Now Commencing Lockdown

Here we have the rule book for my individual game for BCM300, check it out below: Now Commencing Lockdown - RuleBookDownload

BCM241 Pitch

https://youtu.be/ecsAS-uqMx4 My Pitch Video For my autoethnographic research project, I will be comparing my past experiences and interactions as a fan of the TV show The Simpsons with my present experiences and interactions with the show. All to try to identify, how my fan experience has changed over the past twelve years My field site...

Morse code tragedy

Communication has come a very long way over the years. From where we stand now, it is often hard to remember that there once was a time when messages could only travel as fast as the person carrying them - although one of the most revolutionary innovations in our history, the electric telegraph, would change...

Reflection – BCM212

What a strange time it is to be a university student, let alone trying to be one that undertakes a research project from home. BCM212 has been a very interesting subject, to say the least, and has certainly taught me a thing or two about how to conduct research. In the course of just 3...

MadeinausbyAlicia – The Contextual Essay

Where you can find MadeinausbyAlicia Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/MadeInAusByAlicia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madeinausbyalicia/ Originally in my DA pitch, I had stated that my project was going to be a youtube channel where I would showcase my love of craft and DIY but before OP1 was even due this idea changed. I realised I had been ignoring important feedback from myself,...

MAKING MEDIA? – OP3

Where you can find my DA https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/MadeInAusByAlicia https://www.instagram.com/madeinausbyalicia/?hl=en Making In the making stage for my DA, I struck far more difficult and time-consuming challenges than I had in ether the ideation or the prototyping stages. After initially making my Etsy shop a reality and promoting it on Twitter I got an overwhelming amount of positive...

Will it Prototype? MadeInAusbyAlicia

THE PROCESS OF MAKING, BREAKING AND REMAKING MadeInAusbyAlicia is now an active prototype on both Etsy and Instagram for the world to see, interact with and even purchase from! Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/MadeInAusByAlicia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madeinausbyalicia/   As I explained in my Beta video, my DA changed shape a bit after my Ideation post. Upon listening to some...

MadeInAusByAlicia – Beta

Operational Prototypes: Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/MadeInAusByAlicia?ref=search_shop_redirect Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madeinausbyalicia/ Beta Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjUHKS_StGM&feature=youtu.be Change As I mention in the video, my project has had a very smooth change in direction when I shifted my focus from Youtube to Etsy. The decision came down to 2 things, the first being my own feedback of not liking to film videos and...

Cultural Appropriation in Global Music

Cultural appropriation has been prominent in the music industry for decades now.  Many prominent white musicians have been accused of borrowing aspects of African American culture (AAC) in order to make a profit off what people of colour were once punished for doing (Johnson, 2015). Some of the most celebrated musicians in the industry have...

Made In AUS – Ideation

Though I had made a DA last semester in BCM112, I wanted to re-brainstorm this semester and look at other potential avenues for a DA. My original thinking was probably that I would either scrap my original DA entirely or continue it exactly as it was.     However, as my brainstorming went on I...