by carlajayne | Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | Portfolio, Services, Words
Impact Innovation Group is a consulting firm working across specialist services such as commercialisation, IP and management consulting through to training and start-up management. Their organisation is based on the latest evidence based techniques, with this blog...
by carlajayne | Friday, November 17, 2017 | Portfolio, Words
When I was 15, my home state of Qld was facing a drought that was destroying farming communities. I worked most of my spare time in the family business – a fine dining restaurant where we worked around the drought by supporting foreign food farming. My family...
by carlajayne | Saturday, October 14, 2017 | Words
This essay was written for a social science assignment in 2010 as part of a dual Journalism and Arts degree. It provides a simple introduction to well known authors Foucault, Jenkins, Goffman and Mead. The full bibliography exists below. Identity is our understanding...
by carlajayne | Sunday, February 26, 2017 | Words
It’s long past time to clean out my office, so of course I’m here buried in a pile of old work files and uni papers, lost in the pages of media studies and social science readings of my abandoned dual degrees. On top of the pile was a reading from...
by carlajayne | Friday, May 13, 2016 | Portfolio, Words
One of the many physical features I inherited from my Dad – moles. Lots of them. I’ve got that kind of skin that offers a smorgasbord of options for a researcher looking to study moles – flat ones, raised ones, ones that change, pink ones, brown...
by carlajayne | Monday, May 9, 2016 | Words
The role of mother brings with it more expectations, assumptions, values and assumed qualities than any other. All of these elements however lead to the same single stereotype of a mother – she is everything, the bringer of all life, she loves unconditionally...
by carlajayne | Thursday, December 18, 2014 | Words
Have you seen your first end of year montage yet? It’s the second last week of the year, and the only way most of us can believe that is to look back on the year that was. The traditional end of year montage is made up of some sport, celebrity deaths, tragic...
by carlajayne | Friday, February 21, 2014 | Words
I spent much of my primary school hanging out with my friends in the hearing impaired unit and watching videos to learn how to communicate with them better. I’d run to the class room and spend my lunch hour watching a video or reading books that the teachers...
by carlajayne | Wednesday, November 13, 2013 | Words
I love a really simple article that can look at food and health with common sense. It’s amazing how much money is spent on unnecessary ‘fitness cures’ when the only tools you need are some motivation and creativity. I don’t like the gym, or...
by carlajayne | Monday, July 22, 2013 | Projects, Words
We haven’t released a new Imagineer book for a while because we’ve been so busy with our day jobs and other projects, but here’s a little snippet of a book we have in progress … A PANDA BEAR ON ROLLER SKATES … extract. I once heard a...
by carlajayne | Thursday, October 14, 2010 | Pictures, Words
The following images were collected from various websites during research for a university presentation about national identity and politics. The images are in some cases confronting, but in many cases are difficult to take seriously as the propaganda style resembles...
by carlajayne | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | Words
I found these notes from an assignment I submitted recently and thought they might be helpful for anyone heading in to a textual analysis exam. This summary is useful for reviewing advertisements prior to publshing for those who work in the advertising industry and...
by carlajayne | Tuesday, May 25, 2010 | Words
The following is an extract from an assignment summarizing theories of media manipulation. It makes a handy quick reference for media studies assignments and is also useful for arguing with someone on Facebook. Repetition and Normalisation (2005: 102) When an idea is...
by carlajayne | Friday, May 14, 2010 | Words
This essay is part of a media studies 1000 word take home exam for the subject “Social being – personal & social identities”. We had been studying various media around the race motivated riots which occured in Cronulla, including the well known...
by carlajayne | Wednesday, May 5, 2010 | Words
This assignment was one of those group things where you’re stuck with people who perhaps don’t have the same care factor? As a mature age student, I find it hard to work in groups with younger students. I enjoy the discussions, and like them as people, but...
