When you think of the word 'hacker', what image immediately pops into your mind?
A masked bandit furiously typing away at a highly modified computer? A person experienced with computers pushing the boundaries?
In a world where humans speak the language of computers, hackers are able to move from one computer system to the other, rummage around and take information that they deem important. This can be your bank information if you're not careful.
Though just because hackers have a bad name, does it mean that all hackers are in fact out to grab your bank details? Of course not. There is always good intentions thrown in with the bad, it's our interpretation of what hackers do for the 'good' that is up to us.
"Hackers seek to free information and are at pains to distinguish themselves from crackers, intruders who damage or steal data whether in simple forms such as denial-of-service attacks or in systematic and clearly fraudulent ways such as credit card manipulation." (Stockwell, 2013). I feel that it's important to have a distinction between hackers and 'crackers', it allows people to make an informed decision on the motives of hackers and the crackers. The practice of taking information through a computer is going to appeal to many people for different reasons
I decided to take a look at the full The Hacker's Manifesto, written in 1986 by 'The Mentor'.
I found it in full on a website called Technozen. http://www.technozen.com/manifesto.htm
What I further realised whilst reading it, is that hackers are pursuers of knowledge, unsatisfied with the menial tidbits of knowledge that are passed through society by people of importance such as school teachers or politicians. They actively seek it out and as a consequence they are classed as criminals. "You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals." (The Hackers Manifesto, 1986).
References:
Stockwell, S.(2013).Politics Now. (NCT week 6 lecture notes)
Mentor, T.(1986).The Hacker's Manifesto.
Tutorial Task:
I completed the voting compass for the 2013 Australian election and found that I was closer to agreeing with the Greens than the Labor or Liberal National party.
Though the results brought up a few anomalies, such as giving me results that supposedly linked me to the Greens even though I had answered with a completely opposite response and belief. Though I am most likely going to support the Labor party.
Another online political participation scheme I found was the opinion polls from the Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.smh.com.au/polls/opinion
Where you can go through and select different answers to questions/ opinions posted by the Sydney Morning Herald.
Thursday 29 August 2013
Wednesday 28 August 2013
Week 5- Social Media, Web 3.0 and Tutorial Task (Survey)
Tutorial Task: If you would all like to fill in a survey I made for this weeks tutorial task that would be great, I'm excited to see how varied everyone's answers will be: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CMPPSLP
Thanks!
For the purpose of this task I will also post the link to my Tumblr as I do not have Facebook.
Thanks!
For the purpose of this task I will also post the link to my Tumblr as I do not have Facebook.
Week 5 focused on Social media and web 3.0. With the lecture covering the evolution of social media and the concept of 'churn'. It's a destructive concept, churn, the prospect for an entire website and the different intertwining streets of ideas and culture around that website could completely disappear as soon as another improved version of it comes along. Take the churn from Myspace to Facebook for example. Myspace was immensely popular and when Facebook came along, it shifted in popularity until Myspace was scarcely used! The company has been completely shadowed by Facebook in a short amount of time! I feel that it is only a matter of years until Facebook is overtaken by another improved version of itself. Already, we see blogging websites such as Tumblr, bought by Yahoo for '$1.1 Billion cash' (Zennie, M. & Boyle, L), become more popular by internet users. Is this because of the fact that you don't have to post pictures of yourself or personal details of your life if you don't wish to? As a tumblr user, I can attest to the fact that I have never had Tumblr ask or pressure me for details about where I work or where I was born or what I ate for lunch that day.
Below is the article from the Daily Mail about the sale of Tumblr to Yahoo. I think it'll be interesting to see if Yahoo makes any significant changes to Tumblr, and if those changes will make users more inclined to find and use another blogging or social media website. Perhaps churn will eventually occur to Tumblr?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326998/Yahoo-buys-Tumblr-1-1billion-Founder-David-Karp-tech-tycoon.html
This week the lecture spoke of Web 2.0. From my understanding, Web 2.0 has meant ease of posting information to the web and increased ease of finding information, not just ease of ability to read it as was seen in Web 1.0 where the main focus was also simply building the web.
Whilst researching the concept of Web 3.0 further, I came across a website that had on it a graph showing a brief history of; the PC era, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and even Web 4.0. The graph also had dates showing the years when these events occurred, or will occur in the case of Web 3.0. Which, according to the graph started in 2010 and also in the case of Web 4.0, which will supposedly begin in 2020.
Here is the link to the website! It also holds an expanded definition of Web 3.0.
http://lifeboat.com/ex/web.3.0
References:
Zennie, M & Boyle, L.(2013). Billion Dollar Deal Makes 26-Year-Old America's Next Tech Tycoon: High School Drop-Out behind Blogging Site Tumblr Sells It To Marissa Mayer's Yahoo!. Mail Online.
Below is the article from the Daily Mail about the sale of Tumblr to Yahoo. I think it'll be interesting to see if Yahoo makes any significant changes to Tumblr, and if those changes will make users more inclined to find and use another blogging or social media website. Perhaps churn will eventually occur to Tumblr?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326998/Yahoo-buys-Tumblr-1-1billion-Founder-David-Karp-tech-tycoon.html
This week the lecture spoke of Web 2.0. From my understanding, Web 2.0 has meant ease of posting information to the web and increased ease of finding information, not just ease of ability to read it as was seen in Web 1.0 where the main focus was also simply building the web.
Whilst researching the concept of Web 3.0 further, I came across a website that had on it a graph showing a brief history of; the PC era, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and even Web 4.0. The graph also had dates showing the years when these events occurred, or will occur in the case of Web 3.0. Which, according to the graph started in 2010 and also in the case of Web 4.0, which will supposedly begin in 2020.
Here is the link to the website! It also holds an expanded definition of Web 3.0.
http://lifeboat.com/ex/web.3.0
References:
Zennie, M & Boyle, L.(2013). Billion Dollar Deal Makes 26-Year-Old America's Next Tech Tycoon: High School Drop-Out behind Blogging Site Tumblr Sells It To Marissa Mayer's Yahoo!. Mail Online.
Monday 19 August 2013
Week 4 and Tutorial Task
In the week 4 lecture notes for NCT the main focus was Cyberspace, Cybernetics and Cyberpunk.
A quote in The Permanent Campaign by Sidney Blumenthal states "Image-making, no matter how manipulative, doesn't replace reality, it becomes part of it."
Our lives are continually becoming more centralised around technology and social media, most of us spend extensive amounts of time on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. There are more and more things we can do on the internet than ever before, there are news websites, internet banking, movie streaming websites, online bookshops, clothing stores.. Basically, if you can think it, it could be on the internet already. One click of a button and you're transported through the invisible Cyberspace and into a world that has become equally as important and influential in our real lives than just in our online lives.
Like a rock being thrown into still water, Cyberspace has been rippling outwards into everyday life and it even influences movie genres such as Cyberpunk, which all have a related theme- a computer/ form of technology has taken over the world, become the most intelligent being on the planet.
It is no wonder that Cyberpunk is unnerving for some, people had gotten used to nice space opera such as Star Wars where there is a utopian view of the world or another planet. Whereas, the dystopian view of Cyberpunk films hits closer to home as we realise that the way technology has advanced in the last 30 years alone, is it possible that some of the ideas in movies such as Blade Runner and Alphaville could come into fruition? All we know is that, yes, cyberspace exists as this cosmic hallucination that we all partake in, in one way or another.
On reflection of prior weeks' topic and content I decided to deactivate my Facebook profile on the 9/8/13. Partly for my own experiment on social inclusion within today's culture, where cyberspace has become a first order reality alongside our real lives.
The tutorial task was to make a timeline on a particular topic: This timeline is about a history of recent Cyberpunk movies.
References:
Blumenthal, S.(1980). The Permanent Campaign: Inside the World of Elite Political Operatives. Boston, Ma. Beacon Press.
Timeline of Cyberpunk films from 1927 to 2006:
I used the website, Timetoast to generate this timetable.
A quote in The Permanent Campaign by Sidney Blumenthal states "Image-making, no matter how manipulative, doesn't replace reality, it becomes part of it."
Our lives are continually becoming more centralised around technology and social media, most of us spend extensive amounts of time on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. There are more and more things we can do on the internet than ever before, there are news websites, internet banking, movie streaming websites, online bookshops, clothing stores.. Basically, if you can think it, it could be on the internet already. One click of a button and you're transported through the invisible Cyberspace and into a world that has become equally as important and influential in our real lives than just in our online lives.
Like a rock being thrown into still water, Cyberspace has been rippling outwards into everyday life and it even influences movie genres such as Cyberpunk, which all have a related theme- a computer/ form of technology has taken over the world, become the most intelligent being on the planet.
It is no wonder that Cyberpunk is unnerving for some, people had gotten used to nice space opera such as Star Wars where there is a utopian view of the world or another planet. Whereas, the dystopian view of Cyberpunk films hits closer to home as we realise that the way technology has advanced in the last 30 years alone, is it possible that some of the ideas in movies such as Blade Runner and Alphaville could come into fruition? All we know is that, yes, cyberspace exists as this cosmic hallucination that we all partake in, in one way or another.
On reflection of prior weeks' topic and content I decided to deactivate my Facebook profile on the 9/8/13. Partly for my own experiment on social inclusion within today's culture, where cyberspace has become a first order reality alongside our real lives.
The tutorial task was to make a timeline on a particular topic: This timeline is about a history of recent Cyberpunk movies.
References:
Blumenthal, S.(1980). The Permanent Campaign: Inside the World of Elite Political Operatives. Boston, Ma. Beacon Press.
Timeline of Cyberpunk films from 1927 to 2006:
I used the website, Timetoast to generate this timetable.
| Event Date: | Event Title: | Event Description: | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Metropolis | Directed by: Fritz Lang | |
| La Jetee | Directed by: Chris Marker | |
| A Clockwork Orange | Directed by: Stanley Kubrick | |
| Alien | Directed by: Ridley Scott | |
| Blade Runner | Directed by: Ridley Scott | |
| The Terminator | Directed by: James Cameron | |
| Bubblegum Crisis | Directed by: Hiroki Goda, Katsuhito Akiyama, Masami Obari ran until- 30 Jan, 1991 | |
| Gattaca | Directed by: Andrew Niccol | |
| The Matrix | Directed by: The Wachowski Brothers | |
| Equilibrium | Directed by: Kurt Wimmer | |
| Renaissance | Directed by: Christian Volckman |
Sunday 11 August 2013
Week 3 and Tutorial Tasks
This weeks lecture covered a topic that I had
never quite properly understood before, Cyberspace. Which has been described
as; "The sum of internet users imaginations" (Stockwell, 2013).
Whereby, the use of the anonymous Internet, anybody can be just about anyone
and you would be none the wiser. As I was beginning to think more about
Cyberspace, I thought back to Shannon and Weavers theory of communication and realized that Cyberspace can be
linked to it.
The way the information source (you), uses a transmitter (computer), which uses a channel (the internet/web) to send a message to the reader, (the world of the internet) and finally to the appropriate destination (the person or target audience you intended the message for). The noise factor that intercepts the channel, can be related to other internet users who have contrary or derogative views on your message- trolls.
I also thought about Karl Popper’s words about how reality was split into 3 worlds; the Material world, Subjective Consciousness and Public Structures. And thought about which world mostly related to Cyberspace, the world of the anonymous imagination found, “wherever electricity runs with intelligence.” (Heim). In Popper’s worlds, I think that Cyberspace relates to World 3 most, as it is carries in it many intangible things that we cannot see or touch, such as religion.
One more item of interest I noted was from the tutorial, everyone was engaged in numerous discussions about the internet, once more, internet privacy was brought up and a fellow student showed me a YouTube video. It was The Beast File video about Google. What was especially thought provoking was that Google has investments in two genetic testing companies! Link is as follows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfV6RzE30
This made me think of one of the readings for this week, an article called ‘Mind Control and the Internet’, by Sue Halpern in 2011, which talked about inserting ‘biochips’ into peoples brains so that any information from the internet can be brought directly into our minds.
Why would Google need to know your health history and why would they want to invest in genetic testing companies? There is no reason an internet based company should have interest in those fields. Overall, week 3 of NCT has been the week most filled with curiosity and a search for answers.
References:
Halpern, S.(2011). Mind Control and The Internet. The New York Review of Books.
Week 3 tutorial task:
1. Which of Stephen Stockwell's books are in the library?
Stockwell, S.(2005). Political Campaign Strategy: Doing Democracy in The 21st Century. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
2. Cite 3 academic books that might provide useful information on Jean- Luc Godard's film Alphaville, on which campuses do they reside?
3. What is a book that will assist you to find out about possible research methods to explore social media? Full citation.
5. What is the latest medical thinking about internet addiction? What database did you use? Full citation.
6. What are IT engineers thinking about surveillance cameras? Identify a theme you could write an essay about and cite 3 papers that would be useful.
The way the information source (you), uses a transmitter (computer), which uses a channel (the internet/web) to send a message to the reader, (the world of the internet) and finally to the appropriate destination (the person or target audience you intended the message for). The noise factor that intercepts the channel, can be related to other internet users who have contrary or derogative views on your message- trolls.
I also thought about Karl Popper’s words about how reality was split into 3 worlds; the Material world, Subjective Consciousness and Public Structures. And thought about which world mostly related to Cyberspace, the world of the anonymous imagination found, “wherever electricity runs with intelligence.” (Heim). In Popper’s worlds, I think that Cyberspace relates to World 3 most, as it is carries in it many intangible things that we cannot see or touch, such as religion.
One more item of interest I noted was from the tutorial, everyone was engaged in numerous discussions about the internet, once more, internet privacy was brought up and a fellow student showed me a YouTube video. It was The Beast File video about Google. What was especially thought provoking was that Google has investments in two genetic testing companies! Link is as follows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfV6RzE30
This made me think of one of the readings for this week, an article called ‘Mind Control and the Internet’, by Sue Halpern in 2011, which talked about inserting ‘biochips’ into peoples brains so that any information from the internet can be brought directly into our minds.
Why would Google need to know your health history and why would they want to invest in genetic testing companies? There is no reason an internet based company should have interest in those fields. Overall, week 3 of NCT has been the week most filled with curiosity and a search for answers.
References:
Halpern, S.(2011). Mind Control and The Internet. The New York Review of Books.
Week 3 tutorial task:
1. Which of Stephen Stockwell's books are in the library?
Stockwell, S.(2005). Political Campaign Strategy: Doing Democracy in The 21st Century. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
2. Cite 3 academic books that might provide useful information on Jean- Luc Godard's film Alphaville, on which campuses do they reside?
- Brody, R. (2008). Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard. New York: Metropolitan Books.
(The two places that book resides are- Southbank and Nathan campuses) - Ruberto, L.E & Wilson, K.M. (2007). Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
(This is available at Nathan Campus) - Sanders, S.M.(2008). The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky.
(Available at Southbank)
3. What is a book that will assist you to find out about possible research methods to explore social media? Full citation.
- Weerakkody, N. (2009). Research Methods for Media and Communication. South Melbourne, Vic: Oxford university Press Australia and New Zealand.
4. Stephen Stockwell writes about politics and the media, particularly in Australia. What database would you use to find his first academic article about Brisbane in a national journal? What year? Provide a full citation.
- I immediately went straight to Google Scholar, typing in; Stephen Stockwell Brisbane
as I considered that the search would be narrowed down if I used particular search words. The first result that came up caught my eye as it had the word Brisbane in it and it also listed Stephen Stockwell as the author.
The article citation is as follows:
Stockwell, S.(1995). The Brisbane Model: Considering A Unique Experiment. Urban Policy and Research. RMIT.
Stockwell's article starts on page 89 and concludes on page 96 in Urban Policy and Research, volume 13, issue 2.
5. What is the latest medical thinking about internet addiction? What database did you use? Full citation.
- At first I used an online medical database called; National Center for Biotechnology Information. Typing into the search bar 'internet addiction' and selecting a particular database called; Pubmed.gov. The results I found there were very brief and I wanted something I could ascertain more information from. So I jumped back onto Google Scholar and punched in 'Internet Addiction' and searched up documents from this year (2013) to eliminate excess and unwanted articles that were older.
I finally came across an experiment conducted on 35 adolescents, 20 of which had IAD (Internet Addiction Disorder), the purpose of which was to determine whether levels of: anxiety, depressive symptoms, levels of Dopamine, Seratonin levels and Norepinephrine levels differed to the adolescents that did not have IAD. The article deduced that 'increased self-reported anxiety and lower peripheral blood norepinephrine are independently associated with IAD.'
So there are people, adolescents, out there that have IAD with high levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms than most.
Citation: Zhang, H. X, Jiang, W.Q. Lin, Z.G, Du, Y.S, Vance, A. (2013). Comparison of Psychological Symptoms and Serum Levels of Neurotransmitters in Shanghai Adolescents with and without Internet Addiction Disorder: A Case-Control Study. PLoS ONE 8(5): e63089
6. What are IT engineers thinking about surveillance cameras? Identify a theme you could write an essay about and cite 3 papers that would be useful.
- I had a LOT of trouble looking for IT engineers thoughts on surveillance cameras. Results were popping up but they were so very broad and did not show up any engineers thoughts on the cameras. Though one result caught my eye and that was about military drones used for surveillance. There was an online article about a new camera that is 1.8 gigapixels and is so high-definition that you can see people walking down the street waving their arms as they walk, unaware that they are being photographed.
3 citations that can help with an essay about surveillance drones are:
- Lee, N. (2013). DARPA's 1.8-gigapixel Cam Touts Surveillance from 20,000 Feet. Engadget.
- Marcus, J. (2012). Drop The Pilot: Drone Courses Pursued in Search of Security. United States, New Mexico: TSL Education Ltd.
- Teschner, J. (2013). ON DRONES. United States: Iowa Review.
Thursday 8 August 2013
Week 2 and Tutorial Tasks
Another week has flown by and saw that week 2 topics of
discussion in 1501HUM branched from the question of ‘are we communication?’. I
would say that, yes, we are communication in some ways, but as human beings, we
are more like big vessels of communication made out of flesh and bone,
receiving and emitting a myriad of different signals to attempt to communicate
a reaction to our current environment and situation. Human communication is as
complex as animal communication, we have similar stances when we are threatened
or angered and we are able to communicate affection in a rather animalistic way
as well.
On my search for information on communication between
primates and humans I found a YouTube video explaining how we recognise facial
expressions and how we communicate through them. It offered further insight on
a topic briefly discussed in the lecture, which was that the evolutional development
of the larynx in conjunction with the brain development moulded us into the
modern-day human (Stockwell, 2013). Being able to read facial expression as
another form of primal communication assists in day to day interactions with
other humans and helps us to discern certain social situations such as
conveying emotions. The link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLwKgoJna7k
The lecture also discussed that the limitations of human
communication can be frustrating at times, particularly in an emotional sense.
It is interesting to think of all the words we can use to describe a particular
emotion, but it is also ironic that we have all these words to describe what is the matter yet cannot find the right ones to truly articulate what we want to say, e.g.
“I’m unhappy.”
The same goes for seeing certain colours, smelling certain
smells and hearing things. When we think about what different animals can hear
and see compared to us, does It make us realise the limitations between the
communication with others of our own race or does it make us think that the way
we communicate and interact is in fact the product of hundreds of thousands of
years worth of our DNA communicating and evolving within itself?
Task 1: A)
Add at least 5 people to your blogroll and reading list. List is as follows:
1. http://mgarrington.blogspot.com.au/
2. http://msvirtueandnct.blogspot.com.au/
3. http://theweeklyethie.blogspot.com.au/
4. http://jauntiness8.blogspot.com.au/
5. http://claudiaedwards93.blogspot.com.au/
B)
I found this clip from the 90's sitcom Friends to be particularly interesting and very much entertaining. In 1501HUM one of our tutorial tasks was to find a youtube video that relates to new communication technologies. I chose this clip because in it, Chandler is very loudly and proudly showing of his new laptop! Being the year 1995, the laptop now looks almost prehistoric to us, but to Chandler who is showing off his new prize it is the best thing going. in 1995, Windows95 would have just been launched.
"Check out this awesome laptop. 12 megs of RAM; 500 megs of hard drive, and 28 kilobits per second modem."
What I find most entertaining is that when Phoebe asks him what he plans to do with it, he responds with; games!
It is funny to see how Chandler obviously didn't place much practical use on his laptop back then, even with all of those neat things it comes with, he just wanted to play games. His response made me think of the hobbyists that bought the Commodore 64 and made their own games with them. In a way not much has changed with laptops over the last 10 years in the way of people still wanting to play games on them, it's just that technology has advanced so much in that time. The episode is now 18 years old and it's really amazing to think of how just the appearance of laptops have changed, along with the technology used.
Here is the link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhHDSOzC1T0
C)
We were assigned to find a web application that allowed us to use or analyse an aspect of the web more freely. I would have to say that would be my iMailG app. This allows me to access my emails in seconds, but without having to lug my laptop around with me all day. I've had the app for nearly a year now and it allows you to access your Google+ account, calendar, Gmail, news stories, YouTube, tasks and more.
It's really handy and it was free and wasn't made by Google. It allows for ease of access at the touch of a button. Though, ad placement is slightly annoying.
You can download it here:
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/imailg-for-secure-gmail-google/id328800112?mt=8
Part 2)
This task asks how I use new communication technologies to communicate with friends and family.
I use social networking websites such as Facebook to talk to family that is overseas. Skype also comes in handy and I much prefer talking over skype to family than chatting through Facebook.
For friends I usually stick to facebook, calling them on the phone or text messaging them.
I've been using these new communication technologies since I got my first phone in 2009. Necessity to keep in contact with my parents than anything else influenced me to get a phone.
Facebook hasn't been in my life for that long. My friends eventually pressured me into getting it because at that time, everyone was using it daily and my friends wanted to talk to me if we were in different classes! I started using Facebook and other social networking sites, such as the blogging site Tumblr soon after. The same thing happened with Tumblr, I saw a friend using it and saw all the gifs, videos and funny posts that were being made and thought that it would be great to join in on it.
So basically all my social networking activity is based upon the fact my friends influenced me into getting them.
Privacy is a big issue for me, I don't have much information of myself on my facebook. Where you can put things such as; your phone number, your place of work or the city you're living in right now. It's not something I'm comfortable posting up on the internet for everyone to see.
I also have my profile on private.
In the way of internet 'friends', Tumblr has allowed me to keep in contact with people who I am not able to see very often, such as friends who have moved across the country.
Overall, my friends have influenced my choices when it comes to what type of social media I choose to take part in. They also influenced me to upgrade to an iphone 4 after my old ks360 broke. It's the styles at the time and factors such as what seems cool or very useful that make certain new communication technologies more appealing than others.
Task 1: A)
Add at least 5 people to your blogroll and reading list. List is as follows:
1. http://mgarrington.blogspot.com.au/
2. http://msvirtueandnct.blogspot.com.au/
3. http://theweeklyethie.blogspot.com.au/
4. http://jauntiness8.blogspot.com.au/
5. http://claudiaedwards93.blogspot.com.au/
B)
I found this clip from the 90's sitcom Friends to be particularly interesting and very much entertaining. In 1501HUM one of our tutorial tasks was to find a youtube video that relates to new communication technologies. I chose this clip because in it, Chandler is very loudly and proudly showing of his new laptop! Being the year 1995, the laptop now looks almost prehistoric to us, but to Chandler who is showing off his new prize it is the best thing going. in 1995, Windows95 would have just been launched.
"Check out this awesome laptop. 12 megs of RAM; 500 megs of hard drive, and 28 kilobits per second modem."
What I find most entertaining is that when Phoebe asks him what he plans to do with it, he responds with; games!
It is funny to see how Chandler obviously didn't place much practical use on his laptop back then, even with all of those neat things it comes with, he just wanted to play games. His response made me think of the hobbyists that bought the Commodore 64 and made their own games with them. In a way not much has changed with laptops over the last 10 years in the way of people still wanting to play games on them, it's just that technology has advanced so much in that time. The episode is now 18 years old and it's really amazing to think of how just the appearance of laptops have changed, along with the technology used.
Here is the link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhHDSOzC1T0
C)
We were assigned to find a web application that allowed us to use or analyse an aspect of the web more freely. I would have to say that would be my iMailG app. This allows me to access my emails in seconds, but without having to lug my laptop around with me all day. I've had the app for nearly a year now and it allows you to access your Google+ account, calendar, Gmail, news stories, YouTube, tasks and more.
It's really handy and it was free and wasn't made by Google. It allows for ease of access at the touch of a button. Though, ad placement is slightly annoying.
You can download it here:
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/imailg-for-secure-gmail-google/id328800112?mt=8
Part 2)
This task asks how I use new communication technologies to communicate with friends and family.
I use social networking websites such as Facebook to talk to family that is overseas. Skype also comes in handy and I much prefer talking over skype to family than chatting through Facebook.
For friends I usually stick to facebook, calling them on the phone or text messaging them.
I've been using these new communication technologies since I got my first phone in 2009. Necessity to keep in contact with my parents than anything else influenced me to get a phone.
Facebook hasn't been in my life for that long. My friends eventually pressured me into getting it because at that time, everyone was using it daily and my friends wanted to talk to me if we were in different classes! I started using Facebook and other social networking sites, such as the blogging site Tumblr soon after. The same thing happened with Tumblr, I saw a friend using it and saw all the gifs, videos and funny posts that were being made and thought that it would be great to join in on it.
So basically all my social networking activity is based upon the fact my friends influenced me into getting them.
Privacy is a big issue for me, I don't have much information of myself on my facebook. Where you can put things such as; your phone number, your place of work or the city you're living in right now. It's not something I'm comfortable posting up on the internet for everyone to see.
I also have my profile on private.
In the way of internet 'friends', Tumblr has allowed me to keep in contact with people who I am not able to see very often, such as friends who have moved across the country.
Overall, my friends have influenced my choices when it comes to what type of social media I choose to take part in. They also influenced me to upgrade to an iphone 4 after my old ks360 broke. It's the styles at the time and factors such as what seems cool or very useful that make certain new communication technologies more appealing than others.
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