As the digital zone has evolved, hope started to rise of a new kind of world order free of many of the ideologically based oppressions, which the gatekeepers of the old order represented. We are overjoyed when a simple one person show with a facebook account now has the power to bring down an ideological dictatorship. A lot of good has come out of the new digital landscape as it is easy to argue that as … Read More

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Hi, This is the first post to get the conversation rolling on digital media topics that entertain, thrill, and educate. I realise the nature of web 2.0 means that I will likely mean that I am the main person contributing for a while, but that’s fine. I enjoy doing it and look forward to the day when I have company here. Today’s post is a Youtube video I made showing how we use Pinterest today. You … Read More

American pro-gun culture has it that guns don’t kill people, people do. As easy to extend this logic to social media and the internet there are serious issues with such comparisons. Media guru Douglas Rushkoff says, ‘guns don’t kill people, but you can do a lot more damage with a gun than you can with a pillow’. He is referring to the inherent affordances of social media when it runs on an anti-human operating system designed … Read More