This week we have to choose one of 6 essay topics. At the moment I'm thinking of choosing question one which is: 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.
In the Lecture, Daniel spoke about William Gibson in reference to Cyberpunk. We just spoke about the questions in the tutorial and my tutor has suggested doing William Gibson and Charles Babbage because she thinks they fit well together. I will have to find out some information on Babbage first because I have never heard of him before and then I will be able to see if I think they are the figures I want to write about. But before I start I will definitely check out a few of the others incase I find someone else more interesting than those two. It will also depend on how much information I can find about each of the figures.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
week 8 - tutespark - Cyberpunk
CYBERPUNK:
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.
I decided to incorporate ideas from the Resident Evil series to incorporate into a story about the flu vaccines for young children being recalled in Australia.
I retrieved the story from -http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/23/2880763.htm
Umbrella Corp said people suffering from the effects of the virus changed from seriously ill to critical as officials investigated whether a bad batch of vaccine was to blame. Doctors are being warned not to give the vaccine to children under the age of five, after a child fell critically ill and dozens more suffered serious adverse reactions after receiving the vaccine in New York.
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.
I decided to incorporate ideas from the Resident Evil series to incorporate into a story about the flu vaccines for young children being recalled in Australia.
I retrieved the story from -http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/23/2880763.htm
Doctors told not to give the vaccine to under-5s
Updated
Umbrella Corp said people suffering from the effects of the virus changed from seriously ill to critical as officials investigated whether a bad batch of vaccine was to blame. Doctors are being warned not to give the vaccine to children under the age of five, after a child fell critically ill and dozens more suffered serious adverse reactions after receiving the vaccine in New York.
Umbrella Corp's Health Minister Jackie Cartwright says that in the past month, 23 otherwise healthy children have suffered fever, vomiting, febrile convulsions and developed an appetite for human flesh hours after receiving the vaccination.
America's chief medical officer Jim Black says parents should not have their children vaccinated at the moment.
"Until we know more we've suggested that we don't use that [vaccine] for the moment in children under five as the effects it has had upon the children are extremely contagious," he told ABC Local Radio this morning.
"I'm advising all doctors today not to use it until we know a bit more.
"This is not the expected reaction, therefore I just think it's wise and precautionary not to use it in children under five to avoid the effects from spreading worldwide."
Professor Bishop says there have been hundreds of reports of issues with the vaccine in other states or territories.
"We've asked the Umbrella Corp to be in touch with all of the states and we've spoken to chief health officers of all of the states," he said.
"We're getting all the information together so that we have a very complete picture, which we don't have fully at the moment."
This morning a spokeswoman for Federal Health Minister Nicola Rixon said all American parents were being advised not to give their children the vaccine.
The spokeswoman described the measure as a "precaution".
New York's Health Department has suspended the vaccination program for children under five after a spike in admissions to Princess Merideth Hospital (PMH).
New York's chief health officer, Terry Beach, says the department is investigating whether the reactions were caused by a particular type of vaccine or batch.
"We are concerned that there's a much higher number of fever and canibalistic reactions than would be expected, and doctors at PMH have told us this," he said.
"Now we have to work out why, whether it's related to a particular type of vaccine or particular batch."
"Until we find out why these reactions have occured we must put all affected patients into isolation where they can be monitored and tested."
"Until we find out why these reactions have occured we must put all affected patients into isolation where they can be monitored and tested."
One of the manufacturers, CSL, says it is aware of the matter and is working closely with the Diseased Goods Administration and New York authorities.
Dr Beach says parents should closely monitor their child if they have been vaccinated in the past 24 hours.
"Cool the child, [give them] paracetamol and make sure their temperature returns to normal, if it doesn't bring them to an isolation facility immediately" he said.
Here is the trailer for the first Resident Evil series, retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiS6gtClrqk
Here is the trailer for the first Resident Evil series, retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiS6gtClrqk
Friday, September 10, 2010
Week 7 - tutespark
1. What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?
"Creative Commons is an international non-profit org that provides free licences and tools that copyright owners can use to allow others to share, reuse and remix their material, legally."
I think Creative Commons could be relevant to my experience at uni because it means I could copyright my personal work but also be able to share my work with others and I will still get credit for my work but other will be able to reference or use it - like if I want to publish my work like an article or journal.
2. Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.
Here are some videos created by Creative Commons to help people understand what they are about and how their service can be used.
- Creative Commons - A Shared Culture
- Creative Commons - Get Creative
- Creative Commons - An alternative to copyright
3. 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.
portable - carried or moved with ease
app - a computer program like a web browser or word processor
"A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer."
Portable Apps can be useful because it allows you to carry your all the applications on you computer ranging from your web browser (history and favourites), calendar, emails and with all your contacts and settings, your instant messenger and contacts list, your documents and presentations and even your antivirus program and other computer utilities. You can also "carry all your important passwords and account information securely."
Portable Apps are convenient for travel and sharing.
"Creative Commons is an international non-profit org that provides free licences and tools that copyright owners can use to allow others to share, reuse and remix their material, legally."
I think Creative Commons could be relevant to my experience at uni because it means I could copyright my personal work but also be able to share my work with others and I will still get credit for my work but other will be able to reference or use it - like if I want to publish my work like an article or journal.
2. Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.
Here are some videos created by Creative Commons to help people understand what they are about and how their service can be used.
- Creative Commons - A Shared Culture
- Creative Commons - Get Creative
- Creative Commons - An alternative to copyright
3. 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.
portable - carried or moved with ease
app - a computer program like a web browser or word processor
"A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer."
Portable Apps can be useful because it allows you to carry your all the applications on you computer ranging from your web browser (history and favourites), calendar, emails and with all your contacts and settings, your instant messenger and contacts list, your documents and presentations and even your antivirus program and other computer utilities. You can also "carry all your important passwords and account information securely."
Portable Apps are convenient for travel and sharing.
Monday, September 6, 2010
week 7 - tutespark - free software
This week we were asked to try some free software and write about whether we liked the software or not.
I decided to download some free software that I thought I would actually use in the future, rather than download something and then delete it. Since I had to send a track of me singing to hopefully, a future employer, I thought I would down some software that would help me cut and edit some video footage of my high school performances. I downloaded AVS4YOU, which is a variety of software such as video, audio and image editing and coping, audio recording, file converting, making ringtones and a few more.
It took me awhile to teach myself how to use AVS without having to read the entire instructions but I got a hang of the tools I needed to use like video copying, cutting and burning. I came across a few problems though - when I copied a video from a DVD onto the computer I couldn't find a way to access the temporary files so every time I wanted to access the video I copied, I had to go through the entire copying process again.
The other problem was since I hadn't actually perchased the software, when it came to burning the edited videos to a disc the AVS4YOU watermark was burnt onto the disc over the time of my video and the only way the get rid of it was to buy the software to get the activation code.
Finally, when I burnt the videos to the disc, the sound didnt work at all and I have no idea why, so I gave up on the cutting and editing and burning and just copied the entire disc and sending that.
All in all, I didn't mind the software, except for all the watermarks and lack of sound.
I decided to download some free software that I thought I would actually use in the future, rather than download something and then delete it. Since I had to send a track of me singing to hopefully, a future employer, I thought I would down some software that would help me cut and edit some video footage of my high school performances. I downloaded AVS4YOU, which is a variety of software such as video, audio and image editing and coping, audio recording, file converting, making ringtones and a few more.
It took me awhile to teach myself how to use AVS without having to read the entire instructions but I got a hang of the tools I needed to use like video copying, cutting and burning. I came across a few problems though - when I copied a video from a DVD onto the computer I couldn't find a way to access the temporary files so every time I wanted to access the video I copied, I had to go through the entire copying process again.
The other problem was since I hadn't actually perchased the software, when it came to burning the edited videos to a disc the AVS4YOU watermark was burnt onto the disc over the time of my video and the only way the get rid of it was to buy the software to get the activation code.
Finally, when I burnt the videos to the disc, the sound didnt work at all and I have no idea why, so I gave up on the cutting and editing and burning and just copied the entire disc and sending that.
All in all, I didn't mind the software, except for all the watermarks and lack of sound.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Week 6 - tutespark
This week we had Daniel as our guest speaker, he spoke about social networking... He asked us: "Who owns the content (pics, videos and text) you put on the internet on various sites and who has the rights to your creations?"
According to Chris Crum on WebProNews "According to Twitter's terms of service, you own your content, but Twitter does host it and they have control over it regardless of whether or not you own it."
According to the Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities under Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/Modules/Common/Pages/TermsConditions.aspx#ixzz10PP3C1KP
According to Chris Crum on WebProNews "According to Twitter's terms of service, you own your content, but Twitter does host it and they have control over it regardless of whether or not you own it."
According to the Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities under Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:
- For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to yourprivacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
retrieved from - http://www.facebook.com/terms.php
According to Myspace terms and conditions under Proprietary Rights in Content on MySpace.
6.1 MySpace does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you transmit, submit, display or publish (“post”) on, through or in connection with the MySpace Services. After posting your Content on, through or in connection with the MySpace Services, you continue to retain any such rights that you may have in your Content, subject to the limited license herein. By posting any Content on, through or in connection with the MySpace Services, you hereby grant to MySpace a limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on, through or in connection with the MySpace Services, including, without limitation, through the MySpace Services to applications, widgets, websites or mobile, desktop or other services which are linked with your MySpace account (collectively, “Linked Services”), including, without limitation, distributing part or all of the MySpace Services and any Content included therein, in any media formats and through any media channels, except that Content marked “private” will not be distributed by MySpace outside the MySpace Services and Linked Services.
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/Modules/Common/Pages/TermsConditions.aspx#ixzz10PP3C1KP
Week 6 - culture jam
Today in the Tute, Jordan and Amanda created facebook pages for our culture jam and Caitlin and I created a Blog.
Amanda said that the facebook pages "No Fatties on Light Rail" and "Equality on Gold Coast Light Rail" weren't very effective because she had trouble getting people to join the group - I didn't even want to join the group because then it would come up on my own personal facebook page and I can already guess which of my friends would comment on it and say that Im mean and shallow and thats before they even read about the group or ask me why I joined it. Amanda said that most of the people who joined the group were American drag queens and she said she had no idea why they even joined in the first place.
The blog called "Fat Pride" was supposed to be a blog written in the perspective of a "big" girl who resented the fact that the transport fares were going up because of large people and she hated the fact that facebook pages had been set up by skinny people to "dis" the "fatties." On the blog are facts and articles about "big" people.
All in all, our culture jam pretty much failed, we didn't get many people to join or follow our webpages and I'm pretty sure only Jordan, Amanda, Caitlin, Jules and I ever "knew" about the whole thing.
Amanda said that the facebook pages "No Fatties on Light Rail" and "Equality on Gold Coast Light Rail" weren't very effective because she had trouble getting people to join the group - I didn't even want to join the group because then it would come up on my own personal facebook page and I can already guess which of my friends would comment on it and say that Im mean and shallow and thats before they even read about the group or ask me why I joined it. Amanda said that most of the people who joined the group were American drag queens and she said she had no idea why they even joined in the first place.
The blog called "Fat Pride" was supposed to be a blog written in the perspective of a "big" girl who resented the fact that the transport fares were going up because of large people and she hated the fact that facebook pages had been set up by skinny people to "dis" the "fatties." On the blog are facts and articles about "big" people.
All in all, our culture jam pretty much failed, we didn't get many people to join or follow our webpages and I'm pretty sure only Jordan, Amanda, Caitlin, Jules and I ever "knew" about the whole thing.
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