Cameron Brogden
In my podcast, I had originally planned to talk about the constant social media gaffes of Australia’s politicians: Scott Morrison talking about the cricket while the country is on fire, *that* picture of George Christensen, Andrew Laming’s whole online presence and so on. However, Donald Trump’s recent feud with Twitter sent me in a completely …
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By its nature, social media is about sharing, through which connections are formed between people. At least, at its fundamental level, this is true. It would be more accurate to say that connections are formed between accounts. These accounts are typically run by people, they are typically a direct representation of the person running them, …
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For this video project, I have again chosen to focus on the digital divide, by choosing the topic “Digital media has seen new divides form and old divides grow wider, but can also be used to diminish the divides that separate”. I am exploring the ways that vulnerable people in society use smartphones to bridge the digital divide and …
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In this video, I hoped to convey the hope that technology can bring. It was my goal to present the ways in which society is fixing the digital divides created by already-extant inequality. To show that technology is as much a tool for good as it is for ill. This time, I took a much …
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In this video, I hoped to convey an idealised version of myself, with just enough of my own flaws showing to preserve authenticity. Presenting someone looking to make a change in the world, but contrasting it with a self-deprecating image of what people around me tend to see. This is specifically related to my intention …
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With the rise of social media, everyone has a voice. Whether it’s 280 characters screaming into the void (and four followers), or a massive blogpost, there’s a lot of text. But text, and maybe an avatar could be literally anyone. By putting your presence in a video, you’re putting more than just a name and …
By communicating via video, the communicator accesses a wider audience. It doesn’t depend on getting the recipient to read blocks of text. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then video at 24 fps is worth twenty-four thousand words a second. Plus whatever you can get out in the audio at the same time. …
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