The week 8 lecture was about the philosophy. What is considered by real in the history? What is virtual reality?
In the lecture, we saw a part of movie of Matrix. Have you seen the movie? I have, and I remember it was so deep and I did not understand it very well, but I was so shocked from many things. It is definitely a Hollywood entertainment movie, but the messages there are quite deep.
Cyberspace is not only a world in the movies and Sci-Fi novels anymore, and it exists as a part of our life now. Even during the web 1.0 era, there was a popular virtual town called Geocities. People were able to create their personal websites inside Geocities, and those contents were placed on the streets in a map of the virtual world.
Now we have thousands virtual worlds including online games and chat websites, and most people accept the fact that virtual reality is a part of our real world.
Here is a list of popular virtual worlds:
Disney's Toontown
Mokitown
Virtual Magic Kingdom
Whyville
Coke Studios
Dubit
Habbo Hotel
The Manor
The Palace
Playdo
The Sims Online
There
TowerChat
whyrobbierocks.com
Active Worlds
Cybertown
Dreamville
Moove
Muse
The Palace
Second Life
Sora City
Virtual Ibiza
Voodoo Chat
VP Chat
VZones
Moove
Traveler
Worlds.com
Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
(Virtual Worlds List By Category, Virtual World Review, viewed 3/10/10, http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/info/categories.shtml)
What a world we have created. There could be a time very soon when we can actually eat and sleep and physically get satisfied in a virtual world!
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
cyberpunk - week 8 task and Tutespark
This week, we learned about the philosophy of the cyberspace. What is real and what is not - are the things created by the brain real? - is virtual reality real or not???? How about the languages. The created meaning by our brain like language, is that real?
It was a quite difficult lecture as I was not familiar with Plato or any other philosophy that much. However I think, the point of the lecture was, the virtual world is not the things you can describe as real or not. You cannot put things on hierarchy like people used to do in old days like Plato. The virtual world and the real world is laid there, side by side.
And the task of the week is:
'Pixels', the movie I uploaded for week 4 belongs to this category. The pixel characters of the virtual world started attacking the real world, and the earth became one pixel at the end. Probably, many people think 'oh no, it's just a story' after they see that video, as everything was described in cute way and not really serious. However, think about the images you see everyday in your life. Many TVs are now digital, and you are watching the whole images created by tiny pixels. Most people take photos by digital camera these days, and enjoy them by watching a creation of pixels. News paper and most magazines are printed by tiny dots - pixels as well. Many street signs and packages of almost all products are also printed by dots - pixels. Computer and the Internet is all made by pixels, of course. Pixels are really taking over our real world.
Now, the health risk of the mobile phone is still not confirmed, but many people have an uncertain worry that it may cause headache, nausea or even brain tumors and cancer. I found this funny news as well: Lady Gaga 'Scared To Use Mobile Phone Due To Health Risks' (Gregory, J. 2010, News, GIGWISE, viewed 17/09/10, http://www.gigwise.com/news/58150/Lady-Gaga-Scared-To-Use-Mobile-Phone-Due-To-Health-Risks). According to this story, Lady Gaga hires an assistant to hold a phone for her to avoid the mobile getting too close to her head while she uses the loudspeaker!
And then here comes this video. Have you seen the video which the mobile phones make popcorn? I remember this hilarious video became viral through email.
Have you seen this? I was so shocked when I saw this first. Wow, no wonder there are so many rumor about the health risk with mobile phone, look at this, the mobile phone signal can even make popcorn!!! The radio frequency radiation kills us!!!
I never had a doubt it was not real, but I found out it was just well plotted fiction. This was originally made as an ad for Cardo Bluetooth headsets. It is suggested that there is a hot plate hidden under the table and the heat makes the corn pop. (Hoax-Slayer, Making Popcorn With Cell Phones, viewed 17/09/10, http://www.hoax-slayer.com/cell-phone-popcorn.shtml). To tell the truth, I was very disappointed to see the truth here somehow. Damn, they really tricked me.
However, it is true that there are some studies from reliable organisations that confirm an increase of health risks by using mobile phones. For example, the WHO released a study regarding a connection between mobile phone and cancer rates. People who uses their mobile phones, wireless home phones and WIFI connected more than thirty minutes a day have more risk of brain tumor. (Gifford-Jones 2010, Protect yourself from cellphone radiation, Tront Sun, viewed 17/09/10, http://www.torontosun.com/life/healthandfitness/2010/09/08/15284781.html)
So I made a news story like this. ARGUS is the name of a web magazine created by the photo journalism students of Griffith University Gold Coast Campus.
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Police arrest eleven men in connection with possible terrorist attack
September 17, 2012 by C. Fridge / ARGUS
Prime minister Julia Gillard announced that is is confirmed a group of four people were arrested on a suspected terrorist plot in Sydney.
Eleven men, including two former Telstra employees and three university science researchers, were being questioned yesterday afternoon in north Sydney on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. They started a business called ''Phone Geek" and planned to open 8 shops this month. It is suspected that they were intending to attach a nano-scale device inside 20,000 mobile phones including Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, and they were about to sell those modified mobile phones through their shops around north Sydney area. The size of the device is almost invisible by the human eye.
Yet the health risk of a mobile phones radio frequency radiation is still controversial, the group of suspects have conducted research for five years now and found that two times enhanced radio frequency radiation for twenty minutes or more daily can cause multiple tumors to 80 percent of people in six months. It is suspected that they created a nano-scale device to enhance the radio frequency over five times with the aim of harming anonymous people. It is believed that they have a strong connection to the known terrorist group Al Qaeda.
New mobile phones are normally sold with opened packages as the shops have to insert a SIM card and copy the contacts over as a courtesy before they hand them to consumers. "People would never realise if the mobile phone is already modified before they purchased" says Peter Tompson, a sales person of Crazy Johns Mobile Phones. "It is very scary to imagine what they were planning to do".
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a 10-year study into mobile phone use and cancer rates in 2010. The WHO recognized a significant correlation between malignant brain tumours and people who used their cellphones, wireless home phones or WIFI connected for more than 30 minutes combined daily.
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Well, this is all for the week. Have a lovely mobile free weekend!
It was a quite difficult lecture as I was not familiar with Plato or any other philosophy that much. However I think, the point of the lecture was, the virtual world is not the things you can describe as real or not. You cannot put things on hierarchy like people used to do in old days like Plato. The virtual world and the real world is laid there, side by side.
And the task of the week is:
....students should select one of these themes (Negative Impact of technology on humanity, Fusion of man and machine, Corporate control over society, Uprising of the underground, Ubiquitous Access to information) & complete some basic research on it (ideally finding a short fiction online that deals with the topic (there’s heaps of online cyberpunk fiction, so this shouldn’t be a problem). Once students have a basic understanding they should try and identify a current news story that reflects their chosen topic.So I chose the 'Negative Impact of technology on humanity' theme.
Once they have found a story they should attempt to re-write the news story as a persuasive piece about how their piece of cyberpunk fiction has forecast the particular story/event & how it will inevitably lead to the world becoming a post-industrial dystopia (like every cyberpunk story does/is). (The_TuteSpark_Repository, viewed 17/09/10, http://tutespark.blogspot.com/2010/09/week-8.html)
"Negative Impact of technology on humanity: In a cyberpunked near-future, technology runs rampant, and usually manipulates most societal interactions. Dystopian near futures are very common, but so are futures where the impacts of specific technologies are played out in a world only slightly different from the present. Sacred societal boundaries are often crossed with regularity. Often the earth is severely damaged. Crime and drug use are often key supporting themes." (The_TuteSpark_Repository, viewed 17/09/10, http://tutespark.blogspot.com/2010/09/week-8.html)
'Pixels', the movie I uploaded for week 4 belongs to this category. The pixel characters of the virtual world started attacking the real world, and the earth became one pixel at the end. Probably, many people think 'oh no, it's just a story' after they see that video, as everything was described in cute way and not really serious. However, think about the images you see everyday in your life. Many TVs are now digital, and you are watching the whole images created by tiny pixels. Most people take photos by digital camera these days, and enjoy them by watching a creation of pixels. News paper and most magazines are printed by tiny dots - pixels as well. Many street signs and packages of almost all products are also printed by dots - pixels. Computer and the Internet is all made by pixels, of course. Pixels are really taking over our real world.
Now, the health risk of the mobile phone is still not confirmed, but many people have an uncertain worry that it may cause headache, nausea or even brain tumors and cancer. I found this funny news as well: Lady Gaga 'Scared To Use Mobile Phone Due To Health Risks' (Gregory, J. 2010, News, GIGWISE, viewed 17/09/10, http://www.gigwise.com/news/58150/Lady-Gaga-Scared-To-Use-Mobile-Phone-Due-To-Health-Risks). According to this story, Lady Gaga hires an assistant to hold a phone for her to avoid the mobile getting too close to her head while she uses the loudspeaker!
(photo: GIGWISE, http://www.gigwise.com/news/58150/Lady-Gaga-Scared-To-Use-Mobile-Phone-Due-To-Health-Risks)
And then here comes this video. Have you seen the video which the mobile phones make popcorn? I remember this hilarious video became viral through email.
Have you seen this? I was so shocked when I saw this first. Wow, no wonder there are so many rumor about the health risk with mobile phone, look at this, the mobile phone signal can even make popcorn!!! The radio frequency radiation kills us!!!
I never had a doubt it was not real, but I found out it was just well plotted fiction. This was originally made as an ad for Cardo Bluetooth headsets. It is suggested that there is a hot plate hidden under the table and the heat makes the corn pop. (Hoax-Slayer, Making Popcorn With Cell Phones, viewed 17/09/10, http://www.hoax-slayer.com/cell-phone-popcorn.shtml). To tell the truth, I was very disappointed to see the truth here somehow. Damn, they really tricked me.
However, it is true that there are some studies from reliable organisations that confirm an increase of health risks by using mobile phones. For example, the WHO released a study regarding a connection between mobile phone and cancer rates. People who uses their mobile phones, wireless home phones and WIFI connected more than thirty minutes a day have more risk of brain tumor. (Gifford-Jones 2010, Protect yourself from cellphone radiation, Tront Sun, viewed 17/09/10, http://www.torontosun.com/life/healthandfitness/2010/09/08/15284781.html)
So I made a news story like this. ARGUS is the name of a web magazine created by the photo journalism students of Griffith University Gold Coast Campus.
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Police arrest eleven men in connection with possible terrorist attack
September 17, 2012 by C. Fridge / ARGUS
Prime minister Julia Gillard announced that is is confirmed a group of four people were arrested on a suspected terrorist plot in Sydney.
Eleven men, including two former Telstra employees and three university science researchers, were being questioned yesterday afternoon in north Sydney on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. They started a business called ''Phone Geek" and planned to open 8 shops this month. It is suspected that they were intending to attach a nano-scale device inside 20,000 mobile phones including Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, and they were about to sell those modified mobile phones through their shops around north Sydney area. The size of the device is almost invisible by the human eye.
Yet the health risk of a mobile phones radio frequency radiation is still controversial, the group of suspects have conducted research for five years now and found that two times enhanced radio frequency radiation for twenty minutes or more daily can cause multiple tumors to 80 percent of people in six months. It is suspected that they created a nano-scale device to enhance the radio frequency over five times with the aim of harming anonymous people. It is believed that they have a strong connection to the known terrorist group Al Qaeda.
New mobile phones are normally sold with opened packages as the shops have to insert a SIM card and copy the contacts over as a courtesy before they hand them to consumers. "People would never realise if the mobile phone is already modified before they purchased" says Peter Tompson, a sales person of Crazy Johns Mobile Phones. "It is very scary to imagine what they were planning to do".
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a 10-year study into mobile phone use and cancer rates in 2010. The WHO recognized a significant correlation between malignant brain tumours and people who used their cellphones, wireless home phones or WIFI connected for more than 30 minutes combined daily.
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Well, this is all for the week. Have a lovely mobile free weekend!
Friday, September 10, 2010
creative commons - week 7 task
This week's task is:
Answers:
1) Creative Commons
"Creative Commons is an international non-profit that provides free licenses and tools that copyright owners can use to allow others to share, reuse and remix their material, legally (about, Creative Commons Australia, viewed 10/09/10, http://creativecommons.org.au/about)."
Our culture is always build upon the creations already exist. There is no true original creations in the world, as we are all influenced by others. Copyright is first appeared in Britain in the fifteenth century when Gutenberg invented the technology of printing press (The Law - Where did copyright come from?, Website Copyright, viewed 10/09/10, http://www.benedict.com/Info/Law/History.aspx). However, the copyright started creating the very restrict permission culture in this fifty years. Lawrence Lessig started Creative Commons in 2003 to promote reasonable copyright, such as 'some rights reserved', rather than 'all rights reserved' (Muir, A., 2010, week 7 lecture, Griffith University, Gold Coast).
I am studying some art related subject, and I had to do some appropriating exercises. Appropriating art works requires very creative process, as it highlights the difference and the similarity and make the messages stronger. You cannot just copy the original art work, and you really have to try to capture the essence of original message and transform it into something different form.
I agree that we need the copyright, and I would hate to see that someone else uses my photograph I took sells and makes a lot of money. However, we need to have reasonable copyright, instead of smother all the creative world. If we are not allowed to appropriate any existing art work because of the copyright restriction, it is really killing some new creations.
Creative Commons is established to solve this problem. It is great idea to share some cultural creations reasonably. I can utilise this license uploading my photos I take for photojournalism subjects, and I can also mash up someone else's images for art related subjects.
2) 3 works created by Creative Commons License
As a student of Photojournalism, I am always interested in photo related art works. I found these three as Creative Commons examples.
Gold Coast Photos, Gold Coast Info
(viewed 10/9/10, http://www.goldcoastinfo.net/photos/main.php)
When I am making a website or blog, I often wish I had a good scenery photo of the Gold Coast as information where we are from. I used to be able to use the photos from Tourism Queensland website as my business I used to run paid a membership for a while, but I was always looking for copyright free good quality Gold Coast photos. Now I found this good website, Gold Cost Photos from Gold Coast Info.
This Gold Coast Photos have 504 beautiful photos under Creative Commons license. All you have to do is attribute their name with the photos. Isn' that great?!
Music Video Using Flickr Images - I'll Be Back This Summer
This music video is created by using all photos from Flickr under Creative Commons licenses. They are beautiful photos, and nice catchy music. We can definitely enjoy those photos in different way from what they are originally. It is a simple good example how artists can take an advantage of Creative Commons.
Urban Dirty - Free texture photos for your artwork, designs & desktops
(viewed 10/9/10, http://urbandirty.com/)
This is a website that provides free photos and images for your desktops etc. He has 771 photos in his gallery. I always like the texture photos as they are so handy. I can use them as background of blogs, websites and my artworks. These photos are all licensed under Creative Commons.
5) Portable Apps
Research and provide short answers to the following questions. Provide references where applicable.
1. What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?
2. Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.
3. Find an academic article which discusses creative commons using a database or online journal. Provide a link to and a summary of the article.
4. Have a look at Portable Apps (a pc based application) – provide a brief description of what it is and how you think this is useful.
Answers:
1) Creative Commons
"Creative Commons is an international non-profit that provides free licenses and tools that copyright owners can use to allow others to share, reuse and remix their material, legally (about, Creative Commons Australia, viewed 10/09/10, http://creativecommons.org.au/about)."
Our culture is always build upon the creations already exist. There is no true original creations in the world, as we are all influenced by others. Copyright is first appeared in Britain in the fifteenth century when Gutenberg invented the technology of printing press (The Law - Where did copyright come from?, Website Copyright, viewed 10/09/10, http://www.benedict.com/Info/Law/History.aspx). However, the copyright started creating the very restrict permission culture in this fifty years. Lawrence Lessig started Creative Commons in 2003 to promote reasonable copyright, such as 'some rights reserved', rather than 'all rights reserved' (Muir, A., 2010, week 7 lecture, Griffith University, Gold Coast).
I am studying some art related subject, and I had to do some appropriating exercises. Appropriating art works requires very creative process, as it highlights the difference and the similarity and make the messages stronger. You cannot just copy the original art work, and you really have to try to capture the essence of original message and transform it into something different form.
I agree that we need the copyright, and I would hate to see that someone else uses my photograph I took sells and makes a lot of money. However, we need to have reasonable copyright, instead of smother all the creative world. If we are not allowed to appropriate any existing art work because of the copyright restriction, it is really killing some new creations.
Creative Commons is established to solve this problem. It is great idea to share some cultural creations reasonably. I can utilise this license uploading my photos I take for photojournalism subjects, and I can also mash up someone else's images for art related subjects.
2) 3 works created by Creative Commons License
As a student of Photojournalism, I am always interested in photo related art works. I found these three as Creative Commons examples.
Gold Coast Photos, Gold Coast Info
(viewed 10/9/10, http://www.goldcoastinfo.net/photos/main.php)
When I am making a website or blog, I often wish I had a good scenery photo of the Gold Coast as information where we are from. I used to be able to use the photos from Tourism Queensland website as my business I used to run paid a membership for a while, but I was always looking for copyright free good quality Gold Coast photos. Now I found this good website, Gold Cost Photos from Gold Coast Info.
This Gold Coast Photos have 504 beautiful photos under Creative Commons license. All you have to do is attribute their name with the photos. Isn' that great?!
(photos: Gold Coast Photos, Gold Coast Info, http://www.goldcoastinfo.net/photos/main.php)
Music Video Using Flickr Images - I'll Be Back This Summer
This music video is created by using all photos from Flickr under Creative Commons licenses. They are beautiful photos, and nice catchy music. We can definitely enjoy those photos in different way from what they are originally. It is a simple good example how artists can take an advantage of Creative Commons.
Urban Dirty - Free texture photos for your artwork, designs & desktops
(viewed 10/9/10, http://urbandirty.com/)
This is a website that provides free photos and images for your desktops etc. He has 771 photos in his gallery. I always like the texture photos as they are so handy. I can use them as background of blogs, websites and my artworks. These photos are all licensed under Creative Commons.
(photos: Urban Dirty, http://urbandirty.com/)
4) Academic Article
For the common good?
This article argues both positive and negative impact regarding Creative Commons. An innovative movement of copyright licensing started by Creative Commons is spreading globally. Wired magazine created a CD in 2004 using Creative Commons license with sixteen professional musicians such as David Byrne, Beastie Boys and Chck D. However, some industry leaders say there is a concern that it can "erode copyright protection or harm unwitting artists (Butler, S. 2005)". Creative Commons supporter Tina O'Reilly points out that a very small percentage of high value works smother all other art works with current restricted copyright law. Abelson from MIT says that it is scary to lock up all science with copyright. However, young artists can easily make a wrong choice by giving away his copyright while the first work is often the best of their work, and he may never repeat that quality. Although it is great to provide a legal copyright tool to everyday people as they do not have to get expensive legal advice, giving this legal tools upfront can result no recourse if something goes wrong.
(Butler, S. 2005, For the Common Good?, Billboard, New York: May 28, 2005. Vol. 117, Iss. 22; pg. 24, http://proquest.umi.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/pqdweb?index=111&did=847235311&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=4&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1285053589&clientId=13713)
5) Portable Apps
To tell the truth, I didn't know anything about portable applications until now. I googled this word, and was amazed how handy it is. The software you can use from your portable device such as USB driver or iPod, and you don't have to bother downloading the software to all different computers you use, anytime, anywhere. What a great idea! However, I tried to find any apps that I want to use and I looked through probably 10 pages or more, but still I could not find the one I really wanted to download. I always feel inconvenient that I cannot use Photoshops and Adobe Bridge on computers at uni (except for a digital dark room only limited students can use), so I would love to have portable apps of those two programs. I found Gimp and Picassa apps, but no Adobe software. They must be too protective about their software as they are the cash cows. Gimp and Picassa are good programs, but not good enough for photojournalism courses.
I found one program after looking through almost all search results on the first page of Google search. This program is called Date Reminder. It is a very simple software which gives us a reminder of birthday, bill payment or any recurring/non recurring events. (Horst Schaeffer's Windows Pages, viewed
10/9/10, http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/wrem.htm)It is a great idea if I can get a reminder on any pc I use. I often forget the due date of credit card payment, and I am terrible to remember friend's birthdays as well. I was wondering if I should use the reminder service which I can receive by email, but this Date Reminder software is much better. The email reminder is good, but you never know until you open the mail browser. I often feel like I don't want to see any email, and I want to feel free from the crazy communication addictive world, and then I must miss the reminder. If I can get the reminder while whatever I am doing on a computer at university or home, it's great! However, the design of this program is a little bit too simple, and it looks boring. If this is presented with cool design and colours, it must become a very very popular software.
This is all for today. Cheers!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
open source software - Tutespark week 7
A task for this week is:
I have been using Firefox. It is such a great free software. It is much better than Internet Explolar as Firefox has a great advantage being an open source software. There are so many different looks you can choose from (so many cool designs are there!), and so many plug-ins are available, as many users can modify, upload and share them.
OK, now I will try to use a new software for the task.
I am studying another subject called 'Art and Cultural Work', and the next assignment is required to use Audacity. I have never used this program before, but I have started using this already for a couple weeks. It is a great software. I can record a sound straight on this program using the microphone on the laptop, and edit it quite easily. I can slice the sound, multiply, add some effects and so on. I don't think I would get rid of this program after I finish my assignment of Art and Cultural Work, as it is really worth to have it. It is a shame that I found out I cannot pan the individual sound from left to right or something, but still it is a great software to record things and edit them easily. I used to record some sounds and used them for my PC instead of using those boring sounds that windows created, such as starting windows, clicks, warnings etc. I can use this program to record the lecture or inportant meetings as well.
Try some free software - good examples which are free and easy to download are: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Gimp, Audacity, amsn, pidgin, etc.
Try to use it exclusively for a few days - then decide whether you like it or not! Say why/why not.
I have been using Firefox. It is such a great free software. It is much better than Internet Explolar as Firefox has a great advantage being an open source software. There are so many different looks you can choose from (so many cool designs are there!), and so many plug-ins are available, as many users can modify, upload and share them.
OK, now I will try to use a new software for the task.
I am studying another subject called 'Art and Cultural Work', and the next assignment is required to use Audacity. I have never used this program before, but I have started using this already for a couple weeks. It is a great software. I can record a sound straight on this program using the microphone on the laptop, and edit it quite easily. I can slice the sound, multiply, add some effects and so on. I don't think I would get rid of this program after I finish my assignment of Art and Cultural Work, as it is really worth to have it. It is a shame that I found out I cannot pan the individual sound from left to right or something, but still it is a great software to record things and edit them easily. I used to record some sounds and used them for my PC instead of using those boring sounds that windows created, such as starting windows, clicks, warnings etc. I can use this program to record the lecture or inportant meetings as well.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
web 3.0 - reflecting the week 6 lecture
We have learnt about the Internet before web2.0 in 1990's and after web2.0. Web 2.0 is a commonly described as 'user generated contents' such as Facebook, blogs, Wikipedia and Youtube. During the research about web2.0, I found a word 'web3.0' and I have never heard about it, so I started a little research.
Web 1.0 - read only contents (Geocities, hotmail etc)
Web 2.0 - user generated contents (Flickr, YouTube blogs etc)
Web 3.0 - portable personal web (iGoogle etc)
Portable personal web is including semantic web (data), personalisation, intelligent search and behavioral ads among the contents.
(Web 3.0 concepts explained in Plain English, digital inspiration, viewed 10/9/10, http://www.labnol.org/internet/web-3-concepts-explained/8908/)
And here is a video explaining about web 3.0 by Eric Schmidt who is a CEO of Google.
Interesting? Well, let's see how the Internet world goes in the near future.
Web 1.0 - read only contents (Geocities, hotmail etc)
Web 2.0 - user generated contents (Flickr, YouTube blogs etc)
Web 3.0 - portable personal web (iGoogle etc)
Portable personal web is including semantic web (data), personalisation, intelligent search and behavioral ads among the contents.
(Web 3.0 concepts explained in Plain English, digital inspiration, viewed 10/9/10, http://www.labnol.org/internet/web-3-concepts-explained/8908/)
And here is a video explaining about web 3.0 by Eric Schmidt who is a CEO of Google.
Interesting? Well, let's see how the Internet world goes in the near future.
who owns the contents you upload? - Tutespark week 6
People post blogs, photos, videos etc on various Internet websites. Well, who owns the photo you uploaded? What about the text? Videos? Have you ever thought about it?
The week 6 lecture was about Media, Web2.0 and copyright on the Internet.
Media is a plural word for Medium. The technology and knowledge used by social communities become media of communication. During the early Internet era, the main area of academic study about the Internet was the virtual community and the individual community. People used virtual identity and shared interests in a group, and met new people in the virtual community (Muir, A. 2010, New Communication Technology week 6 lecture, Griffith University, Gold Coast).
From 2000, Web 2.0 was spread by Tim O'Reilly, and the Internet became more interactive. Users started to organise knowledge by tags like Wikipedia (it is called folksonomy), users generating contents like blogs, Facebooks and Youtube became popular, and sharing data with open API such as Google Maps and Amazon (Muir, A. 2010, New Communication Technology week 6 lecture, Griffith University, Gold Coast).
Now, let's examine the copyright issues on the Internet, one by one.
1) Wikipedia
This is the quote from their web page:
2) blogs
Let's see the case of this website I use, Blogspot by Google.
So..... even if I insist the photos I have taken belong to only me, once I upload those photos to the blog, Google can use them for any purpose without any permission, as THEY own them. Gosh!
3) Facebook
So everything you post, text, images, photos or videos, they are all owened by Facebook. They can use them anytime for any porpose without any permission nor compensation, even if you deleted the contents as they are still in the back up copies!
This means, if I become really really famous in the future, become a politician or very famous artist or whatever, blog company or Facebook can publish a book about me using all the contents I uploaded like photos, texts etc, and they are legally allowed to make a fortune without my permission from what I created . In the worst case, they can be nasty picking up everything they can find something negative about me, such as bad photos or unthoughtful opinions, and publish them to attack me or threaten me as well.
Is it the way we have to accept to live in this digital age? I don't think so. I understand the company's point of view to protect their own right, but all those copyright threats are not well balanced and developed to protect both users and businesses. I guess this is still the early age of Internet , same as the old time when people were suffering by the terrible labouring conditions and pollutions during the industrial revolution. The Internet society have to find some solution to be fair to everyone in the community, so that the real rich Internet culture can flourish.
The week 6 lecture was about Media, Web2.0 and copyright on the Internet.
Media is a plural word for Medium. The technology and knowledge used by social communities become media of communication. During the early Internet era, the main area of academic study about the Internet was the virtual community and the individual community. People used virtual identity and shared interests in a group, and met new people in the virtual community (Muir, A. 2010, New Communication Technology week 6 lecture, Griffith University, Gold Coast).
From 2000, Web 2.0 was spread by Tim O'Reilly, and the Internet became more interactive. Users started to organise knowledge by tags like Wikipedia (it is called folksonomy), users generating contents like blogs, Facebooks and Youtube became popular, and sharing data with open API such as Google Maps and Amazon (Muir, A. 2010, New Communication Technology week 6 lecture, Griffith University, Gold Coast).
Now, let's examine the copyright issues on the Internet, one by one.
1) Wikipedia
This is the quote from their web page:
So, this means the text or images in Wikipedia, whether you uploaded it or someone else did it, is owned by Wikipedia. But we can reasonably re-use them under Creative Commons and GNU Free Documentation License.
"Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the not-for-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which has created a family of free-content projects which are built by user contributions.
Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are dual-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). Some text has been imported only under CC-BY-SA and CC-BY-SA-compatible license and cannot be reused under GFDL; such text will be identified either on the page footer, in the page history or the discussion page of the article that utilizes the text. Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.
Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licenses ensure the content is freely distributable and reproducible. (See the copyright notice and the content disclaimer for more information.)" (Trademarks and Copywright, Wikipedia:About, Wikipedia, viewed 8/9/10, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About)
2) blogs
Let's see the case of this website I use, Blogspot by Google.
"Google's Intellectual Property Rights. You acknowledge that Google owns all right, title and interest in and to the Service, including all intellectual property rights (the "Google Rights"). Google Rights are protected by U.S. and international intellectual property laws. Accordingly, you agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, or create derivative works from the Service. You also agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service. As described immediately below, Google Rights do not include third-party content used as part of the Service, including the content of communications appearing on the Service.
Your Intellectual Property Rights. Google claims no ownership or control over any Content submitted, posted or displayed by you on or through Google services. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any Content you submit, post or display on or through Google services and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Google services which are intended to be available to the members of the public, you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, publish and distribute such Content on Google services for the purpose of displaying and distributing Google services. Google furthermore reserves the right to refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any Content in its sole discretion.
You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any Content submitted.
You may choose to submit, post, and display any materials on or through the Blogger service or Blogspot.com under a public license (e.g. a Creative Commons license), whether by manually marking your materials as such or using Blogger service tools to do so. For avoidance of doubt, Google is not a party to any such public license between you and any third party. Also, for avoidance of doubt, Google may choose to exercise the rights granted under (a) the public license or licenses, if any, you apply to your materials or (b) this Agreement." (Blogger: Terms of Service, Blogger, viewed 8/9/10, http://www.blogger.com/terms.g)
So..... even if I insist the photos I have taken belong to only me, once I upload those photos to the blog, Google can use them for any purpose without any permission, as THEY own them. Gosh!
3) Facebook
"Sharing Your Content and Information:
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:
1.For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
2.When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).
3.When you use an application, your content and information is shared with the application. We require applications to respect your privacy, and your agreement with that application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that content and information. (To learn more about Platform, read our Privacy Policy and About Platform page.)
4.When you publish content or information using the "everyone" setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).
5.We always appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about Facebook, but you understand that we may use them without any obligation to compensate you for them (just as you have no obligation to offer them)." (Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, Facebook, viewed 8/9/10, http://www.facebook.com/terms.php)
So everything you post, text, images, photos or videos, they are all owened by Facebook. They can use them anytime for any porpose without any permission nor compensation, even if you deleted the contents as they are still in the back up copies!
This means, if I become really really famous in the future, become a politician or very famous artist or whatever, blog company or Facebook can publish a book about me using all the contents I uploaded like photos, texts etc, and they are legally allowed to make a fortune without my permission from what I created . In the worst case, they can be nasty picking up everything they can find something negative about me, such as bad photos or unthoughtful opinions, and publish them to attack me or threaten me as well.
Is it the way we have to accept to live in this digital age? I don't think so. I understand the company's point of view to protect their own right, but all those copyright threats are not well balanced and developed to protect both users and businesses. I guess this is still the early age of Internet , same as the old time when people were suffering by the terrible labouring conditions and pollutions during the industrial revolution. The Internet society have to find some solution to be fair to everyone in the community, so that the real rich Internet culture can flourish.
culture jamming ideas - week5 task
We had a public holiday on Friday 27th of August, on which date the Gold Coast Show is always held at Parklands Showgrounds, so there was no tutorial on that week. So we are one week behind now.
On week 6 tutorial, we formed a group for a culture jam task. Our group discussed some ideas like this:
- Find a UFO on campus (!)
- Koala and rabies
- Energy drinks cause serious sickness
etc...
But the best idea of all was:
A construction worker found gold at the Gold Coast University Hospital construction site, across the road from our Uni!
we decided to spread a rumor that someone found gold there.
1) we made a new face book account for 'Josh Finn'. He has a friend who found some gold at the construction site, and now he has so many friends on facebook (good work, Ruby!). He is going to spread the rumor very soon.
2) future plan:
a) spread a rumor by - twitter, youtube, email etc
b) post a news article at any citizen journalism site. So we have to
- make a news video including some mobile phone video footage
of the person who found gold.
- make a news article
We are going to discuss more ideas, and start this culture jamming on the next tutorial.
Cheers!
On week 6 tutorial, we formed a group for a culture jam task. Our group discussed some ideas like this:
- Find a UFO on campus (!)
- Koala and rabies
- Energy drinks cause serious sickness
etc...
But the best idea of all was:
A construction worker found gold at the Gold Coast University Hospital construction site, across the road from our Uni!
we decided to spread a rumor that someone found gold there.
1) we made a new face book account for 'Josh Finn'. He has a friend who found some gold at the construction site, and now he has so many friends on facebook (good work, Ruby!). He is going to spread the rumor very soon.
2) future plan:
a) spread a rumor by - twitter, youtube, email etc
b) post a news article at any citizen journalism site. So we have to
- make a news video including some mobile phone video footage
of the person who found gold.
- make a news article
We are going to discuss more ideas, and start this culture jamming on the next tutorial.
Cheers!
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