I have never had any close Korean friends or have ever really experience the Korean culture other than their food. For this autoethnography I really could have studied anything from the Korean culture but decided to go for a specific category that seems to be very popular. When it came to choosing the way in… Continue reading Autoethnography methodology explained
K-Pop, a word I had heard many times while studying my media degree but until about a week ago I didn’t really know what it meant. I understood that it was a a type of music from Korea but that was about it. This lead me to the perfect topic for my independent autoethnography for… Continue reading Independent Autoethnography: K-Pop Music Videos
To start off with “Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyse personal experience in order to understand cultural experience.” (Ellis, C. 2011) Autoethnography is both a process and a product. As a process it is a mixture of autobiography (about past experiences) and ethnography (studies of culture’s… Continue reading Autoethnography explained
This week in BCM320 we live tweeted during the viewing of Gojira, 1954, which is the original Godzilla. Click here to view tweets. Having never had to live tweet or watch a black and white movie with subtitles, this was a very unique experience. I found myself thinking more about the effect of the movie… Continue reading Live tweeting experience
Game making is something that I have never done before and never thought I would do, so it was great to see the steps that go into creating a game and then follow those steps myself. The major thing I learnt was about the creation of game rules. I never thought that the rule creation… Continue reading Game Making Reflection
This week I have further protyped the Carnival Ducks game (see bellow images) and play tested it with other students, as well as play tested their games. I have also further refined the game rules. Updated Game Rules Roll up, roll up, it’s time to play a game of Carnival Ducks! For only 2 gold… Continue reading Carnival Ducks: Game rules, prototyping and play testing
There are many consumer behaviour concepts that allow companies to grow in the market but one in particular that gets used a lot but maybe not identified all the time is the manipulation of consumers. Manipulation of consumers is the use of knowledge regarding consumer perception and learning and how it can be used to… Continue reading CB concept focus: Manipulation of consumers
