Interviews – An Outsider’s Perspective

Over the course of this semester I have been privy to stories from my peers about their experiences and journeys as a UOW student. Being able to study the interviewer and interviewee as an outsider witness has offered certain perspectives that may not have occurred if I had been an active participant in the conversation.

Why must people suck?

For one of my classes this semester, I have been asked to recount a story in which there was a change or disruption at work and connect this to ideas about narrative self-development in relation to my professional values. At my place of employment, I am occasionally put with new employees still training in Front

OMG She’s So Talented!

Whaddup fam! Welcome to the new semester where I’ve been asked to talk about a skill I happen to possess and how it’s useful? Or maybe we’re just meant to tell a story, idk but having just got back from the UOWSnowsports annual ski trip, I realised that something I think I’m good at is

The future as Predicted by Futurist Movies From 2016-2021

In the second half of this semester we watched and discussed four movies as a class through live-tweeting. These movies discuss themes such as how people of different nations, cities and countries react to possible world-ending or lifestyle altering events challenge a group of people. They also discuss how an imbalance of power can cause

Welcome to the future! Was it predictable, or completely left field?

So we’re back again? Repeating the cycle of having a grand idea, getting it started with some energy, and then the universe throws another slew of problems at you that just get in the bloody way? Yeah, me too. This semester was probably the worst I’ve had in a while. Even before I submitted my

Lazy or unmotivated? Where did I go wrong? (I lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness)

The three Pitch videos I reviewed and commented on had very succinct, yet detailed videos that covered most of the criteria required for this assignment They each had a well laid out production timeline with details about content and research with specific days and weeks and applied the lecture concepts to their blogs in varying

Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, and The Matrix: Visions of the future

Blade Runner (1982) Bladerunner had a recurring theme of using dehumanising tactics such as calling the slave labour clones, known as replicants, derogatory terms such as ‘skin jobs’ and calling their execution ‘retirement’. This is similar to the propaganda created by Goebbels for the Nazi party to dehumanise and vilify Jews. Two of my peers

‘Making it’ in The Live Streaming Industry

Link to Canva Slides: My Predictions: I predict that with weekly content and current growth trends, my stream’s audience and reach will have grown by the end of the two weeks. This growth will look like an increase in followers from 150 (as at 18/03/2022) to 300 and an increase in subscribers from 2 (as

BCM241 DA; Treatment of Female Video Game Streamers

Links to all aspects of my DA: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/iz_rosa Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iz_rosa_is_pog/ Discord: https://discord.gg/YaBN6bTEcj The journey over the last few months with this DA has been filled with hiccups and F**k-ups. The first month of streaming was great. I had created a stream schedule for the pitch video and managed to stick to it flawlessly. In

BCM206 DA: Treatment of Female Twitch Streamers

Over the course of this project I have encountered many have encountered several hiccups, and at least a coupe f**k-ups. The first few weeks following the pitch all was well. I was receiving plenty of feedback from my audience during streams about how I could improve the quality of content, such as fixing mic and