Recent reports came out today speculating on the impact that Attorney General George Brandis' latest anti-piracy proposal will have on the Australian public who were recently deemed by Mumbrella to be "at the top of the world piracy ladder." Here are my reasons why the proposal, and subsequent proposals to fight those who elicit online piracy, will fail.
The March 30th release of the Federal Government's Final Report from the Convergence Review has ruffled not just a few feathers amongst the media moguls but I'd have to say the entire plume. From The Australian to The Herald Sun, commentators around the country have contributed their two cents worth focusing mainly on the negative effects...
2014 was recently described by Inside Film as shaping up to be "one of the strongest years for Australian films." In anticipation of this, and considering my lack of posts recently, I thought I would provide you all with a few more reasons as to why this claim is valid made with summaries of the films mentioned and their accompanying trailers....
Recent reports came out today speculating on the impact that Attorney General George Brandis' latest anti-piracy proposal will have on the Australian public who were recently deemed by Mumbrella to be "at the top of the world piracy ladder." Here are my reasons why the proposal, and subsequent proposals to fight those who elicit online piracy, will fail.
The March 30th release of the Federal Government's Final Report from the Convergence Review has ruffled not just a few feathers amongst the media moguls but I'd have to say the entire plume. From The Australian to The Herald Sun, commentators around the country have contributed their two cents worth focusing mainly on the negative effects...
Its amazing what some people will do to get a couple of bucks from this nation's newspaper houses. In today's front page news, the Herald Sun all informed us of how "disgusted" the mother of the woman Wayne Carey admitted to having an affair with, an event which he apparently willingly revealed all details to in his new tell...
To add another dimension to my HTML project, I decided to include this critical analysis of Ridley Scott's science fiction masterpiece to backup my argument that films can reflect our dense modern world. Blade Runner is a science fiction film that was originally made in 1982 but was later released as a director's cut in 1992...
In investigating my current assignment, I realised that I had absolutely no idea about what my main point of focus was on about. The person I refer to in saying this is Lev Manovich, professor and theorist of the new media art forms. Manovich is famous for his theory on the development of new media, more specifically, the importance of the computer in instigating a whole new culture of art.New Media,...
A lot of my posts as you will have noticed are extremely lengthy and look like they have had a lot of thought and time put towards them. The former of these two points is true but whether or not much thought has gone into them, that's up for you to decide. However, in investigating all these ideas about density and how our world has evolved into such a complicated and complex environment, I set this...
"In bid to curb alcohol-fuelled violence", Liquor Licensing director Sue Maclellan announced today that all-night bottle shops will have their hours slashed from being open 24/7 till just being allowed to continue serving customers until 11pm. As an ex-member of the hospitality industry in which my experience occurred mostly...
Today's Herald Sun front page did not provide any of its readers with new or exciting information, rare for a Monday edition of a newspaper. I say this with absolute confidence that most of you would have either been watching the Storm vs. Eels game on Sunday afternoon or at le...
Semester Two at RMIT has been focused a lot on the ways in which we produce, distribute and consume media forms. In Auteurship and Narrative, we have been deconstructing films and looking at the ways in which they communicate certain ideas to us. In Broadcast Media, we have been creating TV segments for various lifestyle and current affairs shows whilst also producing radio documentaries for the hypothetical...
All semester, we've known that I have been studying RMIT's Networked Media course under the guidance of Seth Keen, one of the key lecturers in the Media department. However, recently, when I began researching into my Communication Histories and Technologies assignment, I realised I had absolutely no idea what Networked Media was about.Ok, I knew the basics. That is, networked media is all about creating...
Ok, so, I didn't really do too well with the whole "take home this A3 piece of paper, jot down ALL your ideas about your project, and then bring it to class on Monday". You see, I kinda got lost between the "take this A3 piece of paper home" and the "jot down all you ideas" points. Mainly because I had no ideas at this stage.For...
Participation Week 1Participation Week 4What have I done well?When I began this course, I knew right away that I was going to need to participate fully throughout the semester in order to ensure that I completely understood all the skills and practices involved with the course. This was due mainly to my inexperience with the online media platform particularly in the realm of creating webpages and...
Frequently Asked Questions you may have about Facebook:1. What is Facebook? A: Facebook's main function is to provide an avenue for naturally unfocused students to practice procrastination. According to our statistics, Facebook user numbers increase around June and November of each year which bizarrely enough, coincides with the examination timetables of most universities and schools. Facebook also...
Ok, so it took me a while but eventually, I knew I would have to hop on the Copyright bandwagon that everyone else has so diligently blogged about during the course of this semester. To be honest, I believe that the topic of Copyright has never really interested me and hence, that is the reason why I could not be bothered to address in on my blogging site but recently, I had an experience that was...
After "picking up" The Age this morning (i.e nicking it from outside the security department at RMIT), I wasn't suprised to see that yet again, another depressing, heart-wrenching, overally emotionalised report had been placed on the front page. The story this time was about the recent sentencing of Leigh Robertson, a man who...
