‘The Future of Women in Leadership’ is an evolving project based on exploring past, present and future equality for women in leadership across Australia.
The contextual report for the project can be found here.
The #BCM325 live tweeting experience has been highly valuable in both increasing my understanding of future cultures as well as improving my live tweeting skills.
In my post, ‘Live Tweeting for Dummies’, I established the actionable targets for improvement of using a unique hashtag to track my engagement and more thoroughly drafting tweets in preparation for the screening.
I used both #BCM325 and the unique #BCM325jd to track my live tweeting and engagement while watching ‘Blade Runner 2049’, ‘The Matrix’, ‘Alita: Battle Angel’, ‘Ready Player One’ and ‘Robot & Frank’.
Implementing a new study routine helped me effectively draft tweets ahead of time for the screening. I would draft tweets in the same sitting as viewing the weekly BCM325 lecture and readings. After I had taken some notes on…
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I gave feedback to Daniel Whitney, Lydia McGahey and Tobias Thomas about their respective project betas on future cultures. Each of their BCM325 projects ‘Future Societies’, ‘Our World, Our Future’ and ‘Where the Future is Taking You’ effectively address the DA focus of considering the future in the next 5, 10, 25 or 50 years.
As explained in Future Cultures – Artificial Intelligence: Predictions and Revolutions, predictions about future cultures can be categorised. Futurists will be either pessimistic (believe AI will extinct humans), pragmatic (believe AI will duplicate or augment future abilities), doubtful (don’t believe AI is a threat) or optimistic (believe AI surpassing human intelligence is positive). Daniel, Lydia and Tobias’ projects each present elements of these categories.
Daniel Whitney: Future Societies
‘Future Societies’ is a group project from Daniel Whitney and Melanie Nickl
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The trajectory of my BCM325 project has changed quite a bit since my original pitch.
So far in the project, I have explored our past and current women in leadership in Australian politics and sport.
The next topics I will be researching are the women in leadership roles in the entertainment industry. The media I create will make particular note of prominent issues such as the gender pay gap and the Me Too Movement in the entertainment industry and profile the women who are leading change in these areas. I will also be addressing representation issues and the consequences of this on the future of women in entertainment and the effect on female consumers.
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5 weeks ago, I participated in my first ever live tweeting during a screening of Metropolis.
Since then, every Thursday afternoon I have been engaging in live tweeting during a screening of other important science fiction films with the BCM325 Future Cultures cohort. Consider this blog post a Live Tweeting for Dummies – what to do and what not to do.
Live tweeting is a new concept for me and week by week I have evidently improved through trial and error. By critiquing some of my better and worse tweets, I’m going to build a constructive plan on how I will improve my live tweets in the weeks to come.
Before the first screening I formulated the guidelines on what my live tweets should look like based on the marking rubric and the live tweeting prompts provided to us.
Metropolis (1927)
Before the Metropolis screening, I had done all…
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As discussed in Ziauddin Sardar’s 2014 ‘Welcome to postnormal times’, it is the now which brings the many possible futures into being. This was the common thread tying all of our possible futures projects together.
In the critique of and engagement with the following project pitches, I drew mostly from Eleonora Masini’s ‘Reconceptualising Futures: a Need and a Hope’. Masini’s discussion on how the visions of a desirable future are embedded in the social structures from which they emerge really stood out to me in our Future Cultures lectures.
The process for my critique was to split a screen with the pitch and an open google document with a criteria checklist. I would make notes underneath each point and then later expand on them using the notes I have from our BCM325 lectures in my notebook physically next to me. Finally I would compare their work to the…
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Around 50 years ago, Alice Sheldon was a successful science fiction writer publishing under the male pseudonym James Tiptree Jr.. When she was discovered to be a woman, Alice lost a lot of respect from the male-dominated science fiction community (Lovell, 2016).
Since then, the representation of women in leadership roles has increased. However in 2020 there were more male CEO’s named Andrew than the combined number of females leading ASX200 companies (Hill, 2020).
In predicting and evaluating such future cultures, my project timeline will be adapted according to feedback from my audience. I will also be engaging with users in reddit forums such as r/womenleadership to make more informed projections. The project will evaluate the benefits of a future culture with more female leadership in up to 50…
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