Monday, September 13, 2010
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 :PMonday, September 6, 2010
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.
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.
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"?
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
:)
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
:)
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
:)
Thursday, September 2, 2010
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:
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