James PhillipsEssay 8: Week 9- Global MovementsWhile it may seem that the gap between rich and poor, equality and inequality is decreasing in the 21st century, this is not at all true…Sep 29, 2015Sep 29, 2015
James PhillipsEssay 7: Week 8- Media Ecology and it’s ‘Landscape’There are many ways one could define media ecology. From approaches that define media ecology as the relationship between media and nature…Sep 22, 2015Sep 22, 2015
James PhillipsEssay 6: Week 7- Vectors vs BordersPrior to reading ‘A Hacker’s Manifesto’ I had a far different idea of what a hacker was. I believed a hacker to be someone who illegally…Sep 21, 2015Sep 21, 2015
James PhillipsEssay 5: Week 6- Global Networks and Lovink’s pessimism.It is true that our society has developed into one ‘hive brain’ of a global network. Parts of the world that were once secluded and…Sep 21, 2015Sep 21, 2015
James PhillipsEssay 4: Week 5 — Global Content and file sharingDownloading movies and music has become second nature to internet users, including myself, in this current digital climate. ‘Torrenting’ or…Sep 6, 2015Sep 6, 2015
James PhillipsEssay 3: Week 4 — Glocality and Krispy Kreme DoughnutsPersonally, the way I would describe glocality is the combination of both global and local experiences which combine to form memories and…Aug 25, 2015Aug 25, 2015
James PhillipsEssay 2: Week 3- Media Mutations and Credible SourcesLev Manovich (2009) describes how ‘only fifteen years ago we typically interacted with relatively small bodies of information that were…Aug 25, 2015Aug 25, 2015
James PhillipsEssay One: Week 2- Our Global VilliageThe Internet provides the capability of posting an enormous amount of information with ease. Marshall McLuhan describes modern society as…Aug 25, 2015Aug 25, 2015