Digital Media Project

The online presence is the process of drawing and presenting users towards a certain brand. Dunn states that " there is an expectation of online presence of institutions by the community, consumers expect information to be available online" (2010). Codability utilises its social media to present information, engagement, and new on the Codability App. Also, it expands to other content beyond just the application. This is presented through the formats of posts and short animation videos. Codability targets it users through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and is supported by Women In Tech UK.  Codability's followers grow by the day, interacting with potential users of the application before it is launched. This has been very successful so far, the marketing has allowed for Codability to tease the application and raise awareness. This links back to the risk assessment of the users potentially not  up-taking the application, this step was important to reducing and limiting t

The Work-in-Progress Presentation is an informal review of your work and it is important to keep receiving feedback as the project develops. Therefore, myself and a few peers held a Skype call to complete the formative assessment and get feedback.  I have been making regular coding commits to GitHub everyday to ensure the project is progressing at a nice pace. I update social media daily on the 100 days of code challenge and follow a set schedule of posts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday I post and Sunday's I post animations.  Current Stage of Development The functionality is now complete on the profile section, home page and learn page. I am currently working on the discuss page which includes the forum for users.  I have reviewed and updated the Gantt chart so the Application is due to launch in April due to implementing feedback and functionality taking longer than expected. Also, after facing coding problems and terminal errors I felt the Gantt chart needed to be update

The history of girls coming into tech is very relevant for my project as this is something that is still ongoing. In the book "Girls coming to tech!", it shows the gendered history and until relatively recently prevented women from finding a comfortable position in a male technical world. Throughout the 19th and most of the 20th centuries, technology was seen and treated as mens' territory. By the 1950s, "women still made up less than 1% of students in the U.S college and university engineering programs" (Bix, 2013, p1). And over 60 years later, "women earned 18.4% of engineering bachelors degrees and the female faculty members held 13.8% in engineering departments" (Bix, 2013, p.1). There has been a shift from technology being seen as male territory but as shown in my survey over half (52.5%) are not even aware of the gender gap of what it is which was really surprising. The book continues to highlight tensions as women are seen as the others/group

Now I am well into the development stage of the project, I thought it would be useful to note the key software I am using in order to help achieve the project.  Cordova  Cordova is an open-source mobile development framework. "It allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language" (Cordova Apache, 2020). The app is executed in a wrapper with specifically is targeted to each platform and rely on an API to bind access to the device's. The is suitable for my skillset as I have comfortable with building websites but I have never build an app so using Cordova allows me to use my existing skill and programmer languages I know. Also, I challenged myself to build an app as I have never built an app before using new technologies and new languages of using PHP with jQuery/AJAX.  Cordova also enables you to use plugins and you can use which plugins you

Today marks a focal point in the movement for women's rights and equality. We celebrate this day globally to reflect upon the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.  Did you know women earn 23% less than men globally? No country can say they have achieved gender equality. There is still more to be done. Less than 25% of women have seats in parliament as of 2019, one in three women experience gender-based violence and legal restrictions have kept 2.7 billion women from accessing the same choice of jobs and opportunities as men (United Nations, 2020).  "International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women, who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities" (United Nations, 2020).  Although we have made big changes and progress, we still have a long way to go with many obstacles remaining with regards to cha

An Application Programme Interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. It allows for two applications to talk to one another, the API is the messenger is this process that delivers a request and delivers the response back to you.  The Codability App will be using API's to collect data from external websites to populate my content. I will then adapt and change to suite the style of my brand and fit the purpose. For example, the events search of the app allows users to search and filter events in their area however I only want to display coding events in the area. I chose this method as it is dynamic and has the most current information which is automatically updated.  One issue I had to tackle was a Content Security Policy (CSP) error that was appearing in the console and restricting features from working. Content Security Policy is an added layer of security that helps to detect code injections attacks and mitigate malicious conte