Project Summary My digital artefact project for BCM320 is a mukbang YouTube video called Eating Korean Food for the First Time – Mukbang. I developed this project because I wanted to explore mukbang, a core element of Korea’s digital platform, whilst also exploring their food, which is a significant element of Korean culture. I had also never […]
Eating Korean Food for the First Time – Mukbang Contextual Report — Establishing Emily
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the New Wave of Cinema in India since the world plunged into a global pandemic. Today, I’m going to write an autoethnography analysing my initial reflection on this topic. I discussed the detrimental impact the Covid-19 pandemic, and its subsequent lockdowns, has had on the Indian film […]
Reflecting on the New Wave of Cinema — Establishing Emily
This week we watched Asia Rising: The Next Generation of Hip Hop (2019), a documentary delving into the rise of Asian hip hop music. As the internet has gained prominence, the assimilation of cultures has been widespread (Athique and Baulch, 2019). In Asia, as more people started to use the internet to explore different genres […]
When Cultures Integrate — Establishing Emily
In India, going to the cinema is a BIG deal. The Indian film industry is the biggest in the world, producing around 1500-2000 films per year. Naturally, not all of these films succeed, with 85 per cent failing at the box office. We now live in a world where streaming services are popping up here, […]
New Wave of Cinema — Establishing Emily
AlphaGo (2017) is a documentary directed by Greg Kohs that follows an Artificial Intelligence program named AlphaGo on its journey to conquer the world of ‘Go’. Now firstly you may be asking, “what is Go?” I wondered the same. Wait the game “Go” seems very confusing? What are the rules? #bcm320 — Emily Murphy (@emilymurphy997) […]
Can the real Alpha please stand up? — Establishing Emily
An auto-ethnographic analysis of People’s Republic of Desire (2018) People’s Republic of Desire (2018) is a documentary following two live streamers, Shen Man and Big Li, on Chinese platform YY, as they fight to become the number one. These live streamers exist in a world that is unimaginable for most people, with an unthinkable amount […]
People’s Republic of Desire — Establishing Emily
Headline is a slightly changed quote by Sarah J. Maas An auto-ethnographic analysis of Furie (2019) This week’s live-tweeting session was during a screening of the Vietnamese action film Furie. The film follows single mother, Hai, as she attempts to find her daughter who was abducted from the market in their small town and taken […]
via She was furie, she was wrath, she was vengeance — Establishing Emily
An auto-ethnographic analysis of Love For Sale (2018) Love For Sale (2018) is an Indonesian film about a man who can’t find a date for a friend’s wedding and resorts to using a dating app instead. The catch? It has a 45-day contract. I live-tweeted my viewing of Love For Sale and am here to […]
via ‘Love For Sale’: Can love really be bought? — Establishing Emily
Digital Asia 