Digital Culture & Digital Vultures
Every Sunday, BBC 1Xtra DJ, Target, opens up the digital wavelengths to the untapped wealth of urban talent we have in the UK. For those of you who don’t know DJ Target, he is part of one of the most prolific grime crews of all time: Roll Deep, who have been consistently supportive to MC’s [...]
So Business Insider reported yesterday that Sunday’s Premiere of Game of Thrones Season 3 destroyed the record for the most pirated show. Ever. This insightful report is fairly top-level, and so it’s time to take a deeper-dive to determine why this happened. Hi. Welcome to Future Geek. HBO Careth Not As Game of Thrones Programming [...]
Whenever new social technologies emerge onto the digital sphere, marketing and creative enthusiasts always battle to find original ways to utilize the medium for the benefit of business and engagement. Vine, Twitter’s new baby, has been the newest technology to receive such interest. The animated GIF of its era, Vine provide the platform for the [...]
The next tech innovation to receive Future Geek’s cynical eye is the free chat and media sending application, WhatsApp. What is WhatsApp? WhatsApp isn’t exactly revolutionary. But what facilitates its success is the sheer simplicity of it’s processes and mobile integration. Leveraging off the similar ideas of apps like Skype, the concept lies in enabling [...]
What’s the impact of digital and social media on culture? That’s a common focus of Future Geek. This piece explores how any idiot with a video camera can dictate what’s going to happen in the music industry. It’s no secret that I’m obsessed with Trap music. It blows me away how, even in the second [...]
