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Meet Melissa

Hey there! I’m a tech enthusiast currently studying Culture & Technology Studies at the University of Guelph. I’m passionate about exploring creativity through digital mediums—especially digital art, design, and video creation.

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The course introduces core concepts and skills for digital literacy in connection with big questions facing culture and society. Students will explore the keywords used to think through the relationships between information and communication technologies and big ideas related to ethics, culture, and how we understand what it is to be human. Through a series of lectures, in-class activities, and guest speakers, students will gain a critical understanding of key concepts, develop skills for repres

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Counter-Hegemony in Music: Video Essay

After listening to the Week 9 supplementary lecture about how recording technologies can serve as tools to circulate counter-hegemonic knowledge into mainstream media, I feel that a more in depth exploration could make for a compelling final project. Music artists often use their bodies of work to push back against ideologies shaped by dominant voices, and offer alternative knowledge systems that can instead represent marginalized perspectives. For instance, the in- class exa