Introduction
The digital revolution is impacting on every area of our daily lives. Our work, leisure time and even our means of communicating with friends and family are all changing in response to the ubiquity of computing and communication technologies.
It seems almost inconceivable to imagine a time without mobile phones, digital cameras, email and the Internet, but it is the arrival of the so-called Web2.0 social networking applications that appears to be having the biggest effect on all of us.
In the following stories, 13 postgraduate students chart the impact of convergence culture on some of their own daily activities, from east London dance culture, to online poetry and folding at home.
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The underground dance music scene in East London is a tight-knit community of people united by their love of electronic music. Web 2.0 is affecting this niche in diverse ways.
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Jessie Brown hails from the West Midlands but ran away to London at the first possible opportunity. After accidentally applying for the MA in Electronic Publishing at City University, she now hopes that her future lies as an online editor for a music publication.
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How convergence culture has changed our common sense when it comes to human relationships and how do different generations deal with it.
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Susana Cristalli was born in Italy, but is half Argentinian and grew up in Brazil. Now lives in London and likes thai food.
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Web 2.0 has provided the spaces for a more participatory culture online.
But what of those who are often not even given a voice offline?
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Rui da Silva
is not the famous DJ by the same name he laments. This incarnation is a former English teacher
who has revelled in the delights of Japan, Korea and Portugal. Now back in the UK, he is looking
to write himself again.
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About us?
This work was produced by City University postgraduate students as part of the ?Writing and Editing for the Electronic Media? (WEEM) module, which forms part of the Master's in Electronic Publishing
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What may seem like a fun online game to play when you feel like it, can turn into several hours per day.
Runescape is one of the biggest MMORPG games online, and we look into their success and how players become immersed into the game.
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Amelia Edwards is currently commuting from Cambridgeshire to study an MSc in Electronic Publishing at City University. Amelia's background is in graphic design and she hopes to develop skills in website design with an aspiration to work for Jagex or become a freelancer.
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Whether you go gourmet or pay a visit to the local eatery, you too can be a critic. Online customer reviews are changing the way we eat out and how restaurateurs do business in a notoriously competitive industry.
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Anna Fenston is a Californian by birth, a New Yorker by sheer will and a Londoner by chance. She is currently studying for an MA in Electronic Publishing and is on the lookout for the next big thing.
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Location Based Services could revolutionise the digital word by both providing a valuable communication tool and allowing user customised content based on location and interest. But is this useful technology or a watchful eye imposing on consumer privacy; is it simply an addition to the surveillance culture?
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Adam Foster With interests in electronic media and mobile application development, Adam Foster has a keen interest in the latest mobile developments and looks forward to a future developing content rich mobile applications.
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Poetry has been flirting with the Internet since the mid 1990s.Experiments have veered from the extremely strange to the genuinely interesting. Will these experiments be forgotten in the near future, like so many other poetic innovations, or are we witnessing a genuine change in the way poetry is written and recieved?
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JosephKetterer Graduated from the Courtauld institute of art and is hoping to work as an onine editor after he finishes his MA in electronic publishing
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When our eyes see things we cannot understand, our mind ignores the information. A new form of media has risen and no one seems to know about it. Who is the motion designer and what is motion graphics? Why is it cheaper to produce than conventional video? We introduce motion graphics looking at the past, present and future, and examine the differences it has brought to our lives.
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Eleni Konstantinidou is a company owner/manager wannabe. Having recently graduated from Kent University's Business School, she is now broadening her skills and knowledge in something very useful in our days; electronic publishing. She grew up in Athens, Greece as a tomboy, she loves food and hates the fact she cannot enjoy it 24/7.
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This Christmas is set to hit record levels of spending via the Internet. There are a group of consumers spending like they have a never ending bank balance. You guess it, young women like myself. The high street is facing serious competition from on-line E-tailers such as ASOS and Net-a-Porter. I decided to take a closer look.
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Seema Kotak is a Media and Cultural Studies graduate and self diagnosed shopaholic. Born and raised in London, she is convinced LA is the city for her. Seema confesses to have peculiar obsessions with Ancient Greece, Babushka dolls, charity shops and peacocks.
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The Internet has turned the journalism industry on its head in America. And in the UK the effects are now being felt. Lead editors from The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph discuss how the Internet has impacted their papers and what their view of the future is.
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Ben LaMothe is a journalist from America whose interest is in online-only publications. He founded Central Michigan University's first online student publication Grand Central Magazine. He is currently developing another online-only student magazine at City University London.
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Good to hear the proliferation of media and technologies is never ending. But how do we deal with the obsolete? About dead media, sustainability of information and the fascination for vintage technologies.
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JCP spent the last five years working for the online division of a French weekly newsmagazine. He now lives in London, where he hopes to graduate in Electronic Publishing and eventually get a work experience in the media.
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A collection of South Londoners' stories and memories of personal experiences and the changes in correspondence and dialogue.
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Prof. Vijay Pande at the University of Stanford on the 1st October 2000 created a system that has changed the world of distributed computing. Folding at Home (F@H) allows common computer users to help find cures for terminal diseases! By Michail Vartholomaios
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Born in the USA and having lived until now in Athens, Greece, Michail Vartholomaios is manuvering his way through his MSc Degree, in hope of creating his own electronic media firm.
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