypertext

August 13, 2014George Leave a Comment

While I was reading Nelson’s writing on Hypertext I couldn’t quite place my finger on what the concept reminded me of. I found it extremely prophetic given what the Web looks like right now, particularly in it’s absolute lack of… Continue Reading →

Readings hypertext, nelson

Symposium 04 – True or False

August 12, 2014George Leave a Comment

This week’s symposium addressed a number of questions raised by one of the tutorial’s cohort: How can you judge the validity of things on the Internet? What are the limitations of network literacy? How does it differ from print literacy?… Continue Reading →

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Tom At The Farm

August 11, 2014George Leave a Comment

It’s been a long time since I’ve gone to see a film and have not regretted spending my money on a ticket. Admittedly this particular one was playing at MIFF, so there’s some sense of security with the ones they… Continue Reading →

Film Canadian, film, MIFF, Xavier Dolan

As We May Think

August 11, 2014George Leave a Comment

Some thoughts after readings this article. “Often it would be advantageous to be able to snap the camera and to look at the picture immediately.” – Vannevar Bush Vannevar Bush wrote this in 1945. Thirty years later, Steve Sasson invented what is… Continue Reading →

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Over Sharing

August 11, 2014George Leave a Comment

The amount of ourselves that we share online is always a difficult balance to achieve. Personally, I believe I’ve over-shared in the past; I’ve published far too much information about myself on the Internet and it would be impossible for… Continue Reading →

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Embedded Video

August 5, 2014George Leave a Comment

Here’s me embedding a video from my Instagram on to my blog. Enjoy:

Misc instagram, video

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