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Hey guys

So tired at the moment, finishing off my assignment for tomorrow. I dont have time to do it tomorrow as I have work all day, so cramming it all in tonight. I will probably end up leaving it for now and getting back to it at about 6 today lol. Its quater to one now lol. So yeah oh well. Alot has happened this week, too bad it hasnt been my assignment lol, oh well.

On tuesday me and matt went to MOVIE WORLD, omg so much fun hehe coz it was so random that we decided to go. I am so cut though coz i though I got some awsome photos, but the camera I took was dodge, so they all turned out so blurry.. :(:( . So how I look like a little blurry smudge. Oh well. I got some awsome photos of this statue thing in the Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster (that was so so so so so so so so so much fun . . ha ha and matt got scared lol) umm pretty scary for a little kids ride though. HA HA. We went on every ride which was cool, and we were lucky enough to go on the Lethal Weapon coz it was having technical difficulties all day. All I could think about everytime I got on a roller coaster (about 4 times in that day) was "OMG FINAL DESTINATION THREE". People who have seen this movie will probably know what I am on about. Hmm yeah :S:S lol. But it was all good, and it ended up to be an awsome day.

Anywho I am getting so so so tired and Im hitting bed right about now. . . i guess I will talk later and be posting my assignment up later on during day (considering that its almosts 1 in the morning of friday lol)

Toodles!! oxox

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1501ART - Tutorial Task Nine

For the tutorial task today we have been asked to complete an excercise on microsoft powerpoint. Once we have completed this we are then to write a little bit in our weblog about our experience in completing that task. if we found it easy, or hard. Now I have been using powerpoint since the 4th grade, and frankly I consider myself a whiz at this program. It is so easy and simple to use, and it is fun to make the powerpoint presentations. I love to fiddle with the setting and find the different types of entrances and exist each image or textbox can do. Powerpoint is great because everything can be times perfectly to come up on the screen. I have used it multiple times in highschool for orals, and it proves to be a great way to get rid of some nearves I used to have, because all of the other students were watching the powerpoint over me. I didnt encouter any problems while finishing this task, and actually had fun customising my own presentation

Here are my slides in order. . . I hope you like them :) . . . sorry they are abit blurry

Distopia - George Orwells 1984

George Orwells novel 1984 is a story about obscering the the truth. The novel tells the story of a kind of future where technology is used to dominate people. In a totalitarian society, people are controlled by Big Brother which censors everyone's behaviour. People are constantly watched by telescreens in their own homes, can have there thoughts read, and are constantly making sure they are not making thought crimes.

This movie is painful to watch because it shows just how easy people can be controlled and brainwashed by Technology. People are subjected to something called the "Two-Minute-Hate" where everyday for two minutes people are shown negative images and stories on giant telescreens and are brainwashed to scream and yell at the images they see. In Oceania individual expression was forbidden by the Party, having a diary was a crime, which could be punished with death

The story is set in Oceana and Winston is the main character. Winstons life is a sad one. His job is to rewrite documents and alter records and newspaper articles. Winston rewrites how his fellows die, he produces made up news and becomes so frustrating because everybody around him knows it is not real yet they are forced and more of less brainwashed to believe it. It is here at his job where Winston begins to become skeptical of the ruling dictatorship of the party of Big Brother. Winston is and always has been discusted with the oppression of the land, and chooses to go against big brother, and begin a diary filled with his own thoughts of the world. In his apartment, he finds an area where the telescreen cannon see him. There he sits are writes about the world.

1501ART - Tutorial Task Nine Summary

Cyberutopia

At the start of the lecture this morning, we were shown a snip of the movie Jonny Neumonic (the same movie we saw a few days ago) In the snip we saw, there was lady having a fit, and she taken to the "flesh mechanic". I like the name flesh mechanic because it shows that in the future because there are so many machine (probably refered to as machine mechanics) humans are refered to as a form of machine of technology, a flesh machine. The Flesh mechanic gives her muscle relaxant in her spine, while Jonny asked him what is wrong with her. The Flesh Mechanic then has a fit of rage screaming aroung the room stating "The world causes it" suggesting the technology of this world causes an "information overload". This snip of this movie has a strong message that possibly people in the future are going to be more so addicted to technology "Because we cant live without it"

The First (electronic) Media Age - centralised dissemination.

The concept of sending media (television, radio etc) spreading out, with one source, many recievers. One person can write a letter, make film of television program etc an audience sould receive that message. Certain reasons allow only certain people to recieve and send these messages. These restrictions included education, financial and technical. This is the first electronic media age

The Second (electronic) Media Age

The internet made it possible for an individual to publish to a huge audience. Though the internet was not available for public use until the 1990s. By the middle 1990's there were over 30million users around the world, and in early 2000's 262 million users were recorded. Bill Gates stated that the internet made it possible for an individual to publish to a huge audeince. This was mainly throught the web, but more so in current times, blogs and other mobile technology - phone cameras able to take photos or videos, therefore citizens are in the media again. Marshall Mcluhan suggest that there are in fact three media ages. Oral: Spoken Word, Literate: Written Word, Electric: Television, Digital. Building on this, Robery K. Logan suggest that there are infact five media ages, adding, Mimetic Age, and the interactive/digital age to Mcluhan's trivium.

Post Modernism:

The second media is built on the first and is thus largely dependant on the world view inherit in existing technologies. The media builing remediates and enhances mediums, adding layers of complexity and new information. The new media brings with is a need for new understandings - in particular political ones

Virtual Reality:

Virtual Reality brings with it complex question about the nature of society. It is a world generated by computers. Virtual Reality can be accepted as a medium, not just a technology. It can be accepted as a medium because this type of cyborg structure exist in which, our bodies, our mins and senses is a part of the medium. It warps and duplicates and transends reality. You can have memories of virtual reality, yet are these memories different from human interaction. Are these memories virtually mediated from real memories? This is a question that can be interpretted differently by everyone. This opens up space for nre formd of culture to form.

Utopia and Distopia:

Utopias from the Greeks mean "nowhere" and literary examples tell of imaginary places where everything is perfect, usually because people and technology are in harmony. Technology has been believed to create a Utopia, where the hazards of life will be programmed out, and the technology will provide users with something nicer than the real world. This is suggesting that we can catalogue and download nature and will be able to perfect it. This is not a natural thing though, yet not much of society these days are natural anymore. What happens if the power goes of in the utopian technology world. When the power goes off, people will realise that this world of technology is really a hell.

People are developing so much technology because people cannon live without it.

"They were so obsessed with the fact that they could do it, they forgot to consider whether they should" (Jurassic Park)

1501ART - Tutorial Task Eight

Advanced Word techniques

For the tutorial task today we have been asked to complete an excercise on microsoft word. The exercise involves merging fields. After we have completed the task we are to write a little bit in our weblog about the experience in completing this task. So here is the task completed:

Mr James Peterson
Media House
200 Job Lane Southport
Gold Coast QLD
4218 Australia

Dear, Mr James Peterson

I am writing to apply for a position within your company Media House. I have recently completed a Journalism and Communication degree at Griffith University on the Gold Coast and believe that I have the suitable skills and experiences to be a valuable asset to Media House. During this degree I have completed subjects in:
· New Communication technologies,
· Cyber Studies
· Digital Production
· News and Politics
· Culture
· Media and Society
· Creative Writing.
Please find attached a copy of my resume. Should you need and further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,
Emily Creswick

In this exercise we are were to add:

• Opening a Document
• Typing
• Bold Font
• Italic Font
• Underline Font
• Bulleting
• Headers
• Footers
• Double Spacing

All of these tasked I had no problem with, because I all of them probably everytime I have used Microsoft word

The advanced exercise asked us to add:

• Track Changes
• Mail merging
• Mail merge toolbar
  

Now I had no idea what merging fields was before this exercise, but it proved very helpful in the completion. It was pretty simple to use, I didnt really use the intructions but more or less went searching in the word menus to find what the instructions were talking about. The merging wizard allowed me to add data about a person, their name, personal details, address etc, to which I then added into the edited document by Merging. Pretty cool. Though I dont know, I might prefer just typing it using tabs, its just the way I have always done it. But yeah, I am appreciative of being tought how to use this. The funny thing is, my boyfriend just had a job interview for an admin job, and he was asked to complete the same task, yet he knew nothing of this merging in word, and told me that he was totally stumped and was pretty sure he failed the task. Its strange because he is awsome on computers, and the smallest things might stump someone.

1501ART - Tutorial Task Eight Summary

I was sick today so I missed the lecture, but I am going through the lecture notes and i am making notes on them. . .