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
:)