IDM blog

 Hi Everyone, This week we made more progress with our groups for our projects. We met with our group to discuss all the research we have done for our project during reading week, My topic to research was how cultural remix was taken from cultures, taken from shows in different cultures and in films, tv shows, video games, etc. When we met up we decided for the video that we don't want our faces included in the video, So Chris will do the animation for our video so we don't need to include our real faces. We also decided for the video that we will use the B-roll step, This step is basically where you get all the shots/details for the video. We are adding this to make the video interesting to watch for the viewers.  When we met up this week in our Introduction to Digital Media lab we decided to start to write our script for next week. Chris will be doing the introduction to the video and also the animation and the rest of us will do the rest of the script. We started off by put...

 Hi Everyone! Today I watched four videos about media ethics that I found very interesting and would love to share with you all. I learnt that the word medium in the message "medium is the message" means that the change of the fundamental scale of those interactions, for example the phone has changed the idea for social gatherings now a days.  Cambridge Analytica is a data marketing firm, it harvests online information to create microtargeted content. This company claimed that it "uses data to change audiences behaviour", But the data they used for "audience behaviour" was them harvesting data from the person using Facebook. They collected data not just from the person who used the app, but everyone that is linked to that one person, so all the data they get from one person branches out to multiple different peoples information. In February 2018, NIX faced a parliamentary inquiry on fake news, they said they didn't use other peoples data which was a li...

 Hi Everyone! Today I read an article about news media literacy and the perception of bias and interpretation of news that definitely grabbed my attention. I did find this article a bit long winded, as it repeated itself which was unnecessary in my eyes and it took me quite a while to finish everything. I definitely think differently about media literacy and have a better understanding for its importance nowadays especially.  I believe that the impact of digital media is good in many ways as many people can share ideas and become connected with others, but we all need to be aware as literacy now a days anyone can publish anything online. A piece of information from this article that shocked me is that many digital media companies have been lacking to help users in Ireland. Over 62% of Ireland worries about misinformation online and this shows me that not enough people are informed about fake news and what to do when it's come across.  There was a study done to show a sign...

 Hello Everyone! This week we had our blogs sent out to our peers so they could give us feedback on our posts for us to re-write and improve on and we also had to read four articles to help us re-write our blog post properly. After reading my feedback and the articles I think I have a good understanding of how to improve on my blog post. I have a good understanding now on the proper layout of a paragraph, A strong paragraph has the main idea in the first sentence to inform the audience with no confusion. In the beginning you must state one idea clearly, in the middle you must elaborate and explain the idea that was introduced in the beginning, In the conclusion you back up the main idea of the paragraph and move on to the next paragraph.  The article I found the most helpful for me in my future blogs was the "paragraph-level revision questions" as I will definitely use these questions for myself before I upload my blogs as they are extremely useful and they will refine my fut...