Construction of perception…. I’m actually good at this! First off construction of perception ‘is the theory of perception in which the perceiver uses sensory information and other sources of information to construct a cognitive understanding of a stimulus.’ and well as a photographer I am a master of this! For example, I recently went to…

What’s propaganda you ask? Well to tell the truth, I have no clue! The definition of Propaganda is; ‘information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.’ Still confused? same, Let’s dumb it down a little….. Memes! Memes allow for an individual to create their own…

What’s a public sphere you ask? Well according to Jurgen Habermas, (the man who created the term ‘public sphere’) defines Public sphere as a space or place where citizens can come and debate about ideas. However, in this century our public spheres are where people get together get drunk and party, well thats my public…

Networked Participation and Collective Intelligence well, here we have yet another blog which is a week… well two weeks late. However, in the image above it not only showcases my feelings towards this topic but also relates to the topic, I promise! Let’s begin, Collective Intelligence is a shared intelligences which is created from a…

Have you ever asked the question; Who owns my news? Well I know I have never asked that question until my bcm110 lecture, it opened my eyes to all the possibilities of fake news, and how we as the audience believe what the media is telling us. Today in our society, there is so much…

Okay well as you can tell by the title, Im trying to disagree with Marshell McLuhan . I doubt I can but lets give it a try. So, as we all read in my last blog I commented on how Marshell McLuhan, created the whole medium is the Message, and in that last blog post…

And here is another late blog from last week, so in our BCM110 lecture we focused on signs, and what signs meant, what types of signs etc, etc. We were then asked to find a complex image preferably of a still or an advertisement, and to state what represent in it, what could the image…

American Museum of Natural History – 2018 – NYC Hello and Welcome back to my blog! I had one of my first tutorials for BCM110 and we spoke about media audiences and how a media platform, concert or basically anything depends on an audience and how the audience reacts to product or video etc. So,…

Well this blog is a week late, mainly because I never truly understood the whole, “medium is the message”. However, I now understand…. so let’s begin. When Marshell McLuhan first stated this, he was commenting on the major effects of technology, not on the technology itself and how the technology effects the environment and society…