Halfway through my Communications and Media Studies degree, I have, thus far, been tip-toeing in and around cyberspace. This semester, I am diving right in. Three of my four subjects focus on the convergence of technology into this miraculous and still, to me at least, magical world.
In Global Networks (DIGC202) I am expecting to be confronted with a myriad of cyberspace concepts I have not yet imagined. However, from those which I have encountered, a subject which I find quite relevant to my own context is that of Pinterest.
Spending many hours in this realm of the online digital pinboard, I am intrigued in just why the platform has generated so much success. For me, it is not productive at all, really, thus, I want to know how such a platform can suck me in, with no real product at the end of such time commitment.
As I said, I am expecting that I will be challenged to expand my idea of what the internet is, and the laws which constrain and propel it. I look forward to this journey in DIGC202.
