November 2009
4 posts
Week 13 – The Presentation
Well we had a lot of trouble getting there – but we did it. The presentations were this week and I feel we did quite well. We made a big change in the focus of the research since the last presentation in that we decided to focus solely on the new social networking features of XBOX Live. I think it worked well because it had more focus. Our presentation had 3 main areas – the new XBOX Live...
Week 12 – Google
I found this week’s topic really interesting. The video we watched today on Google was great because I didn’t know anything about the business side of Google, even though it is a service I use daily. It was interesting to see Google’s humble roots and then how it grew to the enormous multinational corporation/international icon that it is today. It sort of started out with this fun...
Week 9 – the Pitch
This week we had presentation proposals. I think that ours went quite well, though I think it became clear that we have to focus our topic a bit more and do a better job relating it to globalization, as that is what this subject is mainly about. The other big thing we have to work out is the technical side of things. I’m not sure if we will be able to give our presentation over XBOX Live as we are...
Week 8 – The ‘Glocalised’ Internet
I found the lecture really interesting this week. It introduced a key point about the internet I think is often usually overlooked - its ‘glocalised’ nature. There are two ways in which the internet can be considered ‘glocalised’. The first is that people use the internet in different ways depending on where in the world they live. As we’ve learnt previously the uptake and usage of new...
September 2009
3 posts
Week 7 Blog Post
Online Campaign – Greenpeace: stop climate change
What is the campaign about?
On the Greenpeace website there are several campaigns under the ‘help stop climate change’ category. The campaign I chose to focus on is a campaign was relating to an internal memo of the API (American Petroleum Institute) that was leaked to Greenpeace. There is a link to the memo on Greenpeace’s website. The memo...
DIGC202 – week 6
Global Media Corporation - Sony
Sony is a large multinational media corporation with reaches across the globe, consistent with the current tend brought about through the spread of global capitalism (Flew, 2007: 74-77). Sony Corporation is a public parent company that owns 311 subsidiary companies (OneSource, 2009). Its head quarters are based in Tokyo, Japan. Interestingly though its’ CEO...
DIGC202 – WEEK 5
Job: Journalist Cadet Level One
Location: Burdekin, Townsville, QLD
Salary: undisclosed
Contract: Full time/permanent
Employer: Lower Burdekin Newspaper Company PTY. LTD. – Owned by News Limited
Advertised in: The Townsville Bulletin
The Job is a cadetship at the local Newspaper in Burdekin. ‘Essential is an honest, friendly and professional disposition together with an intrinsic ability to meet...
August 2009
7 posts
DIGC202 – WEEK 4 →
I found a website for a company called Maple leaf promotions. It has factories in the US and Canada that manufacturer a range of custom-made items such as clothes, calendars, stationary and watches. In particular I looked into buying a custom made draw string brand. I can buy 2500 of them for $4475 at $1.79 each. The production time is 5-7 days. But can be reduced to 3 days for an additional 40c a...
Week 2 Blog
I found the idea interesting in the lecture this week that globalization is not a new phenomenon but has occurred in different forms throughout history, such as the Roman Empire and the British Empire. I think this shows that the idea of the latest form of globalization brought on by the internet and new media as being unique is not quite accurate.
In the Kevin Kelly reading (Kelly, 1999) he...
“Did you hear that Meg? Guys can marry other guys now. So…this is awkward,...”
– Stewie
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