Digital Artefact Contextual Essay

Just a few months ago, I hesitantly wrote in my bullet journal that I wanted to start a YouTube channel, something I had been considering on and off for a few years, to be honest. There always seemed to be a million reasons not to do it – it won’t be good, what’s the point, …

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Making my digital artefact (BCM114)

For our final #bcm114 blog post, we’re focusing on ‘making’, the last but certainly not last part of our digital artefact development. By that I mean that this entire process of ideating, prototyping is, as we’ve said before, an iterative cycle that continues on in an endless feedback loop. And right on cue, this post will not …

Prototyping my digital artefact (BCM114)

Welcome to the next stage of my digital artefact, where we develop prototypes to test, evaluate, rinse and repeat. Here we go!   Prototyping For this phase, we are tasked to make tangible models of the problem solutions we generated during the previous ideation stage. My ‘problem statement’ in this phase was in terms of creating …

Global music (BCM111)

Music forms a massive part of the global flow of information and cultural exchange occurring in our age of the internet. Even through examining my personal experience with music, we can see the drastic change in how we access our music, from Saturday morning Rage and MTV music video countdowns and So Fresh CDs, to …

Ideating my digital artefact (BCM114)

And we're back for Semester 2! Most of my subjects will be needing at least three blog posts each, so this is gonna be a busy one. And we're starting with BCM114 (Making Media). Our main goal for this subject is (surprise!) to make media. I mentioned in my first blog post that I've actually …

Global film (BCM111)

The internet has changed the way we live our lives in countless ways, one of which being the way we watch films. Gone are the days of stressful decisions made in the last fifteen minutes before Blockbuster closes, where your parents only let you borrow films in the cheaper, weekly rentals section, or sprinting to …

Digital artefact pitch

Welcome to my #bcm114 digital artefact pitch! This semester, I will be doing something I’ve always wanted to do – creating lifestyle vlog content, with a focus on cooking and reading. This concept is based on my interests in cooking and reading, as well as a general interest and participation in YouTube vlog content. I …

Global television (BCM111)

When I was young, my parents set a house rule that I could only watch thirty minutes of television a day, so I had to choose my programs wisely. Most days, this meant The Simpsons at 6pm. My world changed when I received my own laptop, and TV started to be become accessible online. Suddenly, …

The Design Process (VCD102 Week 2)

One of the biggest areas of study emerging from our increasingly interconnected and online world is that of data, from the massive amounts of data being collected and the sophisticated ways to analyse it and draw meaningful conclusions. I’ve always thought data science was an incredibly interesting field of study and touched on it during …

Research report: Asian representation (BCM110)

This is a research report for our second assessment of BCM110, where we could choose any media issue that had been touched on during the semester. This is an issue close to my heart, not only because I'm Asian, but also because I've been noticing so much more traction in this space over the past …