Essay.1501.How do social media change our understanding of individual identity, with regard to the kinds of people we have in our social networks?

In today’s society, social network sites (SNS) have several other purposes than mentioned in this essay. Citizens of today’s world consider the SNS such as Facebook as their main communication channels. In this essay one of the focuses will be on the SNS Facebook, and to what extent Internet dating is used in today’s society. One of the histories goes back to 1997, when what seemed to be the first social networking site sixDegrees.com were launched. The site allowed people to make simple profiles, and in the beginning of 1998, the users could search their friend list. SixDegrees.com was shut down in 2000 for lack of purpose for its concept. Looking back, its founder believes that SixDegrees was simply ahead of its time.

In 2008 the sixth most trafficked website did not start out with the purpose it carries today (Lewis, Kaufman, Gonzales and Wimmer, 2008). In the beginning of 2004 Facebook was designed to be a college network for Harvard students (Cassidy 2006). One of the necessities to be part of this college network was to have a university email address associated with those institutions. In the beginning of 2005 they included high school students and professionals inside corporate networks and eventually, everyone (Boyd & Ellison 2007). Key terms addressed in this essay is as following, the way social media is used by consumers in today’s society is numerous.

Social network sites can be defined as web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system. What makes social network sites unique is that people make contact with strange people from other countries in their social network, this can result in relationships that would not been made otherwise. (Haythornthwaite, 2005)

People taking on various identities online to fit the cultural norms in the society, is not a new matter. Social network sites such as various dating sites allow people to create profiles that contain personal and sensitive information about themselves (R.Gross & A.Acquisti,2005). The use of information technology to find and meet new partners can be located all the way back to the 1960 when using information collected from a questionnaire were used to match people. They promoted the research as ‘scientifically’ matching people to gain trust and popularity. Internet dating is characterised by a” seamless movement between reading descriptions and writing responses and exchanging messages” .(Godwin 1973)

In recent years the use of online dating and personal services online has burst out. In 2003, at least 29 million Americans that is two out of five singles, used a online dating service (Gershberg,2004) further on in 2004, on average 40 million visit any online dating sites each month in the U.S. A research conducted in 2001, found that over a quarter of online dating partakers reported misrepresenting some aspect of their identity, most frequent, age (14%), marital status (10%), and appearance (10%) (Brym & Lenton,2001)

Some of the benefits from Internet dating is that the awkwardness, physical stress and the embarrassment associated with real-life dating can be avoided. Dating sites reflects the diversity of individuals and are dedicated to such people belong to same religious group, sexual preferences and disables people. However the majority of dating sites appeal to the heterosexual marked, and can often be seen advertising with “finding your soul mate”. They can further on be divided into whether they are free of service or charging users. It may appear more trustful to use services with fees. ( M. Hardey 2002). Self-disclosure is an act of revealing personal information about oneself to others.

Self-disclosure is one important subject when it comes to who people present themselves as online, especially in a dating setting. Research reveals the relative anonymity of online interactions and the lack of a shared social network online may allow individuals to reveal potentially negative aspects of them online (Bargh et al., 2002). The perception that people are lying about whom they are on their online dating profile is not a new phenomenon. This may encourage to mutual dishonesty, concern about this deception in the dating industry has made services that help online daters uncover inaccuracies in others’ representations and run background checks. As a result of this, the dating site True.com have started to run background checks on their user, and are working on introducing legislations that would force dating sites to run background checks on their users or to display a requirement to do so. (Lee 2004). Online predators finds online dating very useful because such sites give them an unending supply of new targets of opportunity of internet fraud, a study conducted by Liebert & McGerty 2000 found that there was a false degree of safety assumed by women looking for a partner online, exposing them to stalking, fraud and sexual violence.

In conclusion online dating is a relatively new phenomenon; such expectations may change as it becomes more commonplace. Most of the current literature about online dating relies on self-report data, therefore the offers only limited insight into the extent to which misrepresentation may be occurring and result in inaccurate information in the field. There is also to be found people creating fake profiles to benefit other than themselves.

Reference list:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00020.x/pdf

Lee 2004

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00020.x/pdf

sexDegrees.com

http://blog.afridesign.com/2010/09/sixdegrees-com-social-networking-in-its-infancy/

Lebert & McGerty 2000

http://web.ebscohost.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=7&sid=da3bccd8-aa34-4eb3-a2c1-c1f98bac2cb2%40sessionmgr110

Lewis, Kaufman, Gonzales and Wimmer, 2008).

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VD1-4T3M686-1&_user=10&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2008&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1510202696&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=dcb39a3d8ab5014e8e12bc8737b4d27f&searchtype=a

Cassidy, 2006

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00367.x/full

Boyd & Ellison 2007

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ECR0713.pdf

Haythornthwaite 2005

http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=zeP1UdZKYfIC&oi=fnd&pg=PA121&dq=(Haythornthwaite,+Social+networks+and+Internet+connectivity+effects,+2005&ots=3Q8AyGY6Wt&sig=YSLJXNHAF4-jxl9V2gTKE_EnF_k#v=onepage&q=(Haythornthwaite%2C%20Social%20networks%20and%20Internet%20connectivity%20effects%2C%202005&f=false

R.Gross & A.Acquisti,2005

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1102199.1102214

Godwin 1973

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Gershberg 2004

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Brym and Lenton 2001

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M.Hardey 2002

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Bargh et al., 2002

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.141922?journalCode=psych

Liebert & McGerty 2000

http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/10949310050191863

Lee 2004

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00020.x/full

Week 10, course evaluation

I have decided to make this evaluation of the course as fear as possible. So i am going to say 5 positive, and 5 negative things about the course.

Always start with the positive.

1. I think the lecture topics and the information given was relevant, at least to some extent.

2. I found it really exciting to blog each week, I would have never in my life created a blog, but here i am blogging. And i LIKE it.

3. We got a really nice and helpful tutor Lauren, i must admit i felt sorry for her the times she was suppose to give us instructions , and nobody from the "higher level" had made them.

4. The Tutesparks, were both challenging and fun at the same time.

5. I really enjoyed this way of learning and writing things in my own words, i am used to read page up and down and write boring academic reports, i really liked doing things in a different manner for a change.

No unfortunately NEGATIVE.

1. as mentioned above, this course lack of organisation and structure.

2. the way due dates are changes with short notice is really frustrating when you have 3 other subject to organise also, i must admit that is very unprofessional for a University.

3. I thought it was a joke when i found out that our week 8 tutorial task, was copied and pasted from a internet page, plagiarism!!

4.i must admit the topics in the lectures was a bit all over the place, i left a lot of lectures asking myself " what was that really about"?

5. it ways way more time consuming then i had ever imagined.

week 9. tutorial

I chose topic # 5 for my essay; "How do social media change our understanding of individual identity, with regard to the kinds of people we have in our social networks?"

My first thoughts around this essay topic is to define Social Media, and write about social network sites such as Twitter/Facebook/Dating sites. Also, I want to adress the issues surrounding the problems regarding people altering their identity to their benefits. People making fake profiles to lure people ti believe they are someone else. I started to look for academic articles, and i found at least one i am going to use.

Abstract:The concept of Social Media is top of the agenda for many business executives today. Decision makers, as well as consultants, try to identify ways in which firms can make profitable use of applications such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, Second Life, and Twitter. Yet despite this interest, there seems to be very limited understanding of what the term “Social Media” exactly means; this article intends to provide some clarification. We begin by describing the concept of Social Media, and discuss how it differs from related concepts such as Web 2.0 and User Generated Content. Based on this definition, we then provide a classification of Social Media which groups applications currently subsumed under the generalized term into more specific categories by characteristic: collaborative projects, blogs, content communities, social networking sites, virtual game worlds, and virtual social worlds. Finally, we present 10 pieces of advice for companies which decide to utilize Social Media.

www.sciencedirect.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W45-4XFF2S0-1&_user=79777&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor&view=c&_acct=C000006418&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=79777&md5=f845489663eb8844fe2bd10bb2fda3b5&searchtype=a

week 9. Lecture summary

This weeks lecture was about the subject CyberPunk, with a big focus on one of the worlds leading authors on that subject William Gibson. What i personally struggle with is the term "cyberpunk" since it is not something that can be specifically defined. I think about words like, mutation, technology, people controlled by machines etc. the main goal i think is to make people aware of what impact technology can have on people, most ways negative. To spice up the lecture we did see a clip from one of the worlds most famous movies the Matrix. There are several examples of films made to "predict" just what the technology can do to mankind: The Terminator, Alien, 12 monkeys, Robocop, Irobot, The Matrix, Total Recall and the most recent film AVATAR. this are all names taken from the nerdie page;www.cyberpunkreview.com/, i must admit this in mot my kind of genre. I think is most about weird fiction, but it also highlight what technology is capable of doing.

The focus was also on the author William Gibson.He is one of the leading authors in science fiction.

he has been given name such as the king of cyberpunk, he first started writing his Sci-Fi novels in the 1970´s. I found a frase were he is describing the period were he got the into writing again"In 1977, facing first-time parenthood and an absolute lack of enthusiasm for anything like "career," I found myself dusting off my twelve-year-old's interest in science fiction. Simultaneously, weird noises were being heard from New York and London. I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. And I began, then, to write"

William Gibson, "Since 1948.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson

Week 8 tutespark

Week 8 summary

This weeks lecture i must admit was a bit all over the place, it was not hard to understand that the lecturer was highly educated, and new what he was talking about. The topic was "Virtual philosophy" . I would try to explain the term Virtual Philosophy as what we 'think' is real is not real. the next thing Daniel, the lecturer talked about was Descartes and Cartesian Dualism, which for me actually rings a bell, since i am studying Psychology and Descartes being one having a big impact on that field.The french man, Rene Descartes proposed that humans have physical body, and also their soul, with the body being purely mechanistic and the soul being responsible for emotions. I think the lecture notes, covered a lot more than he did in the 50 minutes, the lecture notes states states something like this: "In this space, however, it is the cyber body (not the mind) which is immortal, while the human body (the animating soul outside the cyber body) is mortal. This is a direct reversal of current understandings wherein the body is mortal while the soul is immortal." What that exactly means in another thing :P

week 7 tutorial

1.
What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university
Creative Commons describe themselves like this;

"Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.
We provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof".

For me studying in the field of psychology, creative Commons is to some extent not relevant, but if i was studying something more creative like media or something, i would have gained a lot from using things that is creative commons licensed.

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

the first one i found was SpinXpress, its a search engine that allows you to search within CC licenses.



the second i found was the ever famous band Radioheads song "house of cards", made a music video using data from Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License on the Google Code site.


The third CC work i found was a parody of Star Wars called "star wreck" its a very simple film, the first one made all the way back in 1992. They can all be found under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercials licence.




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.
Portable Apps is a computerbased software, which can be applied in various technological gadgets such as USB-pens and PDAs. These are "lite" versions of your favourite computer applications, and are very useful in the way that you can bring these programs wherever you go.

Week 7 Lecture summary

The lecture for today had focous on creative common licences and open source software. the lecturer Adam talked about the 3'C. Community----Collaboration--choice. Todays consequences for using someone else's work without their permission, could end with legal repercussions. to make other peoples work available to the public community, Creative Commons was formed, in a attempt to make a middle between the two opposites . CC goal was not to remove copyrights but to make the copyrights law not that strict, and to provide a collaboration of sorts in the online community.

According to the Creative Commons Australia website http://creativecommons.org.au/about Creative Commons is " an international non-profit that provides free licences and tools that copyright owners can use to allow others to share, reuse and remix their material, legally." in other words, anyone who want to share their work, without the hazzel from the copyright law, are free to do so. There is several ways the owner can decide to what extent their work can be used. The original owner must be credited for their work, and the owner can decide whether or not, the work can be used for commercial or non-commercial use.
To best say what CC is, i found this very informative and funny video describing Creative Commons:

The third and final C, Choice. Adam talked about the freedom to choose what free software you can use to fit your needs and recommends. however it must be said that to sell software to another user is illegal, so to fix that problem it was given another name "open sources".

This leads over to this weeks tutespark.

"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"?

I had heard of the software, except from GIPM, it is a free editing program for pictures.

I downloaded the version of the software for Mac users, that off-course took some time. I have always been a fan of editing pictures so this suited me very well. Like it always is for me when it comes to new thing, there is always something that i need to learn. For me the best way of doing that is to search for tutorials on www.youtube.com i typed inn Gimp tutorial and up came this, i found it really helpful and easy explained, after looking at a few tutorial clips a was ready to go. I really recommend this to people like me, not Pro´s on Mac, but like to edit.

Week 6 - Tutorial task

I doubt people uploading pictures, movie clips think very much about who can use what you upload or if it can be used for the wrong purpose. A recent example on a homemade video uploaded on YouTube gone worldwide is by a Brisbane lawyer employed on QUT, posting a film where he is smoking both the Koran and the Bible. Pretty dumb idea.

Who is it that really own all the things people upload on Facebook? It’s a question i must admit i have not thought much about until now. I looked around on Facebook to see what i could find regarding who owns your/my Facebook content.

"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 your privacy 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."

That means that we partly own the stuff we upload, but facebook has the right to use the content you upload. Soi in general, what you upload can be used by others
:)

Week 6 summary. Media, New media, Social Media.

This week we were so lucky to have a guest lecturer from Nathan Campus, Adam Muir. He talked about what really happens to all the things you put up on the internet. What happens to the things you upload? He talked most about the subjects Virtual Community / Individual ID. A virtual Community is a group of people talking to each other on the Internet, like twitter. Virtual ID, is a way to explain how people express who they are using internet, it is also a opportunity to be whom you really want to be.
After the dot.com crash in 2000, Tim O Really wanted the technology network to feel good about them self again, so Web 2.00 was introduced. It was something that gave people the opportunity to be active in social networks, video sharing sites, web applications and folksomny. Folksomny is something that became really popular in 2004 as part of social software applications such as social bookmarking which means that user can save links to web pages they want to remember or share with others. They are often available to anyone but they can also be saved so that only people in your network can use it.

The virtual community is something that has become very common in the last ten years. Take facebook, in 2010 over 500 MILLION active user, that’s like one person in every fourteen in the world. So there is no doubt that must be one of the most influential communities. When you post something on your profile, people can comment it, and it can lead into a long-lasting discussion. There are also raised important questions about privacy, who own what you upload, who are entitled to use it? This leads to this week’s tutorial task.
And we cannot forget about YouTube. A page EVERYONE can upload movie clips, of event or as a Video blog. YouTube has a big amount of crap, but there is also a lot of good things.
Artist has been discovered there,take Justin Beaber, he got discovered by Scooter Braun, and is now ever famous world wide.


TuteSpark

I doubt people uploading pictures, movie clips think very much about who can use what you upload or if it can be used for the wrong purpose. A recent example on a homemade video uploaded on YouTube gone worldwide is by a Brisbane lawyer employed on QUT, posting a film where he is smoking both the Koran and the Bible. Pretty dumb idea.

Who is it that really own all the things people upload on Facebook? It’s a question i must admit i have not thought much about until now. I looked around on Facebook to see what i could find regarding who owns your/my Facebook content.

"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 your privacy 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."

That means that we partly own the stuff we upload, but facebook has the right to use the content you upload. Soi in general, what you upload can be used by others
:)

Week 5 & 6 in tutorial task.

This week i was off-course sick. But i got an update from my group members. They used over to hours too look for Culture jams to get an idea of what to film. We thought what can make our film get attention, we needed to come up with something that gets attention from the viewers, and the hottest topic right now is the election that is still pointing out a winner. The different parties are using their time wisely to spread as much crap about each other as possible, so we thought we joined that. We chose Julia Gillard, what could possible harm her reputation? we thought a secret lower, not a handsome man, but a pumped up ex body sculptures woman.

The film was shoot in this weeks tutorial by myself and Angela. Since it is not due before week 9 we re going to use the next week to get together as a group and edit it.

this is the story line we came up with.

Yesterday the Gold Coast Bulletin recieved a letter from a Miss Gretel Anderson, a former body sculpting champion, who claims to be having a relationship with the current priminister Miss Julia Gillard. Stating that she was sick of being left out in the cold by Miss Gillard and to feel ashamed about her sexuality, because it has never been acknowledge publicly. Miss Anderson also states that there relationship has been an on going affair for over 10 years, and she hopes that by finally speaking out about there love affair will bring out the importance of sexual discrimination and maybe bring about the legalising of gay marriage rights in Australia.

here is the result:

week 5 summary

Week five lecture re-cap.

Consumption & Production

We consume information through a variety of sources, like BIG TV screens, cinema screens, we are kind of given what we see, but by using Internet--> we can actively seek out what we want to see.
Small screens Mobiles phones, smart phones and personal media players like iPods
The same with the news we see, that is just a percentage of what is out there as news. Citizen Journalism is something that has had a huge impact on how we see news these days. Ordinary people taking the reporters place by being able to record big things, Catastrophist like the Tsunami in 2004.




The only information that is available is reported by the Victims at that specific incident. Another dangerous problem that can occur with Citizens reporting is that it’s not necessary true.
CNN- news even have their own “I report” were MO-Jos (mobile journalists) can post their own stories, which might get picked up by other sources that report news.















Week five tutespark "Culture jamming"
"Culture jamming, is the act of using existing media such as billboards, bus-ads, posters, and other ads to comment on those very media themselves or on society in general, using original medium's communication method"
thhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=culture+jame
culture jammers looks at advertising as pure propaganda, and use the logo or trademark to alter it into their point of view.

To find the first culutre jam, was not easy but i think i got it in the right direction. Back in the 1800 when the social thinker Rousseau wrote his book 'Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences'. He claimed that society, and the "overly mannered rituals of its social institutions" was responsible for the corruption of human kind (Social jamming; A sociological perspective, 2006).

What i found to be the most influential Culture jam depends what each individual thinks. I myself think this add is really influential, in worst case scenarios this is happening. People re getting to drunk, and end their own life. Just in the staten over 100.000 people dies from alcohol each year.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_die_from_drinking_alcohol_per_year

https://www.adbusters.org/gallery/spoofads

To found the most damaging Culture jam does not require much work, just think about the worst ever junk food distributor Mac Donalds. Again Adbusters have a influential Add. it is funny and serious at once, this is actually killing people.

In tutorial exercise week 4

1.Where and when did usable online video start?
What i found to be the first online video uploaded is on the 23rd of April 2005 it was shoot by , Yakov Lapitsky, it was titled 'Me at the Zoo' . It features on of the founders of Youtube Jawed Karim, at the San Diego Zoo. here is the link to the video: http:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw

2. In the lecture we heard about technological innovations that were used by the studios to lure audiences.
What was told in yesterdays lecture was that the technological innovations that were used to make people come back to the cinemas was that people got for instance a 2 for 1 ticket to the films that were going at the time; they got one big hit movie and a B movie as well.
The 3D glasses were another innovation that was used to get more people to come to the cinemas and it came already in 1952, which is a long time ago. They took the 3D glasses away because the movies at that time was not in the same quality as they are today, so it was not that big of an experience.. But today, a lot of movies are not the same without those glasses. 2010 is also said to be one of the biggest years when it comes to 3D. The one thing that comes again when it comes to 3D top movies is animated or partial animated like Alice in wonderland, Toy story 2 and Step Up 3D.



One of the reasons i think the business is luring is back to the movies is to that we actually pay for what we see, that we don’t download every movie we urge to see, but we actually buy a ticket to see the movie in real cinema style. And therefore making sure that the big studios can continue to produce big hits in the future. Other different ways that is used to lure is to release a trailer before on the net, so we can get excited and maby pre-order our ticket for the film. Or you can download the sound theme for the movie as a ringtone.



3. Are short films still beeing made?Who pays for them to be made?
Short films is a facinating things that ha developed a long way from the 1985 when it all started and people had never seen emotion picture on a screen, to where we are today. today there is several short movies out on specially the net, that is a easy way to reach out the audience in a almost free way. The short films that you actually see on the TV screen is for example those that are produced as scary campaignes. In most cases it is the government or insurance companies that pay short film producers to make these film. Especially insurance companies order films that make a " wanted" impression on you. Take for instance this comercial for seatbealt use.


4.The term viral is thrown about adhoc but what does it mean in film/movie arena? Give some examples.
The term viral in the movie world means that for instance a movie get instant attentions over night, that a short film for instance is spread a cross the internett like fire in dry grass. A very good example for this is the hilarious short film parody on Star Wars/ COPS


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).
A really good example of shows made entirely for the internet is the show mady by the genius guys behind Awesometown.

week 4. summary+ movie tutespark

Week 4 summary.
The history of Cinema was the outline for this weeks lecture. It all started in France on the 28 of December, 1895 when France got it first Cinema. The cinemas in Paris were full off people that want to watch the 20 minutes short divided into 10 short stories, so it was sent as much as 10 times a day. At that time it was no permanently movie theaters in Paris, but after this enormous interest a movie theatre was completed in 1897. Now that they had a place to show film, the urge for making films started to grow, and in 1903 a real life-based film was put on to life, lasting no more then 10 minutes. The film was called "the story of the Kelly gang" it was actually an Australian production.









Until then the films that have been out was with no sound at all, so in 1927 the first film with an talking dialog the Jazz singer came out, sound + films= money, that resulted in 1929 that the first talking, color ,dancing picture film came on the screens in New York City. As a result of films with all this features, a nominee award was needed, The Oscars. The first ever Oscar award was held at the 16 Th. of May at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.























Only ten years later Disney released the first full length animated film, the ever famous Snow white and the seven dwarf.
The evolution from BIG screen to small screen i must admit i take for granted. All the changes over the last decade that has literally change how we receive entertainment. The IMAX cinema, pay tv, and then there is computer games. The development of the screen is enormous. I have actually taken part of som of the history, the first Disney/Pixar GCI (Computer generated imagery) gilm, Toy story. Im giving the children from this genaration a thought, everything they are taking for granted. Here is anyway the trailer for the first totally animated feature lenght film.





WEEK FoUR TUTESPARK.....

This weeks tutespark was to find three short film, thats had a story.

The first one i found was a short movie called "Cocaine Jesus" its very fascinating how a film with only word can be bring such a story. I think people in our days like things simple, and by giving suck a message through just a black screen with white words is what people want!


The second film i enjoyed the most was a short film called "Death & Taxes" by Jeremy Bartel, for some people filing taxes is a nightmare. Jeremy Bartel is making a film about what i think some people think and want to do with the tax man in worst case cenario. One of the factors about this film is that he put to life what people may think about doing but never dears to.

Death & Taxes from Jeremy Bartel on Vimeo.

The third one i found that fascinated me was a Sam Hendi film called black sheep. I liked the drama in it, you can understand the big sisters frustration over looking for her little sister the whole night. I think the film is trying to give people an idea of how a life could be for a family after the parents are gone. How a big sisters struggle to maintain the bond they once had. What is not easy when the situation is turned upside down like that.

Black Sheep - Short Film from Sam Hendi on Vimeo.

We were also asked the to find out what

week 3

A short history of computing and the Internet.
Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer and an inventor, not bad to have that many titles. What he is most famous for is to be found at the museum of science in London, the "difference engine" that he began his work on in 1822 and finished in 19th century; it is composed of over 25.000 parts and weighed over 13000 KG. The difference engine, was originally created to calculate and print mathematical tables. This is also what we can call the computers "origin".


Another person announced in the lecture was a pretty lady with the name Ada byron, she is the daughter of the famous poet, Lord Byron. Her mother did her best to make sure her daughter did not end up as a poet as her dad, so she was brought up to be a mathematician and scientist.
She became really fascinated by Babbage work, she even suggested that a machine of that kind could be used to produce music, that it could be used for both practical and scientific use, something that is really sick that they thought about for that many years ago.
The work of Ada Byron got recognised as the first “computer program". The development of computer was taken on by an English man called Alan Turning, he wrote the paper called “on computable numbers". He used his expertise to make the machine called “the bomb" that was developed to break the Germans secret Enigma codes.

In the 1950s the first commercially produced computer came out from IBM. The computers produced at that time were for military and governmental use. These computers were too big for any regular person to have in their home, so everyone understood that the computers needed to be minimized dramatically.
In 1965 a really smart man with the name Gordon E. Moore said that the capacity of microchip's needed to be doubled every second year. The trend has continued for more than half a century and is not expected to stop until 2015 or later, but what do we do then?

The next step in computer development was to make it useful for everyone, it needed a common language that everyone could understand to handle a computer, the nerd that developed that was the ever famous Bill Gate. On another place in a garage some other nerds Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and created their own company called Apple.


In 1960 a company with the name RAND corporation came up with the idea of internet, what we can say is one of the histories biggest networking inventions. The world that was big a decade ago is now just in front of us. There is nothing you cant find there. People often mistake the Internet for the Web but this is actually two different things. You can look at it this way, every webpage on the internet is just a collection of files images and sounds stored on a computer,and the internet is more like a network of computers. When we are using a web browser like safari, Opera to look at different web pages like CNN, we are looking at that specific page, not the files on the computer. We can update people of our life trough Facebook and blogs like this, read a newspaper from India, upload and share a homemade movie on in minutes with the rest of the world.

this weeks tutespark was to find at least three different non-electronic digital devices:

the first one i found that i think is a non electronic digital adviser is morse code.

The second one i found after a long time researching for it was something called the Braille a-system. It is said about the braille system that it is a "tactile system of raised dots representing letters of the alphabet." This is the way blind people use to communicate . The web page says it was invented in Paris by a man named Louis Braille in 1929.

http://www.cnib.ca/en/living/braille/braille-system/default.aspx

The third i found was what is called Abacus:

Abacus was invented in China 5000 years ago.

An abacus is used to track numbers as you do the computing rather than acutally doing the computing.

week 3 treasure hunt

Question 1
What i found to be the world largest machine is a 95 meters high and 215 meters long (almost 2.5 football fields in length)Weight is 45,500 tons
It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million.
here is the link:
http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher.htm

Question 2:
The easiest way to contact Ozzy himself is through his page on Twitter :








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

I must admit this was not an easy one,what i found to be the first example of global digital communications network is the internet, the internett reach back to the 1960s, but it was not until the early 1990s that internet became an international network . But it is not the first invented communication device, one is a machine called teletypewriter it has its origin all back to 1870s as a method of displaying text transmittesd over wires.
Here is the link:
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/tel/teletype.htm">

Question 4.
what is the cheapest way of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?
The cheapest way i found getting from the Coast to Melbourne was with Tiger airways on tuesday the 7th of september leaving at 6.00 am.
Here is the link:
http://travel.webjet.com.au/webjettsa/





Question 5.
Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday?
Hatsune Miku is a a "voice application" by a company by the name Crypton Future Media. It is a voice sample from the Japanese actor Saki Fujita that is on born October 19, 1984.













Here is the link:
http://www.last.fm/music/Fujita+Saki




Question 6.
Find a live webcam in Antarctica. Find a place to stay in Antarctica.
The webcamera that are live from the Antartica at the moment that i found is at the McMurdo station .The original station was built in 1955 to 1956 for the International Geophysical Year. Today the station is the primary logistics facility for supply of inland stations, and is also the waste management center for much of the U.S. Antarctic Program.
Here is the link:
http://www.usap.gov/videoClipsAndMaps/mcmwebcam.cfm http://www.usap.gov/videoClipsAndMaps/mcmwebcam.cfm

You cant find a place to stay in Antartica that is luxurious, you can stay at one on the weather stations up there, one i found is called Henryk Arctowski, in Admiralty Bay, King George Island.












Here is the link:
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/dab/overview.html.



Question 7.
What song was top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1980?
The number ine in week 32 in Australia was the ever famous "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc.
Here is the link:
http://funkytown.com/


















Question 8
How would you define the term 'nano technology'? In your own words, what does it really mean? Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale.
It means in basic words, building machines at the size of a molecule that are only a few nanometers wide, such as robot arms,and computers computers.
















Here is the link:http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/962484/nanotechnology



Question 9
What type of camera is used to make ‘Google Street View’?
The camera usen in Google street View is Dodeca 2360, it is created and designed a company with the name: Immersive Media.


Here is the link: http://www.immersivemedia.com/products/capture.htm



Question 10
Translate all these questions into Klingon:
Q1: nuq 'oH [the] [weight] vo' [the] [world’s] [biggest] [machine] chay' 'ar ta'ta' 'oH [cost] Daq chen

Q2: nuq 'oH [the] [best] [way] [quickest] HochHom [reliable] Daq [contact] [Ozzy] [Osborne]

Q3: ghorgh 'ej nuq ghaHta' [the] wa'DIch [example] vo' [global] [digital] [communication]

Q4: nuq 'oH [the] [cheapest] [form] vo' [travel] vo' [the] SuD baS [Coast] Daq [Melbourne]

Q5: 'Iv 'oH [Hatsune] [Miku] nuq [company] ta'taH ghaH [belong] Daq nuq 'oH Daj qoS

Q6: tu' [a] yIn [webcam] Daq [Antarctica] tu' [a] Daq Daq [stay] Daq [Antarctica]

Q7: nuq bom ghaHta' [top] vo' [the] [Australian] [pop] [charts] vam [week] Daq

Q8:chay' [would] SoH [define] [the] [term] ['nano] [technology'] Daq lIj ghaj mu'mey nuq ta'taH 'oH [really] [mean]

Q9: nuq [type] vo' [camera] 'oH [used] Daq chenmoH [‘Google] [Street] [View’]

Q10: [Translate] Dochvammey [questions] Daq tlhIngan


Here's the link to the Klingon Translator:
http://www.mrklingon.org/

this is our fantastic frame-shoot "movie" must admit this is not the easiest thing i have done. we had a lot of fun though.
the result could always be better, but take into consideration that we are psychology students please :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_LQs2quPvE

Week 2

Week 2 lecture summary.

What the lecture in week 2 was suppose to be about computer history or something, I’m kind of happy that the lecturer called in sick, because the one we had instead was much more interesting and fun.
One of the themes for the lecture was about who, how, where, why, when, what and to shoot a good film, the questions that the filmmaker need to “answer” to show the full range of different skills. Like, “who” a close up shows for the first who the character is, and the detail. It is also a perfect way to show the emotions.
“How” is kind of hard to express / explain so a single –medium series of close up is a good idea. Then there is the “where” a way to show that is to do a long shot, that catches the character and the surroundings so the where can be answered, it is usually to have it in the beginning to give the audience an idea of what is to come. “Why”, big close up is necessary, is to reveal more about the character itself.
Both wide shoot and long shot is an answer to the “When” question. Like for example a wide shoot of a watch, because time is difficult to explain. The most “common” way to answer the “what” question is by using a mid-shot. That is also a good way to shoot an action scene.
There is also a few “rules” that should be held in mind when you are shooting a person that is performing a monolog in some way, it is important that the is enough talking room, the person you are filming need to have the head in the middle of the frame. Not to close, or fare away from the camera. Another thing to be aware of is the head room, like not try to make a short person look taller or vice verse, and not to cut the head off the person you are filming. There is also the rule of “third” that if you make a 3*3 grid and the four intersections that then appear is where the face should be. 180 degree rule, which applies when it comes to shooting a monolog between two persons like this:












What we also discussed the different genres that are today, all from thriller, drama, horror, action, comedy and family. One of the genres that is really popular that evolves from crossing each other is “romance action” the big hit on the screen right now is the movie called Killers, with Catherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher . It is predicted that a genre like that will last for at least a decade. The movie cycle will always be in change, and maybe the next popular genre is family horror? Who knows. We just need to wait and se

Week 1

Summary of Lecture by J.Nicholase

The lecture on Monday the 26 of July was enlightening the question, what is communication?

There are several definitions about what communication is, and the one way I fancy the most is “The speaker produces a message that is heard by the listener”. Taken from Aristotle’s famous book, Rhetoric this is over 2500 years old. From the early beginning when people used drawings and sent smoke signals, and TV is also considered a old communication technology.

There were mentioned by Shannon & Weaver from the book mathematical theory of communication two processes. One is, intersubjectivity : they mean that the listener interprets the message and changes it as they send it along. The other one is interextuality: that no message is ever completed.

Another question asked during the lecture was, what is technology? “Technology is the scientific study of mechanical arts and their application”. Another subject discussed during this week’s lecture was Convergence. It has exploded the last year in a form of communication technology. Take for instance an Iphone from Apple, all the apps you can have in one phone. You can check send and receive emails, go on facebook, twitter check the weather for the upcoming week , youtube all these convergence are new communication technology.

This week’s tute spark is : how we distinguish between old and new communication technologies? Under what circumstances will new communication technologies become old communication technologies?
Take for instance an ipod, the first one that was produced was big and heavy, you can play songs on it. But the new improved ipods replaced the old ones by applying new apps, colour screen, the opportunities to watch movies and even take photos with it. this is a classical example of how new communication technologies can become old communication technologies.

Week 1. New communication technology.

week 1

This is my first blog post ever. Must admit that it is a bit scary, but so what. Go with the flow. Im definitively not the first one to feel that. The course i am taking is actually to make a blog, and post at least once a week, and i get 10CP for it, amazing . I am taking this course as a elective, i am taking Psych, science. So maybe in one way i can relate this back to my degree.

The first lecture of this course was yesterday. I had kind of made up my mind about how the course would be, cant be more wrong than me. I think this will be the best course i will take this semester, and there is nothing better than too look forward to go to uni.