In the last week, reading about culture and decolonization has answered a lot of my questions from the semester. The question came up in class, “what is culture”? …

On the first day of my Game Design class at NYU, I found myself pleasantly surprised at the group of students attending. …

The question of ethics rears its head often within the video game landscape. The questions of ethics appear in games such as Disco Elysium, Mass Effect, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead. In these games, your choices bar or open your accessibility to certain quest lines, providing a more dynamic gameplay…

Social media platforms have provided an outlet for otherwise unrelated people to connect around ideologies and beliefs. With access to high speed internet becoming increasingly universal, the ability for societies to emerge around specific topics becomes the norm rather than the exception. …

Despite all the radical change around us today, all art expression is an attempt to create parameters of a metaphorical world through techniques of interpretations and representation which engage viewers in what all humans do to try to make meaning out of the world. -Margot Lovejoy For this week’s reflections…

Exposure and Access There is a theory of social and cultural capital that implies specific social groups have access to more education, thereby informing their taste regimes and categorizing them into a higher strata of society. What you, as an individual, enjoy is influenced by the education you have received, so for many…

Last week’s readings focused around semiotics and ideology. We were tasked to read the work of Scott McCloud on Understanding Comics, watch a feature length film by Slavoj Žižek on ideology in film and media, and listen to a podcast about Semiotics and Structuralism by Philosophize This!

Prior to starting the Media Theory class, I based my design decisions around making things that look cool. Design for me meant things that “screamed”, provoked strong questions or feelings, or just provided a psychedelic/artistic look into my own mind. Music composition, in particular, has always been a mediating technology…

How does the body respond differently to different environments? Every person has their own particular way of relating to the world around them and realizing their potential within that world. Technology transforms our bodies. Using tools: Extends the body Helps us to realize things we wouldn’t otherwise be able to…