Rebels With A Cause

Information wants to be free… information wants to be expensive.

– Stewart Brand (1984)

To hear the word hacker today, is just as likely to arouse a sense of moral panic in the populace just as it did during the inception of the Internet. In the 1980s and 90s, the media was starting to define hacker as an “evil little grub who breaks into computers” (Levy, 2014). However, the actual ethics involved in hacking was more about information wanting to be free.

Photography and Me – Autoethnographic Methodology and Analysis

My previous blog post discussed my current autoethnographic project about exploring a Turkish female photographer by the name of Elif Gülen. Since that post, I’ve made certain efforts to explore more of her work – primarily her photographic series titled Istanbul – and along the way I’ve learnt more about myself as both a female and a photographer.

A for Arab Spring

The Middle East is roiling in violence and repression. Activists are being intimidated into restraint by governments that are, with the exception of Tunisia, more totalitarian than those they replaced, if any government as such really exists at all.

– Jessi Hempel, WIRED (2016)

Learning about the protests that occurred in the Middle East, for me it felt very much like a dystopian novel; one that you thought would never actually occur. Ironically, I found myself relating these events to V for Vendetta – need I mention the significance of dates within this film and the mass protests that occurred in the hopes of overthrowing their totalitarian government. However, they still have their key differences.

Digital Artefact Take Two: The Resurgence of VR

I always had plans to continue this self-experimentation and low key tutorial series about creating virtual reality in Unity. So now it’s time to officially say I’m back and slide into the world of virtual reality once again.

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#CitizenJournalism

A short while ago, I used to be a journalism student instead of a digital media student. During my two-year stint, my journalism cohort and myself were constantly told that we shouldn’t be consuming most of our news from social media.

Game of Phones

The choice between Apple and Android for us users is an ongoing issue, however this is not exactly a choice between the two brands per se, it’s the choice between an open sourced platform and a closed one.

Photography and Me – An Independent Autoethnographic Project

I was gifted my first camera at seven.

It was a simple looking thing, a long silver pane with a small eye hole at the top, and didn’t resemble any sort of camera that’s available now, which is to say it was a piece of crap. Yet I still loved it.