Lecture:
I slept in for this weeks lecture, but from the discussion in the tutorial and my own personal opinion on this topic, I was able to get a sense of what was missed. Some people are against the idea of downloading music and think that it is morally wrong. Some would say that it is ripping people off. The internet is a domain which is paid for by the consumer, so it is not totally free and we are not the only ones doing this. Paying for a CD when you only want one song off the CD is a waste. There are lots of free items on the internet and not just music.
In terms of music, the co-operations are loosing out, they spend the money to put in advertising and they are not adapting to the ways of society. It is just a vicious circle of life. It costs heaps more to put a CD out there than it is to put a movie. Also in terms of music, lots of people have IPODS and use itunes, so it is cheaper to download the music then to buy all of it. It is a lot of memory to fill.
I believe that downloading music is okay but when it comes to the movies, I believe that it is wrong. Movies take a lot more money and time to make which isn’t fair to others who took the time create the film.
While some like to buy their CDs or films for the artwork, but it is easier to just download it online. It is all your personal opinion and perspective
Readings:
When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide. Learning @ Griffith
The topic for the week had to dealing with downloading music and movies from the internet. It is about morally if it is legal or illegal. Every individual has their own view, but in the article for this week’s reading goes on to talk about the record companies.
The company that the writer worked for would go on extravagant meals and charge everything to the record company along with everyone having assistants. The writer goes on to talk about that it is an “An industry of excess.” Over the years, technology has changed and is always growing, improving and buying CD’s is not as popular, unless you like the artwork that comes with it.
We are currently in the digital age, the writer goes on to describe the changes over time with cassette players, CD players and now we have mp3 players. Trading and borrowing music is what people have done for years. It is a way to listen to other music and it is not as expensive. Getting the free music makes it more interesting, you can test out the music or get one or 2 tracks without buying the whole CD. Napster was huge amongst students, as it was free and students are cheap and poor.
For some though, the physical possession of the cd is just as important as the music itself, you can brag about the amount you have and the various artists you listen too. Times are changing and always will be, someone has to lose out and there will always be that nerdy acne kid scheming the system.
Tutorial:
This week’s tutorial was supposed to be a demonstration on how to make a video, but it has been postponed to next week. This week was a catch up week on the blogs and other assignments.
The movie making task has been moved to next week.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Week 10-Task 10-Living in the Future
Lecture:
Blade-runner was what we watched in the lecture this week. It is a 1982 film starring Harrison Ford. The film was placed in LA which is a futuristic set in 2019. Harrison Ford is a blade runner who is after terminating replicas that were created by other humans. The themes and the ideas that were presented was how we are able to control our future by creating the people. The power that we have with creating what the ideal person would be like with no emotions and no recollection of the past. It is interesting to see how they portray these people in society in the future. They see the people and how they react to others around them. These people know who they are and the way that they fit into society.
Readings
An exploration of what it is to be human Learning @ Griffith
The reading for this week was a continuation of blade-runner and the impacts of society. It relates to the ideas of humans and how we live with the ideas the television, technology and the ideas of war. Humans can be compared with technology and the reality. He continuously is making comparison between humans and other aspects in society. The ideas of people know who they are and the different aspects of their own life and where they fit into society. The reading this week did not flow well and was confusing, but the comparisons made were clear. The references to the various aspects in society were able to make links between everyday ideas.
Tutorial
This weeks tutorial began the discussion of each individual essays and the topics of everyone's essays. Then there was time to work on essays and blogs.
Blade-runner was what we watched in the lecture this week. It is a 1982 film starring Harrison Ford. The film was placed in LA which is a futuristic set in 2019. Harrison Ford is a blade runner who is after terminating replicas that were created by other humans. The themes and the ideas that were presented was how we are able to control our future by creating the people. The power that we have with creating what the ideal person would be like with no emotions and no recollection of the past. It is interesting to see how they portray these people in society in the future. They see the people and how they react to others around them. These people know who they are and the way that they fit into society.
Readings
An exploration of what it is to be human Learning @ Griffith
The reading for this week was a continuation of blade-runner and the impacts of society. It relates to the ideas of humans and how we live with the ideas the television, technology and the ideas of war. Humans can be compared with technology and the reality. He continuously is making comparison between humans and other aspects in society. The ideas of people know who they are and the different aspects of their own life and where they fit into society. The reading this week did not flow well and was confusing, but the comparisons made were clear. The references to the various aspects in society were able to make links between everyday ideas.
Tutorial
This weeks tutorial began the discussion of each individual essays and the topics of everyone's essays. Then there was time to work on essays and blogs.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Week 9- Topic 9- Virtual Philosophy and Cyber Punk
Lecture:
This week lecture was a discussion on Cyberpunk and the idea of virtual reality. Cyberpunk is a very complicated and the ability to define it is hard. It can be a very simple definition. It is broken up into two different parts. The Cyber aspect is human/machine aspect and when describing the aspect of Punk, it is anarchic. It is very complicated and it challenges the norms of society with the idea of citizen hacker. Stephen also went to describe the idea of Greece and Rome, the idea that they were a democracy. We had a little history lesson on all the philosophical ideas of different philosophers.
Then for the rest of the class we watched a French movie. It is a new wave film. The film had pictures that we put all together with French speaker and English subtitles. This film was made in the 1960’s with very little money to create it. The message that was trying to get across was the idea of sending a message of what was going on at that time.
Tutorial: The Internet Field Trip
The tutorial task for this week is to compare using chat programs like MSN to a 3D virtual environment where you chat to others. When using an IM program I use MSN on a regular basis, when trying a 3D world I tried IMUV.
I used the active world’s 3D virtual game to chat to others. The one that I tried out was the IMVU website to try and interact. It had a brief conversation with someone else in the site. I was still testing it out and trying to learn how to work it. I discovered how to have a conversation with someone else and that you get credits to go shopping with when in the world. It was interesting. They started to ask me more as time went on, it will take time to fully understand how it will work.
The qualitative differences that I found between the two chat sites were that when talking the words are the same and that the meaning will be the same. You are interacting with various other people in an online website with only others that have that site.
The difference of socializing that happens in these spaces is you are able to see someone’s expressions when talking in the 3D world. You can present your emotions when chatting so you can get a feel about the conversation. You can read their body language almost which is hard when you are just reading the words off the screen.
When on the virtual world you get a person, everyone has a person in which you communicate with others. Avatars are people in which you can dress up and show emotions, you are able to be someone who is presented, with is you can be in different moods, and be able to chat to people and its more like real life in a way. The actions and the moves can be varied for people. It is more a virtual reality was you can dress up, chat to others and have different moves.
I think that this could lead us to socializing like this instead of going out and socializing in real life. 3D virtual worlds like this could take over MSN and other IM messaging sites and will keep people glued to their computer screens and interact with friends this way instead.
Reading:
The Allegory of the Cave Learning @ Griffith
This article had a couple of points that dealt with Plato. There are a couple of points that had to do with his phiosohical ideas on the cave and prisoners being placed in it. Plato was discussed in the lecture and how ideas are was part of the democracy over in Greece with his ideas playing a factor in society.
Burning Chrome By William Gibson Learning @Griffith
This is a novel written by William Gibson published in 1986. The story is about a Chrome, who was a streetwise hi tech whore. When she had customers who annoyed her, she had created her own variation cancers. This all backfired on her, there was a customer who got annoyed with her.
Coretti, had seen her somewhere but he is not sure where he had seen her before. He cant remember what club it had been. She had caught his attention with the way that she moved and walked through the club. Then the connection is made of their first meeting.
This week lecture was a discussion on Cyberpunk and the idea of virtual reality. Cyberpunk is a very complicated and the ability to define it is hard. It can be a very simple definition. It is broken up into two different parts. The Cyber aspect is human/machine aspect and when describing the aspect of Punk, it is anarchic. It is very complicated and it challenges the norms of society with the idea of citizen hacker. Stephen also went to describe the idea of Greece and Rome, the idea that they were a democracy. We had a little history lesson on all the philosophical ideas of different philosophers.
Then for the rest of the class we watched a French movie. It is a new wave film. The film had pictures that we put all together with French speaker and English subtitles. This film was made in the 1960’s with very little money to create it. The message that was trying to get across was the idea of sending a message of what was going on at that time.
Tutorial: The Internet Field Trip
The tutorial task for this week is to compare using chat programs like MSN to a 3D virtual environment where you chat to others. When using an IM program I use MSN on a regular basis, when trying a 3D world I tried IMUV.
I used the active world’s 3D virtual game to chat to others. The one that I tried out was the IMVU website to try and interact. It had a brief conversation with someone else in the site. I was still testing it out and trying to learn how to work it. I discovered how to have a conversation with someone else and that you get credits to go shopping with when in the world. It was interesting. They started to ask me more as time went on, it will take time to fully understand how it will work.
The qualitative differences that I found between the two chat sites were that when talking the words are the same and that the meaning will be the same. You are interacting with various other people in an online website with only others that have that site.
The difference of socializing that happens in these spaces is you are able to see someone’s expressions when talking in the 3D world. You can present your emotions when chatting so you can get a feel about the conversation. You can read their body language almost which is hard when you are just reading the words off the screen.
When on the virtual world you get a person, everyone has a person in which you communicate with others. Avatars are people in which you can dress up and show emotions, you are able to be someone who is presented, with is you can be in different moods, and be able to chat to people and its more like real life in a way. The actions and the moves can be varied for people. It is more a virtual reality was you can dress up, chat to others and have different moves.
I think that this could lead us to socializing like this instead of going out and socializing in real life. 3D virtual worlds like this could take over MSN and other IM messaging sites and will keep people glued to their computer screens and interact with friends this way instead.
Reading:
The Allegory of the Cave Learning @ Griffith
This article had a couple of points that dealt with Plato. There are a couple of points that had to do with his phiosohical ideas on the cave and prisoners being placed in it. Plato was discussed in the lecture and how ideas are was part of the democracy over in Greece with his ideas playing a factor in society.
Burning Chrome By William Gibson Learning @Griffith
This is a novel written by William Gibson published in 1986. The story is about a Chrome, who was a streetwise hi tech whore. When she had customers who annoyed her, she had created her own variation cancers. This all backfired on her, there was a customer who got annoyed with her.
Coretti, had seen her somewhere but he is not sure where he had seen her before. He cant remember what club it had been. She had caught his attention with the way that she moved and walked through the club. Then the connection is made of their first meeting.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Week 8-topic 8- Are Computer Games a Waste of Time?
Lecture:
The discussion of video and computer games is what began this week’s lecture. Various people put in their personal experience of video games in their households. It was interesting to hear others experiences with game consoles and how it can take over peoples lives. They feel like it takes over part of their lives and they get so into what they are doing. Then the rest of the lecture Adam discussed the different aspects of games and new media. The changes that have been made over the years in regards to games and how it is apart of young peoples lives has changed in the technological sense, but also in peoples lives. The games are always changing and improving.
Tutorial Tasks
The tasks this week had to deal with Microsoft word and excel. I feel comfortable with Microsoft Word as I have used it for years when writing reports for school. When going through the beginning part I felt confident with what I was doing and found it very easy. I struggled with the mail merger section but that will come with time and practice. I am still not sure how it completely works still, I am not sure how it would work when printing up the paper. My solution is to practice and use Microsoft Help section of the document to assist with my problems.
Microsoft Excel I have had some experience in my grade 12 Data Management class it was used on occasion. I was able to get through the beginners part with ease as I did it in my class. The macro part I had some struggles with, I wasn’t able to complete it as I was getting totally frustrated with it. I am going to try and accomplish this task another time when I do not want to punch the computer screen.
Readings:
‘Trigger Happy’ (2002) Steven Poole’s Chapter 3: ‘Unreal Cities’ (pg 83-107)
The reading for this week was a chapter from the book ‘Trigger Happy’. The book is about the aesthetics of video games. In the chapter that was required to be read was the ‘Unreal Cities.’ It is comparing the 3-D reality games that feel like real life. The player feels as if they are playing that game for real. The chapter goes on to talk about how reality is still different from the game and that not everything is exact. The author is comparing the difference between on laser beams being shot are completely different than what goes on in the game. The question is then asked; “why, then, do videogames get it wrong?”This is because if it was ‘real’ it wouldn’t be a video game then. The games can’t be like real life, cause then you are playing something you can do in real life and takes away the thrill. The chapter goes on to describe different situations that aren’t like reality, they are different. Like a ball and the angles. Video games aren’t made to be exactly real; they are modified to keep you playing more. This makes them addictive and want you to play more.
The discussion of video and computer games is what began this week’s lecture. Various people put in their personal experience of video games in their households. It was interesting to hear others experiences with game consoles and how it can take over peoples lives. They feel like it takes over part of their lives and they get so into what they are doing. Then the rest of the lecture Adam discussed the different aspects of games and new media. The changes that have been made over the years in regards to games and how it is apart of young peoples lives has changed in the technological sense, but also in peoples lives. The games are always changing and improving.
Tutorial Tasks
The tasks this week had to deal with Microsoft word and excel. I feel comfortable with Microsoft Word as I have used it for years when writing reports for school. When going through the beginning part I felt confident with what I was doing and found it very easy. I struggled with the mail merger section but that will come with time and practice. I am still not sure how it completely works still, I am not sure how it would work when printing up the paper. My solution is to practice and use Microsoft Help section of the document to assist with my problems.
Microsoft Excel I have had some experience in my grade 12 Data Management class it was used on occasion. I was able to get through the beginners part with ease as I did it in my class. The macro part I had some struggles with, I wasn’t able to complete it as I was getting totally frustrated with it. I am going to try and accomplish this task another time when I do not want to punch the computer screen.
Readings:
‘Trigger Happy’ (2002) Steven Poole’s Chapter 3: ‘Unreal Cities’ (pg 83-107)
The reading for this week was a chapter from the book ‘Trigger Happy’. The book is about the aesthetics of video games. In the chapter that was required to be read was the ‘Unreal Cities.’ It is comparing the 3-D reality games that feel like real life. The player feels as if they are playing that game for real. The chapter goes on to talk about how reality is still different from the game and that not everything is exact. The author is comparing the difference between on laser beams being shot are completely different than what goes on in the game. The question is then asked; “why, then, do videogames get it wrong?”This is because if it was ‘real’ it wouldn’t be a video game then. The games can’t be like real life, cause then you are playing something you can do in real life and takes away the thrill. The chapter goes on to describe different situations that aren’t like reality, they are different. Like a ball and the angles. Video games aren’t made to be exactly real; they are modified to keep you playing more. This makes them addictive and want you to play more.
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