Exegesis

For my assignment, I opted to do blog because it is a medium I have never used before and I thought it would be interesting to try something different while undertaking this assignment. I also thought that considering this is a course on digital technologies and I was writing about digital communities, that it was worth trying to use one.

The purpose of the blog was to explore the world of online gaming and subjects associated with it. Online gaming is a digital technology, and society that I was interested in studying and finding out more about. As Asia is a hub for online gaming I thought it would be an appropriate subject to do my assignment on.

I intended to make a blog that was more than just words on a page and wanted to incorporate other media aspects including videos and photos, which I was able to do. I thought that by including some case studies in my blog as well as analysing some aspects of online gaming, I would be able to communicate what I had learnt in the subject. I tried to use a more entertaining writing style than an essay style to keep the blog interesting, but also include some essay style writing to help get a point across, or link points to aspects of the course.

I feel that overall, the blog turned out pretty well, although I could have better looked around at what I could do to change up the content of the blog. However, having not really read any blogs before this year and never having made one myself, I think I did an alright job at incorporating interesting things in to my blog…but the layout perhaps could have done with more work.