In today’s tutorial we have added some friends to our blogs. So now we can all post comments on each others blogs and see everyone’s different opinions on what we have learnt.
Yesterday in our lecture we watched Alphaville (1965) by Jean Luc Goddard. It was a French new wave film set in black and white with English subtitles. The movie was set in the future.
Gene Volovich from Internet Movie Database website explained the storyline as “Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.”
In the film there were no special effects just locations of Paris that looked futuristic as they didn’t have the resources available in 1965 as they do now in films. We discussed in class the reaction to Alphaville in 1965 compared to now in 2008. Back then computers didn’t exist and the thought of a computer taking over the world was unthinkable. Our science fiction movies now revolve around the galaxy and space travel such as Star Wars.
Alphaville was set in the genre of French new wave. French new wave was an artistic movement which became popular in the late 1950’s till the mid 1960’s. It allowed directors to film at locations rather than in a studio, have more improvised scripts and natural sets and lighting.
New communication technologies have made a huge impact on everyday life things such as the internet, mobile phones and email. I began to use these I guess at the start of high school as I needed the internet for research and also to talk to my friends over msn and hotmail. Nowadays I still use it for research but I use MySpace instead of msn as you can have a range of different friends even people you have never met in person. Privacy can be an issue sometimes with all these new ways of communicating but there is always ways of setting your personal information to private that only you and your friends can see. But the internet can be pretty dodgy and nothing can ever really offer security.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Blog One
Hey everyone, today we are setting up our first blog on bloggers.com, this is so we can keep track of work that we have done through the semester in lectures, tutorials and readings.
In yesterdays lecture with Steven Stockwell the main discussion point was ‘Is Email Dead?’ We discussed spam and fishing over email, we looked over statistics of a survey that we completed a week ago and discussed if bloggers are journalists.
When we discussed spam Steven asked how many of us don’t receive spam through email. Only a few raised their hands. Everyone mentioned what kind of spam they receive such as fake bank statements, fake prizes, and many emails that just didn’t make sense.
When the class looked over statistics it was pretty much what kind of results to expect. It was good to see that about 70% of the class liked having so much new technology available and it was interesting to see how many people prefer being online than doing other things such as the beach etc. About 70% said they would rather be online than at church.
Adam showed us a clip where a TV host was talking to a Politian about blogging. They discussed whether bloggers are journalists as bloggers take a lot of information from newspapers and TV and post it on the web.
In the tutorial we summarized what we remember from the lecture and did the first steps of our blogs. I've never used blogs before and never really read any either. It’s interesting to see the difference of blogs from emails and networks such as MySpace and Face book. These blogs will be very helpful when it comes to writing assessments and they are good notes for studying.
The reading by Benjamin Walter was very hard to get grips on. I had to read it a few times to understand it, but what was easier to understand was the documentary we watched in lecture one called “You Only Live Twice.” It was about a virtual world created on the internet named Second Life. The documentary covered a lot of different points and showed the creators and big shots of the virtual world. It was interesting to see that people ran businesses in second life and were doing extremely well as there is money in second life that can be cashed in for real currency. There were also issues of rape and paedophilia, as there was no stopping who the characters could really sleep with.
Overall that is pretty much everything I have seen and learnt over the last two weeks I shall be writing more next week till then have fun :)
In yesterdays lecture with Steven Stockwell the main discussion point was ‘Is Email Dead?’ We discussed spam and fishing over email, we looked over statistics of a survey that we completed a week ago and discussed if bloggers are journalists.
When we discussed spam Steven asked how many of us don’t receive spam through email. Only a few raised their hands. Everyone mentioned what kind of spam they receive such as fake bank statements, fake prizes, and many emails that just didn’t make sense.
When the class looked over statistics it was pretty much what kind of results to expect. It was good to see that about 70% of the class liked having so much new technology available and it was interesting to see how many people prefer being online than doing other things such as the beach etc. About 70% said they would rather be online than at church.
Adam showed us a clip where a TV host was talking to a Politian about blogging. They discussed whether bloggers are journalists as bloggers take a lot of information from newspapers and TV and post it on the web.
In the tutorial we summarized what we remember from the lecture and did the first steps of our blogs. I've never used blogs before and never really read any either. It’s interesting to see the difference of blogs from emails and networks such as MySpace and Face book. These blogs will be very helpful when it comes to writing assessments and they are good notes for studying.
The reading by Benjamin Walter was very hard to get grips on. I had to read it a few times to understand it, but what was easier to understand was the documentary we watched in lecture one called “You Only Live Twice.” It was about a virtual world created on the internet named Second Life. The documentary covered a lot of different points and showed the creators and big shots of the virtual world. It was interesting to see that people ran businesses in second life and were doing extremely well as there is money in second life that can be cashed in for real currency. There were also issues of rape and paedophilia, as there was no stopping who the characters could really sleep with.
Overall that is pretty much everything I have seen and learnt over the last two weeks I shall be writing more next week till then have fun :)
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