The Internet of Things: Trying to Keep Up

AHHH the internet, a wonderful place. A place of connectivity, globalisation, evolution, creativity, social awareness, political agendas, gaming, hacking, distributed networks and so on. Its content inevitably endless, ever growing and constantly changing. As the element of time passes, the internet possesses new things each passing hour. We have come to know the internet as …

Dark Fiber: Steal My Identity, I DARE YOU

Online users are naive when it comes to distributing their personal information, not exactly knowing who has access to it. Not only can this information become made available to hackers, it allows for total control and surveillance over this user's information, resulting in a situation of stolen identity. The internet is known as a river …

Digital Resistance: #Hacked

In all seriousness 'hacking' is a serious offence, however the fact that the action to 'hack' and elements that come along with it that have made it into a meme is hilarious. As a digitally mediated society, we have revolutionised the amount of memes we are able to produce surrounding this topic including 'hacktivists' and …

The Social Network Revolutions: The ‘Naruto Run’

Okay so I'm semi-excited to discuss and incorporate the Naruto anime series into one of my blogs, seriously. (Today is a great day). Among the many public events created on Facebook over its active years, the more recent meme to emerge within meme culture comes from the event page on the social media platform. Who …

Bridges Made of Pebbles: ‘Citizen Journalism’

We're all familiar with Twitter and the act of 'Tweeting', right? What if I told you that people now are reliant on their news sources coming from 'credible' organisations such as the general public? Sounds a bit dodgy in my opinion. Our current digital age continues to flourish, however it is being used as a …

The Battle of the Ages: iOS vs. Android

There are two types of people in this world; those who are heavily iOS influenced and those who are Android fanboys and fangirls. Choosing which device to express your loyalty ultimately takes effect on the amount of information and apps you are willing to expose yourself to. The case of iOS or Apple iPhones and …

Walled Gardens: iFeudals [Big Data, Surveillance, & Permission Control]

Hierarchical databases are centralised when discussing the implementations of a 'Walled Garden' in conjunction with surveillance, censorship, and freedom to share data. 'Walled Gardens' are known as being closed, hierarchical and focus on centralised databases, some examples of these entities include Facebook, the Apple App Store, Google Play and Amazon to name a few. The …

Abundance in Information: The Attention Economy and the Long Tail Effect

Tim O'Reilly calls for a microcosm surrounding aggregation as well as mass-amateurisation with the result on the increase of produsers within an attention economy. This all being determined by the ways in which users ultimately consumes information and how in turn they produce and distribute their content that is shared digitally. With this comes the …

Keep up the Pace: Liquid Labour

As society initially focused on the centralised flow of information, the rise on the distribution of information formulated its way into the masses, influencing companies and organisations to take part in this wave of technological advancement. The change in organised environments is telling of the change in communication within workplaces, organisations, and businesses. The information …

Do You Really Wanna Send That?: Understanding the Network Society Paradigm

"Think twice before sending that text." A phrase which we all encounter at some point when conversing with our peers and our conscience when interacting through the cyberspace. We can become so immune to the fact that our information is being delivered safely and securely, however how much of this information ends up being seen …