Welcome to my little corner of the internet. Only time will tell if this corner remains musty and dark or if it will become illuminated by your presence... or a well-placed lamp. I can only hope you will be interested in the (hopefully topical) ramblings of this short, redheaded and generally well meaning 20 year old.
I am currently in my second year of uni, studying Communications and Media Studies and also International Studies. I hope to become a journalist at the end of my degree, but am becoming increasingly interested in the many other possibilities these degrees provide.
The Internet often reminds me of a library or C.S. Lewis' 'Wood Between the Worlds'; a mysterious place that serves as a portal into thousands of worlds. I find this both exciting and a little scary. Exciting because there is so much potential; for the useful, for the fun, and occasionally, the whacky. What scares me is how easy it must be to get lost in such a place.When we looked at the different types of network topologies in the lecture, I couldn't help but think that no matter whether our DIGC202 online presence made us part of a centralized, decentralized or distributed network, we were going to be part of a massive spider web. However, we have already been introduced to things like tweetdeck and RSSfeeds, which seem to help make sense of all these connections. I'm hoping this subject will help me understand massive networks such as these so that as is suggested by Castells, I can harness their power for my own use.
