Peer Commentary

I commented on Ann Mary’s Beta blog and provided her and Siddarth with some feedback. Their project is a TikTok account looking at board game nostalgia. Beta Summary:-They moved their content from YouTube to TikTok-They will start promoting their TikTok content on their personal social media accounts Last time I did peer commentaries, I didn’t […]

Analytical Framework

The analytical framework for my digital artefact takes on three different concepts that link to one another smoothly. In my video I will cover these three concepts in depth: paratext, gender diversity, and feminism. First, I will look at gender diversity and how it is important in an industry that lacks this kind of representation. […]

participation in feminines

In this week’s blog I’ll be looking at the card game I am creating, Feminines. Since Feminines isn’t yet a thing, this is all conceptual and how I am planning on enabling participation in my game. I will be looking at participation in both the game as well paratext, which is one of the main […]

Feminines Update

Watch video at the bottom of the blog first. My research has been taken from some of the subject readings, as well as my own articles and papers I have outsourced. As seen in the video, I have three readings for paratext. Textual Analysis, Video Games, Zombies (Carr, 2009) has helped me to understand paratextual […]

Digital Artefact: Contextual Essay

For my digital artefact, I chose to run the social media accounts for my friend’s small business, Pottery Box. This included TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. Pitch Beta Concept & Methodology My DA addresses the future by following patterns shown from studies of social media platforms. Instagram’s increase in users is slowly declining, expected to grow […]

Tweet Curation

For these next five weeks of tweeting, I was able to take what I learned from the first lot of tweets, in order to plan informative and relevant tweets each week. Week 6-Blade Runner 2049 (2017) The biggest thing I learned from the first lot of tweets was to prepare during the week before the […]

Peer Commentary

first comment The first Beta I looked at was Lydia’s, which is a blog that talks about relevant news and updates on the environment. The main issue addressed is a lack of audience engagement. Comment Summary: I suggested Lydia creates a separate blog for their DA, as they were using their BCM blog to post, […]

Digital Artefact: Beta

Since starting this project, I have learned a lot in terms of ways I can better the PotteryBox social media accounts. I now have established goals for the end of the semester, as well as made a more cement plan for how to achieve that. The first few weeks of this semester were for prototyping, […]

Digital Artefact: Contextual Essay

My digital artefact is a YouTube channel – canace – I created to post videos based on ideas I thought would be funny. With a main focus on satire, I was able to take inspiration from other comedy YouTubers such as Drew Phillips and Caroline Ricke, who share a similar style of comedy to the […]

The Medium is the Message: The Internet Paradigm

The medium of my DA is a YouTube channel, and the content I provide – which, as Mark Federman states in What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message?, is also its own medium – is (attempted) comedy. But what is the message of my medium? “. . . The content of a […]