Final on-line essay

Why is privacy such a contentious issue for internet users?
Discuss with reference to at least ONE social network service (or other web2.0 service).

Internet is a network which you can give away a lot of information about yourself if you are not careful. It is significant to understand the Internet is a world wide web and largely unregulated. The laws of internet is differentiated in every country and don’t usually apply to the activities derived in other countries. The government should have a different Privacy Act in different regions which is able to have a right protecting privacy of internet users.

Privacy has been “right to be left alone”, it can protect personal information on the internet when the technology that sustains. Usually we can make a choice for a privacy setting on the internet, but generally it does not necessarily give users a choice. There are several laws for internet that protect our privacy and help our rights on each different state in every country, but there is always a leakage between the protection and freedom on the internet.

Internet privacy has been involved with following issues, for instance. What personal information does user provide to people/the public? What personal information or content is unknowingly being gathered? Do all users know about the privacy rights, ethics or legal boundaries are being infringed?

Why should we be concerned? There are always some rules and responsibilities which are still not legislated on the worldwide internet. Personal privacy is no longer protected, because technologies, programming and software engineering have been developed to be able to obtain individual information and contents of users o n the internet, and it doesn’t prevent data from being collected, modified, sold and abused.
Once you disclose your information or content on the internet, it is very easy for everyone to see it and use it.

ROBERT MUELLER (FBI Director) said “The Internet has expanded as a platform for spreading extremist propaganda, a tool for on-line recruiting and a medium for social networking with like-minded extremists”. Since technology is improving day by day, the user can no longer keep their privacy on the internet which we need to be aware with.

The US government wants to follow the digital trail, but Eric Sorensen(Washington Bureau Chief) said “the freedom to browse may be at stake”, and mentioned “the Time Square bomb was suspected plotted their attacks by using internet.” and “The Russian spy ring employed internet cafes to avoid detection”. These days, criminals and extremists manipulate the internet to communicate anywhere and everywhere.

Internet users’ privacy has been challenging with a big contentious issue since internet was developed, especially the affecting to social networks devices. Facebook is a large platform which allows people sharing information and contents with anyone who owns a Facebook account. Privacy right becomes a big issue since World Wide Web internet was invented in 20th century, people can easily share or copy the information and contents from somebody around the world. Therefore, copyright is set to be a legal law to protect everyone’s moral property and have a restriction of plagiarism on the internet.

For an example of a social network on Facebook website, we own the contents and information we posted online, but the contents or information we posted on the website which is with a setting showing to everyone. It means that we are allowing everyone, including people off Facebook, to access and use our contents and information, and to associate them with us. Such as pictures and videos we uploaded, texts we wrote on Facebook,etc.

The terms and conditions of Fcaebook was changed in Februrary 2009, which is "anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later.” When we post contents on the Facebook, it means that we authorise and direct them to make copies as they deem necessaru in order to facilate the posting and storage of our user data on the website.

By posting user contents and information to any part of the site, it automatically grant the permission and represent and warrant that we have the right to grant, to Facebook company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising.

Users of Facebook could remove the items they upload in any time, if we choose to remove our user content,the license granted above would automaticallu expire. However, we are accknowleded that Facebook may retain copies of user data even after our accounts were terminated.
Facebook retain full ownership of all of our contents, Information and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with the content we post on the website.

Everyone who uses the internet will face the privacy risks one day, and it comes with the capabilities, which the Web language will enlarge the internet power. In the next couple of years, a powerful new suite of capabilities will become available to Web developers. “Online privacy touches and affects all of us”, said Social Media Club Vancouver Lorraine Murphy. "Research suggests that we all care deeply about our privacy and dislike and distrust online surveillance, especially where we communicate and play."

In conclusion, the marketers and advertisers can access too many details about computer users’ activities online. It means every internet account user can be monitored by the web developers. Therefore, the serious problem of internet privacy will continue to happen in the future. We need to have a restricted law to protect internet user’s privacy and legalised the right to be used on internet. The web developer or the company should set up a term and condition which is not to reveal the information or detail of every internet users to any public or business uses. An social network example of Facebook which is discussed above, it allows users to set up their own privacy level of setting on the internet which determines how much information the users choose to sharing with the people on the internet or either limited users on the website. Facebook company seems to have a lawful of term and information of use, but some terms of right to use are not disclose and detailed enough for internet users to understand the internet law of privacy. The web developer and internet users should have to understand, agree and make sure the right to use on the internet for both parties.


Reference list:

Protecting your privacy on the internet. (2010) Australian Government, Office of the Privacy Commisioner. Retrieved from http://www.privacy.gov.au/topics/technologies/privacy

Internet privacy? (2001). School Libraries in Canada: A Teachers' Guide, 20(4), 20-22. Retrieved October 20, 2010, from Academic Research Library. (Document ID: 73275036).

NA FRIESEN. (2010, September 27). Internet Privacy and Security. Global News Transcripts. Retrieved October 21, 2010, from CBCA Complete. (Document ID: 2150175501).

Statement of Rights and Responsibilities: Sharing your content and information. (2010). Facebook. Retrieved from http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/terms.php

Stelter, B. (2009, Febrarury 16). Facebook's Users Ask Who Own Information [Press relaese]. The New York Times, New York. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/technology/internet/17facebook.html

Tanzina Vega. (2010, October 11). Web Code Offers New Ways To See What Users Do Online :[Business/Financial Desk]. New York Times (Late Edition (east Coast)), p. A.1. Retrieved October 21, 2010, from ProQuest Newsstand. (Document ID: 2158633661).

Social Media Club Vancouver Tackles Internet Privacy October 7th: Who Should You Trust with Your Data :Chris Parsons to Lead Discussion on Online Privacy Policies and Ethics - and Why We Should Care. (2010, September). Marketwire. Retrieved October 21, 2010, from CBCA Complete. (Document ID: 2150713441).

Coruse Evaluation

This course is great, we can learn and understand the information and research through digital media, this is significant for the people who live on the 21st century to update and get involved withthe knowledge of using technology.

Week 10

1. Discuss the impact of TWO of the following figures on the development of digital technologies and digital culture: Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, William Gibson, Kevin Mitnick, Alan Turing, Ray Kurzweil, J.C.R. Licklider, Douglas Engelbart.
   
2. Explain what Creative Commons is and, using examples, show how it is different to other forms of copyright.
   
   
3. Why is privacy such a contentious issue for internet users? Discuss with reference to at least ONE social network service (or other web2.0 service).
   
4. Is the “virtual community” (Rheingold, 1993) a useful way of understanding contemporary online life? Discuss using one example of an online community OR a video game world (Virtual community is not to be confused with a “social network” site).
   
5. How do social media change our understanding of individual identity, with regard to the kinds of people we have in our social networks?
   
6. Increasingly mobile devices are an aid to the gathering and reporting of information, both by professional journalists and “citizen journalists”. Outline the advantages and disadvantages of this sort of news gathering. How might it impact on journalistic practices and news values and ethics?

Week 9

Assessment 2 (pt 2 of the blog) has been extended - and is now due by Friday of Week 10!

For Week 9's entry you should write about your chosen essay topic, (found under 'assessments' on learning@griffith), your initial thoughts about this topic, and where you think you may begin researching it.

Also you need to ensure that by the end of week 10 you have posted a final entry on your weblog that evaluates the course overall'. (This is included in the assessment description on the course profile)

For the final essay topic, I chose to discuss about 'Internet Privacy' below:


Why is privacy such a contentious issue for internet users? Discuss with reference to at least ONE social network service (or other web2.0 service).

I will discuss this topic with Facebook social network, because internet user privacy is challenging with a big contentious issue since Facebook invented. Facebook is a large platform which allows people sharing information and contents with anyone who owns a Facebook account. Privacy right becomes a big issue since World Wide Web internet was invented in 20^th century, people can easily share or copy the information and contents from somebody around the world. Therefore, copyright is set to be a legal law to protect everyone’s moral property and have a restriction of plagiarism on the internet.

Week 8 - Tute Task

 

What is Cyberpunk?

Cyberpunk is about expressing (often dark) ideas about human nature, technology and their respective combination in the near future.

While some see cyberpunk to be a long-since dead relic of the 80s, I consider it to be alive and well. There are many aspects of “cyberpunk-ness” but these are what I consider the most important cyberpunk themes:

Negative Impact of technology on humanity: In a cyberpunked near-future, technology runs rampant, and usually manipulates most societal interactions. Dystopian near futures are very common, but so are futures where the impacts of specific technologies are played out in a world only slightly different from the present. Sacred societal boundaries are often crossed with regularity. Often the earth is severely damaged. Crime and drug use are often key supporting themes.

Fusion of man and machine: In addition to cyborgs, sentient programs and robots, cyberpunk often blurs of what it means to be human. Traits we take for granted as representing humanity disappear via introspective looks brought on by the fusion of man and machine. In some cases, such as in the extreme Japanese cyberpunk films, the fusion is explicitly invasive. In other cases, sentient programs take over roles traditionally occupied by humanity, thus, marginalizing humans on the fringes of society. This fusion also affects the control of perception - numerous storylines explore with influences to perception, usually involving some method of virtual reality environment to either mask or take the place of the “real world.”

Corporate control over society: Cyberpunk almost always has an ever powerful controlling entity that directs society. Most often this is represented as a corporation. Some times its simply an ever present singular government. A common theme for corporate control involves a futuristic dystopia, where the last traces of high civilization exist only in an enclosed and protected city, where civil liberties are removed under the guise of protecting humanity.

Story focuses on the underground: Cyberpunk almost always focuses on the underground of society. While the story may lead to revolution and toppling the power structure, the perspective is always that of the oppressed or the punk, anti-hero of the oppressed.

Ubiquitous Access to information: Cyberpunk often deals with the continual spread and access to information. Hacker themes and ever-connecting internets are common. Additionally, the connection of humans to this omnipresent information stream leads to the blurring of the virtual with the real.

Cyberpunk visuals and style: Cyberpunk visuals, ideally, are dirty, hyper-realistic “lived in” looks at the near future. Often cyberpunk films will have a single dominating color that permeates the film. We also see patterns of dark motifs contrasted with shocking neon color schemes. And just as important, a sense of slick style often pervades a cyberpunk movie.

Clearly, Cyberpunk is not an exact concept. Its meanings vary. However, in separating that which appears to be cyberpunk from that which is just cool, I felt the need for something more concrete if I’m going to use these attributes for rating movies. The two ratings on the movie reviews (degree of cyberpunk visuals and correlation to cyberpunk themes) reflect my interpretation of how closely they meet the above descriptions. In some cases, this approach leads me to differ on films other people feel are cyberpunk in nature.

If you differ with this approach feel free to add a comment. If your reasoning needs something more elaborative, post a link to your discussion or become a contributor here, and you can have your position here on your own page.

SFAM (2007, February 19). What is Cyberpunk. Retrived from http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/what-is-cyberpunk/

Cyberpunk

Movie - I-Robot tralier (2004)



Movie - Sorrogates




Funny robot dance move and fight

Week 8

Many writers have utilised cyberpunk as prefigurative social and political theory in the realms of urban studies, cultural theory and the sociology of the body. Below are some of the main, recurring themes.


Negative Impact of technology on humanity: In a cyberpunked near-future, technology runs rampant, and usually manipulates most societal interactions. Dystopian near futures are very common, but so are futures where the impacts of specific technologies are played out in a world only slightly different from the present. Sacred societal boundaries are often crossed with regularity. Often the earth is severely damaged. Crime and drug use are often key supporting themes.

Fusion of man and machine: In addition to cyborgs, sentient programs and robots, cyberpunk often blurs of what it means to be human. Traits we take for granted as representing humanity disappear via introspective looks brought on by the fusion of man and machine. This fusion also affects the control of perception - numerous storylines explore with influences to perception, usually involving some method of virtual reality environment to either mask or take the place of the “real world.”

Corporate control over society: Cyberpunk almost always has an ever powerful controlling entity that directs society. Most often this is represented as a corporation. Some times its simply an ever present singular government. A common theme for corporate control involves a futuristic dystopia, where the last traces of high civilization exist only in an enclosed and protected city, where civil liberties are removed under the guise of protecting humanity.

Uprising of the underground: Cyberpunk almost always focuses on the underground of society. While the story may lead to revolution and toppling the power structure, the perspective is always that of the oppressed or the punk, anti-hero of the oppressed.

Ubiquitous Access to information: Cyberpunk often deals with the continual spread and access to information. Hacker themes and ever-connecting internets are common. Additionally, the connection of humans to this omnipresent information stream leads to the blurring of the virtual with the real.


In this tutorial students should select one of these themes & complete some basic research on it (ideally finding a short fiction online that deals with the topic (there’s heaps of online cyberpunk fiction, so this shouldn’t be a problem). Once students have a basic understanding they should try and identify a current news story that reflects their chosen topic.

Once they have found a story they should attempt to re-write the news story as a persuasive piece about how their piece of cyberpunk fiction has forecast the particular story/event & how it will inevitably lead to the world becoming a post-industrial dystopia (like every cyberpunk story does/is).

Week 7

Research and provide short answers to the following questions. Provide references where applicable.

1. What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?

Creative Commons is a non- profit organisation that increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational and scientific content) in “the commons” and the body of the work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing and remixing. Creative Commons organisation provides free, easy-to-use legal tools which give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple standardize way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work.

The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright term from the default of ‘all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved”. Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright and the public domain. Therefore, the license is not an alternative to copyright, by working alongside copyright, you can select the best suit you and modify your copyright terms. They have collaborated with intellectual peroperty experts all around the world to ensure what their licenses work globally.

For further information and terms of the licences, please visit Creative Commons website.

Creative Commons: What is CC?.(2010). Retrieved from

http://creativecommons.org/about/what-is-cc

2. Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.

Jamendo is a music website and a community of music authors.

All music on Jamendo is free to download and licensed through one of several Creative Commons licenses or the Free Art License, making it legal to copy and share, as well as to modify and make commercial use of for some, depending on the license. Jamendo allows streaming of all of its thousands of albums in either Ogg Vorbis or MP3 format, and downloads through the BitTorrent and eDonkey networks

There are more than 32,000 albums available for download now on Jamendo. Widely varied music genres and styles include: Dance/Electro, Hip-Hop, Metal, Jazz, Lounge, Pop/Songwriting, and Rock

Jamendo.(2010). Retrieved from http://www.jamendo.com/en

MoveOn is an American non-profit, progressiveor liberal, public policy advocacy group and political action committee which has raised millions of dollars for candidates it identifies as "moderates" or "progressives" in the United States. It was formed in 1998 in response to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

MoveOn.ORG: What is MoveOn™?.(2010). Retrieved from http://www.moveon.org/about.html

Ghosts I–IV is the seventh studio release by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on March 2, 2008. The team behind the project included Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor, studio-collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, and instrumental contributions from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, and Brian Viglione. Reznor described the music of Ghosts as "a soundtrack for daydreams", a sentiment echoed by many critics who compared it with the work of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. The songs are unnamed, and are identified only by their track listing and group number.

The album was released under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-SA), and in a variety of differing packages at various price points, including a US$300 "Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition".

Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts I-IV.(2010). Retrieved from

http://ghosts.nin.com/main/home


3. Find an academic article which discusses creative commons using a database or online journal. Provide a link to and a summary of the article.

To summuraise the article I found via ProQuest is about the copyright laws which have been around in the US. In the 20th century, the impact of using, reusing and distribution of media and content on the internet is significant. A new copyright protection named Creative Commons, is led to law restriction on the worldwide internet and a new media culture. A set of licensing tools are standing between the "All Rights Reserved" of traditional copyright and "No Rights Reserved" that is the public domain. Creative Commons is a way to have access to the content, in the spirit of the 21th century and without running afoul of the "all rights reserved" mentality.

Gordon-Murnane, L.. (2010, January). CREATIVE COMMONS: Copyright Tools for the 21st Century. Online, 34(1), 18-21. ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 1957509621).


4. Have a look at Portable Apps (a pc based application) – provide a brief description of what it is and how you think this is useful.

A portable application (portable app) is a computer software program that is able to run independently without the need to install files to the system it is run upon. They are commonly used on a removable storage device such as a CD, USB flash drive, flash card, or floppy disk.

Portable software is typically designed to be able to store its configuration information and data on the storage media containing its program files.

You can download and entitle the benefits of using portable app from Portableapps.com for free, and it is not confused with software portability where software allows to be compiled for different computing platforms. It is convenience that portable application can be run on any computer systems such as Microsoft Windows XP or Vista, certain version of a Linux distro, etc.

Week 7 - Respond to Lecture

Try some free software - good examples which are free and easy to download are: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Gimp, Audacity, amsn, pidgin, etc.

Try to use it exclusively for a few days - then decide whether you like it or not! Say why/why not.

 

In my opinion of using Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.

Mozilla Firefox is a good free browser to Internet Explorer. Mozilla Firefox is faster, secure and better than Internet Explorer. By comparing to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox has less faulty problems occurring when you surfing on the internet.

Moziila Thunderbird, it is simply similar to Microsoft Outlook Express or Windows Mail, you can set up the theme and layout which you wish with the new updated 3.1 version. The impact tools can help to transferring the mails, contacts, favorite setting from old version to the new version.

Inconclusion, I can tell Moziill appilcaions are more faster, convenience to operate and easy to be familiar with the using. Also, the design is much more beautiful than Windows application. The most important thing is, they are free!!

Week 6

Tutespark

Leading on from the lecture on online privacy & social networking....

Who has the right to use your creations?

Who owns the content you put on the internet on various sites?

This includes pictures, video, text, etc?

Think about all the content you upload onto social networking sites - Do you own it?

 For an example of Facebook website, we own the contents and information we post online. But once when we publicsh contents or information with a setting showing everyone, it means that we are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use our contents and information, and to associate them with us. Such as pictures and videos we uploaded, texts we wrote on Facebook,etc.

The terms and conditions of Fcaebook was changed in Februrary 2009, which is "anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later.” When we post contents on the Facebook, it means that we authorise and direct them to make copies as they deem necessaru in order to facilate the posting and storage of our user data on the website.

By posting user contents and information to any part of the site, it automatically grant the permission and represent and warrant that we have the right to grant, to Facebook company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising.

Users of Facebook could remove the items they upload in any time, if we choose to remove our user content,the license granted above would automaticallu expire. However, we are accknowleded that Facebook may retain copies of user data even after our accounts were terminated.

Facebook retain full ownership of all of our contents, Information and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with the content we post on the website.

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, said that the philosophy “that people own their information and control who they share it with has remained constant.” Despite the complaints, he did not indicate the language would be revised.

Reference list

Statement of Rights and Responsibilities: Sharing your content and information. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/terms.php

Stelter, B. (2009, Febrarury 16). Facebook's Users Ask Who Own Information [Press relaese]. The New York Times, New York. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/technology/internet/17facebook.html

Remedies Under Copyright Laws against Internet Content Thieves. [Image] (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.free-legal-document.com/images/copyright-laws-internet.jpg

Twitter vs. Facebook. [Image] (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00626/Facebook_62644016x9.jpg

Week 6 Lecture

Media- New Media Social Media

New Media:

Virtual community/ Individual Identity

Internet Studies:

Web 2.0 / Social Media

l   Technology

“…is the scientific study of mechanical arts and their application to the world”.

Often includes physical objects and the knowledge of the techniques used to enable their fiction.

l   Media

When technology is used for social communication.

Media is plural for medium.

A little different to the use of the term “The Media”.

(see the work of: Marshall McLuhan; Ray and Williams)

Common Themes from Early Internet Studies

Virtual Community

(a way to explain a group of people who communicate via the internet)

Individual Identity

(a way to explain how people express who they are via the internet)

l  Virtual Community

“…when people carry on public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships…” (H.Rheingold, 1993, The Virtual Community)

l   Individual Identity

“The Internet has become a significant social laboratory for experimenting with the constructions and reconstructions of self that characterize postmodern ;ofe. Inits virtual reality, we self-fashion and self-create”

(Turkle, 1995, Life On the Screen)

Identity Play

Shared Interests

l   On the early internet people who were isolated in different geographic areas often turned to the internet to “meet” other people with similar interests…

l   See Rheingold 1993, Turkle 1995, Dibbell, 1998 – many other early internet books explore that…

Ego-Centric Social Network

l   Focus has moved away from groups of people with common interests to networks where you (the individual) is the common thread

Web 2.0

l   Following the dot.com crash of 2000 – Tim O’Reilly and his friends wanted to motivate the tech community into feeling good about itself again…

…so they proposed thinking about the internet in new ways…

l   They came up with the notion that there was a new era in the web’s history

l   What was wrong with Web 1.0??

l   Is mostly a technical definition describing key technologies to do with the creation of web services with emphasis on the user experience…

But the concept of “groups of people who use the internet” has been “co-opted by the “social media” crowd..

Web 2.0 – features

l   Folksonomy – organizing knowledge – in other words using “tags” on posts or items. This describes users defining the caregories rather than some authority imposing the structure.

l   The idea of user- generated content – people create {{photos, images, videos, text} and put it on the internet. Media scholar Henry Jenkins refers to this as “Participatory Cultutre” (2006).

l   Open API – means sharing data openly between services on the internet.

(O’Reilly, 2003, what is Web 2.0?)

… Community and collaboration is the common element here.

Read-Write Web

l   The Features described create a version of the internet where average people can contribute

l   As opposed to the previous “read only” web which many “old media” (recording industry, news media, book publishers) would like the internet to be…

Social Media

l   Weblogs/blogs – and all their variations like vlogs, moblogs, microblogs (twitter, identi.ca, jaiku, etc)

l   Social network services (SNSs) – friendster, orkut, myspace, facebook, linkedin, livejournal (also a blog site), forums might be here but they are a bit web 1.0, etc

l   Content sharing communities- flickr, deviant.art, youtube, blip.tv, jamendo, last.fm, del.icio.us, dig, etc etc

Social Media Experts?

Have become ubiquitous on the web in the last 3 years or so,,

Mostly they are marketing people who want to teach you how to use web2.0 tools to promote your business/brand..

l   The “Attention Economy” – who wants your eyeball?

What do they want you to see or do once they have your attenetion?

l   The “Economy of Accumulation” – who has collected information about you?

What can they do with that information?

Do you think they sell it to the highest bidder? O Rly?

Who owns it?

l   If there’s Social Media..how about Anti-Social Media?

Isolatr beta- “People always used to approach me to try and talk about this or that. I wanted to punch them in the throat. Now they leave me the hell alone. Thanks isolatr!’ –Doc Searls

Cultral Jam Campaign

Free Parking @ Griffith Uni

Free car parking coming to Griffith University's Gold Coast campus in 2011! Join this group to show your support and help spread the word. Stay tuned for more details.

Kirby, Cornor, Sophia, Christian and me have invited our friends and Griffith Uni students to join.
Our Free Parking at Griffith Uni campaign has 91 members so far, and I invited 22 friends.

Free Parking @ Griffith Uni- Grif Freeman page

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104568022938083&ref=mf

Free Parking @ Griffith Uni - Group page

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104568022938083&ref=mf

Week 5

Hi Class,
In line with the lecture content that Josh covered this week, we want you engage with the term "Culture Jamming".
Look it up, see if you can find what is considered to be the first Culture Jam, find the most influential Jam, the most damaging.
These 3 examples should be posted in your blog with an explanation of where and why they were found and used.
You can show what impact they had or are having too.




Our goal and yours is to enter into the world of Culture Jamming.


You are to devise a plan to get noticed by 'normal' media.

As we saw in the lecture, Ireport.com allows the public to report on anything.

There are some similar sites that are more local and may prove to be more interested in local events.


The Tute task for Week 5 consists of the planning and research you undertake to be ready to produce your news story/public report/local update (whatever it may end up being). This should include who is doing what in your group and how you are going to make/produce the content of your Culture Jam.


You can use video, still shots, audio, standard text and documents you may want to create as props.

Internet resources should be used to give depth and credit to your Jam.

In groups of no more than 4 and all must post their own blog entries.



To complete this entire task it will take two weeks but the first half will be assessed during weeks 6/7.
Talk to your tutor about your plans.

Our cultral jam campaign:
Free Parking @ Griffith Uni: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104568022938083&ref=mf

Week 4 tute task - not tutespark - this is the tute exercise.

Video or 'film' has not always worked online.
Answer the following in your blog:-

1.Where and when did usable online video start? (provide some refs. and an example if possible)

2.In the lecture we heard about technological innovations that were used by the studios to lure audiences. (mostly to combat the popularity of TV)
What recent innovations are being used to lure us in the movies?
What are they luring us from?

3.Are short films still being made? Why? Who pays for them to be made?

4.The term viral is thrown about adhoc but what does it mean in film/movie arena? Give some examples.

5. Online video distribution isn't limited to the short film format. We are now starting to see television styled shows made solely for internet release (webisodes). Find an example of this style of content and discuss how viewing television content in this way can positively and negatively affect the viewer's experience.


1895 –Cinema in France
1906 – Full length feature film “The story of the Kelly Gang” – Charles Tait, Australia.
1927 – End of silent era, birth of the talkies.
1933 – Drive in movie theatre in New Jersey.
1939 – First TV sets available to American Public.
1952 – Hollywood counter attacked TV with 3D films.
1955 – Movie studios sold their libraries to TV
1959 – William Castle put motors under chairs to vibrate at scary parts, and Charles Weiss filtered aromas through the air-conditioning system.
1963 – a $30,000 tape recorder available to consumers.
1963 – The first multiplex in Kansas, The Parkway Twin.
1967 – Sony introduced own VTR, black and white “Portapak”.
1969 – Sony introduced VCR.
1967 – IMAX in Osaka, Japan.
1972 – Cable TV by HBO ( Home Box Office)
1978 – The video laser disc.
1981 – MTV launched in July.
1982 – Film with a video arcade game, Walt Disney's Tron.
1983 – Dragon's Lair arcade game.
1985 – The first Blockbuster Video store in Texas.
1985 – Blood Cults is first film designed especially for video.
1986 – Pixar's Luxo, Jr. was first fully computer animated short.
1988 - “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, blending of imagery and live action human characters.
1991 – First naturally moving computer generated character in Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
1995 – Toy Story, the first feature length animated film.
1997 – DVDs (digital versatile disc)
1998 – HDTV
1998 – Netflix offered video downloading to subscribers
1998 – The last Broadcast was first film to be sent via satellite to cinema theatres.
1999 – The most profitable film, Blair Witch Project, with $30,000 budget and $249 million
gross profit.
1999 – TiVo
2001 – Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, first photo-realistic computer generated film.
2001 – 8 short films for BMW were produced for the internet.
2002 – MovieLink established by the major Hollywood studios.
2004 – Able Edwards produced without any physical sets but entirely with a green backdrop.
2005 – Films released on Blu-Ray Disc, the first being Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
2005 – Hollywood ceased releasing films on VHS.
2006 – YouTube.
2007 – Jackass 2.5 initially released on broadband for viewers.

Week 4 - Big Screen to Small Screen - TUTESPARK

Hi Class of 2010,

We want you to find some short films (3 please) that were made for internet distibution/viewing.

You should comment on what you think makes them good or what made them good at the time.
Why they became, or will become, popular.


CN BLUE - I'm a loner

They are a famous, well trained and talented Korean band which called everyone has a beautiful face, and the band members with an average age 20.
Their first performance was start in Japan, they went there for learning experience of performing on the street in Japan and studying during the period. In 2008, they went back to Korean and finally their first album was released. The song 'I'm a loner' is the best of the top music in Korea in 2010.

CN BLUE starts a journal of performing in live concerts around Asia in 2010, they're getting more and more famous after the concerts in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. In October 2010, they will be holding their first performance in Taiwan.



Movie 'Inception'

The movie was released on 22 July 2010. Leonardo DiCaprio is acting a skilled thief the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction: stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state when the mind is at its most vulnerable.


Bridgestone tyre advertising

TuteSpark week 3

The Tutespark for week 3 is to find at least 3 (three) examples of digital devices that are not electronic.

digital:

Digital describes electronic technology that generates, stores, and processes data in terms of two states: positive and non-positive. Positive is expressed or represented by the number 1 and non-positive by the number 0. Thus, data transmitted or stored with digital technology is expressed as a string of 0's and 1's. Each of these state digits is referred to as a bit (and a string of bits that a computer can address individually as a group is a byte).

Reference from: http://searchcio-midmarket.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid183_gci211948,00.html


analogue:

As humans, we perceive the world in analog. Everything we see and hear is a continuous transmission of information to our senses. This continuous stream is what defines analog data. Digital information, on the other hand, estimates analog data using only ones and zeros.

For example, a turntable (or record player) is an analog device, while a CD player is digital. This is because a turntable reads bumps and grooves from a record as a continuous signal, while a CD player only reads a series of ones and zeros.

Reference from: http://www.techterms.com/definition/analog

communication:

Communication is the process of exchanging information usually via a common system of symbols. "Communication" is the academic discipline which studies communication.

Reference from: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Communication


electronic:

Device or technology associated with or employing low voltage current and solid state integrated circuits or components, usually for transmission and/or processing of analog or digital data.


Reference from: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/electronic.html#ixzz0zXooSEKH

Three examples of digital devices that are not electronic:

Type-writer

DNA



Cassette-tape



Week 3 Treasure Hunt

1. What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build?
Bagger 288, is weight in 45,000 tons. It cost $100 million to build up.

Reference from: The world's biggest machine, WonderHowTo. http://www.wonderhowto.com/wonderment/worlds-biggest-machine-0113869/


2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Ozzy Osborne?

Ozzy Osbourne's Manager: Sharon Osbourne .
Address:
Sharon Osbourne Management
9292 Civic Center Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Phone: 310-859-7761 ; 310-859-7761

Ozzy Osbourne's Agents: Ari Emanuel or Ari Greenburg
Address:
Endeavor Agency
9601 Wilshire Boulevard
3rd Floor
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Phone: 310-248-2000 ; 310-248-2000

Ozzy Osbourne's Agents: Ari Emanuel or Ari Greenburg
Address:
Endeavor Agency
9601 Wilshire Boulevard
3rd Floor
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Phone: 310-248-2000 ; 310-248-2000

Ozzy Osbourne's legal representation: Manatt Phelps & Phillips
Address:
11355 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Phone: 310-312-4000 ; 310-312-4000
Reference from:
http://famous-relationships.topsynergy.com/Ozzy_Osbourne/Contact.asp


3. When and what was the first example of global digital communication?

The first example of global digital communication is Morse Code by Samuel Morse in 1835.

Reference from:
http://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/morse_code.htm


4. What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?

By flight, it costs from $58.95 to $178.95 in oneway when you travel with Tiger Airways.
Reference from:
http://booking.tigerairways.com/skylights/cgi-bin/skylights.cgi


5. Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday?

Hatsu Miku is a computer music software that enables users to create synthesized singing of unprecedented quality and remarkable realism by just typing in lyrics and melody. She is the first and most popular installment in the Vocaloid Character Vocal Series, a singing synthesizer application produced by Yamaha.
She belongs to CRYPTON FUTURE MEDIA INC company.
The first Character Vocal Series, Hatune Miku was released on Augst 31, 2007.

Reference from:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hatsune-Miku/10150149727825637#!/pages/Hatsune-Miku/10150149727825637?v=info
http://www.crypton.co.jp/mp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv01.jsp


6. Find a live webcam in Antarctica. Find a place to stay in Antarctica.

At Casey the webcam is mounted on the side of the general store building, known as the 'Green Store'
Reference from:
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/webcams/faqs-on-station-webcams/where-are-the-webcams-positioned

McMurdo Station is Antarctica's largest community. Established in 1956, it has grown from an outpost of a few buildings to a complex logistics staging facility of more than 100 structures. Winter population is about 250 persons; summer population reaches 1000. McMurdo includes a "downtown" area, science and support facilities, and an outlying airport (Williams Field), plus a blue ice runway and a summer runway on the sea ice. Before December, the sea-ice runway is used for wheeled landing and take-off of fixed-wing aircraft. After December, runway facilities are transferred to ski-equipped operations at Williams Field. At the end of the season, redeployment flights take off and land at the blue ice ("Pegasus") runway. From Williams Field and the ice runways, flights not only span the continent, but maintain McMurdo's contact with New Zealand and the United States.

Reference from:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/background/NSF/mc-stay.html#1

Or stay on comfortable and safe expedition cruises aboard vessels .
Reference from:
http://www.selectlatinamerica.co.uk/destinations/antarctica/cruises


7. What song was top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1980?

“Moscow” by Genghis Khan which stayed at the top of the charts.

Reference from:
http://www.australianmusichistory.com/this-month-in-australian-music-august/


8. How would you define the term 'nano technology'? In your own words, what does it really mean?

For my understanding in the term of ‘Nano technology’, it is a research and technology development at the atomic, molecular or macromolecular levels, in the length scale of approximately 1 - 100 nanometer range, to provide a fundamental understanding of phenomena and materials at the nanoscale and to create and use structures, devices and systems that have novel properties and functions because of their small and/or intermediate size.
It is a combination of small elements, used to design, fabricate, and manufacture to become a new material of device or system. Comparing to the traditional way to minimize the material from a big device, nano technology maximize the elements to a big device which is involved in knowledge and skills.

Reference from:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/n/nanotechnology.htm


9. What type of camera is used to make ‘Google Street View’?

The type of camera that was used to make ‘Google Street View’ was an Immersive Media camera. This company specialises in 360-degree video. They mounted an 11-camera contraption on the vehicle, as they drive, to capture the 360-degree view that we see on ‘Google Maps’.

Reference from:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/office-voyeurism/the-google-maps-street-view-camera-264972.php


10. Translate these questions into Klingon.

1. nuq ‘oH [the] [weight] vo’ [the] [world’s] [biggest] [machine] chay’ ‘ar ta’ta’ ‘oH [cost] Daq chen
2. nuq ‘oH [the] [best] [way] [quickest] HochHom [reliable] Daq [contact] [Ozzy] [Osborne]
3. ghorgh ‘ej nuq ghaHta’ [the] wa’DIch [example] vo’ [global] [digital] [communication]
4. nuq ‘oH [the] [cheapest] [form] vo’ [travel] vo’ [the] SuD baS [Coast] Daq [Melbourne]
5. ’Iv ‘oH [Hatsune] [Miku] nuq [company] ta’taH ghaH [belong] Daq nuq ‘oH Daj qoS
6. tu’ [a] yIn [webcam] Daq [Antarctica] tu’ [a] Daq Daq [stay] Daq [Antarctica]
7. nuq bom ghaHta’ [top] vo’ [the] [Australian] [pop] [charts] vam [week] Daq
8. chay’ [would] SoH [define] [the] [term] [‘nano] [technology’] Daq lIj ghaj mu’mey nuq ta’taH ‘oH [really] [mean]
9. nuq [type] vo’ [camera] ‘oH [used] Daq chenmoH [‘Google] [Street] [View’]
10. [Translate] Dochvammey [questions] Daq tlhIngan

Reference from:
http://www.mrklingon.org/