Steph Gratton

Throughout this strange time of digital information, a global pandemic and everything in between, sometimes the one thing you need is to get away from it all. From the panic, the misinformation online, the anger – we all need to take breaks. For many of us over the last eighteen months (and counting), streaming services…

As someone who works within the food industry, I have had a first-hand perspective on the gamification that has taken place in this specific business. In handling customer interactions, particularly if the brand I work for has been implementing new products and marketing strategies, I am able to discuss my experiences as both an employee…

It seems very appropriate, in this current state of self-isolation, that I have been experimenting with a variety of apps that aim to improve physical and/or mental health. In part, this was due to my current feelings towards self-isolation, and in part due to my own wanting to improve physical and mental fitness as I…

For my third and final assessment of ALM102: Making Video, I made the decision to focus on the topic of Digital Divides, of which the specific topic was ‘Digital media has seen new divides form and old divides grow wider, but can also be used to diminish the divides that separate us.’ Right off the…

As this is a relatively contemporary topic, having social media as the focus on the issues of surveillance rather than that in everyday life, I opted to discuss and emphasise specific concerns I am sure many people share. These concerns include the current lack of rules or regulation in regard to outside surveillance of public…

Having never even thought of creating my own podcast, this class activity was something both new and challenging for me. With this in mind, I set about completing this task to the best of my ability: One of the strategies I adopted early in my research progress was ensuring that I chose a topic for…