Second life was created to encourage people to lead there lifes online and give people the oppertunity to lead a life that they never achieved. However the site also has the power to encourage global communication and co-operation, because people can make friends with people on the site that in reality they would never get to meet. The major concern with online technology is that it can be used by people like pedophiles who use the internet to talk to children and the problem is that recently young people have been encouraged to give out more personal information. The website myspace is all about telling your friends everything about you but the page you make can be viewed by anybody. I found an article on the problem of pedophilia that you can view here.
More people join the online community everyday and it is having serious effects on the way that people interact. Now instead of talking to each other on the phone each day for a few minutes, people can now speak to each other on the internet for hours at a very low price. This means that buisnesses like post offices are starting to be closed down alot more because people no longer have any need to post letters. The increase in people talking over the internet is a cause for concern because now people are at risk of giving there personal information away over the internet for anyone to view, this can cause people to get scammed out of there money and is a serious problem. This problem just shows that in the digital age even the online community is still at risk of crime, but the law is powerless to catch these people online because even if you managed to remove them from the internet they would be able to just come back and start again.
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Podcast
The podcast spoke about media terminology and described each piece of terminology. the podcast spoke about new media technologys and it's influences in daily life. the podcast made references to regulation and control, auidience and ownership. some of the termonology was:
convergians- this is about when companies merge together to make new media technologys.
digitality- this is a new way of encoding information.
hypertextuality- you can decide in what order you do things like watch a film and it is now out of the companies power to stop you.
virtuality- this covers the realism of things in the digital world.
convergians- this is about when companies merge together to make new media technologys.
digitality- this is a new way of encoding information.
hypertextuality- you can decide in what order you do things like watch a film and it is now out of the companies power to stop you.
virtuality- this covers the realism of things in the digital world.
Tuesday, 8 January 2008
What is the future for online technology
1. Who is Chris De Wolfe and what does he say is the future for social networking? What impact will portable hardware have on this area of technology?
Chris de wolfe is the co-founder of myspace.com. he believes that they are laying the groundwork for the new social web which they believe is becoming more personal more portable and more collaborative. they think that as they become more portable they will have around half there future traffic coming from non-pc users.
2. Who is Chad Hurley and what does he say is his company's goal? Is he a positive or negative technological determinist?
chad hurley is the CEO and co-founder of youtube. he says that his goal is to encourage new users by making the upload process as simple as making a phone call. he is a positive technology determinist as he believes that youtube and other websites are going to grow alot in the future.
3. What does Maurice Levy say is the challenge for advertisers and what is 'liquid media' compared to 'linear media'?
maurice levy believes that the biggest challenge facing advertising online is the need for creativity in an increasingly digital world. linear media is the old form of media that is quickly giving way to liquid media because it is more fluid and can change settings faster than linear media.
4. What parallels does Norvig draw between Edison inventing electricity and the development of online technology in terms of searching for information?
Chris de wolfe is the co-founder of myspace.com. he believes that they are laying the groundwork for the new social web which they believe is becoming more personal more portable and more collaborative. they think that as they become more portable they will have around half there future traffic coming from non-pc users.
2. Who is Chad Hurley and what does he say is his company's goal? Is he a positive or negative technological determinist?
chad hurley is the CEO and co-founder of youtube. he says that his goal is to encourage new users by making the upload process as simple as making a phone call. he is a positive technology determinist as he believes that youtube and other websites are going to grow alot in the future.
3. What does Maurice Levy say is the challenge for advertisers and what is 'liquid media' compared to 'linear media'?
maurice levy believes that the biggest challenge facing advertising online is the need for creativity in an increasingly digital world. linear media is the old form of media that is quickly giving way to liquid media because it is more fluid and can change settings faster than linear media.
4. What parallels does Norvig draw between Edison inventing electricity and the development of online technology in terms of searching for information?
norvig draws parralels between edison and electricity and technology development by discussing that although edison could see that his invention had far reaching effects he could not predict where those effects would lead in the future. norvig believes that technology is the same and that we can't predict where it will lead us.
5. What are the issues for the developing world? How is this evidence of a 'digital divide'?
the problems for the developing world is the fact that the price of a computer in africa is more than the average person can earn which means that even though africa is now online it can't provide those services to most of the public. this supports the idea of a digital divide because these people who can't afford digital and information technologies will be looked down on by those who can afford it.
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