Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Week 5 - tute exercise.
The tutetask this time is to go in groups and make a culture jam. Then we have to post on the blog who is doing what in the group, and how we are going to make the culture jam, and what it is about in week 5. The finished product, as I was told by the New Communication Technology team, is not due until week 9.
In the first tutorial there where hardly any people to make a group with, so I decided to wait until the next tutorial to make a group. But I started to do some research on culture jam. I found many interesting things, and idea`s. You can basicly do everything. Just not anything illegal of course. I am very excited about this project! So when I got in to the next tutorial I formed a group with Lisa, Sophie, Phill and Craig. And we started shooting idea`s. We are five people in the group, so it takes sometime to decide on something. But after a while, going back and forth, we came up with an idea with sharks. The way we came up with this idea is that we started thinking of what we can use in teh local area. And as we all know, here at the Gold Coast there are many channels where the sharks get in. This made us think about ways to make this a culture jam. Around the Coast there is shark nets, but there are some cleaver sharks that does not mind the net. So where thinking that we could make something that would "scare" people, something that would make the news. Because sharks are scary! And it attracks peoples attention. We came up with several idea`s of how we should do this, and I think the most of us where voting for the filming. We are all collecting information on how we could do this. So we are meeting up again to share the information, and start filming. We want to make something shocking that will attrac people`s attention, so we could make the news. My job is to search the web for shark stories, so that we could have a look at what people have did before, and accidents etc. That is everybody elses jobs as well, to search the internet for shark stories and gathering information about the subject. We haven`t really delegated the work, so we are all doing some research. We really want to do something great! So we are putting a lot of effort into making a great culture jam!
In the first tutorial there where hardly any people to make a group with, so I decided to wait until the next tutorial to make a group. But I started to do some research on culture jam. I found many interesting things, and idea`s. You can basicly do everything. Just not anything illegal of course. I am very excited about this project! So when I got in to the next tutorial I formed a group with Lisa, Sophie, Phill and Craig. And we started shooting idea`s. We are five people in the group, so it takes sometime to decide on something. But after a while, going back and forth, we came up with an idea with sharks. The way we came up with this idea is that we started thinking of what we can use in teh local area. And as we all know, here at the Gold Coast there are many channels where the sharks get in. This made us think about ways to make this a culture jam. Around the Coast there is shark nets, but there are some cleaver sharks that does not mind the net. So where thinking that we could make something that would "scare" people, something that would make the news. Because sharks are scary! And it attracks peoples attention. We came up with several idea`s of how we should do this, and I think the most of us where voting for the filming. We are all collecting information on how we could do this. So we are meeting up again to share the information, and start filming. We want to make something shocking that will attrac people`s attention, so we could make the news. My job is to search the web for shark stories, so that we could have a look at what people have did before, and accidents etc. That is everybody elses jobs as well, to search the internet for shark stories and gathering information about the subject. We haven`t really delegated the work, so we are all doing some research. We really want to do something great! So we are putting a lot of effort into making a great culture jam!
Response to lecture week 5.
"Consumption and production".
This week the lecturer introduced us to the topic "consumption and production". These are both very interesting topics. This lecture lead us into the world of activie citizens that again leads us into culture jamming witch is this week tutorial activity tasks. After taking a look at my notes after this lecture I found a note where I had written down a sentence that said "we are cumsomers of the content". This is also a sentence that is written in the course content file of week 5. And I want to reflect a bit around this sentence. What does it mean? I think the meaning of this is that we the people are affected by the advertisement and cummorcials that we see around us. Our subconscious take in every thing that we see a in a way save`s it in our minds. So the next time we are out shopping at this famous brand (a famous brand made by the power of the media), we buy the clothes that was showed in the ad, or on the cummorcial on TV. It works the same way when we go into stores or supermarkets. We always buy the brands that we know about, and these are the brands that we see around us.
We never think about how these things affect us. Just take a look at all the new things showing up in the market every day, like Iphone, Ipod, new computers, internet stores and so on. This ad`s affect us. It makes people buy it. This is propaganda, half of the stuff we are introduced to is just rubbish. I was suprised to know that there where so many social activist that is out there and doing there culture jam. Like twisting ad`s and cummorcial or doing something spectacular with the important people around us, or the environment. In the lecture they where called "citizen journalism", and I like to call them social activist because they are working on their own and not for a firm. They find information, which they use to make the ad`s backwards and other issues that they upload online for people to see. I have to be honest again and say that I haven`t seen a lot of these culture jam videos or ad`s, because I mostly watch news, or read the papers. I am an old fashion prson I think. But I think it is very cool when the social activist actually make the news, and I hope that is what we will do with our culture jam. The internet is really full of opportunities!
This week the lecturer introduced us to the topic "consumption and production". These are both very interesting topics. This lecture lead us into the world of activie citizens that again leads us into culture jamming witch is this week tutorial activity tasks. After taking a look at my notes after this lecture I found a note where I had written down a sentence that said "we are cumsomers of the content". This is also a sentence that is written in the course content file of week 5. And I want to reflect a bit around this sentence. What does it mean? I think the meaning of this is that we the people are affected by the advertisement and cummorcials that we see around us. Our subconscious take in every thing that we see a in a way save`s it in our minds. So the next time we are out shopping at this famous brand (a famous brand made by the power of the media), we buy the clothes that was showed in the ad, or on the cummorcial on TV. It works the same way when we go into stores or supermarkets. We always buy the brands that we know about, and these are the brands that we see around us.
We never think about how these things affect us. Just take a look at all the new things showing up in the market every day, like Iphone, Ipod, new computers, internet stores and so on. This ad`s affect us. It makes people buy it. This is propaganda, half of the stuff we are introduced to is just rubbish. I was suprised to know that there where so many social activist that is out there and doing there culture jam. Like twisting ad`s and cummorcial or doing something spectacular with the important people around us, or the environment. In the lecture they where called "citizen journalism", and I like to call them social activist because they are working on their own and not for a firm. They find information, which they use to make the ad`s backwards and other issues that they upload online for people to see. I have to be honest again and say that I haven`t seen a lot of these culture jam videos or ad`s, because I mostly watch news, or read the papers. I am an old fashion prson I think. But I think it is very cool when the social activist actually make the news, and I hope that is what we will do with our culture jam. The internet is really full of opportunities!
Week 5 tutespark.
Culture jamming.
This week we got a task that said that we had to find out what is considered to be the first culture jam. But first I want to take a look at what culture jam really means. I am a international student, and as much as I do not want to admit this, it is sometimes a bit hard to understand what the tutor/lecturer want us to find. So I looked up culture jam online, and got to read a bit about it. And it is really interesting! I will say that the definision of culture jam is a kind of tactic used by social activist to make people see the "real" truth behind advertising. This social activist is the consumers of the ad`s. They often use the all ready published advertising to front their vision. This method is used to make people see that advertsing is just propanganda, and that is just tricking us to buy, or do the stuf that they front in the advertisement. Let`s take a typical commercial, like the ones that for example H&M use. Here they show of their clothes on skinny skinny girls, giving the message, that if you buy these clothes you would look like the girl on the picture. The biggest problem with this kind of commercial is that the models becomes thinner and thinner every year. What does this do with people`s confidence? It gives a underline message that makes insecure girls wanna lose weight. There is a fact that eating disorders is starting to increase around the world. It becomes more and more common to know someone that has eating disorders or have had it! This say something about the world! And it is in these situations that culture jam activist is good to have. They turn this commercial picture of the perfect person on the head, and show us real people.
In Norway we had this commercial on TV, where there wore real women posing in their underwear to advertise a skincream. I is not a norwegian commercial, it was just showed a lot on TV back home, and that is why I remember it. People like to see that real people like themself is used as positive role models.
This week we got a task that said that we had to find out what is considered to be the first culture jam. But first I want to take a look at what culture jam really means. I am a international student, and as much as I do not want to admit this, it is sometimes a bit hard to understand what the tutor/lecturer want us to find. So I looked up culture jam online, and got to read a bit about it. And it is really interesting! I will say that the definision of culture jam is a kind of tactic used by social activist to make people see the "real" truth behind advertising. This social activist is the consumers of the ad`s. They often use the all ready published advertising to front their vision. This method is used to make people see that advertsing is just propanganda, and that is just tricking us to buy, or do the stuf that they front in the advertisement. Let`s take a typical commercial, like the ones that for example H&M use. Here they show of their clothes on skinny skinny girls, giving the message, that if you buy these clothes you would look like the girl on the picture. The biggest problem with this kind of commercial is that the models becomes thinner and thinner every year. What does this do with people`s confidence? It gives a underline message that makes insecure girls wanna lose weight. There is a fact that eating disorders is starting to increase around the world. It becomes more and more common to know someone that has eating disorders or have had it! This say something about the world! And it is in these situations that culture jam activist is good to have. They turn this commercial picture of the perfect person on the head, and show us real people.
In Norway we had this commercial on TV, where there wore real women posing in their underwear to advertise a skincream. I is not a norwegian commercial, it was just showed a lot on TV back home, and that is why I remember it. People like to see that real people like themself is used as positive role models.
This ad was made in 2006 to connect with real women. It was a big hit for Dove, and it did not cost much. People loved the ad, and it was a positive thing for Dove, beacuse then they managed to sell more products. I think this is the way ad`s should be, real!
When it comes to the first example of culture jamming, I will say that this was a hard one to find. And I think the answer will depend on the source. I managed to find out something on Wikipedias pages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming
It says that culture jamming can be tracked as far back as the 1950s. And the source says that it was one very active group in Europe called the Situationists. Their leader was a man called Guy Debord. The group saw everything from radioes and TVs as a threat. I also found out that this group was responsible for a mass strike in France 1968. http://libcom.org/thought/situationists-an-introduction
There are many debates going on around the world about fitness and health. People are getting bigger and bigger. There is to much unhealthy food everywhere we go. The commercial and adds makes people buy the junk food, the candy and the soda`s. In Norway they have now forbidden commercials of junkfood, candy and soda`s on TV. And the candy at supermarkets can`t no longer be placed in front of the cash register. I found a really funny poster about this unhealthy way of advertising that really shows us that we got to do something. The culture jam uses the sarcasm to make their point.
When it comes to the first example of culture jamming, I will say that this was a hard one to find. And I think the answer will depend on the source. I managed to find out something on Wikipedias pages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming
It says that culture jamming can be tracked as far back as the 1950s. And the source says that it was one very active group in Europe called the Situationists. Their leader was a man called Guy Debord. The group saw everything from radioes and TVs as a threat. I also found out that this group was responsible for a mass strike in France 1968. http://libcom.org/thought/situationists-an-introduction
There are many debates going on around the world about fitness and health. People are getting bigger and bigger. There is to much unhealthy food everywhere we go. The commercial and adds makes people buy the junk food, the candy and the soda`s. In Norway they have now forbidden commercials of junkfood, candy and soda`s on TV. And the candy at supermarkets can`t no longer be placed in front of the cash register. I found a really funny poster about this unhealthy way of advertising that really shows us that we got to do something. The culture jam uses the sarcasm to make their point.
This poster is an old poster that was made by the Soda Pop Board of America. And they managed to give the message to the parents that they should not feed their babies Cola, beacuse it can give them diabetes, obesity and other disabilities and illnesses. I am not sure when the ad was made, I can not find an exact date.
This culture jam was made to make people see what alcohol do to them. The culture jam activist made the original ad into what they called an "Absolute Impotence", where they make the bottle look like a person would look like when they drink alcohol. The ad was made by the adbusters, and I think they made it in 2009, at least that is what i the website says. I find it very hard to find out when they where made.
This website has a lot of culture jams! I just have to put in one more!
This culture jam is also made by the adbusters. It was made to put a laugh on the fact that McDonald`s food is very unhealthy, and that people could actually die of eating McDonald`s every day. It is kind of a funny way of getting the information out there though. But it works! People is dragged to ad`s and commercial of this type. It is in a way shocking and funny.
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