My name is Jasmine Danvers; I’m currently studying a double bachelor degree in Business and Communication at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. The majors that I’m interested in are marketing for business and pubic relations for communication. Last year I completed a Diploma of Events at Gold Coast Tafe. I decided not to follow a career or study events as it is very hospitably based. I learnt then that I wanted to learn more about marketing and public relations as we covered it briefly in events. In the future I’m hoping to work or a makeup company (Mac Cosmetics, Napoleon Perdis, ect) in there marketing department, as I’m a qualified makeup artist and that’s one of my interests.
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Week 5 - Tutorial Task
Post 2-
1. Where was the first University established and in which year?
The very first university was actually called the Al-Alzhar University, which was founded in Ciaro Egypt in 969 A.D.
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2. What is Stephen Stockwell's band called and what does he play? Can you name a couple of their songs?
I used Yahoo to find this answer. The band name was ‘The Black Assasins’, he plays the keyboard and a couple of their songs are: Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight and Death Take Me Now.
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3. What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build?
I used yahoo to anser this answer. The Largest machine is the Liebherr T 282B which is a earth-hauling truck. It weighs 203 tons when empty and maxium weight when operating is 592 tons. Cost: US $3.5 Million.
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4. Who is Justin Bieber's lawyer, and what is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact the lawyer?
Again I used yahoo to find this answer. Kenneth Feinswog is his layer and the best way to contact him is through email.
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5. What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?
Bing provided me with this answer. The cheapest form of transportation from the Gold Coast the Melbourne is to fly with virgin (dates that flight leaves 20th of October 2011), which is $85.
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http://www.youtravel.com.au/365/virgin-blue-customers-forced-to-endure-chaos/
6. Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday?
I used Bing for this answer. Hatsune Miku is an animate character from the series synthesiser developed by Yamaha corporation. Her birthday is on the 31st of August 2007.
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http://www.sketchheroes.com/lollypop1817/photo/view/hatsune-miku/
7. Find a live webcam in Belarus. Find a place to stay in Antarctica.
I Used Bing to find this answer. A live webcam in Belarus is from: http://www.camscape.com/Europe/Belarus/index.html
A place to stay in Antarctica is: Polar Star
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8. What song was top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1991?
Answer found using Bing. The number one top pop song of 1991 is Justify My Love from Madonna.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justify_My_Love
9. What type of car is used to make ‘Google Street View’?
Translate these questions into Spanish and then translate them back into English.
Found answer by Yahoo.
Google is now using bikes to create Google Maps.
Spanish:
Google está utilizando las bicicletas para crear Google Maps.
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Week 5 - Response to Content
The language of film & the Construction of Meaning
What are the Narrative Conventions and why are they important to classic Hollywood Cinema?
A narrative is the way in which the plot is told to the audience. “Narrative is usually considered as one of the most established forms of mediation between the self and community.” (Biti, V 2008) The first narrative convention is: human centered. It is told from single characters point of view and delivers storyline to the audience. The character will grows through film and develops from start to finish.
The next narrative convention is: Is driven by desire. It is very important to have in a film; it gives the character a reason to do something or a goal to achieve. It is usally based on needs and fears. The character generally wants something, needs something to survive or a fear so they can complete an act.
After desire is: Is built on opposition and conflict this is the tension and the heart of any good narrative.
Actions/events are linked in a chain of cause and effect is next. In the story line someone poses a question and the character has to answer that question. This action always deals with a cause and effect relationship.
Following cause and effect is: dominated by the clear and complete motivation of action and event. This allows having a much clearer understanding of the story. It answers the question: why is the character doing what it’s doing. The character is clearly motivated at all times.
Tends to have an objective or omniscient narration is dominated by a strong scene of closure. In classic Hollywood films they are usually not opened ended, they will have a scene of closure to keep the audience satisfied.
References
Biti,V 2008, Narrative Idenification, Arcadia, Vol. 43, Is. 1 P28, via ProQuest Central
Week 4 - Tutorial Task
Realities of Cyberspace
Blog post 2:
The Social networking site that I have chosen is Facebook. I think with any social networking site there should be terms and conditions of use, but some of the terms are a bit extreme. For example if you delete something off Facebook (photos, videos), they still have to right to keep that information in their system. They reefer to it as “a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer”, you understand that you have deleted the information but yet it is still kept somewhere in the backup copies. Once you post content on Facebook, they basically own it. Facebook guarantees that they “never share your personal information” with their advertisers and that Facebook’s ad targeting is done entirely anonymously. “If advertisers select demographic targeting for their ads, Facebook automatically matches those ads to the appropriate audience.” I think that Facebook would be more popular with their users if they get rid of all the pop up advertising on the side of the page and just let the user decide what they want to look at and follow adverting wise on Facebook. I think that they should have to tell the user when they update their terms of service and what are the new terms that they have added.
Week 4 - Response to Content
Do science fiction films forcast the future?
eXistenZ (1999, directored by David Cronenberg) is a horror/science fiction movie based in the near future about a famous game designer Allegra Geller, who created a new game to be trialed out by a group of gaming enthusiast, eXistenZ was the name of the game. “eXistenz is an elaborate game in which the players wire themselves up via a bioport - a plug inserted in the spinal column - to a semiorganic game pod, to induce plotted hallucinations” (leigh D 1999). The game pod is an organic virtual reality game console that has replaced electronic ones. Its hard to recognize the difference between reality and the gaming world.
eXistenZ (1999, directored by David Cronenberg) is a horror/science fiction movie based in the near future about a famous game designer Allegra Geller, who created a new game to be trialed out by a group of gaming enthusiast, eXistenZ was the name of the game. “eXistenz is an elaborate game in which the players wire themselves up via a bioport - a plug inserted in the spinal column - to a semiorganic game pod, to induce plotted hallucinations” (leigh D 1999). The game pod is an organic virtual reality game console that has replaced electronic ones. Its hard to recognize the difference between reality and the gaming world.
In April this year, researches at Washington University in St. Louis reported a woman moved a cursor on a computer by thinking and not pronouncing certain words by having a host of electrodes temporarily positioned over the speech centre of her brain (Halpern, Sue 2011). At Brown University at approximately the same time, scientist also had a women move a mouse cursor by just thinking. They used a different kind of brain interface called BrainGate. At USC, Dr. Theodore Berger, who has been trying to make a neural prosthetic has started to implant this device into rates that bypasses a damaged hippocampus in the brain and works in its place. This invention has high hopes into helping cure Alzheimer’s by overcoming memory loss from aging.
Sounds like a science fiction film? We cannot predict the future, but with these new technologies available, science fiction films do seem like a way of the future.
References
Leigh D 1999, eXistegZ, Sight and sound (London), vol. 9, iss. 11 pp. 64, data based used ProQuest
Sounds like a science fiction film? We cannot predict the future, but with these new technologies available, science fiction films do seem like a way of the future.
References
Leigh D 1999, eXistegZ, Sight and sound (London), vol. 9, iss. 11 pp. 64, data based used ProQuest
Week 3 - Tutorial Task
Research and Early Internet communities
Task 1
What was Stephen Stockwell's first article in an academic journal? What year? Provide a full citation. What database did you use?
- Stephen Stockwell 1981, Kuranda police shooting, Legal Service Bulletin, Vol. 6, P. 48
Data base used HeinOnline
In which comic did Governor Slugwell appear? Which Issues? Give their full citation for the earliest. Where did you find this information? What database did you use? (Check the trial databases)
- Governor Slugwell appeared in Flaming Carrot Comics in issue number 11. The Data base used to find this information was Underground and Independent Comics. I found this information from the trial database through Griffith.
What is the latest medical thinking on the dangers of mobile phones? Provide a full citation.
- Peter Bowditch 2011, Are Invisible Rays Frying Your Brain?, Australasian science, Vol. 32 no. 6, P. 44
- Governor Slugwell appeared in Flaming Carrot Comics in issue number 11. The Data base used to find this information was Underground and Independent Comics. I found this information from the trial database through Griffith.
What is the latest medical thinking on the dangers of mobile phones? Provide a full citation.
- Peter Bowditch 2011, Are Invisible Rays Frying Your Brain?, Australasian science, Vol. 32 no. 6, P. 44
In Bladerunner, what is Leon's reaction when Holden asks him about his mother? Quote the 1982 draft script and provide a full reference. (Check the trial databases)
- "Leon looks shocked, surprised. But the needles in the computer barely move. Holden goes for the inside of his coat. But big Leon is faster. His laser burns a hole the size of a nickel through Holden's stomach. Unlike a bullet, a laser causes no impact. It goes through Holden's shoulder and comes out of his back, clean as a whistle. Like a rag doll he falls back into the seat. Big slow Leon is already walking away, but he stops, turns, and with a little smile of satisfaction fires through the back of the seat."
Fancher, H, Peoples, D, Webb, D, Kibbee, R 1982, 'Blade Runner' (1982). Draft Script, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Alexander Street Press, viewed 24 August 2011, Data base used The American Film Scripts Online.
What does Paul Soukup say Walter Ong saw as the main paradox in 20th century communication? Cite your source.
- “that a society given so much to the use of diagrams and to the maneuvering of objects in space … should at the same time develop means of communication which specialize not in sight but in sound”
Soukup, P 2004, 'Walter J. Ong, S.J. A Retrospective,' Communication Research Trends: Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture, vol. 23, pp. 23, viewed 25 August 2011, used Trial Database via Griffith.
The old Internet community that I’m using is MySpace. MySpace was a popular social media site used to communicate with friends and others. On MySpace you could upload photos that you want others to see, upload songs that you like on your page, add your top friends list, personal message others, look at friends profiles and photos, edit and personalize your own background and post comments on friends pages. MySpace was most popular in June 2006 in the United States and kept that place through to 2008 (Cashmore 2006). In April 2008 their biggest competitor Facebook overtook MySpace (Techtree News Staff 2008). Science 2008 MySpace users have declined with more people joining Facebook and MySpace’s other competitor Twitter. In 2006 to 2008 MySpace had 1,600 employees, in June 2009 MySpace fired nearly 30% of its workforce now only leaving them with 1000 employees (Goldman, D 2009). In 2010 MySpace changed its logo from MySpace to My_____ to try and stage a comeback and now is not know as a social networking site but as a “social entertainment destination for Gen Y”(Sutter, J 2010).
MySpace was one of the first most popular social media websites and absolutely influenced they way that we use communication technology today. Below is a graph from April 2007 to June 2008 with the number of victors to MySpace and other social media sites. You can see where Facebook over takes MySpace is the visitor’s count.
MySpace was one of the first most popular social media websites and absolutely influenced they way that we use communication technology today. Below is a graph from April 2007 to June 2008 with the number of victors to MySpace and other social media sites. You can see where Facebook over takes MySpace is the visitor’s count.
References
Cashmore, P 2006, "MySpace, America’s Number One", Mashable.com. Viewed 18 August 2011
Goldman, D 2009, "MySpace to Cut 30% of Workforce", CNNmoney.com, viwed 18 August 2011
Sutter, J 2010, "Praise for MySpace's new look - but that logo?", CNN, viewed 18 August 2011
Techtree News Staff 2008, "Facebook: Largest, Fastest Growing Social Network", Techtree.com, ITNation, viewed 18 August 2011
<http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Facebook_Largest_Fastest_Growing_Social_Network/551-92134-643.html>
Week 3 - Response to Content
The History of Computing and the Internet
When was the first computer made and why?
History was made when Alan Turing developed the first computer called the Bombe during the Second World War to decrypt the Germans Enigma Machine.
When was the first computer made and why?
History was made when Alan Turing developed the first computer called the Bombe during the Second World War to decrypt the Germans Enigma Machine.
Alan Turning born in Warrington Lodge, London, on the 23rd of June 1912 was awarded a major scholarship to King College, Cambridge in 1931. He studied quantum mechanics, probability, logic and presented his first paper to the London Mathematical Society on computable numbers and proposed an abstract universal computing machine. On the 4th of September 1939 reported for duty at Blechley Park. “It was the darkest time for Britain and for British intelligence. Not a single Enigma-coded message had been solved in almost 10 months” (O’Connor 2000, p. 14)
The Enigma Machine was a device that was used by the Nazis to communicate with each other by secret codes; thousands of codes were transmitted each day. The codes were changed every day so that the British could not decrypt them.
The Enigma Machine
http://www.eclipse.net/~dhamer/Enigma1.htm
Alan Turning developed the Bombe in 1940 with the help of Gordon Welchman. The Bombe was created to discover the daily codes of the enigma machine, once the bombe determined the secret messages; the British decrypted the codes. The first Bombe made was named “victory” and was based at Bechley Park (Bletchley Park Jewels). The Bombe won the Second World War for the British.
The Bombe
http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/Bombe-1943.htm
References
O’Connor, Jerome M, 2000, “Alan turing-enigma” British heritage, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 14
Bletchley Park Jewels, Qutstations – A Brief History, Viewed 18 August 2011,
< http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/bpt/Outstations/Wavendon.htm>
Week 2 - Tutorial Task
Building a Community and Your Skill Base
Part 1
(b)This video is about the future of communication technology (was made in 2009). I selected this video because I liked how it provides great information but yet has simple images and language so everyone can understand. I personally think that it’s based on the concept of Moore’s Law. Moore’s law is “The number of transistors that can be packed on a slice of silicon doubles every year” (Merritt, Rick, 2005, p.8).
Part 2:
http://www.gforgames.com/gadgets/news-gadgets/rumor-white-iphone-4-release-date-scheduled-april-6393/
The communication technology that I would use the most would be the iPhone. I use it to communicate with friends and family via text and the Facebook application. I have been using the iPhone for about two years now. At first I was a bit hesitant about purchasing the iPhone as I did not like the touch screen. My mind was changed when a friend of mine showed me the application for facebook and how easy it was to work, from that moment I was addicted and had to get one that afternoon. Privacy is an issue for me when searching the net or Facebooking on my iPhone. I’m concerned that someone could hack into my phone and retrieve my private details. I think that it is wrong and should be illegal that companies like Google are allowed to collect information about their users. When using the internet through my computer or laptop I make sure that I have a security system running (Nortan 360). I’m a bit hesitant when meeting new people online, I don’t really talk to anyone online that I have not meet in person unless it’s a friend of a friend. I communicate better person to person and I feel like I get a better sense of who they are when meeting them than just typing to each other.
References
Merritt, Rick, 2005, ‘Moore's Law: not just a crazy idea’, Electronic engineering times, issue 1367, p. 8
Week 2 - Response to Content
Are we communication?
Pictographs
< http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/art/rockage.php>
Encycl. Relig. & Ethics 1908, "The rock-paintings are either stenciled or painted in outline."
Winkler H 1938, Rock-Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt I, "The discovery of rock-drawings showing boats of a type foreign to Egypt.
History of communication – What can rock art tell us about communication?
Rock art was one of the earliest forms of communication. Rock art are any human made markings made on natural stone. Rock art can also be described or known as “Rock drawings” and “rock paintings”. There are two types of rock art Petroglyphs and Pictographs. Petroglyphs are carvings into stone surfers by starching, pecking, drilling and sculpting. Pictographs are rock and cave paintings by using clay or hematite with other oxides, usually painted one with their finger. There are quite a lot of technical difficulties when dating rock art, which sometimes makes it difficult to determine the correct date and year. One of the earliest forms of rock art was discovered in Arnhem Land in northern Australia and is estimated to be over 60,000 years old (aboriginal art online 2004). Australia dose not have the oldest know rock art, India holds that title at such sites as Auditorium Cave and Daraki-Chattan. Australian rock art is know to be one of the most expensive to purchase as they show some of the oldest know artistic images.
Petroglphys
http://www.washoe.k12.nv.us/americanhistory/elementary/index.htm
Pictographs
http://www.gourmetgarlicgardens.com/paintrock.html
References
Aboriginal art online 2004, How Old is Australian Rock Art?, viewed 18 August 2011,
Encycl. Relig. & Ethics 1908, "The rock-paintings are either stenciled or painted in outline."
Winkler H 1938, Rock-Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt I, "The discovery of rock-drawings showing boats of a type foreign to Egypt.
Week 1 - Response to Content
What are the main issues in new communication technology?
There are a lot of issues with new communication technology, some more serious than others. Some main issues are: Hacktivism, Privacy and Security, Private investigators and National Broadband Network
Hacktivism is an illegal act of hacking, or breaking into a computer system, for a politically or socially motived purpose. Its getting easier to do so and more popular each year. People can hack into social networking websites and get information about your credit card details, personal information, etc.
Another main issue is the National Broadband Network, it is a high speed broadband network that will deliver high-speed broadband to all Australians using fibre optic cabling. Australian homes, Schools and businesses will use it.
How do we distinguish between old and new communication technology?
We distinguish between old and new communication technology by finding out whether it’s analog or digital. Analog technology was described in the lecture as functions by representing various forces (through dials) and the relatively imprecise modulation of those forces. Analog technology is classed as old communication technology. In the lecture Digital technology was pronounced that it relies on storing bits of binary information (whether the current of electricity or light in on or off) and allows for the precise modification of forces”. Digital can also be described as new media and is know as new communication technology.
Under what circumstances will new communication technologies become old communication technologies?
New communication technology will be phased out by newer communication technologies available. It’s based on the concept of Moore’s Law. Moore’s law is “The number of transistors that can be packed on a slice of silicon doubles every year” (Merritt, Rick, 2005).
I have provided two pictures below to compare old and new communication technologies.
Old Communication technology
New Communication Technology
Reference
Merritt, Rick, 2005, ‘Moore's Law: not just a crazy idea’, Electronic engineering times, issue 1367, p. 8
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