Homework
All the sites you use, who owns the content?
Facebook.
All information uploaded is property of Facebook. And even after withdrawing your information, Facebook may have put it into a cache, which stores your information for an unknown period of time.
Who has the right to use it?
Facebook. Anyone who wants.
What would happen if tomorrow the website shut down?
I would continue living a happy life.
What role will you play in the social media landscape?
As a social media expert, I will conduct seminars, helping to educate the social world.
Tutorial Task
What are the qualitative differences between the regular IM program and the 3D environment?
The basic difference between 3D and IM programs, is that IM programs are primarily text formats, whilst 3D, still communicating in text, it gives you an alternative ego or persona. You are a different person online on each medium. Although you may think you do not change in your online presence, in each medium you are different.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Week 5 - Lecture
Week 5's finally arrived, bringing with it Internet studies.
Identity was one topic which seemed to strike a note with a lot of people. 'You can be anyone on the internet.'
The focus of internet has moved away from groups of people with common interests, to groups of people whom know each other offline.
Folksonomy, a way of organizing knowledge. For example, in blogs and wiki's were found in Web 2.0. Web 2.0 created the idea of user-generated content, which helped ease information in the form of; videos, images, photos and text, being uploaded onto the internet.
Saying social media is a bit like saying atm machine. ATM means Automatic-Teller-Machine machine. Media is social, so saying social media is really saying social media media. Why not just say media? That being said, I will continue to call it social media.
Social media is defined as what we do on the internet. For example, blogs, wiki's, searching, flikr, youtube, myspace, facebook, etc.
Accordingly, we are all social media experts, because we use all these media.
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Identity was one topic which seemed to strike a note with a lot of people. 'You can be anyone on the internet.'
The focus of internet has moved away from groups of people with common interests, to groups of people whom know each other offline.
Folksonomy, a way of organizing knowledge. For example, in blogs and wiki's were found in Web 2.0. Web 2.0 created the idea of user-generated content, which helped ease information in the form of; videos, images, photos and text, being uploaded onto the internet.
Saying social media is a bit like saying atm machine. ATM means Automatic-Teller-Machine machine. Media is social, so saying social media is really saying social media media. Why not just say media? That being said, I will continue to call it social media.
Social media is defined as what we do on the internet. For example, blogs, wiki's, searching, flikr, youtube, myspace, facebook, etc.
Accordingly, we are all social media experts, because we use all these media.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Week 4 - The Lecture
A quick revision of week 3's lecture kicked us into motion this week. Josh Nicholas, todays lecturer was talking about how you use your facial expressions to evoke certain reactions, it's a pity because he had no facial expressions, leading to the week 3 recap being a bore.
After about 25 minutes, we finally headed into new territory, with beginning of week 4's lecture. All about movies and the internet. We all watch movies online, lets not deny it. This leaves film companies with the conundrum, whether they should license their films online or not.
Films famous because of the internet:
Troops
The babysitter
Awesometown
405 the movie
The fanimatrix
Interesting fact of the week:
The first full length feature film was made in Australia of the Kelly gang.
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After about 25 minutes, we finally headed into new territory, with beginning of week 4's lecture. All about movies and the internet. We all watch movies online, lets not deny it. This leaves film companies with the conundrum, whether they should license their films online or not.
Films famous because of the internet:
Troops
The babysitter
Awesometown
405 the movie
The fanimatrix
Interesting fact of the week:
The first full length feature film was made in Australia of the Kelly gang.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Week 4 - The tute
1. What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?
2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?
3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?
Born October 28. (youtube)
4. Where was the World Wide Web invented?
5. How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a personal computer from 30 years ago?
It's 15 times faster.
6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?
7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?
8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?
Raining. 1954 floods. (General knowledge)
9. Why is is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?
No idea.
10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?
Mark David Chapman
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2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?
3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?
Born October 28. (youtube)
4. Where was the World Wide Web invented?
5. How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a personal computer from 30 years ago?
It's 15 times faster.
6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?
7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?
8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?
Raining. 1954 floods. (General knowledge)
9. Why is is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?
No idea.
10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?
Mark David Chapman
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Week 3 tute exercise - Usain Bolt 9.58 100m record
Within 5 hours this video had over 300 views. How's that for communication? We receive the information we want before the newspapers can print it.
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Week 3 - Lecture pt. 1 - Talking room
Talking room in very important on screen, especially in an interview. If the subject is facing left, then there needs to be empty space on the left, likewise if the subject is facing right. This confirms with the viewer that the subject is conversing with another person, not the camera or camera man.
In Rove's interview with Elmo, he starts off talking to the camera, however when he's interviewing elmo, there is talking space off to the side he's facing.
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In Rove's interview with Elmo, he starts off talking to the camera, however when he's interviewing elmo, there is talking space off to the side he's facing.
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Week 3 - Lecture - Pt.2 - The rule of thirds
The rule of thirds is a rule that is used with all kinds of camera work. Being an avid amateur photographer, this was very interesting. If the subject is facing to the left, then there needs to be more free space on the left of the subject. Their lower eye should be centered in the photo, whilst the rest of their face should remain in the centre third. This rule is very effective, however it is ineffective with head on photos, as the subject should be centered in the frame.
For any other budding photographers, if my explanation didn't make sense, hopefully this video will.
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For any other budding photographers, if my explanation didn't make sense, hopefully this video will.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Week Two - The Lecture
This weeks lecture was quite interesting. We heard about Charles Babbage and his first computer. From Babbage, we moved on to Alan Turing, whom completed all the 'major' computing work. From there we moved on to Apple, Xerox PARC, and the 'home brew'. This was quite interesting. Moving on, we discussed GNU/Linux, finishing on the Internet.
Babbage invented the first computer in the 19th century. It was developed to calculate and print mathematical tables. This computer, was more a machine than an electronic computer. Babbage made several of these computer parts, however even with funding, he was unable to finish it in his lifetime.
Turing, a student at Cambridge wrote a crucial paper, which clarified the possibility of a machine being able to compute numbers. And during the second world war, he worked at Bletchley Park with teams of mathematicians and cryptographers. It was here that World war II was won, as they devised the first working computer the bombe to break the secret German 'Enigma' codes. Turing also devised the turing test, which tests the artificial intelligence of a computer. It does this by sitting a judge at a computer terminal, and he communicates with a computer and a human in writing. If the judge cannot tell which is the computer, then the computer has passed the test.
The first computers commercially produced were by IBM in the 50's. They were large and extremely expensive machines, generally used for the military, government and corporate work. In 1965 Gordorn Moore realized that the capacity of a microchip has been exponentially doubling every two years. This became Moore's law, however there is concern, even by Moore himself, that this period of growth is about to end.
In the early 70's Xerox PARC developed the concept of a mouse and GUI. It was these concepts that made PC's approachable by the general public. In 1975, the first PC '0' was produced, however it had no language. Enter Bill Gates, after dropping out of Uni and moving to New Mexico, he wrote a language for this 'BASIC'. It had the abilities to do simple word processing, accounting, and play some games. This was the start of Microsoft.
Enter Apple and the 'home brew' club. The 'home brew' club was a group of computer nerds, whom got together to exchange ideas, and show off their latest home made PC's. This is where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak met and started their company Apple. The Apple I, was their first PC. It had no case, mouse, or keyboard, however they sold fifty of them, each for $666.60. Realizing there was a market for PC's for the luddite, they set about making smaller components and getting funding. They managed to convince Arthur Rock at Venture Capital to back them to the tune of $100,000. Time lapse two years, and Apple II was born. Launched at the West Coast Computer Fair, the Apple II was a hit, dealers and distributors lined up to see it. Two years later, both men were worth so much, they needn't work again for the rest of their lives.
It was around this time that IBM realized that they wanted a piece of the PC craze. Determined to create a PC within a year, they changed their manufacturing processes to 'open architecture'. This meant buying stock products from other companies and putting them into a 'killer' computer. IBM had no troubles finding the hardware, however it soon became apparent that finding software was a problem. After some back and forth between the two biggest software vendors, IBM ended up with Microsoft. Gates promised an operating system, and went to Tim Patterson. They ended up buying Kudos, Patterson's program for $50 000. And in just four months, IBM had PC DOS 1.0 up and running. They licensed this out to the market, $50 a piece.
In "91 a Finnish programmer created his own version of Unix. This was the birth of GNU/Linux, he posted this up onto the internet, and hundreds of interested people contributed to the development of the software. Offering a free alternative to the other operating systems, GNU/Linux spread across the world.
The internet is a highly complex network of networks. Think of it a spiderweb being a network, then thousands of spiders webs, all connecting together, creating a network of networks. These networks were generally connected through telephone lines, however recently they are being connected through broad band cable and satellites. The internet is not to be confused with the world wide web (www.), the web however, is one way of utilizing the internet.
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Babbage invented the first computer in the 19th century. It was developed to calculate and print mathematical tables. This computer, was more a machine than an electronic computer. Babbage made several of these computer parts, however even with funding, he was unable to finish it in his lifetime.
Turing, a student at Cambridge wrote a crucial paper, which clarified the possibility of a machine being able to compute numbers. And during the second world war, he worked at Bletchley Park with teams of mathematicians and cryptographers. It was here that World war II was won, as they devised the first working computer the bombe to break the secret German 'Enigma' codes. Turing also devised the turing test, which tests the artificial intelligence of a computer. It does this by sitting a judge at a computer terminal, and he communicates with a computer and a human in writing. If the judge cannot tell which is the computer, then the computer has passed the test.
The first computers commercially produced were by IBM in the 50's. They were large and extremely expensive machines, generally used for the military, government and corporate work. In 1965 Gordorn Moore realized that the capacity of a microchip has been exponentially doubling every two years. This became Moore's law, however there is concern, even by Moore himself, that this period of growth is about to end.
In the early 70's Xerox PARC developed the concept of a mouse and GUI. It was these concepts that made PC's approachable by the general public. In 1975, the first PC '0' was produced, however it had no language. Enter Bill Gates, after dropping out of Uni and moving to New Mexico, he wrote a language for this 'BASIC'. It had the abilities to do simple word processing, accounting, and play some games. This was the start of Microsoft.
Enter Apple and the 'home brew' club. The 'home brew' club was a group of computer nerds, whom got together to exchange ideas, and show off their latest home made PC's. This is where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak met and started their company Apple. The Apple I, was their first PC. It had no case, mouse, or keyboard, however they sold fifty of them, each for $666.60. Realizing there was a market for PC's for the luddite, they set about making smaller components and getting funding. They managed to convince Arthur Rock at Venture Capital to back them to the tune of $100,000. Time lapse two years, and Apple II was born. Launched at the West Coast Computer Fair, the Apple II was a hit, dealers and distributors lined up to see it. Two years later, both men were worth so much, they needn't work again for the rest of their lives.
It was around this time that IBM realized that they wanted a piece of the PC craze. Determined to create a PC within a year, they changed their manufacturing processes to 'open architecture'. This meant buying stock products from other companies and putting them into a 'killer' computer. IBM had no troubles finding the hardware, however it soon became apparent that finding software was a problem. After some back and forth between the two biggest software vendors, IBM ended up with Microsoft. Gates promised an operating system, and went to Tim Patterson. They ended up buying Kudos, Patterson's program for $50 000. And in just four months, IBM had PC DOS 1.0 up and running. They licensed this out to the market, $50 a piece.
In "91 a Finnish programmer created his own version of Unix. This was the birth of GNU/Linux, he posted this up onto the internet, and hundreds of interested people contributed to the development of the software. Offering a free alternative to the other operating systems, GNU/Linux spread across the world.
The internet is a highly complex network of networks. Think of it a spiderweb being a network, then thousands of spiders webs, all connecting together, creating a network of networks. These networks were generally connected through telephone lines, however recently they are being connected through broad band cable and satellites. The internet is not to be confused with the world wide web (www.), the web however, is one way of utilizing the internet.
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Week one - The lecture
So many technological words were thrown at us. Technology, communication, transmitter, receiver, binary, convergence. What does it all mean? Well that's what this course is about.
We started off the lecture, with all the boring stuff; reading through the course outline, going through the assessment, and just generally making sure everyone knew what they were in for. Later we watched as an example of new technology communication, 'Cocaine Jesus'. Turn the sound up, and keep you mouse over the pause button, as it does tend to roll a little fast.
With this under our belts, the general feeling in the lecture was much more relaxed, the perfect opportunity for our lecture Steve Stockwell to smash us back to reality.
Old technologies versus new technologies. How can we tell the difference? Firstly, we must define technology. "The scientific study of mechanical arts and their application to the world." (Stockwell S. 2009) Marshall McLuhan argues that technology is the extension of the human body, a bike an extension of the legs, a tool, the extension of the hand. Which moves us on to the ways of storing information.
There are two ways, analog and digital. Analog the way of the past uses technological functions by representing continuously variable forces, through roughly proportional signals or dials. This results in a fairly inaccurate reading. Digital technology, however uses binary measures to transport information, this allows a much more precise mode of information transportation. Whilst digital technology is the way of the future, some people still prefer to use analog technologies. Think of it as comparing an acoustic guitar, to an electric guitar. There is the possibility to end with the same outcome, however the processes will vary.
Convergence appears to be happening, and is becoming more and more popular. It is seen everywhere; mobile phones that have radio, internet, mp3 and a camera, fridges that are connected to the internet that order groceries when stocks are low. Businesses are converging, you just need to look at the 'Coles group', or 'Woolworth's chain'. Convergence is inevitable, as is our reliance on technology.
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We started off the lecture, with all the boring stuff; reading through the course outline, going through the assessment, and just generally making sure everyone knew what they were in for. Later we watched as an example of new technology communication, 'Cocaine Jesus'. Turn the sound up, and keep you mouse over the pause button, as it does tend to roll a little fast.
With this under our belts, the general feeling in the lecture was much more relaxed, the perfect opportunity for our lecture Steve Stockwell to smash us back to reality.
Old technologies versus new technologies. How can we tell the difference? Firstly, we must define technology. "The scientific study of mechanical arts and their application to the world." (Stockwell S. 2009) Marshall McLuhan argues that technology is the extension of the human body, a bike an extension of the legs, a tool, the extension of the hand. Which moves us on to the ways of storing information.
There are two ways, analog and digital. Analog the way of the past uses technological functions by representing continuously variable forces, through roughly proportional signals or dials. This results in a fairly inaccurate reading. Digital technology, however uses binary measures to transport information, this allows a much more precise mode of information transportation. Whilst digital technology is the way of the future, some people still prefer to use analog technologies. Think of it as comparing an acoustic guitar, to an electric guitar. There is the possibility to end with the same outcome, however the processes will vary.
Convergence appears to be happening, and is becoming more and more popular. It is seen everywhere; mobile phones that have radio, internet, mp3 and a camera, fridges that are connected to the internet that order groceries when stocks are low. Businesses are converging, you just need to look at the 'Coles group', or 'Woolworth's chain'. Convergence is inevitable, as is our reliance on technology.
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Greetings!
Welcome to my blog.
My name's Chris, I'm a second year BA student at Griffith Uni. I'm majoring in Spanish studies, but I am also studying writing, and am looking at doing a graduate diploma of education at the end of my BA. I enjoy anything to do with the outdoors, and anything extreme.
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My name's Chris, I'm a second year BA student at Griffith Uni. I'm majoring in Spanish studies, but I am also studying writing, and am looking at doing a graduate diploma of education at the end of my BA. I enjoy anything to do with the outdoors, and anything extreme.
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