My three nominated posts would be ‘How is it?’ posted on October 20, ‘Next’, posted on October 1, and ‘The best worst place to be’, posted on August 25. I nominate them as I believe they display elements of networked media. They all either display another possible networked service. They also engage with the content within the unit and are a general reflection on my experience within the unit.
Overall, my blogs content was a mixture of unit content, personal hobbies, assignment progress and a little web experience. For me, the log is more like a journal which would explain the low rates of comments made and traffic received. I am not disillusioned by this however as the blog was never meant to attract attention to my life, or progress through the unit. The log was not coherent enough to want to read it week in, week out but it was a great reflective practice, which I am more than happy with. I believe that is the key in attracting a large audience to a blog, coherence. I make this assumption based on the blogs I am subscribed to. It seems that blogs that have a personality and are coherent, with regular posts containing common themes. An example of this would be my subscribed ‘Arseblog’ which is a day by day commentary of the Arsenal Football Club.. Looking back, the blog is quite large which is interesting as I initially thought that it would not amount to a whole lot as I had only written little when starting the blog.
Through participating in this unit, I have learnt a little more about the services I have used now for a number of years. It’s not that significant that I am using the services that have been put forward within the unit, but it is significant that it has forced me to look at networked media consumption/production from a critical perspective.
It’s amazing when you try and comprehend the rate at which networked media has grown over the past decade. It has risen to probably the most popular medium of networking across the western world and (despite it not really being covered within the unit) greater parts of Asia.
Networked media has given the common people a chance to be heard. It is a powerful publishing tool that is affecting the way within which individuals define themselves and communicate. Networked media production can be said to have helped develop the taxonomy of the internet which has made it an accessible highway of vast information – a powerful medium that is becoming ever present in communication throughout the world.
