Following on from last weeks’ Tech Review on deep and shallow fake videos, this week we asked Tony McGovern to look at Tik Tok and why this is so successful. What is TikTok? TikTok, it sounds like the last 5 minutes of work stretching on indefinitely preventing you from getting out and enjoying your night. Read more…
How does one know video content is legit with all the content that gets shared on social media? This week, we asked Tony McGovern to give us an overview of deep fake and shallow fake videos. Here’s what Tony has to say. Everyone enjoys scrolling through social media. You see Read more…
This week, we tasked our colleague Tony McGovern to check out some of the more widely used communication Apps. Here’s what Tony had to say! Communication used to be a simple process. You would walk up to a person and talk to them. This has evolved into the form of Read more…
Last week and the week before, we set Tony McGovern the task of exploring Twitter Spaces and Messenger Rooms (from Facebook). These are two competing social media platforms which allow users to create group chats. Tony did a great job here and continues to compare and contrast the two social Read more…
What are Messenger Rooms? This was the question we posed to our colleague Tony McGovern this week. Messenger Rooms are group-chat rooms. These are Facebook services but you don’t need a Facebook account to use them! These group chats can be video or audio and are multi-platform. You can use this service via Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Read more…
This week, we asked our colleague Tony McGovern to check out Twitter Spaces. Twitter Spaces are audio-based chat rooms which work from within your Twitter account. It’s a space where you can reach all your followers and non-followers to enhance networking. Spaces are currently in the Beta stages and previously only available on iOS/Apple platforms. The Beta Read more…
Clubhouse, an App created by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth (2020). The App grew in popularity in recent months and download figures are sitting at several million. Currently, Clubhouse is invite-only and available on Apple/iOS but will eventually be available to everyone. Our colleague Tony McGovern looked at the Clubhouse Read more…
In this week’s DigiKnow blog, we look at visual content, accessibility and best practice. Visual content can be used in digital documents, slides, PDFs, etc., on the Internet or in social media posts. What is visual content? It’s anything that conveys information to your audience that isn’t in the form Read more…