INTRO..

My assignment is to create a Topic Blog showing my processes, ideas, development, enquiry, reflection and early planning in preparation for my second assignment- A journalistic essay OR a visual essay..

These are the things i will be writing about/discussing..

• Early reflections on possible topics;

• Commentary on things seen (film, TV), read (books, articles, website), discussed (friends, family, tutors) which

help you to form your ideas, with examples if possible;

• Links and notes on web-based newspaper or journal articles that you have read;

• Thoughts and ideas about possible content, arguments, and so on;

• Critical and theoretical perspectives encountered;

• Decision processes (e.g. Journalistic Essay or Visual Essay?);

• Problems encountered, solutions found.

The topics i have to choose from are;

• the evolutions of media technology

• information technologies and culture

• new technologies of storytelling

• photography and the digital age

• graphic design in the digital age

• comics in the digital age

• cinema in the 21st century

• radio in the 21st century

• the telephone in modern life

• television in the 21st century

• time, space, and the modern world

• new diary forms, social networking, etc.

• ideas of spectacle and sensation

• issues of censorship

• pornography and new media

• ideas of virtual space/cyberspace

• issues of surveillance and dataveillance

• media and global politics: the ‘war on terror’, the ‘Arab spring’, etc.