I didn't know what to expect for Digital Culture. I remember picking my options last year with nerves and excitement. I had the choice of three and had to choose two, digital culture, video and radio skills. My voice does not sound good on tape.. radio was a no no. I used to do Photography, therefore video seemed like a good choice. As for Digital Culture, I had to Google it. I suppose you could say that I used the internet, a digital technology to find something out and it worked. Thank you, technology. I read it would be about the internet, digital age, social media, and thought this could be interesting. It is no feature writing course, but that comes later.
As a magazine journalism student, writing is my forte therefore, writing a blog was definitely something of interest to me. I had a blog in recent years, however, it was a photography blog and barely included more than 20 words a photo, so this helped with writing for a particular audience. Although the topic was about digital technology, it was surprisingly easy and interesting to write about. Even my parents were intrigued to keep reading.
I enjoyed Digital Culture, it was good to find out all about the past, present and future of technology. Learning about something I would have never actually thought about even reading, yet alone writing about it was great. I now can hold a conversation with someone who has interest in games.(Watch out gamer geeks, I've now heard of World of Warcraft).Games was not my favourite topic in this uni, as for magazine this didn't seem to have that much relevance to it, however it was good to learn about it, and made for an fascinating blog.
Lectures are Lectures. We all know that they are not the most entertaining on thing, its a given. To succeed, we must listen. Admittedly on times I would begin to day dream, but I understand to concepts of what Gavin was talking about. The workshops were beneficial, for although we get taught the information in the lecture, the workshops helped expand that, we got chance to talk to each other and ask questions if we were not sure.
It is a scary thought, knowing that this is my final post for this uni. After I hand in my assessments next week, the first year of university is over!
I chose Media Production as my fourth option for my 2nd year, See you in September Gavin!
