For the essay topic I have chosen topic number 5. I think this is an interesting topic because for example Facebook is a huge social network these days, everybody has it. And as I have said before, what people write, photoes and videos can tell a lot about a person. So I think I will have a lot to write about.
5. How do social media change our understanding of individual identity, with regard to the kinds of people we have in our social networks?
Evaluation of the course.
I must say that I was kind of nervous and excited about this course when I enrolled. I was nervous because I am very bad at computers (especially macs), and I was excited because it sounded very interesting. I have learned a lot in this course, especially about research! i now know how to make a blog, which is a good experience. There has also been some downs if the tasks has been very hard, but a challenge is always good.
3 good things about the course:
- gaining knowledge about computers and the internet.
- gaining research skills.
- develop myself into the blog society.
3 not so good things about the course:
- I think that week 5 tutorial task was very unethical.
- should be more instruction on how to upload things to the blog.
- should have been proper information about how to use the URL adress the right way from day 1.
But overall it was a very good course! Good luck in the future with new students!
Friday, September 24, 2010
Response to lecture week 9.
Cyberpunk.
This week lecture was about cyberpunk. The lecture notes where not very readable. And as I have been very sick I did not partcipate in theis lecture. The picture I got out of the lecture notes is that it was a lot of focus on computer games and so on. Something I am very against. i think that children should be outside playing and develope themselves and not sit inside the house playing games. I have never really spend any time playing this games (all though I remember my brother did play a bit when we grew up), I was just not interested. I found it quite boring actually, and that is why I have never been interested in computers either. I think it has to much influence on our lifes and controls it to much.
Anyway, we learned a lot about cyberpunk in last week tutorial/tutespark, and I want to refer to what I wrote about cyberpunk in that task.
This week lecture was about cyberpunk. The lecture notes where not very readable. And as I have been very sick I did not partcipate in theis lecture. The picture I got out of the lecture notes is that it was a lot of focus on computer games and so on. Something I am very against. i think that children should be outside playing and develope themselves and not sit inside the house playing games. I have never really spend any time playing this games (all though I remember my brother did play a bit when we grew up), I was just not interested. I found it quite boring actually, and that is why I have never been interested in computers either. I think it has to much influence on our lifes and controls it to much.
Anyway, we learned a lot about cyberpunk in last week tutorial/tutespark, and I want to refer to what I wrote about cyberpunk in that task.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Week 8 tutorial tasks/ tutespark!
Negative impact of technology on humanity.
I have chosen the topic "negative impact of technology on humanity" as my cyberpunk.
I think topic is something that is important to look at as the world today is developed around technology. How could we even survive without technology. It has a huge impact on our lifes, wherever we turn there is technology in form of a mobilephone, laptopp, tv, microwave and so on. I am not a good internet searcher (but I have become much better after this course), but I managed to find a page that involves this issue. http://www.cyberpunkwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=What_is_Cyberpunk%3F.
My topic has a following description on the tutespark blog: "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".
On this page there is a link to an youtube movie about what cyberpunk is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D80jhU6t-VA&feature=player_embedded.
Cyberpunk is according to the first link: "Cyberpunk is about expressing (often dark) ideas about human nature, technology and their respective combination in the near future".
they kind of highlight the issues according to for example technology in an ironic way, so that we will recieve the message.
i managed to find a video on youtube that is named: The Role of Technology in Society. This ia video that shows how family life has been impact with technology over the years, and how it is affecting the families everyday life. Back in the old days before TV arrived the family sat around the table together to have dinner, then came the TV and soon the attention around the dinner table was at the TV box. After the TV came all the other technology, like discman, mobilephone, gameboys, MP3`s, laptop and so on, and suddenly the family life was all about these inventions, not about each other. It is quite often we see a mother walking around with the baby carriage and talkes on their cellphone. Especially cellphones impact not just our lifes but evryone around us as well. We talk on the phone while we are driving and risk being hurt in traffic, we are constantly by our phones ready to answer everytime a message ticks in no matter where we are. We often see people walking around with their head down texting. How will this use of cellphone affects our health in the future as it is already affecting us a lot. this video shows exactly what i am talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-iiYRe5KE. (I have problems uploading the videos so I can only share the links.)
After watching this movie I suddenly think of all the newsstories that pups up in the papers from time to time about cellphones and the cancer risk. Since cellphones has not existed for so long it has been difficult to do a lot of research on this problem, but they have found out that it could have an effect on for exampe brain cancer and other tissues. I know this is not a very current news story right now, but I have to say that I think this issue is quite current anyway, and tehy are still doing a lot of research on it, and there will always be released new dicoveries on this field. For a couple of months ago there was a story in one of Norways top news papers about how carefully parents should be when they buy cellphones for their kids. I have tried to find the news story again, but it is not possible. Well i remember I read the article, and it said that researchers find out new things about cellphones impact on our health everyday, and the cancer risk. They claim that talking a lot in the phone gives a higher risk of getting brain cancer, having your phone in your pocket can may even make you steril, and sleeping with your phone next to bed can disturb your sleep. The articke said that to give a cellphone to a six year old was not very wise because of all these new founds, and if you are going to give them one, you should have restricions on how they should use them and how many hours per day. I did some research online and found a page where they explain a lot about cellphone and why it could be danger. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cellphones.
I have chosen the topic "negative impact of technology on humanity" as my cyberpunk.
I think topic is something that is important to look at as the world today is developed around technology. How could we even survive without technology. It has a huge impact on our lifes, wherever we turn there is technology in form of a mobilephone, laptopp, tv, microwave and so on. I am not a good internet searcher (but I have become much better after this course), but I managed to find a page that involves this issue. http://www.cyberpunkwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=What_is_Cyberpunk%3F.
My topic has a following description on the tutespark blog: "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".
On this page there is a link to an youtube movie about what cyberpunk is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D80jhU6t-VA&feature=player_embedded.
Cyberpunk is according to the first link: "Cyberpunk is about expressing (often dark) ideas about human nature, technology and their respective combination in the near future".
they kind of highlight the issues according to for example technology in an ironic way, so that we will recieve the message.
i managed to find a video on youtube that is named: The Role of Technology in Society. This ia video that shows how family life has been impact with technology over the years, and how it is affecting the families everyday life. Back in the old days before TV arrived the family sat around the table together to have dinner, then came the TV and soon the attention around the dinner table was at the TV box. After the TV came all the other technology, like discman, mobilephone, gameboys, MP3`s, laptop and so on, and suddenly the family life was all about these inventions, not about each other. It is quite often we see a mother walking around with the baby carriage and talkes on their cellphone. Especially cellphones impact not just our lifes but evryone around us as well. We talk on the phone while we are driving and risk being hurt in traffic, we are constantly by our phones ready to answer everytime a message ticks in no matter where we are. We often see people walking around with their head down texting. How will this use of cellphone affects our health in the future as it is already affecting us a lot. this video shows exactly what i am talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-iiYRe5KE. (I have problems uploading the videos so I can only share the links.)
After watching this movie I suddenly think of all the newsstories that pups up in the papers from time to time about cellphones and the cancer risk. Since cellphones has not existed for so long it has been difficult to do a lot of research on this problem, but they have found out that it could have an effect on for exampe brain cancer and other tissues. I know this is not a very current news story right now, but I have to say that I think this issue is quite current anyway, and tehy are still doing a lot of research on it, and there will always be released new dicoveries on this field. For a couple of months ago there was a story in one of Norways top news papers about how carefully parents should be when they buy cellphones for their kids. I have tried to find the news story again, but it is not possible. Well i remember I read the article, and it said that researchers find out new things about cellphones impact on our health everyday, and the cancer risk. They claim that talking a lot in the phone gives a higher risk of getting brain cancer, having your phone in your pocket can may even make you steril, and sleeping with your phone next to bed can disturb your sleep. The articke said that to give a cellphone to a six year old was not very wise because of all these new founds, and if you are going to give them one, you should have restricions on how they should use them and how many hours per day. I did some research online and found a page where they explain a lot about cellphone and why it could be danger. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cellphones.
Response to lecture week 8.
Virtual philosophy.
Virtual philospohy is about what we "think" is real is actually not real. Virtual reality involves our two senses like sight and hearing. This makes us able to think that something is real when it is not. Like when we read a book, we can have the same reactions to become mad, angry, sad etc. as if we experienced the same in real life. When we play for example a computer game and we are competing against others in a car race, it could feel as it is real life. We are to caught up in the moment to separate fiction and real life.
I think we all have heard about women wanting to have a baby so bad that they loose their period and the pregnancy test is positive, even the blodtest because the woman produces so many of the hormones women get when they are pregnant. They can even feel fetal movement! this a serious menatl illness, but still, it is something virtual, they are so blinde to the feeling of wanting to become a mother that their body belives it as well, but in real life they are not.
Virtual philospohy is about what we "think" is real is actually not real. Virtual reality involves our two senses like sight and hearing. This makes us able to think that something is real when it is not. Like when we read a book, we can have the same reactions to become mad, angry, sad etc. as if we experienced the same in real life. When we play for example a computer game and we are competing against others in a car race, it could feel as it is real life. We are to caught up in the moment to separate fiction and real life.
I think we all have heard about women wanting to have a baby so bad that they loose their period and the pregnancy test is positive, even the blodtest because the woman produces so many of the hormones women get when they are pregnant. They can even feel fetal movement! this a serious menatl illness, but still, it is something virtual, they are so blinde to the feeling of wanting to become a mother that their body belives it as well, but in real life they are not.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Week 7 tutespark.
Free software.
- 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.
The only free software I have used is Mozilla firefox. I used to have it on my computer along with the Internet explorer. But suddenly one day it disappeard, so now I had the chance to get it back. I like Mozilla Firefox because it is easy to use, it is faster than internet explorer. I would definitely recommend Firefox to other friends.
- 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.
The only free software I have used is Mozilla firefox. I used to have it on my computer along with the Internet explorer. But suddenly one day it disappeard, so now I had the chance to get it back. I like Mozilla Firefox because it is easy to use, it is faster than internet explorer. I would definitely recommend Firefox to other friends.
Response to lecture week 7/ Tutorial tasks.
Free culture, Free society.
This week the lecture was about free culture and free society with the key words: community, collabration and choice. Adam Muir hold the lecture and explained to us how the copyright works. I think many of us where a bit shocked over how it is so stricted that people coild actually go to jail if we use someones software without "paying" so the creators will give us premission to use it. For example when we go out to the stores to buy a new computer we often buy the office package to install word etc, and we often pay like 200 dollars for this. There is also a lot of free software that anyone can use and give away without being put in jail for it. This belongs to the public, and the middle between the free and not free is called creative commons, Adam explained to us. This is made to calm the copyright laws down, but not removing it and this opens up to collabration (one of our keywords) in the online community.
Adam also mentioned a site they have here in Australia for creative commons: http://creativecommons.org.au/
As he explained to us here can people who create their own work demand to not have so strict copyrights to the distrubution of their product. Of course the owner has to have some credit for it, but the owner decide how he/shes work is put out there.
We all have a choice when it comes to the internet and the software. We are allowed to use free software or the software we buy at the stores with our computer for example. Free software is easily found on the internet and many people uses it. Why pay a lot of money for something when you can get something that is just as good for free.
Tutorial activity.
1. What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?
As I understood after being in Adams lecture creative commons is a not for profit organisastion that gives licences so peoples ordinary work can be used by others. As I have mentioned in earlier post I am really not a big compuer person, I hardly know how to turn it on. And Facebook, hotmail and google is teh only thing I usually uses. In my University student life I like to use books and other reviews as sources because I know there is a lot of non serious things online, and I think it is hard to find what I am looking for. And I am going to be a teacher, so I don`t see how creative commons would be relevant to my studies or future jobs. But I think it was interesting to learn about it.
2.Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.
I did some search around the internet and came across a list over work created by creative commons licences on Wikipedia. One of these is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Library_of_Science.
"The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. It launched its first journal, PLoS Biology, in October 2003 and has steadily created another seven journals".
There is several other listing as well on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_available_under_a_Creative_Commons_License.
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.
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.
The search online gave me this link to a webpage: http://portableapps.com/. They explain on this page that portable apps is: "PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). The entire platform is open source built around an open format that any hardware or software provider can use". This means that portable apps is a software that is downloaded to be used on any of the listings below, and it is very useful for anybody who does not want to drag their computer along all the time.
This week the lecture was about free culture and free society with the key words: community, collabration and choice. Adam Muir hold the lecture and explained to us how the copyright works. I think many of us where a bit shocked over how it is so stricted that people coild actually go to jail if we use someones software without "paying" so the creators will give us premission to use it. For example when we go out to the stores to buy a new computer we often buy the office package to install word etc, and we often pay like 200 dollars for this. There is also a lot of free software that anyone can use and give away without being put in jail for it. This belongs to the public, and the middle between the free and not free is called creative commons, Adam explained to us. This is made to calm the copyright laws down, but not removing it and this opens up to collabration (one of our keywords) in the online community.
Adam also mentioned a site they have here in Australia for creative commons: http://creativecommons.org.au/
As he explained to us here can people who create their own work demand to not have so strict copyrights to the distrubution of their product. Of course the owner has to have some credit for it, but the owner decide how he/shes work is put out there.
We all have a choice when it comes to the internet and the software. We are allowed to use free software or the software we buy at the stores with our computer for example. Free software is easily found on the internet and many people uses it. Why pay a lot of money for something when you can get something that is just as good for free.
Tutorial activity.
1. What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?
As I understood after being in Adams lecture creative commons is a not for profit organisastion that gives licences so peoples ordinary work can be used by others. As I have mentioned in earlier post I am really not a big compuer person, I hardly know how to turn it on. And Facebook, hotmail and google is teh only thing I usually uses. In my University student life I like to use books and other reviews as sources because I know there is a lot of non serious things online, and I think it is hard to find what I am looking for. And I am going to be a teacher, so I don`t see how creative commons would be relevant to my studies or future jobs. But I think it was interesting to learn about it.
2.Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.
I did some search around the internet and came across a list over work created by creative commons licences on Wikipedia. One of these is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Library_of_Science.
"The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. It launched its first journal, PLoS Biology, in October 2003 and has steadily created another seven journals".
There is several other listing as well on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_available_under_a_Creative_Commons_License.
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.
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.
The search online gave me this link to a webpage: http://portableapps.com/. They explain on this page that portable apps is: "PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). The entire platform is open source built around an open format that any hardware or software provider can use". This means that portable apps is a software that is downloaded to be used on any of the listings below, and it is very useful for anybody who does not want to drag their computer along all the time.
Response to lecture week 6/ tutespark
New media and social media.
This week Adam Muir had a lecture about new media and social media. He discussed what virtual community and internet identity is. He said that when internet was first abel to use for people virtual community was like a little community og people that communicated with each other through the internet and made relationships this way. In this way people could for example pretend to be someone else then they are.
Then people started to open different forums where people with the same interest could discuss what they had in common. Adam called this online communication. Forums does still exist today, but this online communication has developed into social networks like Facebook, Twitter, My space, blogs, etc. And people can now share their content with everyone else.
Adam gave us some questions that is this week tutespark.
- 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?
- Who has the right to use your creations?
The only content I upload on the internet is photoes and videos on Facebook. I know that I do not own what I put on Facebook, as a friend of my told me so. And it is quite scary that we actually do not have any control over our own content. On Facebook we are able to copy and paste the photos of other peoples facebook accounts. I have even done it myself. And this happens without our knowledge. This is why people can be exposed and their pictures manipulated on internet web pages that they do not wont to be involved with. I know that this has happen to people, and I think it is strange that Facebook hasen`t put a lock on the photos for example, so people are not able to copy them.
In Norway we have this internet page called http://www.daria.no/skole/ where people upload their school assignment that they have recieved good grades on when they are high school students. Everybody is able to copy this assignments and take credit for it as it was their own work. I know for a fact that some students at my high school did this, some where caught and some got away for it.
Once you upload content on the internet you do not really have any control over it, and everybody who uses the internet can easily steal your content, abuse it on other internet pages or even take credit for your work. It is a risk we all take when we upload something on any webpages. Many people does not have this in mind when they put things out there, and it is scary to see what people actually upload some times. People who apply for jobs in Norway could risk that their future boss check their facebook to see what kind of person you are. So it is very important to have a closed profile. People have lost the opportunity to have their dream job if they have for example to much party pictures on their facebook. The picture on Facebook, blogs and other social networks can tell a lot about you as a person, so people have to be careful of what content they put on their Facebook account.
This week Adam Muir had a lecture about new media and social media. He discussed what virtual community and internet identity is. He said that when internet was first abel to use for people virtual community was like a little community og people that communicated with each other through the internet and made relationships this way. In this way people could for example pretend to be someone else then they are.
Then people started to open different forums where people with the same interest could discuss what they had in common. Adam called this online communication. Forums does still exist today, but this online communication has developed into social networks like Facebook, Twitter, My space, blogs, etc. And people can now share their content with everyone else.
Adam gave us some questions that is this week tutespark.
- 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?
- Who has the right to use your creations?
The only content I upload on the internet is photoes and videos on Facebook. I know that I do not own what I put on Facebook, as a friend of my told me so. And it is quite scary that we actually do not have any control over our own content. On Facebook we are able to copy and paste the photos of other peoples facebook accounts. I have even done it myself. And this happens without our knowledge. This is why people can be exposed and their pictures manipulated on internet web pages that they do not wont to be involved with. I know that this has happen to people, and I think it is strange that Facebook hasen`t put a lock on the photos for example, so people are not able to copy them.
In Norway we have this internet page called http://www.daria.no/skole/ where people upload their school assignment that they have recieved good grades on when they are high school students. Everybody is able to copy this assignments and take credit for it as it was their own work. I know for a fact that some students at my high school did this, some where caught and some got away for it.
Once you upload content on the internet you do not really have any control over it, and everybody who uses the internet can easily steal your content, abuse it on other internet pages or even take credit for your work. It is a risk we all take when we upload something on any webpages. Many people does not have this in mind when they put things out there, and it is scary to see what people actually upload some times. People who apply for jobs in Norway could risk that their future boss check their facebook to see what kind of person you are. So it is very important to have a closed profile. People have lost the opportunity to have their dream job if they have for example to much party pictures on their facebook. The picture on Facebook, blogs and other social networks can tell a lot about you as a person, so people have to be careful of what content they put on their Facebook account.
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