User talk:Digitalmediafiend

Online Visibility

When I hear the words ‘online visibility’ my mind is cast back to the cheesy PSA style videos we were shown in our high school health and wellbeing classes. From as long as I can remember we were told horror stories of children being abducted and tracked down just for posting the smallest piece of information on the internet. I learned these lessons from a very young age. But have I followed them?

I do share information about myself online. You could find my birthday, my real name and my career path online if you wanted to. But I am reserved when it comes to posting about where I live, who my family are/what they do for a living, what university I make sure to never post about places I am visiting while I am still there. For example, I will check into a film theatre on my way home from the venue or I will check into an arts centre after I have left that venue/the general area it is in. I enjoy sharing my passions and interests online but I never want them to become a safety issue. You may be wondering why I even bother checking into arts centers or films theatres at all. I enjoy many arts and film venues in Glasgow and most of them could do with extra funding and so I enjoy spreading their names and giving a brief summary of the events they hold.

One of the reasons I choose to be more transparent online than most people is because I also enjoy spreading awareness and subsequently attempting to normalize mental illness. I know when I was younger I sought great refuge in keeping up to date with stories of other people my age and their journey in dealing with their mental illness. I often share details of my thoughts on the subject of mental illnesses and how I am attempting to better myself despite experiencing these difficult feelings and emotions.

From looking at my social media I do believe that you could discover a lot about me as a person. But I am also very deliberate in what I share and so there is nothing I have put up online that I would not feel comfortable discussing with a stranger. I believe I am a very open person but also believe that it is for good reasons that I am and that the information I have posted online is very intentional.

Relating back to how I never post about where I am while I am there I think this is why I am not a fan of snapchat. I don’t like to post about something while I am experiencing it and so snapchat is not the platform for me. I don’t like to have to take myself out of an experience in order to document it and so I never enjoyed snapchat. However, I do enjoy Instagram stories as they let you upload a past video/picture without having to specify when you took it. I enjoy this for posting gigs I’m at and events I’m at as when I arrive home I am able to look through the footage I filmed and the photos I took to not only relive the night once more before going to bed but also to choose what I’m going to post online and therefore to have a more intentional Instagram.

Digitalmediafiend (discuss • contribs) 16:59, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Annotated Bibliography

(This was accidently posted on the other digital media blog and has therefore been moved to be posted here).

(1) Armstrong, A. (2000). Knowledge and Communities (pp. 85-95). Butterworth and Heinemann. (2) In this chapter within a book on knowledge and communities Armstrong looks into the impact online communities have on helping to develop businesses. With users now having their own online platform it allows customers to interact with brands and businesses they are interested in- helping to boost both interest and sales whilst promoting their business. (3) The author arrives at this conclusion through looking at four different types of online communities that are most likely to interact with businesses (4) The research looks at different types of businesses: from large corporate business to small and more personal family business’ in order to gain a bigger and wider picture from their research (5) This chapter is useful to my collaborative blog essay as it is about online communities and the scope they can have on a wide array of the public and a wide scope of the online marketplace and this is what I am writing about for my part of the collaborative essay (6) The main limitation of this article is that the chapter does not consider the scope different types of businesses may have, such as online stores selling stock in bulk compared to a smaller family run businesses selling one piece of handmade jewelry and the different turn-around times these stories may have and the effect these times will have on their business numbers as the smaller stores are more likely to have less sales if they are making products by hand etc. (7) Armstrong concludes that as the internet expands (keeping in mind this book was written in the year 2000) we will be able to conclude on trends and patterns within the data of online businesses and the dominance they most likely have over the future of the internet. (8) This article is not completely useful in my writing of the collaborative essay as I am writing more about the social side of online communities rather than the business side, but it still gives me an interesting insight on the power online communities have over the internet and the scope they reach.

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Key: (1) Citation (2) Introduction  (3) Aims & Research methods (4) Scope (5) Usefulness (to your research/ to a particular topic) (6) Limitations (7) Conclusions (8) Reflection (explain how this work illuminates your topic or how it will fit in with your research

Digitalmediafiend (discuss • contribs) 16:36, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Collaborative Essay Reflective Account

Crafting a collaborative essay as a group of four online was an interesting project. It was a new and prospiring experience which taught me a large amount of information about online platforms and the uses they could be used for outside of the traditional modes such as staying in touch or posting about your day (although I have to admit I did use wikibooks for those things later down the line).

My group’s first interactions took place on facebook. I made a groupchat with both of them added and we set to work discussing our task and how we could go about splitting the work up into manageable sections for us all to undertake individually. Next, we discussed when all members of the group were free to meet in order to discuss the essay in person. We chose to meet in person instead of doing all communication and essay writing online as we felt that the conversation in person would be more formative as we are able to voice our concerns and hopes within an understanding and fully attentive environment instead of sending them out into the void of cyberspace and hoping that somebody would read and reply to them soon enough. It took a sense of uncertain-ness out of the task for us.

Wikibooks is a collaborative platform on which its users can edit and share their own knowledge on a wide array of subjects. I found all types of threads on wikibooks: from essays and discussions about Harry Potter characters to recipes on how to bake bread. This veristility is what makes Wikibooks such an interesting platform as it clearly is a very inviting and open platform with it’s wide array of topics inviting a wide array of people to join in and edit their own pages and topics, and therefore adding their own knowledge and opinions- making the internet a more diverse place. Wikibooks is a platform which is nourished by its users and visitors as it could not exist in the way it currently does today without user interaction.

Wikibooks is a useful platform to help facilitate collaborative research as it is a site beaming with information other users have uploaded. I found this helpful when it came to writing our group essay as because I had been leaving comments on my fellow students pages on their thoughts on topics within Digital Media and Culture I was learning new information through these social interactions that I could then use to help furnish my own thoughts about the topics- especially those found within my groups essay.

The sheer amount of information found on Wikibooks is the most useful aspect of the site. There are differing opinions and thoughts which make topics seem more two dimensional and therefore more interesting.

Wikibooks fosters a community by creating an environment in which anybody can add and share their knowledge to. There are no gatekeepers set in place who will delete your additions due to personal offense etc (unless it is abusive, obviously). In this way, every user on wikibooks is on a level playing field as they all have the same amount of access and privilege within the site. The sense of community is created further by the basis of the site being built on adding to the work of others. When people are adding to the information and details you are writing about you become a team- just like my group who are writing an essay together. This idea of sharing our knowledge and respecting one another builds a foundation of trust and respect which ultimately leads to a beautiful and welcoming community.

This online collaboration represents a digital commons as wikibooks creates a place where its users have created and upkept a “communal ownership of informational resources” ("Digital commons (economics)", 2016) Wikibooks would not function the same way if members did not contribute to each others work therefore creating this open space for a communal ownership of the text.

The wiki platform also serves to offer freedom of speech as, as stated before, it is a place where many people can share and discuss their differing opinions and others can contribute to that discussion. Therefore it is an open environment in which people can share their views openly.

Digitalmediafiend (discuss • contribs) 19:07, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Hey first of all thanks for your lovely comments on my wikibook collaborative essay reflective piece, I really like the beginning of your reflective account as it differs from my own and discusses your take on the group project briefly (I preferred this to my own). I kind of wish we had some more characters as I feel my own account did not show my personal account as I was trying to answer the questions which appeared in the assignment brief. Although you have done a great job when answering the questions briefly and giving a reflective account. I love how you need to look up how to bake bread and research harry potter characters but it does show the diversity of the vast amount of content available on the wikbook platform when users publish and share information.

I highly rate your analogy of how every user on the platform is on a 'level playing field' which does help explain how the platform operates using its contribution system and openly editable space. No matter where you come from, what your background is, how high is your IQ, anyone can impart information and discussion on the platform without hassle or the chance of being berated and removed.

Another part of your account I admired, 'sharing our knowledge and respecting one another builds a foundation of trust', this appealed as its an eloquent use of words and helps clarify your viewpoint. Trust is definitely a big issue across the platform as you have to hope people positively influence your work and enhance the quality and relevance of your topic instead of degrading it.

I really liked your account! Thanks for the comment on my own work, much appreciated. CRAIG STEWART95 (discuss • contribs) 13:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi I saw no one has left you a comment, that's a shame. But I thought I'd help you out! I also try to be considerate with what I post, but I'm also realising that I'm a chronic over-sharer, I talk about absolutely everything that I think about, even when people probably don't care. My follower count is pretty good though, so maybe people do care. The things you've said that you don't share I do all the time, so clearly I'm a very open person for better or for worse.

I appreciate that you spread the good word about the great culture venues in Glasgow. I go to Glasgow Film Theatre all the time so I agree, I'd love for them to get more funding. It's my favourite cinema, I love it! What was the last thing you saw at the cinema, out of curiosity?

It's funny that you mention you use Instagram stories for posting gigs, I saw Sigrid last week and posted a lot of videos on my Instagram story. But then I got really anxious because I thought people could hear me singing. I went to listen back to it afterwards and you could! I was mortified. I used Snapchat in the past, but I don't find it appealing anymore in comparison to Instagram - also there was that very offensive advertisement they posted about Rihanna's experience with domestic violence. It feels morally wrong supporting a company like that.

Ilmurray (discuss • contribs) 13:23, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Iana!!!

Your twitter is very very good 10/10 and I love reading all the things that go on in your head, to be honest. I post instagram stories of me at gigs all the time screaming along to the songs. My videos from seeing Lorde back in October are probably the most embarrassing things I've ever posted- but I love that woman with my whole heart so I DONT EVEN CARE.

Funny you ask what I saw last at the cinema! I actually saw a preview of the film '120 BPM' with a panel on AIDS/HIV activism afterwards and you happened to be there! What a c o i n c i d e n c e Before that though it was 'Isle of Dogs' which I am still making my mind up about days after the screening so I may have to go see it again next Monday at Vue (although I really want to also see A Quiet Place so I may go see that instead) What was the last film you saw at the cinema?

I think I stopped using Snapchat when I found myself at University parties and watching people literally staging and directing their short videos for Snapchat ("Can you do that again for snapchat?" "Can you pretend to do that again I missed it?") It was really embarrassing. I think that's why I bought a 35mm camera- because you would take the picture and nobody would ask to "re-do" it because they didn't have the chance to ask to see it. I sound like people annoy me- I promise they don't lmao.

Anyway! Hope you're doing well today and that you still have easter chocolate left over from Sunday to last you through this gloomy weather!

Digitalmediafiend (discuss • contribs) 16:57, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Fiona!

I'm so jealous that you've seen Lorde! Not to sound like a hipster but I started listening to Lorde just before Royals blew up - I listened to Tennis Court obsessively and then all of a sudden she was everywhere! It was a weird but fun thing to witness. I saw you talking to my mutual Hannah about her a few days ago - we write for the same film blog! I've been thinking of not taking videos for Instagram the next time I go to a gig because so often I'm checking my phone and not properly enjoying the experience.

Funnily enough, A Quiet Place was the last thing I saw at the cinema! I thought it was incredible. I've been rooting for John Krasinski because so far the films he's directed have been unanimously terrible - so I'm really glad that he had a good movie in him somewhere! I love horror films with inventive concepts, I feel they are so much interesting than the usual fare like slashers or paranormal films. It's also a great concept for keeping you on edge the entire run-time because you are constantly anticipating someone to make a noise and when they do it's genuinely terrifying. Also, I'm happy they cast a deaf actress for a deaf character (She's also in a film called Wonderstruck, which I think is releasing here soon. You should see it if you haven't already because it's very beautiful and made me cry a lot.) Anyway, I highly recommend A Quiet Place!

Where did you buy a 35mm camera? I've wanted to buy one for so long but I don't know where to get one!

Also, sorry to disappoint but I'm in the tiny minority of the planet that doesn't like chocolate. Us chocolate haters are braver than the US Marines. On an unrelated note (it's hard to transition between subjects on this platform), I hope your collaborative essay is going well! What is yours about, I'd love to read it!

Ilmurray (discuss • contribs) 17:14, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

I only found Lorde through Royals so I find it really interesting that you knew her before then- I /wish/ I knew her before Royals. I feel as if I have made up for lost time with how much I obsess over her now though. I didn't know you and Hannah wrote for the same blog! She's really cool! We had a long conversation about the homosexual subtext in Lorde's lyrics, it was a GREAT time. We came to the conclusion that RIBS and The Louvre are some of her best gay hits. Especially because "Burn all my friendships to sit in hell with you." Sounds like she's ready to accept the mainstream idea that God does hate gays but she's willing to lose touch with all her friends in heaven to go to hell with her love. We found a bunch more but that is one of my favorites.

I too have been rooting for our man, Krasinski. I've heard mixed reviews on A Quiet Place but I still really want to see it (although every time I have to sit through the trailer before watching a youtube video I lose a little bit of love for him). I'm so bad with scary films though so it will be a challenge for me.

I saw the trailer for Wonderstuck and for some reason it reminded me a lot of Hugo? I think they look very similar in style but I am excited to go see it nevertheless!

I've got a few 35mm cameras- some of them I found in charity shops for like £4! The main one I use I bought off Ebay pretty cheap too!

I can't believe you don't enjoy chocolate :o I WISH I didn't enjoy chocolate- I feel like it's one of the things that makes going vegan really difficult for me- although dark chocolate is very good and that is vegan the majority of the time. What kind of snacks do you eat instead?

Hope you're doing well! I'm spending the majority of my day in the library working between the Audience's essay, my transnational cinema essay and the absolute mountain of digital media things I still have to do. :'(

Digitalmediafiend (discuss • contribs) 17:27, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Fiona (again)

I obviously need to pay more attention to Lorde's lyrics - I didn't realise her songs had so much homosexual subtext! Have you seen those videos where she kisses fans at her gigs? I'm insanely jealous.

Excuse me, where have you been reading these mixed reviews. I'll have you know that it has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, thank you very much. Paddington 2 is shaking. It might be better to wait to watch it at home - I don't know about you but scary movies usually feel less scary when I watch them at home.

I suppose Wonderstruck and Hugo are similar with their visual styles but they're very different films plot-wise! The film is about these parallel stories between two deaf children, one living in the 1970s and the other in the 1920s. The 1920s part of the film plays out like a silent movie and it’s so mesmerising watching a modern silent film (I also think it’s way better than The Artist). Wonderstruck is directed by Todd Haynes who directed Carol, so the critics were generally disappointed because it pales in comparison to Carol (as does every film, to be honest) but I think it’s one of the most magical, beautiful and heartwarming films I’ve seen in recent years.

I guess I need to go camera hunting in some charity shops then! I would buy one from Ebay but I find it really untrustworthy and also a bit intimidating.

I eat everything else except chocolate to be quite honest – crisps, sweets, you name it. My diet is really unhealthy though, I’d like to go vegetarian but I can never resist the temptation to eat meat. Maybe I’ll try again this summer and see if I can keep it up!

What was your study for your audiences presentation? And is your transnational essay for global cinema? I wish I took global cinema this semester – the lectures were a bit boring but the films were always great.

Ilmurray (discuss • contribs) 19:58, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello friend

I HAVE seen those videos of Ella kissing fans at gigs and I am also insanely jealous of all of them. I don't know if you are a fan of Lana Del Rey but she also often kisses fans at gigs and I cannot imagine how I would just continue going through life after I experienced that from either of them.

When it first came out I remember, I think IndieWire saying that it was over-hyped and that people who were calling him the next Master of Suspense were wrong lmao. I saw some people saying it was gimick-y also. I don't watch many horror films though so besides from things like Hitchcock and It Follows and such that is all that I can take. I used to be friends with a girl who loved horror films and every time I tried to watch them with her I never managed to get more than 5 minutes into the film. I think I'll have to wait until Andrew is free and take him with me to hide behind like a big baby. Also, I'm one of those people who scream when they get frightened so I'm worried about pissing everybody in the cinema off.

Also, I've still not seen Paddington 2! I absolutely love kids films though so I know I'll love it. Although from what I've seen of it I think it is very aware of its adult audience too (Not Cat in The Hat aware where half the jokes are adult jokes though).

I'm veggie and my diet isn't the best either to be honest. Baked potatoes everyday are probably not what my body needs.

Our study for Audiences was about older cinema audiences. It didn't go too great to be honest. Yikes. My transnational essay is for the course called 'transnational identities' and it was a really good course this year! It didn't have many new films on the watch list though, most I'd seen or watched for other courses.

How's journalism going for you this semester?

Digitalmediafiend (discuss • contribs) 10:11, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for commenting on my page; I wanted to return the favour. We should have commented on each others pages from the start, as I can tell we have the same thought process on a lot of social media.

I used to be a huge fan of Snapchat and Instragram, I used to post every wee detail; like no one could eat when we went to a restaurant before I took a picture. I think, I used to do this because I craved attention. Now, don't get me wrong, I do love attention (who doesn't), but just from the people who matter. MTxPrincipessa18 (discuss • contribs) 15:45, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi! I really love your take on this. I have stopped sharing a lot about myself online, I always posted 5 things on my snapchat story every day and looking back now it is so sad to see how attached I was to this online representation of myself. Nowadays I only post something if I really want people to see it, for instance my dog or my friend's cats. We are discussing online anonymity if you would like to take a look!EPuxley (discuss • contribs) 11:39, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Ella!!!

I love seeing pictures of your dog so I love how far you have come in your internet posting journey! I used to be pretty thethered to Snapchat also and I really dispised myself for it- I'm glad to see more and more of my friends taking time out from it. Every morning I wake up beside Andrew I watch him click through all of the snapchat stories and it takes him a good 5/6 minutes to get through them and he doesn't even enjoy watching them so I'm unsure why he allows it to take up so much of his time. It confuses me but at the same time I know that was once me so who am I to judge, right?

I will take a look at your group discussion page for sure!

I hope your day is going well and you should consider joining the universities film making society next semester: AirTV - it is a bunch of fun, I promise. We meet on Wednesday's at 7pm in W1. (that's like my tagline for all my posts lmao, I just want to be a good president)

Digitalmediafiend (discuss • contribs) 16:57, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK: DISCUSSION, ENGAGEMENT, CONTRIBS

 * Engagement on discussion pages of this standard attain the following grade descriptor for contribs. Whereas not all of the elements here will be directly relevant to your particular response to the brief, this will give you a clearer idea of how the grade you have been given relates to the standards and quality expected of work at this level:
 * Very Poor. Often, contributions of this standard are quite brief, are structured poorly and are not spell-checked. They are often irrelevant, and offer little engagement with the concerns of the module or the assignment brief. Contributions of this grade may have been subject to admin warnings or take-down notices for copyright infringement. The wiki markup formatting will be of a very poor standard and as a result it will be difficult for the reader or fellow collaborators to engage with the discussion.

Students should be engaging at least once a day, for the duration of the project. The following points illustrate how this engagement is evaluated.


 * This was clearly not the case here – only 5 relevant contribs registered over the final2 days of the project. These were significant entries in terms of moving the project forward, and had you actually done this work over a sustained period as instructed, this would have made things much, much easier for yourself and for your group work. There’s no sense as to why you made the decision to leave this until the last minute.

Evidence from contribs to both editing and discussion of content (i.e. volume and breadth of editorial activity as evidenced through ‘contribs’). These are primarily considered for quality rather than quantity, but as a broad guideline: o	Each item on a contribs list that are 3000+ characters are deemed “considerable” o	Each item on a contribs list that are 2000+ characters are deemed “significant” o	Each item on a contribs list that are 1000+ characters are deemed “substantial” o	Items on a contribs list that are <1000 characters are important, and are considered in the round when evaluating contribs as a whole because of their aggregate value


 * 2 of the 5 contribs are deemed either “substantial” or “significant”. However, some of these materials seemed to be cut and paste using materials already posted to the page from other users? So your actual contrib to the discussion would amount to far less characters.

•	Engagement with and learning from the community on Discussion Pages o	Evidence of peer-assisted learning and collaboration o	Evidence of reading, sharing, and application of research to the essay o	Evidence of peer-review of others’ work


 * Not much in evidence here, I’m afraid.

•	Reflexive, creative and well-managed use of Discussion Pages o	Clear delegation of tasks o	Clearly labelled sections and subsections o	Contributions are all signed


 * Again, negligible.

•	Civility. Your conduct is a key component of any collaboration, especially in the context of an online knowledge-building community. Please respect others, as well as observe the rules for civility on wiki projects. All contribs are moderated.


 * You conducted yourself well as far as the material evidence goes.

GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 12:36, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Instructor Feedback on Wiki Exercise Portfolio
Posts and comments on other people’s work, of this standard, roughly corresponds to the following grade descriptor. Depending on where your actual mark is in relation to the making criteria as outlined in the relevant documentation, it should give you an idea of strengths and weaknesses within the achieved grade band overall.

Good. Among other things, good entries will make a clear point in a clear way. They will relate concepts to original examples in a straightforward fashion. They will make effective use of the possibilities of the form (including links, as well as perhaps copyright-free videos and images, linked to from Wiki Commons). They may also demonstrate a broader understanding of the module's themes and concerns, and are likely to show evidence of reading and thinking about the subject material. The wiki markup formatting will be very clear.


 * This work is at the upper end of this grade band, but even so so a little improvement will go a long way to attaining a higher mark. I think in order to engage with the wiki exercises a bit more, it might be useful for you to look at the Grade Descriptors and (especially for this, perhaps, the Understanding) criteria in the module handbook to get more of an idea of how to hit those targets.


 * In particular, making more use of the wiki functionality and markup would have gone a long way to improving fluidity and functionality of posts. I suspect that, if you become more familiar and proficient with the platform, that this would have made a considerable difference.


 * Re: responses to other people’s posts – these are especially good. I like that you have framed some of your responses as questions to solicit discussion (this is, arguably, what discussion pages are all about!) and also that you have engaged in discussion in an open and critical way (that is to say, you've responded to what other people are saying and are contributing meaningfully to discussion - arguably the civic element of wiki that you ought to be thinking about, which you clearly are).

General:
 * Reading and research: There is evidence of critical engagement with set materials, as well as some evidence of independent reading of appropriate academic and peer-reviewed material.


 * Argument and analysis: This is apparent especially through engagement with other users, and setting up/initiating discussions with a number of these for the sake of developing the wikibook essay.


 * Presentation: See note above – this could have been much better in terms of making more use of the platform..

GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 11:03, 9 May 2018 (UTC)