DA Finale

Hey everyone! So as you may not know, because I have been avoiding talking about it on social media platforms, I have been streaming on Twitch.tv for my Digital Artifact this semester. In the first few weeks we spoke about how the medium is the message, a concept coined by Marshal McLuhan (1964). McLuhan spoke

Copywrong

Hello again peeps! This week in BCM112 We discussed intellectual property and the content control industry, i.e. copyright. Copyright is a constant issue amongst content creators, as most people like to put music in the backgrounds of streams and YouTube videos. However, this leads to copyright strikes that limit your ability to make future content,

BCM112 DA Beta

It’s been a while since I posted on here, but I promise I’m making progress. Since my last update, some things have changed. My partner for my original DA decided to drop from the project and do his own thing a couple week after the Pitch, so I had to come up with a new

Evie is Real

This week in BCM112, we looked at “Simulation and Simulacra” which, according to Jean Baudrillard, refers to “When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.”   An example of simulacra and simulation is “eviebot” that gained popularity back in 2014. Eviebot is a website where you can use

Advertisements are Propaganda

Mass Media and mainstream media are always using different techniques to convince the audience to believe in their message above all others. An example of this is Schema which is a term coined by Jean Piget to describe how, starting in early childhood, external stimuli such as advertisements seen on T.V., are stored in our

WWIII Memes

If WWIII was confirmed in 2022, how would you react? Would you start stockpiling toilet paper again? Would you call everyone you know and tell them how much you love them? Or are you a Millennial/Gen Zedder like myself that would start reading, writing, and posting memes about it because hey, who’s really felt alive

DA Pitch

So for my DA project this semester, Harrison Clynes and I are teaming up to create Pixel art tutorial videos. We noticed that most youtubers that provide pixel art tutorial videos are centred around pixel art for video game developers, and improving upon pre-existing skills and knowledge of creating pixel art. We intend to fill

Passive or Active?

Sorry for not posting last week, I had an awful cold (NOT COVID!) and was out of commission all last week. Last week we revisited audiences as being active rather than passive and the audience as being a “collective intelligence”. Mainstream media such as T.V. often rely on audiences being passive to deliver their message,

Vaporwave & a e s t h e t i c

This week in bcm112 we discussed a phase of online music known as Vaporwave. This genre of music was a mix of Lofi and elevator music, which, while similar to the Lofi Hiphop Radio we all know and love, is much less desirable and wasn’t listened to casually or in a relaxed setting. Vaporwave was

The Medium is The Message

In Week 2 for BCM112 we explored the impact of the medium on the message. We started with the Harold Laswell model, and the Shannon & Weaver communication model to to give a basic understanding of how a message is sent and received, and the obstacles involved that can affect the intended message. All of