On Tuesday twitter became the home to stories of sexual harassment. The hashtag #WhenIWas was used to bring light to personal experiences or encounters with sexual harassment by (mostly) females. It started as part of the campaign for Everyday Sexism. It told stories, but also was a way to identify people’s reactions towards the stories and… Read More Viral Hashtag #WhenIWas
My definition of community: An online, blogging community is formed around common interests, discussion and interaction. A community is one that stands as not only a support but also as a driving force for everything done. An online community is important to a blogger as blogs are best read; engaged with. Otherwise, what’s the point? In… Read More Online Community
Key important points made by Lucas Ihleim: * sometimes it’s good at first to reach out and finding a community and draw people to your blog. It allows you to find your style, your rhythm and really nail down engaging content * “First awkward moments will be unwitnessed” * HOWEVER “being well known in your community… Read More Week 8 Reading Reflection
This is the first time I have posted a video onto this blog. It is a short film I submitted as part of my Journalism subject. It is about sexism in the media landscape. I used the “embed” code to inject this video into this post. However, it had a longer code after the video… Read More Sexism towards female journalists
I have decided to investigate what the jobs of social media strategists and managers involve. I came across a company called Meltwater that provide really insightful blog posts about social media marketing. I particularly loved this image of what a “A Day in the Life of a Social Media Manager” may look like:
The Killing Moon Confused was the first blog to introduce me to the way the Internet could be an online archive for your work. In our first reading “Blogs in media education: a beginning” Miles calls a blog a “web-based publication” and he outlines the way that the blog automatically archives pages that are published, by… Read More Reverse Chronological Order
How can I use hypertext beneficially throughout my blog? Use categories and tags to give a multilinear navigation for our blogs Technical aspect: Use of HTML5 Use interactive media within blog posts: audio, pictures, videos, etc. Link to social media Use my posts are individual or isolated objects Link posts by utilisation of theme throughout blog
As we lead life further into the 21st century, we are spoilt for digital content choice. So spoilt; it seems, there are now way too many choices of blogs to rely, to give us our daily fix. Well, let me propose something. Stay here. Watch this space, and let this blog prove it’s worth your time;… Read More Introductory blog post
Note: I have used Prezi’s “Engaging Blogs” presentation by Matt Kelley to guide this post. Why am I starting a blog? Primarily this particular blog is being set up to comply with my Networked Media course guide. It will be used to analyse and reflect on weekly lessons. It will be a place I test things… Read More What will this blog be about?
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