March 2011
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What's next for 3D cinema? Are we destined to an... →
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Bham #trainFAIL - Evaluation
This time last week we were on the eve of the epic advancement in awareness of Birmingham’s humongous train fails. Tasked with starting an online activist campaign in the three hours of #mc539 last Tuesday, we launched the Bham #trainFAIL project.
The first post on the Posterous blog explains the key objectives of the campaign and our reasons for venting our anger at Birmingham’s...
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Birmingham Social Media Cafe - March '11 →
My second blog post for @ClustaLabs - this morning, along with some of the other MC538 BCU-types, I headed to the Birmingham Social Media Cafe to see what it was all about! Will definitely be going back next month, hopefully with a few more BCUers?
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You're so new sincerity...
Do you ever go into Topman, see the adverts and models they use, and come away thinking - is it just me, or does everything look like it’s out of the 80s? Retro is still “in” so I’m told, which apparently means that development of fashion has somewhat ceased whilst we regenerate the styles of former years - ironic some would say.
Ironic? Or more new sincerity… the...
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Mistakes of the Past?
This is a reading response to David Parker and Paul Long’s “‘The Mistakes of the Past’? Visual Narratives of Urban Decline and Regeneration”.
Tim Berners-Lee is credited with ‘inventing the internet’. Revolutions in the last few years have seen the rise of what is commonly coined ‘Web 2.0’ - for the guy who came up with the idea for what was essentially...
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What's next for Social Media? →
My very first blog for @ClustaLabs - the innovation side of advertising agency Clusta. Based in Birmingham, I’ll be working on the next big things in social media for the next few months…
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The ever popular Stuart Hall...
This is a Media Culture reading response to Stuart Hall’s “Notes on Deconstructing ‘The Popular’”.
The ever-changing nature of popular, according to Hall, makes the term highly difficult to define - equally difficult is the notion of culture. This chapter looks at defining popular culture and how different definitions take into consideration different areas of both...
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