What I have learnt from studying Digital Culture

I chose Digital Culture because I was attracted to the idea of writing about all the different areas that I would learn over the year, and get more of an insight to technology and our future within it.
I found many of the subjects very interesting, and it has definitely changed my mind on a lot of issues and topics, making me realize just how much of an impact Digital Culture and its technology has on us every minute of our lives.

I have always been very interested in the idea of blogging, but even though I have started a few up which would talk more on the idea of fashion and celebrities I have never really kept at it, however it has always been something I have been more interested in doing. I have thoroughly enjoyed writing about the topics discussed in lectures, and learning more about them as I write and continue to research whilst doing so. Such topics as Cyber Stalking, Cyborgs, Globalization and Identity were four that I really got into whilst blogging.

I am a very big film lover, so writing a blog on Cyborgs was heaven to me, however it wasn't just about the films, It actually made me realize how much Cyborgs make an impact on many normal peoples day to day lives, a subject I have never really sat down and thought about.

The topic of Globalization really hit, the realization that so many people in this world aren't as well off as us, and the fact that we use the internet so much, but many people out there have not actually ever touched a computer, really touched me, and I was pulled too find out more. I personally can not even imagine my life without the internet, everything would just seem a lot more difficult to get in reach with. But then, if there are people out there who do live there every day lives without the internet, shouldn't we be able to as well? I highly doubt it, the internet seems to me like sinking sand, once you hit it your stuck.

Cyber Stalking, as I said in my blog earlier, became very significant to me, I became so in fixed with finding out more on the subject. Overall I learnt from the amount of research and stories that I read online, that there definitely needs to be a new awareness level on this subject.

I found the second term of blogging a lot harder, many of the subjects were topics I had never even heard of such as Open Source Movement and Meta data, but with a lot of time researching and reading, I eventually managed to work everything out, to hopefully give a clear example and explanation in my blogs. By researching, I found that these subject areas I had the least understanding on, were probably the areas that I use most in my day to day life.

After studying this subject, I feel I have developed in such a way that I am more open minded to subjects that most people shut off, and I am deffinately a lot more interested to find out information of our technological age, especially seeing as it is becoming so important to us. Although along the way I did at times have doubts, I look back on my blogs from the beginning and my blogs closer to now, and realize how much more in depth I talk about topics, I have begun to research into things a lot more and fully explain them with examples from the internet.

Digital Culture and technology now have such a big impact on our lives, it would have been crazy not too want to learn about such a subject. By picking Digital Culture as a unit I have a much better understanding of the world I live in today, it is extremely different to how it was when my parents were younger, and it is still going to be constantly changing, there is no way about it. No matter what we do, it is extremely hard to get away from technology these days, its a very big part of our lives, and now will always be. It seems that we actually sometimes interact more with the World Wide Web and technology than we do our friends and family, but isn't that a bit worrying? However we do now have access to all the information we could ever need, making us alot more wiser that previous ages, but I sometimes feel I would like to have to work a bit harder to find out information, rather than type it in Google, but then maybe i'm slightly old fashioned.

Overall studying this unit has given me a much greater understanding of the world I live in today, I have realized and learnt about alot of things I didn't notice. Even though I do sometimes feel we rely alot too much on technology, how could we ever live without it?