Let’s first start with a question: what is digital labour? Christian Fuchs and Sebastian Sevignani suggested that “the usage of commercial social media is the utilization or an act of manipulation of digital labour or a creative and participatory culture, which seamlessly creates contents as use-value. In the context of the capitalist system, use-value contains [...]
In my CCT314 course, we’ve learned about Jean Baudrillard’s idea about postmodernism. As Professor Maharajh quoted from Baudrillard, “the two big ideas about postmodernism are simulation and hyper-reality.” (Maharajh, 2018)Ever since 1960’s, the idea of postmodernism that what people see and live in is not real seemed suits everywhere and all the time. Sometimes people [...]
When I was reviewing old news, I couldn’t believe we have been suffering from social media networks for so long. Back in 2015, a new term was coined to describe the act of ignoring someone for your phone by James A. Roberts, a professor at Baylor University. The act, “phubbing,” which is the combination of [...]
According to Arthur Lismer, members of the Group of Seven had been particularly careful with depicting Canadian landscape paintings. They made their paintings corresponding to the landscape in Canada with typical Canadian features.[1]As a member of the Group of Seven, Lawren Harris’s work particularly emphasized the idea of the “North” as a Canadian national consciousness.[2]His [...]
Daniel Xu 