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Welcome to my blog for ARTS2090
My name is Lauren O’Keefe and I am currently studying Media (Public Relations and Advertising) at UNSW. I have created this blog for the arts subjects ARTS2090 Publics and Publishing and from week to...
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Blog 1 – Publics and Publishing: what do these terms mean?
Publics and publishing, what do these terms really mean? How can they be defined? How do they relate to the media? Are these concepts changing? And if so, what does that mean for our society? So what...
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Blog 2 – Historical Examples of Publishing
Over time, various forms of publishing have been used to communicate with the public. Smoke signals and cave paintings are two very important examples of early publishing and both forms of...
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Blog 3 – Assemblages
The history of publishing has demonstrated society’s need to communicate. This history has changed they way we view the media and its very purpose. From the very beginning, society aimed to use the act...
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Blog 4 – The Power of Archives
The concept of desire often portrays the fundamentalism of a civilized world. Humans have always desired more and often the sensation one feels for more usually takes over the idea they already have...
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Blog 5 – Infotention
Over the past few weeks, the lectures and readings have focused on the concept of archives and how they have the ability to influence our sense of self and understanding of a changing society and...
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Blog 6 – Visible
In relation to the previous blogs, I have attempted to critically identify that publishing and the media have become a complex web of relations. From information desires, assemblages and archives, we...
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Blog 7 – Real Time
Humans are visual beings, we engage with images, diagrams and even lines because they represent our important relationship with communication. But how does this form of publishing affect the way...
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Blog 8 – Ubiquity
As mentioned previously, technology has altered the definition of publishing, transforming a traditional concept into a complex web of relations and assemblages. This week topic, distribution,...
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ARTS2090 – Final Essay
ARTS2090 Final Essay ‘But what’s happening today – the mass ability to communicate with each other, without having to go through a traditional intermediary – is truly transformative.’ Alan...
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