By Nicola Osborne, on October 5th, 2009
I found both ends of this week’s film festival to be tremendously bleak in the portrayal of the future and spent much of the week trying to find more positive exemplars of the future of humans and the portrayal of “virtual” spaces. Sian tweeted earlier this week there perhaps this was because actually “we revel [...]
By Nicola Osborne, on September 28th, 2009
Today has been the last day of our #mscdystopia twittorial. I found the films made for an interesting collection. The hashtag offered a hint at the theme of the collection – digital dystopia – but I found my familiarity with Stop Dave… and Internet is for porn meant I brought some pre-existing ideas about their [...]
By Sarah Payne, on September 23rd, 2009
My first response to the Wow was to smile and tap my feet. However, after mulling it over for a while I began to wonder what the internet was ‘for’.
The Internet is for communication – whether this is textual or graphical. However, there is an awful lot of porn out there but this is true [...]