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Collaborative Digital Media Project

Co-authored by Monique Mair, Joshua Yammouni, Wei Gao, Laura Maree Cantillon and Jemmy Augustian Rostandy (Group 25) Below is our co-created ‘surveillance story’ that takes place in the form of a short 5-minute news report, presenting the varying opinions on surveillance in schools. Following the video, we discuss the collaborative process we underwent in order...

Monitoring kids – beneficial or harmful?

“Kids want to live a separate life to their parents and there is a risk this could isolate young people ... rather than opening up you feel like the object of surveillance.” - Australian Privacy Foundation chair David Vaile (Cook, 2017). With the increase in young individuals becoming dependent on their phones, they face many...

The wanted and unwanted eye

There's no doubt that celebrities enjoy their exciting, upper-class lifestyle, and we all know that with fame, comes the spotlight that forever follows. However, to what extent should we be placing this spotlight on celebrities? I assume majority of people, famous or not, would not feel comfortable with their every move being logged and publicised....

Online Dating: Constructing relationships within the virtual world

How are romantic relationships formed within the virtual world? The video below discusses how online dating sites (in particular, Tinder) can be very beneficial in constructing relationships between individuals. The way in which I explored the content of my video was through the scholarly readings of Merkle and Richardson, DeMasi, and Finkel and associates. Merkle...

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