There’s a bad stigma around phones and teenagers. The top articles when googling “phones and teenagers” are these: “Teens and Dangerous Levels of Cell Phone Use” “Mobile Phones Have Robbed Kids of Their Childhood” “Phone-addicted Teens Aren’t as Happy as Those Who Play Sports” RealizD is an app that tracks your phone usage – how … Continue reading #WeekThree – What I’ve RealizD
There are a plethora of academic sources out there on the big ol’ WWW, but how can we optimise our searches to get what we really need? Well, dudes and dudettes, let me introduce you to my two new pals, Google Scholar and Griffith Library. It was a warm autumn day, somewhere between late March … Continue reading #WeekThree – Sourcing Sources
What is that little CC logo you see floating around the web? No, it doesn’t stand for Coco Chanel, or Cool Cats, or Chocolate Cake, or Camembert Canapes (I know, I’m disappointed too). It stands for Creative Commons! Creative Commons is a set of licences which facilitate the sharing, remixing and reuse of others’ creative … Continue reading #WeekThree – Common Knowledge?
When did you start caring about your online privacy? Gone are the days of having a ‘KEEP OUT’ sign on your bedroom door to keep others out of your business. Now, thanks to the emergence of Web 3.0 and the glorious search freedom within the Semantic Web, it’s harder than ever to protect your privacy. … Continue reading #WeekTwo – Privacy, Please!
WhatsApp is the big sister we all need; promising to keep our secrets without spilling the goss to others along the way. Photo from Pexels This is all thanks to their end-to-end encrypted platform, which protects your messages, photos, videos, documents, and status updates from “falling into the wrong hands” (WhatsApp, 2018). After the recent Facebook … Continue reading #WeekTwo – WhatsAppened?
What does Facebook know about you? Your friends? Your birthday? Where you checked in for lunch? What does Cambridge Analytica know about you? A question, if posed less than a year ago, would likely be met with a ‘Who?’ from many millennials. Photo from Pixabay Now, with a quick Google search, you can be up to … Continue reading #WeekTwo – Cambridge Corruption
With our lives conveniently at our fingertips, gratification has never been easier or quicker to seek, our phones acting as our of daily (or hourly… or minutely) dopamine hit. But, what happens when we don’t touch our phones for one hour? I’ll tell you, the world doesn’t end. Turns out, we can get gratification away … Continue reading #WeekOne – Hooked on a Feeling
“Why are you here? What do you hope to get out of this course? What do you hope to get out of this degree?” Three basic questions, yet I was met with three different answers from my peers. Sitting adjacent to me, Emily, Lucy and Tia each held different hopes of the course and their … Continue reading #WeekOne – Knowing Me, Knowing You
Welcome to my blog! I’m Kate Fea, a first-year Public Relations and Communication/Business (Marketing) student at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. I graduated from All Saints Anglican School in 2017 and completed a Diploma of Business with Prestige Service Training alongside my QCAA authority subjects. Topping the qualification in 2016 and having developed a greater understanding of … Continue reading #WeekOne – Hello, You!
1501LHS New Communication Technologies 