As I slept in this morning and woke up and 9 (the time i usually have to leave my house to make it to uni on time) I missed half of the lecture. So as I walked into the lecture this morning, i felt abit taken back as to what Adam was talking about. From my understanding, Adam was talking about new media and internet studies. I tried taking notes but half way through I didnt really see the point in taking notes for something I had no prior knowledge of. So I am reading the lecture notes on the internet, and then summarise these notes so I can understand them.
Some key terms I feel I should know include:
Media:
Media is the plural word for Medium. The term medium is used in conjunction with a medium of communication. Raymond Williams states that media can refer to "sense of an intervening or intermediating agency or substance"
Mass Media:
Mass media is a term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience. This type of media can be linked with all different kinda of communication devices such as televisions and internet.
Technology:
Technology is the scientific study of mechanical arts and their application to the world, a medium is the specific cultural use of technology, to communicate information... that is interpreted as meanings thanks to specific cultural and social contexts that we encounter in our daily lives
Broadcast Media:
Media in the forms of newspapers, cinema, radio, and television
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
1501ART Tutorial Task Three (part 1)
Scavenger Hunt
For the first part of todays tutorial task, we have been asked to answer "Scavenger Hunt Questions". To answer these question I would usually go straight to google, but we have been idvised to go beyond google and explore other types of search engines . . . so here goes . . . (these questions are really random lol)1. What is the weight of the world's biggest pumpkin (include the year of this record, is there a more recent record)?
I used Altavista to find the weight of the world's biggest pumpkin. Pictured is the 2005 world record pumpkin. It weighed in at 1,469 pounds and was grown by Larry Checkon of North Cambria, Pennsylvania in America. It was weighed in on October 1, 2005 at the Pennsylvania Giant Pumpkin Growers Weighoffhttp://www.pumpkinnook.com/giants/record.htm
2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Grant Hackett?
The funny thing about this question is that without searching on the internet, I believe I would be able to contact grant hacket quite easily. My boyfriend Matt is a queensland elite athelte, and has contacts to many other elite athletes and elite trainers of all sports around the country, some of which I am certain would know Grant Hackett. This would probably be the quickest and most reliable way to contact Grant Hackett without being arrested I think. Yet as I am being assessed for this so I think I should do the task properly and not be a smart ass about it :P lol. . . so here goes . . .I found the best way to contact Grant Hackett is to log onto Grant Hackett's website which is http://granthackettonline.free.fr/?page_id=107and leave him a post on the above link. Grant also has an email gali@granthackettonline.com, which he can be contacted on aswell.
This information was found on yahoo.com
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geupCKwmNFS0wBuNpXNyoA?p=About+Grant+Hackett&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt
3. What is the length of a giraffe's tongue?
I found on Altavista that an adult giraffe's tongue can be up to 27 inches long. I also found out a theory behind why a giraffe's tongue is black, and that is to prevent it from being sunburned. I also found out that Giraffes sleep no more than 5 to 30 minutes in a 24-hour period. There is so much I didnt know about Giraffes.4. How would you define "ontology"? In your own words, what does it mean?
Ontology is the science or the study of the being. It is a theory concerning the kinds of entities and specifically the kinds of abstract entities that are to be admitted to a language system. Ontology has a branch of metaphysics relating to the nature and relations of being. The term Ontology is borrowed from Philosophy where and ontology is a systematic account of existence. I define Ontology as being unique because a person can study Ontology, while they can also being a part of it.
http://www.formalontology.it/section_4.htm
5. W
hat was David Lynch's first film?
David Lynch's first film is called "Eraserhead" in 1977. This information was found at www.ask.com
Ontology is the science or the study of the being. It is a theory concerning the kinds of entities and specifically the kinds of abstract entities that are to be admitted to a language system. Ontology has a branch of metaphysics relating to the nature and relations of being. The term Ontology is borrowed from Philosophy where and ontology is a systematic account of existence. I define Ontology as being unique because a person can study Ontology, while they can also being a part of it.
http://www.formalontology.it/section_4.htm
5. W
hat was David Lynch's first film? David Lynch's first film is called "Eraserhead" in 1977. This information was found at www.ask.com
6. When was the original "Hacker's Manifesto" written, and by whom?
The original Hacker Manifesto was written in 1986 on the 8th of January. It was written by a Lord Blanken Sheperd
The original Hacker Manifesto was written in 1986 on the 8th of January. It was written by a Lord Blanken Sheperd
http://www.ask.com/web?q=Hacker%27s+Manifesto&qsrc=1&o=333&l=dir&sugreqs=1
7. What is the capital of Bhutan, and what language do the citizens spea
k?
I have found this information from Yahoo. The capital city of Bhutan is called Thimphu and has a population of 60,200. The official national language of Bhutans citizens is Dzongkha, while among the Bhotes, Tibetan dialects are used, and among the Nepalese, Nepalese dialects are used.
7. What is the capital of Bhutan, and what language do the citizens spea
k? I have found this information from Yahoo. The capital city of Bhutan is called Thimphu and has a population of 60,200. The official national language of Bhutans citizens is Dzongkha, while among the Bhotes, Tibetan dialects are used, and among the Nepalese, Nepalese dialects are used.
8. What is the cheapest form of travel from Bergen, Norway to Ornskoldsvik, Sweden?
Unforunately I ran out of time looking for what would be the cheapest form of travel from Bergen, Norway and Ornskoldsvik. I probably would have said walking, but one of my classmates stated that it was something like a 10000k trip, so while walking might be the cheapest, I wouldnt suggest that it would be possible. Most likely flying would be the cheapest and easiest.
9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1972?
9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1972?
In 1972 the song "The first time ever i saw your face" by Roberta Flack was at the top of the Australian Pop Charts
www.mag.weddingcentral.com
10. What punk band was Stephen Stockwell (head of the school of arts) in?
Stephen Stockwell was in the punk band called "The Black Assasins". This information is from www.ask.com
http://www.ask.com/web?q=Stephen+Stockwell+punk+band&qsrc=1&o=333&l=dir&sugreqs=6
www.mag.weddingcentral.com
10. What punk band was Stephen Stockwell (head of the school of arts) in?
Stephen Stockwell was in the punk band called "The Black Assasins". This information is from www.ask.com
http://www.ask.com/web?q=Stephen+Stockwell+punk+band&qsrc=1&o=333&l=dir&sugreqs=6
1501ART Tutorial Task Three (part 2)
For this part of the tutorial task, we have been asked to answer the following questions. We are to answer the questions by considering that there are many search engines that can be used on the internet, not just google. The questions are:
1. What is a search engine?
Internet search engines for example Google and AltaVista are designed to help users find web pages on a given subject. The search engines maintain databases of web sites and use programs (often referred to as "spiders" or "robots") which collect information, which is then indexed by the search engine. Similar services are provided by "directories," which maintain ordered lists of websites for example, Yahoo. In order to find a desired page, users are able to type in keywords, or key phrases that narrows down the search.
2. How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
Search engines rank pages based on page content and formatting, and based on the content of metadata tags. Special attention is paid to bold text or to keywords and summaries in the head of the HTML document. Some search engines can rank sites by how frequently other sites link to the user, and not by what you do or don't say on your site.
3. Who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?
Webpages can be made by anyone who has access to the internet, therefore the validity of what is on each website can be hard to determine. Search engines such as google usually have sponsored links on the right hand side. These sponsered links are paying the search engine for the advertisement of its webpage. These webpages appear to be official websites of specific topics. Most search engines determine which page should go where by using dates. The most current date is at the top if the page. Yet what comes up after a search usually comes down to what the user types in the question box. If the user types a phrase or word in "commas" the search engine will come up with that exact phrase (if it exists) following by the next closest, and the next and so on.
4. What are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?
Personally I like using google, because most times I can find the information that I need quickly and effieciently. I can use the filter at a strong level to block out anything thing that is inappropriate. I also use yahoo and altavista on the times that I find Google cannot help me. I have always used Google as my main source engine and never really thought of using another. Yet today we have been asked to go beyond google and explore with other search engines such as....
http://www.hotbot.com
http://www.icerocket.com
http://www.dmoz.org
http://www.alltheweb.com
5. Can you find some current news stories about search engines? (for example, Google has been in the technology news a bit lately).
1. What is a search engine?
Internet search engines for example Google and AltaVista are designed to help users find web pages on a given subject. The search engines maintain databases of web sites and use programs (often referred to as "spiders" or "robots") which collect information, which is then indexed by the search engine. Similar services are provided by "directories," which maintain ordered lists of websites for example, Yahoo. In order to find a desired page, users are able to type in keywords, or key phrases that narrows down the search.
2. How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
Search engines rank pages based on page content and formatting, and based on the content of metadata tags. Special attention is paid to bold text or to keywords and summaries in the head of the HTML document. Some search engines can rank sites by how frequently other sites link to the user, and not by what you do or don't say on your site.
3. Who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?
Webpages can be made by anyone who has access to the internet, therefore the validity of what is on each website can be hard to determine. Search engines such as google usually have sponsored links on the right hand side. These sponsered links are paying the search engine for the advertisement of its webpage. These webpages appear to be official websites of specific topics. Most search engines determine which page should go where by using dates. The most current date is at the top if the page. Yet what comes up after a search usually comes down to what the user types in the question box. If the user types a phrase or word in "commas" the search engine will come up with that exact phrase (if it exists) following by the next closest, and the next and so on.
4. What are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?
Personally I like using google, because most times I can find the information that I need quickly and effieciently. I can use the filter at a strong level to block out anything thing that is inappropriate. I also use yahoo and altavista on the times that I find Google cannot help me. I have always used Google as my main source engine and never really thought of using another. Yet today we have been asked to go beyond google and explore with other search engines such as....
http://www.hotbot.com
http://www.icerocket.com
http://www.dmoz.org
http://www.alltheweb.com
5. Can you find some current news stories about search engines? (for example, Google has been in the technology news a bit lately).
Monday, November 20, 2006
1501ART Tutorial Task Two
I use new communication technologies to communicate with my friends and family everyday. The forms of new communcation technologies I use include, my mobile phone, using text messaging, emailing, chatting online using MSN messenger, participating in social forums, and more recently webblogging, or blogging. My communication level varies from each different communication device I use. In text messages I am very brief, while using an Instant Messenger or Email I might be very consice as to what I would like to express. Blogging allows me to fully express whatever I would like to say, with no limit as to what I can type. Anyone can read my blog and anyone who has the access to the internet can comment on my entries.
The only time I communicate with people who I have not met in person would be when I am using social forums. While these people live in the same area as me I have not met them in person, yet through the certain social forum I participate in, I feel comfortable chatting with these people because they are friends of friends I have in the forum. These people are not different to friends who I know in person, and the conversations I have with them just as I do with friends.
I have had the same email since I was in grade 7, so that it almost 7 years ago. I dont use my personal email much because as time has passed and more people have gained access to the internet, instant messenging has become a more convienient way to communicate rather than emailing. I use my uni email log in only to check uni related emails. Most of my communication is done through instant messaging and texting.
In terms of socialising, I only use communication technologies that link me with people that I already know. Many people joining social forums or chat rooms are after meeting and making new friends, yet I prefer using these forms of communucation as a way of contacting already friends and family. Although I have been in internet chat rooms before I have never felt comfortable talking to strangers from a different city or even different country.
In conclusion, I believe all communication technologies allow people to have a more convienient life style.
The only time I communicate with people who I have not met in person would be when I am using social forums. While these people live in the same area as me I have not met them in person, yet through the certain social forum I participate in, I feel comfortable chatting with these people because they are friends of friends I have in the forum. These people are not different to friends who I know in person, and the conversations I have with them just as I do with friends.
I have had the same email since I was in grade 7, so that it almost 7 years ago. I dont use my personal email much because as time has passed and more people have gained access to the internet, instant messenging has become a more convienient way to communicate rather than emailing. I use my uni email log in only to check uni related emails. Most of my communication is done through instant messaging and texting.
In terms of socialising, I only use communication technologies that link me with people that I already know. Many people joining social forums or chat rooms are after meeting and making new friends, yet I prefer using these forms of communucation as a way of contacting already friends and family. Although I have been in internet chat rooms before I have never felt comfortable talking to strangers from a different city or even different country.
In conclusion, I believe all communication technologies allow people to have a more convienient life style.
1501ART - Tutorial Task One Summary
Communication technologies mingle in everyday life and culture. Focusing mainly on the internet, communication technologies have more recently been impacting the cultural elements in relation to everyday life. Things that are taken for granted such as mobile phones, and sms texting, instant messengers, and even blogging allow humans to expand their communication skills beyond their own physical boundaries. Communication to family and friends overseas for example, can be taken too easily for granted with a simple click of an enter key on the keyboard or hitting send on a mobile phone. These new forms of communication technologies have rapidly evolved over the past 6 years, and are set to make further advances in the way of communication.
In a fast paced world, so many people have access to the internet in their own homes, or failing that, a mobile phone or paging device. The internet has become as useful as a means of communication. Instant messaging has always been popular, including such programs as AOL and msn instant messenger. More so, blogging has become popular. Short for Web logging, "blogging" is where a person or group of people form a personal website where entries can be made in a journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Bloggers are in control of their blogs, therefore they are able to post about any topics they desire. Usually a personal blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.
Blogging can become an unreliable source of information, due to the fact that anyone connected to the internet can create a blog and add data for someone else to read. Political Blogs can be common sources for unreliable and bias data and information, usually containing personal opinions of whoever wrote the blog entries. Questions to ask before relying on blog information should include, who wrote the blog?, who runs and pays for the site?, what is the sites and blogs purpose and where does the information come from? etc. These questions will help determine weather a blog can be relied on for an accurate source of information and data.
In conclusion, it is clear that web logging is becoming ever popular, and allows people to expand on their own physical boundaries of communication, all with a simple click of a mouse.
In a fast paced world, so many people have access to the internet in their own homes, or failing that, a mobile phone or paging device. The internet has become as useful as a means of communication. Instant messaging has always been popular, including such programs as AOL and msn instant messenger. More so, blogging has become popular. Short for Web logging, "blogging" is where a person or group of people form a personal website where entries can be made in a journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Bloggers are in control of their blogs, therefore they are able to post about any topics they desire. Usually a personal blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.
Blogging can become an unreliable source of information, due to the fact that anyone connected to the internet can create a blog and add data for someone else to read. Political Blogs can be common sources for unreliable and bias data and information, usually containing personal opinions of whoever wrote the blog entries. Questions to ask before relying on blog information should include, who wrote the blog?, who runs and pays for the site?, what is the sites and blogs purpose and where does the information come from? etc. These questions will help determine weather a blog can be relied on for an accurate source of information and data.
In conclusion, it is clear that web logging is becoming ever popular, and allows people to expand on their own physical boundaries of communication, all with a simple click of a mouse.
1501ART - Tutorial Task One
Hi and welcome to my Blog!!!!
My name is Emily Creswick. I am an 18 year old student studying at Griffith Univeristy at the Nathan Campus in Brisbane. I live on the southside of Brisbane on the waterfront at Raby Bay. My interests include, reading, drawing, clubbing, playing netball (running, when I can be bothered lol) and chilling out. I spend most of my free time with my boyfriend Matt, he is amazing and I love him to bits. I spend alot of other free time with my best girlfriends, Michelle and Shannon, they are awsome girls and we always have so much fun. On the weekends I can usually be found at the Port Office on a Friday night and the Regatta on a Sunday night, chilling out with mates and enjoying a few drinks. I love rnb music, because it's great to dance to. I am also a fan of My Chemical Romance, Coheed and Cambria and Anberlin. I love clothing and fashion, and work as a sales assistant at Laura Ashley at Carindale, which is a ladies fashion and homewears store. I have two older sisters, Jayne who is 24, and Sarah who is 21, and a little brother James who is 14. To sum things up, I am an easy going person, and love being spontanious. I love going out and having an awsome time, and chilling out with mates.
Emily :):):)
My name is Emily Creswick. I am an 18 year old student studying at Griffith Univeristy at the Nathan Campus in Brisbane. I live on the southside of Brisbane on the waterfront at Raby Bay. My interests include, reading, drawing, clubbing, playing netball (running, when I can be bothered lol) and chilling out. I spend most of my free time with my boyfriend Matt, he is amazing and I love him to bits. I spend alot of other free time with my best girlfriends, Michelle and Shannon, they are awsome girls and we always have so much fun. On the weekends I can usually be found at the Port Office on a Friday night and the Regatta on a Sunday night, chilling out with mates and enjoying a few drinks. I love rnb music, because it's great to dance to. I am also a fan of My Chemical Romance, Coheed and Cambria and Anberlin. I love clothing and fashion, and work as a sales assistant at Laura Ashley at Carindale, which is a ladies fashion and homewears store. I have two older sisters, Jayne who is 24, and Sarah who is 21, and a little brother James who is 14. To sum things up, I am an easy going person, and love being spontanious. I love going out and having an awsome time, and chilling out with mates.
Emily :):):)
1501ART - Tutorial Task Two Summary
A brief history of computing and the internet
Where did the computer come from?
Where did the computer come from?
The first ideals of the computer were derived from Charles Babbage, a graduate of Trinity College at Cambridge. Babbage was the inventor of the difference engine, which was a machine designed to calculate and print mathematical tables. Babbage became interested in evolving his machine into the analytical machine, and with the help of Lady Ada Byron, this was possible. Both Babbage and Byron were well educated in Mathematics and Science.
To bring his ideals to life, Babbage wrote an articale called "Sketch of the Analytical Engine" to which Byron annoted in her own translation. She expanded on this idea by concieving a machine which would be able to compose and play music, produce graphics and become a part of everyday use. In conjucntion to this, Ada Byron also concieved the first computer program.
The idea of computers really took off with the serious developmental work by Englishman Alan Turing. He wrote a crucial paper clarifying the computing of numbers and the possibility of machine ti compute them. After the revolutionary ideas of Turing, computers became useful during the second world war, where they were used for breaking German enigma codes.
As time went on a company called Xeroc developed the concept of the mouse, the graphical user interface, and the pull down menu, all during the 70's. These revolutionary ideas allowed personal computers of today possible and approachable by the general user. In 1975, the first P.C (Personal Computer) was released. It was large and bulky, yet still exciting in the computing world. While this was occuring, a young man by the name of Bill Gates was working with a program called Altair, and started writing the program BASIC. Thus forming his own company in his garage which is now the empire company known as Microsoft.
During the time Microsoft was in production, two men names Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were creating their own empire Apple. In an environment were several computing nerds would get together and share ideas, (Bill Gates being one of them) Jobs and Wozniak spanned off to produced the program Apple 1. This was a primitve machine with a single cuircut board, no case and no keyboard. Apple 1 was released in 1978 at the West Coast Computer Fair, 2 years after Gate's Altair. Apple grew enormously within the next two years, investing in a program called Visicale (much like word and excel) for 100 dollars.
In the 1980's, a company called IBM decided to get into the computer market. IBM was a very large slow moving company, nothing like Apple. IBM had suffiecient knowledge of hardware, but it was their lack of software that let them down. This is where Bill Gates stepped in. In conjunction with Bill Gates and Microsoft, IBM took off, and beat Apple to the released the first user friendly P.C. using WINDOWS. By the time WINDOWS 3 evolved, Apple was going under. Microsoft gained power and still remains more powerful than Apple.
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