A student studying communication at Deakin University

The Courier, 2020 Crowdfunding is a form of fund by small contributions of large crowds through the internet without standard financial that allows founders of for-profit, artistic, and cultural ventures to collect funds (Mollick 2014). It is an important source of funding through the internet in donations or some form to exchange rewards and voting rights. It has successfully created transparency in financing and an easy way to transfer into real cash. This is a more modern way and more informal in co-operating financing. Crowdfunding also leads to democratisation of financing. People have the choice to help or not. This allows entrepreneurs to extend from traditional sources of funding and rejection in any investors giving them any funding type. It also provides new opportunities for people who have relatively a good amount of money to invest. This really changes the market for upcoming small businesses and entrepreneurs, but this does not change the inequalities encountered by entre...

Source: Ana Mendes, 'Young European and digital activism', Council of Europe European Union . Online activist often being scorned as slacktivism (Gladwell 2010; Morozov 2009, cited in Cabrera 2017). However, this view was too generalized and narrow (Cabrera 2017). Digital activism is another form of activism that may offer and allow bigger space to voice movements. The online space has allowed more opportunities for people to promote social justice beyond their capable scope offline (Biddix 2010, cited in Cabrera 2017). With the unlimited reach, digital activism helps to create democratic space and engagement for everyone, anywhere (Biddix 2010; Pasque and Vargas 2014, cited in Cabrera 2017). Recently, a social movement and protest, Black Lives Matter, occurred regarding the death of George Floyd. The tragedy was happening in the middle of the Pandemic. All the petitions and movements were held online, mostly via Instagram by millions of people. Neal Caren, who studies social m...

Source: Delft Design For Value, 2018  Social media has always been a platform for people to share ideas without needing to show their identity. In this modern era, it is relatively impossible not to have any social media. A study by Pew (2018, cited in Kruse et al. 2018) found that half of the U.S population, with 80 percent of the young adults, used social media. The wide range of internet access allows people to connect through the public sphere, which defined by Habermas ([1989] 1991:27 cited in Kruse et al. 2018) as “a place where ‘private people come together as a public’ to use reason to further critical knowledge which, in turn, leads to political change. However, the public sphere was barely hard to thrive in modernity due to money influence in mass media interest Habermas ([1989] 1991, cited in Kruse et al. 2018). Nonetheless, the widespread of networked information and more significant opportunity for public speech through the Internet has revitalized the public sphere (S...

Source: prostockstudio, VectorStock Questions: How have dominant conceptualisations of gender, sexuality, and/or so-called ‘race’ influenced identity construction in online spaces? Have users at times subverted traditional expectations and in what ways? What ‘digital divides’ are you aware of existing within Australia and beyond? Is this just a matter of access to technology or are there other forms? How might exposure to digital divides impact on one’s online identity? In what ways have socially and politically marginalised individuals and groups pushed back against systemic power structures to create powerful online identities and communities? List as many examples as you can think of. What considerations must be taken into account in relation to online dating and identity-building? How do dating sites impact on people’s self-presentation in their profiles? What role do algorithms play in the evaluation of user compatibility? What does this suggest about the relationship between iden...

  Source: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty Images, Time 2020 Selena Gomez is one of the well-known celebrities for her humbleness. Selena is very good at preserving its  intercommunicative self  to engage with her audiences. She has a well-maintained social media such as Instagram and Twitter, where she is the most active in.  Selena also has millions of social media followers which theoretically, according to Marshall (2010:43), it is impossible for celebrities to communicate with their audiences individually. However, this does not deter her from communicating with her followers. She often  posts videos  on her Instagram (not for professional sake) to catch up about her  public personal self  with her followers. Selena Gomez started her career as a kid’s actress with a bright image. She always maintained her vivid personality for years. However, after she was diagnosed with Lupus in 2015 (INSIDER 2017), she began to open her  public pri...

      Meeting new people was a day to day basis activity when I was abroad. I often met a new person at least once a week before the pandemic because I contributed to many events and communities. When meeting someone new, I would describe myself as a not too talkative person and humble. I often started by introducing myself, where I came from, where I studied and my interests or hobby.     I also introduced myself the same way in an online profile but in more detail. I often started with my name, what I'm doing, where I came from and sometimes where I'm currently, where I studied, my passion, hobbies and interest.      I am quite a presence in online and social media. They are the main platforms for me to share my interests, assessments and build my business. These platforms provide a place for me to arrange all the data I collected and share it. They allowed me to interact with different audiences on each platform.     Often I find myse...