Assessment 2: Image 5

(Tsegay, 2017) The image depicts a laptop and a clapperboard showing how now there is an abundance of technology and ways that being digitally literate is able to help in the storytelling process with the introduction of laptops making it incredibly easy to tell stories in terms of finding inspiration and releasing stories to audiences […]

Assessment 2: Image 4

(Tsegay, 2017) ‘’Once upon a time’’ is often seen in fiction narratives in order to help the reader’s sense of escapism whilst reading the story. This phrase that has been used very often in children stories evokes a thought process that contributes to the reader envisioning where the story is going along with putting the […]

Assessment 2: Image 3

Green explores how certain mechanisms and ways of writing allow the narrative and it’s themes to make the reader mentally put themselves in situations that they feel connected to in the story they’re reading. This is depicted through use of highly detailed and descriptive language and metaphors that add to the reading experience. (Green 1996). […]

Assessment 2: Image 2

(Tsegay, 2017) Through a camera and it’s lenses a narrative can become a film and have in some cases more clarity when it comes to expressing the narrative in terms of visualising the feeling that characters can have in their story. Gutkind expresses that the narrative written on paper exploits human emotion with the creation […]

Assessment 2: Image 1

(Lindner, 2013) The main theme of this image is how a narrative is able to paint pictures with words and create stories with metaphors, similes and the story in general. The image explores how words and stories are able to evoke emotion in people that make them feel certain ways along with envisioning the story […]

Assessment 2: Introduction

The aspect of creative writing that i have chosen to explore in particular is the aspect of how a narrative is brought to life and able to bring a story to life in terms of it’s use of phrases and language with contribution by technology, digital literacy and new forms of media. I am going […]

Access and Participatory media

(Kent & Ellis 2011) explain the effects that not being represented in contemporary media have on disabled people and how this issue gives into other issues such as the general public being misinformed of certain disabilities because of their little knowledge of disabled people. ”The link between a person’s physical body and the construction of […]

Digital and interactive media

Digital and interactive narratives enhances one’s digital literacy by stimulating their minds in a way that other mediums such as watching television are not able to. (Williams 2014) explores the theme that digital and interactive narratives are able to improve critical thinking in general and communicate things that happen in their narratives that aren’t able […]

Reference: Van Houten, C. (2017). Instagram post by Carice van Houten • Aug 20, 2017 at 8:04pm UTC. [online] Instagram. Available at: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYB0HazgsaC/?taken-by=leavecaricealone [Accessed 1 Sep. 2017].

Digital divides in remote Aboriginal communities

The dilemma of the digital divide is seen as something that is having a gradually larger impact on Indigenous Australians in rural communities.”The dispersed and remote nature of these communities means that residents face substantial difficulties conducting even simple transactions.” (Rennie et al. 2016 p. 22). This quote explains how it becomes harder to go […]