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My blog this week largely focused on the arguments against open access in the academic and research field in general. However, as an Arts student and someone interested specifically in the creative industries, I enjoyed reading the blogs that focused on the positives of open access in these creative areas. Jamie’s blog discussed open access in terms of music streaming. Continue reading →

The open access debate is exhaustive with passionate stances both for and against publishing freely available online content. Before reading anything, this question didn’t seem debatable to me: of course everything should be open access, to facilitate educational and scientific advances. After all, “education is first and foremost an enterprise of sharing”. However after some research, I realised that in practice it’s not as easy nor perhaps as beneficial as it may seem. Continue reading →

I fancied doing something different this week, and found an online video-making website called Animoto. Hope you enjoy it, sorry about the watermark. Continue reading →

The use of social media in the educational field is manifold; this video gives an introduction to 21st Century Education. It’s focused on Australian education but has many interesting facts: for example in South Korea they have digital textbooks, which register the amount of hours spent reading them online! Thus there is arguably little debate about the benefits of the Internet in education. Continue reading →

This week, I commented on Hollie and Lucy’s blogs because I liked the different media and perspectives they incorporated. Hollie shared a video on her blog, “Do I need to be on EVERY social network?”, which I enjoyed because it stressed how important it is to engage with social media in the right way. Continue reading →

“Voiceless people realised that they had a voice, and it was powerful,” says Jon Ronson in the opening of his TED talk. He discusses how Twitter has transitioned from a place of de-shaming to shaming, arguing that the immense power of social media means that just a single voice on these platforms can be heard and consequently abused/attacked/shamed/ by people all over the world… the impact of which, he says, can ‘ruin your life’. Continue reading →

Once again, I’ve learned a lot from my peers’ blog posts this week, which has made me think about online identities in a different way than I had initially. In my blog I touched upon the issue of being universally identifiable online, and how it is arguably within our right to maintain some level of privacy online if we choose. Lewis provided a useful comment on my blog, explaining that some people benefit from being anonymous online. Continue reading →

I’ll never forget my first experience of deceit on the Internet. It was so distressing that it still gets mentioned in my family today (to mock me I might add). I was 12, and my friend had told me about stardoll.com: a website where you create an account to have your very own ‘doll’, which you name, dress up… And play various games to unlock more clothes/hairstyles. Amazing! I became obsessed. Continue reading →

I’ll never forget my first experience of deceit on the Internet. It was so distressing that it still gets mentioned in my family today (to mock me I might add). I was 12, and my friend had told me about stardoll.com: a website where you create an account to have your very own ‘doll’, which you name, dress up… And play various games to unlock more clothes/hairstyles. Amazing! I became obsessed. Continue reading →

I’ve really enjoyed setting up my own blog and getting into the format of this module; I’ve never done anything like this at university before and it’s been fun to do something a bit different! It’s been really interesting reading everyone’s blogs and seeing how different each response is; it’s made me think about this subject more than I perhaps normally would. Continue reading →

I’m an avid user of social media – especially Facebook and Instagram. Continue reading →

I’m an avid user of social media – especially Facebook and Instagram. Continue reading →