BCM241: Media Ethnographies
Old School Runescape: I Don’t Even Like Fantasy but OSRS Hits Different
In case you’ve been living under a rock (lucky you), the world has been enveloped in a global pandemic dominated by lockdowns, quarantine, and isolation. What better time to reignite a childhood passion to pass the time? I high fived the end of the nineties as a baby before spending my recollected childhood in the…
Old School Runescape: Narrowing My Sights… I Mean ‘Sites’
Here I present to you my field site for my autoethnographic research into the Old School Runescape community. I may have gone slightly overboard as I began to include motivations, inspirations, and content ideas for my own DA, but I guess there is nothing wrong with getting enthusiastic about your niche. My field site is…
Old School Runescape: Bridging the Gap
For my Digital Artifact, I am looking to bridge a gap of knowledge I have between my current knowledge of Old School Runescape with its current community. By sharing my personal experience with others that may be intimidated to interact with such a well established community, I hope that the audience of my DA content…
Peers Review Pitches
I attempted to provide thorough feedback to the three pitches in which I reviewed in a way which reflects greatly on the positives while nudging them in the right direction. I recognise the fear one may have of feedback especially in such early stages of a project so I wanted to take this into account…
Is The OSRS Community Ungrateful?
https://youtu.be/hTV5h2DhuP4Within my research, I’ve been investigating the impacts that nostalgia and participatory media culture have had on the narrative of Old School Runescape to justify why the extension of a previous, ‘out-dated’ edition of the game harbours more popularity than its modernised counterpart, Runescape 3. Nostalgia is what’s most important to the community, becoming my…
Community Discourse Is Ruining My Research
To continue with the discussion that was started in the previous post, I wish to continue my thoughts and epiphanies that have stuck out to me since commencing my research into the effects of nostalgia and participatory media culture on the narrative of Old School Runescape. Interestingly, I’ve learnt quite a lot from my participation…
How To Get Accepted Into The Old School Runescape Community
As I am completing this research for three separate classes I have received a whole range of feedback, some of which I have been able to take on board through the onset of my DA as mentioned within my Beta Video. However, I would also like to mention feedback from my pitch in which I…
A Beta Reviewing A Beta
The beta video and blog post I reviewed for this week’s blog post came from Anthony in regards to his new graphic design business and Instagram, Moodie Creative. I work as a graphic designer part-time, so this was a very interesting beta to look at and made me realise that I need to step up…
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