Second life 2019

Week Ten  Hello all,  This week it's onto the relationship between producer and consumer. This is very relevant as of this moment in which you reader, are reading this piece of writing which I have produced. Neither action would be verified or possible without the other. So let's delve into the idea that the internet has galvanised a world in which the dynamic between consumption and production is being blurred and altered at a great speed.  In collaborative communities the creation of shared content takes place in a networked, participatory environment which breaks down the boundaries between producers and consumers and instead enables all participants to be users as well as producers of information and knowledge.  Produsers engage not in a traditional form of content production, but are instead involved in  produsage  -  the collaborative and continuous building and extending of existing content in pursuit of further improvement . Participants in such activities are not p

Week Eleven This week was very interesting as we delved into the topic of the anthropocene. I knew the basic definition of this word beforehand, but I had yet to learn the manifold complexities of this topical issue. Here I have included some fascinating facts and figures for you all! On a 4.6 billion year old earth, us humans have been present for 200,000 years, and in that time have altered 50 percent of it's land and changed our atmosphere drastically.  In fact the atmosphere is currently being affected by both the emissions from the beginning of the industrial revolution and the emissions since that time and this buildup will last for tens of thousands of years. Half of the world's population has moved to urban areas so it doesn't seem likely that these emissions are going to cease anytime soon. Some cities are taking action though. Edinburgh is planning to hold a transport free day once a month in which no vehicles will be allowed to travel on the road. Since Pau

Hi everyone,  Just wanted to update you all on the group project we've been working on. We've held a few meeting now which at one stage I thought would never happen. For a long time, I had only been able to contact one member of the group-very friendly and we got along well but it was a slow beginning. After deciding our theme and what roles we might play we decided to wait until we had our full group together before moving ahead. A little while later we were informed we had a new member to the group and finally we could beginning planning!  We decided to work on the theme of automation, and what that means for creativity. We were going to explore the roles technology might play in human evolution, for better or worse. This changed however when we decided that in fact, this didn't totally meet the brief and we could perhaps choose a topic more in line with what we were being asked about.  So back to the drawing board! After some discussion and rereading of the brief and