Let them eat social media

Art by Hannah Hinton

Exploring social media and its dominance in our daily lives

MDA20009: Digital Communities – Assignments 1A, 1B and 1C

Social Gaming

When I think of gaming, I first picture the hard-core pc and console players who spend hours playing games like Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto and Final Fantasy, so their transition to online massive multiplayer games,…

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Calling Dr. Google?

I’m sure most internet users have at least once experienced lying in bed feeling worse than you’ve ever felt in your life. Fever running high, coughing, sneezing, your body producing more snot and mucus than…

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Crowdsourcing in times of crisis

Crowdsourcing can be defined as “the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or…

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Social Media Trolls

This week’s post is all about trolls. No, not the nasty ugly monsters we read about in fairy tales, but the new breed that are the bane of social media. Troll: “a person who intentionally…

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Digital activism and protest

Activism: Noun “the doctrine or practice of vigorous action or involvement as a means of achieving political or other goals, sometimes by demonstrations, protests, etc” (dictionary.com) Digital activism takes the principals of the traditional definition…

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