Autoethnography continued …my experience

.My idea was to look further into Japanese game shows, as they are really popular and often localised in other countries. I wanted to experience watching them myself and get a sense of the entertainment value they provide in their own countries and any others watching. There is definitely a Western fascination with them. Take...

#LikeAGirl

You may or may not have heard of the trending video advertisement made by the feminine hygiene brand Always, but it was a video that came out in 2014 which featured different aged girls and even some boys being asked to do impressions of actions but ‘like a girl’. I remember my mum showing it...

Overview of independent autoethnography task

This semester, the Digital Asia subject had me delve into many different types of culture from many different countries. These included watching films made in Japan, documentaries following professional Korean gamers and even trying different foods. These were all done so we could explore a different culture from our own and investigate autoethnography. Thinking of an...

Week 3 – Akira

This week in Digital Asia we got familiar with the research practice of autoethnography, which is an approach to research which looks for a way to use and examine personal experience in order to understand cultural experience. In the seminar we screened and live-tweeted the anime Akira (1988), and used this as an example to put...

Reflection

  The topic I chose for this task started off as just curiosity. I don’t really like many reality shows, but I know a lot of people who do and I see people posting about shows all the time being super invested in them. I could see they do have quite an impact on our...