Dan BurnsChatGPT series - Entry 1: Ethical implications of AI chatWe’re in a weird, exciting, confusing, and sometimes frightening time in terms of technology. One thing that has me fascinated is ChatGPT…Feb 2, 2023Feb 2, 2023
Dan BurnsContextualising global surveillance.Knowledge is power. Through acts of surveillance global forces increase their power. However, the power of knowledge is diminished when it…Oct 5, 2015Oct 5, 2015
Dan BurnsFrom approaches that define media ecology as the relationship between media and nature, to…Kate Milberry provides the following analogy of media ecology; “In biology, a medium is defined as a substance within which a culture…Oct 4, 2015Oct 4, 2015
Dan BurnsResponding to McKenzie Wark’s A Hacker Manifesto and exploring the concept of gift economiesAccording to McKenzie Wark’s A Hacker Manifesto (2004), to hack is to create. Whether it be to create something new within art, philosophy…Sep 29, 2015Sep 29, 2015
Dan BurnsWhen considering the effects of global networks, what is your approach?Global networks allow us to be in contact with issues from around the world. However, the glocality that this connectivity provides is not…Sep 27, 2015Sep 27, 2015
Dan BurnsWhat is the impact of social media as a tool for revolution?Well, I just had checked in on my WordPress blog and found that it was exactly one year today since my last post. Sorry for neglecting you…Sep 17, 2015Sep 17, 2015
Dan BurnsGlobalisation creates flows of information that are very difficult to control.When I was younger, I shared with another guest at a party my desire to make and release music for free, with live performances provided at…Sep 16, 2015Sep 16, 2015
Dan BurnsWhat is your individual understanding of glocality as a concept?“The local and the global co-exist in the glocality” (Meyrowitz 2005, p.25). That is, we no longer exist in separate and self-contained…Aug 28, 2015Aug 28, 2015
Dan BurnsFinding a way to track and visualise global digital cultures“Imagine a real-time traffic display… And the traffic shown is not cars on highways, but real-time cultural flows around the world”…Aug 12, 2015Aug 12, 2015
Dan BurnsAfter being exposed to McLuhan’s concept of the global village, how would you describe our global…Marshall McLuhen identified the way that the Global Village leads to a loss of the private identity and the mass man as related to all…Aug 9, 2015Aug 9, 2015