“Analytics (Google, Facebook, Twitter etc.) is a very valuable tool for building your audience. For content creators, knowing how your reader behaves on your website can help enormously with developing the best content, posting at the right time, and developing the appropriate engagement strategies. On the flip side, for the reader or user, it can be tiresome and…
Category: Process Posts
Do Not Read Your Comments!
As someone who is starting, and interested in content creation, our contemporary period makes it a little bit harder with the existence of hate comments and online harassment. Especially in the last few years the emergence of cancel culture and the lack of media literacy makes this an even harder topic. Thankfully, my small blog…
Using ChatGPT Code…
Today I was getting frustrated with the lack of accessibility that I had with customizing my website’s appearance. There was no way I could edit the colours of some parts of my website, so I decided to use ChatGBT to help with the CSS code to edit the appearance. It took some playing around with…
Media Literacy To Combat Misinformation In The Digital Age (Essay)
“Does mugwort induce abortion? Can and should I make hydroxychloroquine in my kitchen? Was the 2020 election stolen? Did Ukrainians fake the civilian deaths in Bucha? If you search on TikTok, you might think the answers to these questions are all, “Yes.” “(Brewster et Al, 2022). Newsgaurd reports that almost 20 percent of search results on TikTok contain misinformation, predominately targeting young…
My Digital Garden
This week I wanted to talk about the content I am making and building my “digital garden”. I am really enjoying making content for my blog, as I am writing about stuff I am interested in. For example, I wrote two scene analyses for two of my favourite classic films. Cléo from 5 to 7…
My Personal Cyberinfrastructure
This week I took a look at different plug-ins for my website. I was trying to find plug-ins to enhance my website’s aesthetic or add accessibility. I looked through the class’s recommendations for plug-ins and found a few to integrate. These are some of the few I used and played around with. I ended up…
Imagined Audience
Film blogs are a fantastic resource for movie lovers, providing insightful analysis, reviews, and coverage of the latest releases and timeless classics. The audience for these blogs is vast and diverse, ranging from casual movie fans to film students. One group of film blog readers is casual movie fans who enjoy going to the movie…
Working on my blog
Process Post #4 This week, I spent a lot of time making my website look better and trying out different themes. I realized that I really had a hard time trying to figure out how to use the “block Editor”, so I decided to find a theme that DID NOT use that kind of editing…
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Process Post #3
Setting up
Process Post #2 The installation of this blog was fairly easy at first. I went to an “online” high school where they gave us our own WordPress sites to use and customize so I was fairly familiar with using it. However, there are lots of new functions that I still need some time to get…
