John there have been problems with all the blogs appearing as some of them are quite large. The last blog in "May" is titled "Sim-tastic" so please make sure it comes up before you mark!
Thanx!
Marnie-Banarni
This blog is an assignment required for the Virtual Cultures subject (KCB201), at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. It regards personal thoughts and opinions of the subject content, as well as other information relevant to online communities and/or new media communications.
John there have been problems with all the blogs appearing as some of them are quite large. The last blog in "May" is titled "Sim-tastic" so please make sure it comes up before you mark!
So here we are at the end of the semester ... finally only 3 weeks left until holidays!! Here's my reflection of using a blog over the past semester. I guess I should also take this opportunity to say that the subject has definitely been interesting, contrary to what I thought at the start of the semester.
So I went to the lecture tonight, and I actually did the reading before the lecture! It was amazing for me that I was actually organised this week! hehehe.
Hello again, 'tis been a long time since my last post (1 whole week!) but I have been struggling to understand the content discussed in the week 10 reading. The content that is subsequently the topic of this blog.
FanForum is an online community for fans of tv shows, female celebrities, male celebrities, movies, music, news and other entertainment. The community is designed for the most obsessive of fans, providing almost 160 message boards covering news & politics, spoilers, fan art, fan fiction, general discussion, role playing games and other entertainment talk. People use the community to gossip about, for example, about their favourite actors or what is happening in their favourite TV shows.
I don't think its until you go to university (or even QUT) that you realise how much you rely on a computer! All week I've been glued to my computer screen writing assignments and chatting to friends. "We are moving toward a culture of simulation in which people are increasingly comfortable with substituting representations of reality for the real" (Flew, 2004, p.65) ... well I think nowadays its vital for me to substitute the real for the virtual if I hope to get through uni!