Project Ideation – The Beginning
My short story Virtual Titans relates to our group pitch as it explores the development of cancel culture. To curate this story I asked ChatGPT to help create an idea and a plot that surrounded the notion of cancel culture. The story showcases how mob mentality and lack of substantial research, aswell as lack of compassion are the drivers behind cancel culture. In this blog, I have included my short story followed by my group’s pitch of our idea for a potential project.
Virtual Titans – A Short Story
Group Pitch
For our project, we decided to explore how we can manipulate the current trend of cancel culture. This project will follow the opposite trend of Harper and Mason’s story as instead of resolving conflict we will be resurfacing it as well as creating online it. To do this we will be researching the causation and impacts of recently cancelled celebrities and showcasing them through our digital artefact as well as using AI to create fake news for us to publish. Our DA involves creating an Instagram account to post about celebrities and influencers who have been cancelled. For our tangible item, we will be designing and creating merch of cancelled celebrities to analyse if we can bring cancel culture from the digital world into physical society. I intend to predominatly focus on doing the work involved with the sublimation printer and heat press. I recommended this technology based on my past experiences in BCM112. I will also assist with the instagram posts and merch design.
Extra Reading:
Here is my first I short story I created in the form of a children’s book. The story is about a little girl who wants to encourage people to be aware of environmental sustainability by creating t-shirts and hats. This story relates to a previous project of mine in BCM112 – Emergent Media. Although my story does not directly relate to our group project as I needed to get a head start on this assignment, I informed my team of my learnings from past projects and we applied them when ideating our group project. For example, both projects involve the creation of t-shirts that promote a cause, however, from my experience in the maker studio, I advised we use the sublimation printer and heat press.

Tilly, me and the sea – A children’s book by May Cassar
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