Affordance: Instagram

What field of study is the affordance reading situated in?

This reading on Affordance is situated in the fields of psychology and design. The author, Don Norman, is the author of a piece called The Psychology of Everyday Things, or “POET” for short. The piece is…

Blog Post 2: Video

More than 70% of internet traffic contains video. However each Social Media Content uses video in many different ways and is…

Blog Post 3: Service: Instagram

What is it?

Instagram, the widely popular application used by almost every millennial, who are you if you’re not using Instagram to upload photos and videos. It is an application that can be used both on mobile and desktop. It is an internet based…

Blog Post 1: Online Video Practice Context

It wasn’t long long ago that watching video online was incredibly difficult, the dreaded “buffering era”, when the internet wasn’t robust enough to support the viewing of high quality or extended video content online. Now however, thanks to the increased…

Group Essay- ‘What can we do with online video?’

Online video practice can be broadly defined as any video content that we put online. Inherent in this definition is that it is a new form of video unbound by the constraints of the previous platforms of film and television. Traditionally…

Analysis Blog Post, Evidence

For this task we chose Instagram as a platform. We did this because we all use it in our social and professional lives, it is the platform in which we are most literate. Michelle is also writing extensively on Instagram in her other subjects, making it an obvious choice. We…

Analysis blog entry 2 — Evaluation

The great thing about online video today is the possibilities are endless of which you can create. Our team found Instagram was a platform that resonated within our lifestyles and where we would perceive some of the best videos going around. Whether that be amateur or…

Analysis Blog entry 3- Reflection

What can we do with online video? Is the initial question we asked ourselves at the beginning of this project. Through research and applying what we’d learned, we generated online video content. With a special intrest with Instagram, we took it upon ourselves to create…