Monday, May 21, 2012
2.4 Content Sharing
Lecture: Content Sharing
End of second module:
A meme is usually depicting something that is happening culturally. It is something that begins a discussion point, Rebecca Black's single that went viral only for its bad taste, the cultural response involves discussion. Meme's are tongue in cheek, it keeps being used in a certain type of way. Meme explodes due to our reactions to them. Meme's are culturally specific, valid in certain time frames, remix able via videos, music, lyrics. They are spreadable, they amplify and diversify, they can be legally problematic, remixing the original song of Rebecca's and mashing up her images, due to all of this being easy to do, doesn't mean we should. Copyright laws.
Remixes - ground hog day movie mixed with her song. Check out the bob Dylan and Rebecca Friday song.
Remixes and mashups:
Avatar and Pochahantus - is it critique, cultural politics, derivative plot, commentary? Common themes, if you can show that this has critique, a parody, it is legal, fair dealings are an exception to a copyright. A meaning and powerful satire.
Dj earworm takes the top 20 songs and make a 5 min mashups.
Is it a threat to the commercial success of the works being remixed?
Is it viable substitute of the work being remixed?
Is it likely to act as a promotion for the works being remixed?
The legal system we have in this element doesn't work properly hence people are ignoring it.
Copyright is automatic, and it lasts a long time, no applications are necessary for it.
What can I use?
Things I have permission to use, simple.
Anything definitely in the public domain. Shakespeare, is in the public domain.
Explicitly licensed allowing reuse, creative commons copyright. Creative commons is an attempt to create a common ground.
6 types of licenses;
Attributes who developed it.
Non commercial license, you can use it but you can't make money off it.
No derivatives license, it can't be changed.
Share alike - keeping the chain of copyright going, must have the same licensing term.
CC is the icon and click on it and see what their requirements are.
www.bit.lu/tamawiki
Reading:
Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication through Shared Metadata
The problems inherent in an uncontrolled vocabulary lead to a number of limitations and weaknesses in folksonomies. Ambiguity of the tags can emerge as users apply the same tag in different ways. At the opposite end of the spectrum, the lack of synonym control can lead to different tags being used for the same concept, precluding collocation.
Ambiguity - As an uncontrolled vocabulary that is shared across an entire system, the terms in a folksonomy have inherent ambiguity as different users apply terms to documents in different ways.
Both Delicious and Flickr seem designed primarily to deal with single words. So no gaps inbetween multiple word tags.
There is no synonym control in the system. This leads to tags that seemingly have similar intended meanings, like “mac,” “macintosh,” and “apple” all being used to describe materials related to Apple Macintosh computers. Different word forms, plural and singular, are also often both present. In this particular situation with these Macintosh tags, the “related tags".
Some classification schemes are disjoint from the vocabulary of the users. In “Metadata for the Masses,” Peter Merholz argues that a folksonomy can be quite useful in that it reveals the digital equivalent of “desire lines” (Merholz, 2004). Desire lines are the foot-worn paths that sometimes appear in a landscape over time. Merholz notes, “A smart landscape designer will let wanderers create paths through use, and then pave the emerging walkways, ensuring optimal utility. Ethnoclassification systems can similarly ‘emerge.’ Once you have a preliminary system in place, you can use the most common tags to develop a controlled vocabulary that truly speaks the users’ language.
Makes it easier to find things due to time efficiency.
“Aside: I think the lack of hierarchy, synonym control and semantic precision are precisely why it works. Free typing loose associations is just a lot easier than making a decision about the degree of match to a pre-defined category (especially hierarchical ones). It’s like 90% of the value of a ‘proper’ taxonomy but 10 times simpler.” (Butterfield, 2004)
Many professionals would likely argue that Butterfield’s assessment of 90% and “10 times simpler” is vastly overstated, his fundamental point holds true: non-trivial and important metadata are captured through these folksonomies.
“Of course, that idea’s been around for decades, so what’s special about Flickr and del.icio.us? Sometimes a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind. The degree to which these systems bind the assignment of tags to their use - in a tight feedback loop - is that kind of difference. John Udel, 2004.
Individual and Community Aspects
Both Delicious and Flickr are used by individuals to organize materials with their own vocabulary of terms. Individuals have an incentive to tag their materials with terms that will help them organize their collections in a way that they can find these items later. The organizational scheme that emerges for each individual reflects their individual information needs. The popularity of the “me” tag on Flickr perhaps best reflects this aspect of a folksonomy, as well as the “toread” tag on Delicious. Both can really only be understood in the context of an individual user.
Groups of users do not have to agree on a hierarchy of tags or detailed taxonomy, they only need to agree, in a general sense, on the “meaning” of a tag enough to label similar material with terms for there to be cooperation and shared value.
Finally, there is the compulsion to share in general that underlies these systems. The very act of user self-selecting what to tag is important: this is not just material that users want to find themselves later, but also material they are sharing with others. Both systems have an explicit kind of social networking component built-in: Flickr allows you to specify other users as contacts, friends, or family and see views of just their material; Delicious allows you to “subscribe” to other users lists.
These two models, community and individual motivations, are not mutually exclusive, and it is likely both are necessary to explain a folksonomy in the context of these services. An area of further qualitative analysis could help to determine how much each of these theories applies to actual user behaviour.
Mathes, A. (2004). Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata.
Reading 2: Future of Open Source: Collaborative Culture.
Folksonomies are proof of the power of emergence. Emergence is a fascinating phenomenon because it explains complexity through intrinsic simplicity.
A folksonomy in which every tag is different isn't a folksonomy. It's just a pile of tags. Nothing emerges from it. But a folksonomy in which there's been complete convergence, so there's only a single tag for any one object has created a 'tyranny of the majority.' A useful folksonomy hits a sweet spot in which there is some convergence around tags, but enough diversity that those who think about matters differently can nevertheless find what they're looking for, and what they've tagged can be found by others. Such a folksonomy operates as a loose, emergent thesaurus that is able to translate among interpretations, much as the elusive babelfish can translate among languages.
But folksonomy is not, will not, and should not be our only way of ordering the world. And that multiplicity of meaning—shared, emergent and ours—is at the heart of folksonomy's symbolism."
Wolk, D. (2009). Future of Open Source: Collaborative Culture. Retrieved June 12th, 2009, from http://www.wired.com/dualperspectives/article/news/2009/06/dp_opensource_wired0616.
My reflection on this reading:
I took this directly from the article as the information here was new and interesting to me. The use of the girls image, through Flickr, for the cover of Boni Iver’s record, Blood Bank.
This is due to Open Source Culture, making your creations open to the public, moving from mass culture, that one source say MTV being seen by the many, to culture of the masses where we all contribute valuable content and depending on whether a large group finds it via other peoples reposting etc. This explains the importance of Folksonomies in someways, making your image or data easy to find. So the sns allows the masses to hold control over their creativity, thus this software is allowing us to cut out the middle man. Privately Made, Privately Owned.
So even if the sites/platforms themselves aren’t open source they allow the ease of sharing which facilitates Cultural openness. Wolk, D
Activity:
Motivational poster and post it into this weeks discussion board... Done on the 2/05/2012. Under the My Poster discussion link.
https://lms.curtin.edu.au/courses/1/305033-Vice-Chancello-111877403/db/_3570268_1/motivatorc90c4e3269ecd6e4f35fdf0021ddd2164e0b4dfd.jpg
2.3 Social Networking - Twitter
Lecture:
Facebook under18's is their communication platform, twitter as a social network,
Read the Report on the way that twitter was used through the Qld floods.
Facebook is now like having an email account it's nothing ground breaking,
2002 is when the serious emergence of networks that go beyond the niche groups, Friendster - my space - Facebook we are not doing an evolving timeline.
There are social networks that are popular in their own country and there is a similar sm medium to twitter and it has bigger users. My space has gone from a generic network back to a niche, it was sold at its peak and dropped popularity.
boyd & Ellison
Be able to construct a Public / semi public profile within a bounded system. (can be shared)
Articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection (LinkedIn Tells you the missing steps between you and someone else) they do not have to be friendship, (connection) and
View and traverse their list of connections and those made by others, this is how they perpetuate themselves. This is the key things of how social networks perpetuate itself.
This is how you distinguish a social network. It is deliberated broad.
Reading 1. Journal of computer mediated communication
What makes SNS so unique is that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks. It's not about meeting new people but socialising with people they already know. The public display of connections is a crucial component of SNS's. Most SNS's require a bi-directional confirmation if friendship but the fans/followers pages do not. But there are sites that call these friends even though they are not, like how some business pages have friends and not fans. The friends then can look at the links of the other friends of these networks, I.e. like FB, though My Space users have hacked theirs to hide friends display and LinkedIn can opt out of displaying on their network.
Facebook began in 2004 specialised in uni students with a harvard.edu email address, then in September 2005 it began to include its path to include everyone else after adopting more universities to its pool. There are still closed networks though within Facebook which you have to know someone within to be invited by to be able to join. It has different levels of privacy and it has a applications, games etc, it's like an insular community hence its power to be one of the largest SNS sites. The rise of SNS sites indicates a shift in organisation of online communities, these are organised around people not interests, unlike websites. SNS are structured as personal 'egocentric', with the individual at the centre of their own community.
Scholarship of SNS - (knowledge)
Focused on Impression management, friendship performance, networks and network structure, online and offline connections and privacy issues.
'public displays of connection' serve as important identity signals, in that it may extend to validate/identify info presented in profiles. Though the authenticity or playful varies on sites, the phenomenon of Fakesters argue that the profile can never be real, boyd. There is always a certain level also of effort that people put in, answer questions lightly instead of thoroughly in the setting up of that sites identity for themselves. Though in the sending of messages and using real photos allows one to see the authenticity of the user depending on what they write and upload.
Networks and network structure provide naturalist behavioural data. Passive users, invitees and linkers fully participate in the social evolution of the network. Live journal has a friendship classification scheme. Through anonymously observing friend interaction on FB found that profile fields that reduce transaction costs and are harder to falsify are most likely to be associated with a large number of friendship links.
Bridging online/offline connections, although exceptions exist people mainly trawl FB to find old friends etc rather than to search for perfect strangers. Through this these SNS become in ground into our everyday lives.
Reflection:
That our photos and details are stored online for marketing companies and fb to use for their benefit to make money. We are giving them the tools to sell to us. It is gathering artificial intelligence to be able to suggest to us things we may be interested in. In some cases it may seem invasive but in other ways it could be saving us time.
Also understanding that Twitter has an open source API which is why when you go to other SNS they have a twitter and FB sign in option that means everytime to post on one platform / app it is easily transferable to the other.
boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1). Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x/full
Reading 2; Serious Uses of Social Networks
Brisbane Floods Report
Observing how the use of @ for people’s names and # for specific events was very good to understand and to see how to use Twitter more effectively
Still 15 months later this still makes me feel very emotional, even though it was an amazing feeling of teamwork to see Brisbane get cleaned up so quickly. I used Facebook and twitter with friends to see who needed what i had, we were able to get food to people who had run out of the basics and I baked pumpkin scones as a treat for people. I spent days cleaning up a friends business while they remained operational, some of the team work happened by people just driving around and stopping to offer to help.
So I took what I could from it but it wasn’t a paper that I really wanted to read.
Bruns, A., Burgess, J., Crawford, K., & Shaw, F. (2012). #qldfloods and @QPSMedia: Crisis Communication on Twitter in the 2011 South East Queensland Floods (Media Ecologies Project) Queensland: ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (CCI). Retrieved from http://www.mappingonlinepublics.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/qldfloods-and-@QPSMedia.pdf
Activity - Introducing Twitter
I had already been using my Twitter - micro blogging app, under windandwaterdes I had linked with other students. #web101 allowed me to see discussions by Sky and Tama and other students both current and old. Also there were some people in there that were using this tag that had nothing to do with this unit of study. When I do posts of updates of what I am doing with my web presence I have used the tag #web101 just to make it easier for fellow students to follow my activity.
I have since started a new Twitter account Irenesstylesessions. I have followed design people that coincide with my web presence.
2.2 Wikis
Vannevar Bush
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/3881/
Reading;
His paper as we may think.
'Selection by association'
Intuitive thinking in wiki's - the HTML links which go to other pages. ‘The idea of intuitive linking is embedded in the software of most wikis’.
Excerp: This direct association is implemented in the way that new pages are created in a typical wiki. Instead of creating a page and then linking to it (the way things are done when creating a regular website), pages are created on the fly as new links are added to the wiki. To create a new page, the user highlights a word whilst in editing mode and creates a link for that word. In the background the wiki software creates a new page with this title. This page can then be edited by other wiki users.
To write and mark up on wiki it isn't limited to HTML, wikis are aimed to be kept simple. Thus they have wiki text;
Wikitext is intentionally designed to be as intuitive and easy to use as a text editor. Generally you will find it no harder to write text to a wiki than you would to post a message in Blackboard.
Making the links, so far I understand this to be that we have to find something already existing online that we can link to.
Activity;
Although this activity might seem somewhat trivial, it is important that you experiment with wikitext in order to prepare yourself for Activity Two.
Open this page in a new window - It contains the first page of the wikipedia editing tutorial (Don't worry, there are only 3 pages of it!)
Read through the page, then continue to the next page (formatting) and the next (linking)
Then, use the sandbox link at the bottom of the page to experiment with what you have learned.
See if you can create a link in the sandbox to an article that already exists on wikipedia.
Now contemplate the fact that you could, should you wish to, edit any page on the world's largest encyclopedia!
Since wikitext is designed to be used by someone with no technical skills, most wikis do not allow the use of non-HTML elements such as Javscript, although increasingly wikis are allowing the embedding of Flash and other more dynamic elements.
Reflection;
I did the formatting change but got a little lost on the linking. Will play a bit more with this, but don’t think I will be making any changes to Wiki pages any time soon, even the body types page intimidated me and I have studied that..
Logging changes are noted on Wiki pages so people can see what changes have been made and when, this is all visible through its history page. You can make changes as anonymous or register and become a regular contributor, does registering increase your validity? There is a small amount of people who regularly edit Wiki pages, they are all very intellectual, hence my hesitation to contribute to this weeks task.
After all, the nature of wikis is that they are designed to be a tool for people working together. Consequently, most wikis typically have a discussion page that is also 'hidden' behind the each and every page where users can discuss the possible implementation of changes before committing to an edit.
In most Uni’s Wikipedia the main page can not be used as a reference for assignments, there is Wiki Academic that could be used. It has been used as a news source. There was a youtube.com video to watch that observed the changes over the month, of and after the bombing.
Activity 2; knowledge sharing.
I skipped this one, sorry felt inadequate that it would just disappear after I annoyed someone for contributing. Brain was all mushy from new info and couldn’t organise anything in my brain to be coherent.
The Quality of Open Source Production; Zealots and Good Samaritans in the case of Wikipedia.
This reading was an interesting insight as to who is behind wikipedia, registered or anonymous. I did read this but did not write down my notes as I went along so I am frustrated that I have to note what I can remember struck a chord for me.
Wikipedia has this culture around the academics that contribute to it, but the people who use it are wary of whether the source is reliable as it is constantly being updated and changed, even though there is a select few, as little as 1000, avid adjusters who go through and correct any wrong tampering with Wiki.
‘open source production essentially involves creating a public good, and therefore entails the same social dilemma that confronts the production and maintenance of other public goods.
They are questioning that if a casual person contributes to Wiki does it bring down the quality of Wiki, seeing as though they don’t have a reputation to uphold. But is this going against what has been discussed by Clay Shirky, The wisdom of Crowds. Specialists can and should be able to contribute to their subject of knowledge on Wiki.
Readings:
Denise Anthony, Sean W. Smith, and Tim Williamson, "The Quality of Open Source Production: Zealots and Good Samaritans in the Case of Wikipedia." Dartmouth Computer Science Technical Report TR2007-606, September 2007.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/3881/
Reading;
His paper as we may think.
'Selection by association'
Intuitive thinking in wiki's - the HTML links which go to other pages. ‘The idea of intuitive linking is embedded in the software of most wikis’.
Excerp: This direct association is implemented in the way that new pages are created in a typical wiki. Instead of creating a page and then linking to it (the way things are done when creating a regular website), pages are created on the fly as new links are added to the wiki. To create a new page, the user highlights a word whilst in editing mode and creates a link for that word. In the background the wiki software creates a new page with this title. This page can then be edited by other wiki users.
To write and mark up on wiki it isn't limited to HTML, wikis are aimed to be kept simple. Thus they have wiki text;
Wikitext is intentionally designed to be as intuitive and easy to use as a text editor. Generally you will find it no harder to write text to a wiki than you would to post a message in Blackboard.
Making the links, so far I understand this to be that we have to find something already existing online that we can link to.
Activity;
Although this activity might seem somewhat trivial, it is important that you experiment with wikitext in order to prepare yourself for Activity Two.
Open this page in a new window - It contains the first page of the wikipedia editing tutorial (Don't worry, there are only 3 pages of it!)
Read through the page, then continue to the next page (formatting) and the next (linking)
Then, use the sandbox link at the bottom of the page to experiment with what you have learned.
See if you can create a link in the sandbox to an article that already exists on wikipedia.
Now contemplate the fact that you could, should you wish to, edit any page on the world's largest encyclopedia!
Since wikitext is designed to be used by someone with no technical skills, most wikis do not allow the use of non-HTML elements such as Javscript, although increasingly wikis are allowing the embedding of Flash and other more dynamic elements.
Reflection;
I did the formatting change but got a little lost on the linking. Will play a bit more with this, but don’t think I will be making any changes to Wiki pages any time soon, even the body types page intimidated me and I have studied that..
Logging changes are noted on Wiki pages so people can see what changes have been made and when, this is all visible through its history page. You can make changes as anonymous or register and become a regular contributor, does registering increase your validity? There is a small amount of people who regularly edit Wiki pages, they are all very intellectual, hence my hesitation to contribute to this weeks task.
After all, the nature of wikis is that they are designed to be a tool for people working together. Consequently, most wikis typically have a discussion page that is also 'hidden' behind the each and every page where users can discuss the possible implementation of changes before committing to an edit.
In most Uni’s Wikipedia the main page can not be used as a reference for assignments, there is Wiki Academic that could be used. It has been used as a news source. There was a youtube.com video to watch that observed the changes over the month, of and after the bombing.
Activity 2; knowledge sharing.
I skipped this one, sorry felt inadequate that it would just disappear after I annoyed someone for contributing. Brain was all mushy from new info and couldn’t organise anything in my brain to be coherent.
The Quality of Open Source Production; Zealots and Good Samaritans in the case of Wikipedia.
This reading was an interesting insight as to who is behind wikipedia, registered or anonymous. I did read this but did not write down my notes as I went along so I am frustrated that I have to note what I can remember struck a chord for me.
Wikipedia has this culture around the academics that contribute to it, but the people who use it are wary of whether the source is reliable as it is constantly being updated and changed, even though there is a select few, as little as 1000, avid adjusters who go through and correct any wrong tampering with Wiki.
‘open source production essentially involves creating a public good, and therefore entails the same social dilemma that confronts the production and maintenance of other public goods.
They are questioning that if a casual person contributes to Wiki does it bring down the quality of Wiki, seeing as though they don’t have a reputation to uphold. But is this going against what has been discussed by Clay Shirky, The wisdom of Crowds. Specialists can and should be able to contribute to their subject of knowledge on Wiki.
Readings:
Denise Anthony, Sean W. Smith, and Tim Williamson, "The Quality of Open Source Production: Zealots and Good Samaritans in the Case of Wikipedia." Dartmouth Computer Science Technical Report TR2007-606, September 2007.
2.1 Blogging
Web 2.0 think about how I am engaging and is it something I would like to write about.
I will focus my essay on blogs as it is something I want to understand and get a fuller picture of.
There are a few other elements to blogging that should also be noted:
RSS Feeds - Most blogs offer an RSS feed so that content can be aggregated and read without requiring the reader to visit every blog in which they are interested.
I bought an app on 10/04/2012 love it, it's simple to use and has all the blogs I have subscribed to and all their latest entries and earlier ones too.
Comments - Often (though not always) there is a facility on a blog for visitors to add comments. This tends to contribute to the 'conversational' nature of many blogs.
Blogrolls - A blogroll is a list on a blog that links to other blogs that are frequented by the author. It serves to position the blog within a network, rather than as a lone voice.
Permalinks - (Permanent links) are a way of linking to a specific blog post after it has passed from the front page of a blog. Usually, each individual entry on a blog has a permalink.
Very interesting!
Activity;
Discussion -
The early days of blogging were extremely optimistic about the potential of blogs to give everyone who wanted one a voice and a venue to publish. Now that blogging is over a decade old, to what extent have these early predictions come true? Rebecca blood's prediction on blogging.
Posted 10/04/2012
We have adapted and advanced with blogging with great ease, technology is making it even easier to do so with apps that allow you to download images from your favourite blogs or fb pages and collate your own ideologies and intersts to create your own slant on all the amazing ans talented people out there.
Relationships between blogs and media.
Twitter is constantly being referred to in morning news platforms and on radio, evening news uses footage from independent blogs as well. Bloggers are given front row seating to fashion shows alongside some of the ost influential fashion magazines, I think they have reached a level playing field in media as most newspapers have a blogger as well, NYTimes eg.
Blogging on the mainstream press is allowing input fro, the masses, feedback, insight, the 3 pigs is a great eg. Of how the influence of many is stringer than the few. Again writing this on iPad.
Citizen journalist - whatever the hype if the news or the lack of progress on a subject, a logger and the people who read and link to their blog will take it places fruther than a news report as it has this longer, persistent presence.
Rettberg talks about blogs facilitating ‘distributed conversations’ and even ‘distributed communities’; what do you understand these terms to mean?
posted on the 10/05/2012
Distributed conversation through blogging we get to have our conversations across a time lag with many people being able to contribute not based on whether they were in the room with the people at that point in time. It has relays through may channels to get a wider scope of interaction and reflection. The opportunity I think for a more I depth discussion. This covers both as this means I could continue this discussion with people who are out of my normal network, people who with different perspectives can be gained without influence to knowing me personally.
Sorry I'm ding this on an iPad and it isn't letting me go back and correct my misspells. Argh.
A. This generally leads to silence if I don't feel to contribute.
B. I have more of a connection with some people as life is busy and to meet for coffee isn't a logistic I can master but to keep updated with their glide and then when I do catch up I am totally up to date with what has been going on, or usually discuss something. More in depth that I didn't think was appropriate on line.
C. I will research facebooks ownership license more as this puts away the whole deal about the timeline editing that everyone was doing before it went live? Also I love how she put into words how much we are willing to let go of for the beef it's are far greater, I think as we go n will we became more transparent and will this concern of what will come back to us fro our posting will it really be of consequence fir we knew the deal when we wrote it.
Activity:
Blog and RSS feeds - I bought Feedler and have subscribed to Fashion and design Blogs and then internet and technology news updates and I have been reading as much as I can in each of those each week. In total I have subscribed to 10 blogs..
Blogs and Facebook: participating in these kinds of auto tracking social networks means giving up a large portion of our privacy, something that we seems to be more and more complacent o doing. Perhaps it is because the return is so great: a stronger sense of belonging to a community, of belonging to a group of people who not only see who we are but who cares about us as well.
Rettberg, J., (2008), Blogs, Communities and Networks in Blogging. Polity Press; Cambridge
Through the annual study Technorati has formed this composition of the makeup who uses the blogosphere are 61% Hobbyist, considered the backbone of blogs, 13% Professional part-timers and 5% Professional FT, who use blogging to supplement their income focus on personal musings and technology, 8% Corporates - these use corporate and usual talk about the company they work for, 13% Entrepreneurs - use blogging as their sole income and usual talk about the business they are in or technology. Technorati (2011,1).
Readings:
Rettberg, J., (2008), Blogs, Communities and Networks in Blogging. Polity Press; Cambridge. [Available via Curtin Library's eReserve.]
Rebecca’s Pocket:
https://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_group=courses&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Fcontent%2Ffile%3Fcmd%3Dview%26content_id%3D_2100499_1%26course_id%3D_35129_1%26framesetWrapped%3Dtrue
I will focus my essay on blogs as it is something I want to understand and get a fuller picture of.
There are a few other elements to blogging that should also be noted:
RSS Feeds - Most blogs offer an RSS feed so that content can be aggregated and read without requiring the reader to visit every blog in which they are interested.
I bought an app on 10/04/2012 love it, it's simple to use and has all the blogs I have subscribed to and all their latest entries and earlier ones too.
Comments - Often (though not always) there is a facility on a blog for visitors to add comments. This tends to contribute to the 'conversational' nature of many blogs.
Blogrolls - A blogroll is a list on a blog that links to other blogs that are frequented by the author. It serves to position the blog within a network, rather than as a lone voice.
Permalinks - (Permanent links) are a way of linking to a specific blog post after it has passed from the front page of a blog. Usually, each individual entry on a blog has a permalink.
Very interesting!
Activity;
Discussion -
The early days of blogging were extremely optimistic about the potential of blogs to give everyone who wanted one a voice and a venue to publish. Now that blogging is over a decade old, to what extent have these early predictions come true? Rebecca blood's prediction on blogging.
Posted 10/04/2012
We have adapted and advanced with blogging with great ease, technology is making it even easier to do so with apps that allow you to download images from your favourite blogs or fb pages and collate your own ideologies and intersts to create your own slant on all the amazing ans talented people out there.
Relationships between blogs and media.
Twitter is constantly being referred to in morning news platforms and on radio, evening news uses footage from independent blogs as well. Bloggers are given front row seating to fashion shows alongside some of the ost influential fashion magazines, I think they have reached a level playing field in media as most newspapers have a blogger as well, NYTimes eg.
Blogging on the mainstream press is allowing input fro, the masses, feedback, insight, the 3 pigs is a great eg. Of how the influence of many is stringer than the few. Again writing this on iPad.
Citizen journalist - whatever the hype if the news or the lack of progress on a subject, a logger and the people who read and link to their blog will take it places fruther than a news report as it has this longer, persistent presence.
Rettberg talks about blogs facilitating ‘distributed conversations’ and even ‘distributed communities’; what do you understand these terms to mean?
posted on the 10/05/2012
Distributed conversation through blogging we get to have our conversations across a time lag with many people being able to contribute not based on whether they were in the room with the people at that point in time. It has relays through may channels to get a wider scope of interaction and reflection. The opportunity I think for a more I depth discussion. This covers both as this means I could continue this discussion with people who are out of my normal network, people who with different perspectives can be gained without influence to knowing me personally.
Sorry I'm ding this on an iPad and it isn't letting me go back and correct my misspells. Argh.
A. This generally leads to silence if I don't feel to contribute.
B. I have more of a connection with some people as life is busy and to meet for coffee isn't a logistic I can master but to keep updated with their glide and then when I do catch up I am totally up to date with what has been going on, or usually discuss something. More in depth that I didn't think was appropriate on line.
C. I will research facebooks ownership license more as this puts away the whole deal about the timeline editing that everyone was doing before it went live? Also I love how she put into words how much we are willing to let go of for the beef it's are far greater, I think as we go n will we became more transparent and will this concern of what will come back to us fro our posting will it really be of consequence fir we knew the deal when we wrote it.
Activity:
Blog and RSS feeds - I bought Feedler and have subscribed to Fashion and design Blogs and then internet and technology news updates and I have been reading as much as I can in each of those each week. In total I have subscribed to 10 blogs..
Blogs and Facebook: participating in these kinds of auto tracking social networks means giving up a large portion of our privacy, something that we seems to be more and more complacent o doing. Perhaps it is because the return is so great: a stronger sense of belonging to a community, of belonging to a group of people who not only see who we are but who cares about us as well.
Rettberg, J., (2008), Blogs, Communities and Networks in Blogging. Polity Press; Cambridge
Through the annual study Technorati has formed this composition of the makeup who uses the blogosphere are 61% Hobbyist, considered the backbone of blogs, 13% Professional part-timers and 5% Professional FT, who use blogging to supplement their income focus on personal musings and technology, 8% Corporates - these use corporate and usual talk about the company they work for, 13% Entrepreneurs - use blogging as their sole income and usual talk about the business they are in or technology. Technorati (2011,1).
Readings:
Rettberg, J., (2008), Blogs, Communities and Networks in Blogging. Polity Press; Cambridge. [Available via Curtin Library's eReserve.]
Rebecca’s Pocket:
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
3.2 Social Me(dia) Rivers
Twitter as a river: as a metaphor works well for micro-blogging site twitter. Which means you don't get to see the same tweets from the same group of friends, it is fast and short so you get to see glimpses of what's happening in people's lives, engagement is usually partial and fragmented.
Real life happens between blogs and emails, thus twitter fills the gaps.
Continual Partial Presence may be the core of Twitter. It's about observing the day to day activities of people we love or are in our social network. Things we get to miss out on because we are busy, it doesn't compel us to respond as emails do but we still feel involved, through observation. It's not really an interruption and we choose which discussions to get involved in.
Tama Leaver (2007) ‘It’s a Small World After All: From Wired’s Minifesto to the Twitterati’, Tama Leaver dot Net, March 11. Available:http://www.tamaleaver.net/2007/03/11/its-a-small-world-after-all-from-wireds-minifesto-to-the-twitterati/
Reading: Identity 2.0: constructing Identity with cultural software
Status updates with Facebook was introduced in 2006: this then made it a big concept of twitter and blogs, it's more essential to micro blogging tools as it allows people to check in with what you are doing. Life streaming is when you write a post on FB and it shows up in your twitter, friend feed, tumblr account. It makes it easier for you to keep all your social media sites on line updated. Search engines act as centralising forces of our distributed identity by indexing the content of the platforms we perform our identity on, and recently, by indexing the actions we perform within these platforms, including status updates. Search engines have changed platforms: the rise of search engines happened around the same time as the rise of blogs. Identity construction in the Blogoshere is largely performed by the engines. Google, being the main search engine and website, making this the main entry point to the web, through it's search engines reveals the traces of your activity online, The main objective of this cynical enterprise, google, is to monitor user behaviour in order to sell traffic data and profiles to interested 3rd parties. Social networking sites are favourite targets for search engines as they contain user profiles filled with data and a large amount of user-generated content. Walled gardens, means that no be can see your profile or personal info unless they are accepted by you into their network, online presence. They require registration and login to enter.
Cultural software, reconfigures identity online to = Identity 2.0. Cultural software is social networking sites and search engines. Identity 2.0 is seen as a break from online identity pre-Web 2.0, it's main characteristics are perpetual beta, networked, participatory culture with user-generated content, distributed, indexed by search engines ad persistent. Beta software, in which the product is developed in the open, and update fetish, with google's Google Me you have to keep updating your personal page and add more details to increase your page ranking, which offers users control over your page ranking. Search engines play a major role in identity construction online. Each social media platform has a different demographic using it. Life streaming is all about user activity but it is much less about the user than it is about the applications and platforms exchanging and distributing user data. It's more service centred than user centred. Networking identity: Each networking site serves a different purpose and different demographic users. Google and twitter are found in the centre of the social media flower. Google being the centralising force, indexing content, linking social media activity. Twitter is also in the centre as it acts as the central social node.
RSS also acts like a central node due to feeding all information from blogs, websites etc via this feed that sends updates. User generated also alters our identity due to the fact that people can upload photos about us and publish content that is tagged to us therefore affecting our online identity. Facebook relies on Flickr for its ease to upload photos that automatically share on FB.
Identity construction is largely performed by engines then tagging is the key, as it is he description mechanism. It's is starting to become more popular with Facebook via the @ symbol, twitter also uses this via # symbol for groups/topics and @ for individuals. Distributed identity: this enhances the need for a central identity hub, this is so all the photos, music, posts, updates are easily traced on line. Finding the line that connects all that you are online together. Indexed identity: changing your work status, relationship status, etc the cooperation of the services allows you to do all of this easy? So the changes are indexed just not uni formally changed. Persistent identity; this is creepy that you can leave posts for people after you die.
Different social media pages have different terms as to what happens to your images etc after you die. Suicide machine works over months to remove everything, private content etc. insanely complex and time consuming. This all describes how online identity is performed and shaped within the symbiotic relationship between users, search engines and social software platforms. Changes of the centralised identity of the homepage to the distributed data of the life stream. Constructed by software engine relations and how identity formation is subject to software engine politics. The identity in identity 2.0 is never complete and always under construction. Ha got this one, very enlightening.
Facebook and it being a platform, where other programmers can develop apps and games so that people can from the onset keep you hooked especially when you time limits, virtual homes and friends. It is a money making scheme worth hundreds and millions of money where people can buy certain things in their virtual worlds. Zuckerberg has done this amazing thing for our social lives. The 80% of their persona is reflected on FB, the question is whether it is a distraction or a help, as we hide in this virtual world. It does open my world for me so when I feel lonely studying at home on my own during the day. We're better if we are open and connected, it is a social aspect of our online presence that we choose what we want, like pages we are interested in, it's easier to unsubscribe, to voice concerns. What we became cultural comfortable with, with releasing new technology that we may have initially found a bit intrusive, they over a longer period of time in a subtler way.
Anne Helmond (2010) ' Identity 2.0: Constructing identity with cultural software.' Anne Helmond. New Media Research Blog. Available: http://www.annehelmond.nl/wordpress/wp-content/uploads//2010/01/helmond_identity20_dmiconference.pdf
Activity 1; Twitter: I have just opened another twitter account so only have a few of the group following me but since linking it with Tumblr and the website, I had 4 new people follow me in a day. Can't wait to get back on these sites after my social presence has been marked I want TI keep the plates spinning. Plus I found some awesome blogs on Tumblr and Del.icio.us that I would like to check in on. I chose what was trending globally and it seemed to be reality shows that are at a pinnacle stage overseas :/. Friend feed; love looking at this as it shows me what I have done in each of my social media applications. Therefore I update and do different activities on each, it has allowed me to easily group all my social media applications together. Posted my link in this weeks discussion topics.
How does the idea of ‘Continuous Partial Presence’ work in terms of building a picture about someone from their microblogging? Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities. This allows us to see how people are going about their day due to their constant updates, giving us updates during their day. Before reading this unit I found Twitter overwhelming and something I didn't really use on its own, it was always used as a repost model. This is due to its open source API and it's reciprocal nature of its links.
This reading has Have to edit this more later...
Akshay Java et al (2007) ‘Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities’, Procedings of the Joint 9th WEBKDD and 1st SNA-KDD Workshop 2007, August 12. Available: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/get/a/publication/369.pdf
Continual Partial Presence may be the core of Twitter. It's about observing the day to day activities of people we love or are in our social network. Things we get to miss out on because we are busy, it doesn't compel us to respond as emails do but we still feel involved, through observation. It's not really an interruption and we choose which discussions to get involved in.
Tama Leaver (2007) ‘It’s a Small World After All: From Wired’s Minifesto to the Twitterati’, Tama Leaver dot Net, March 11. Available:http://www.tamaleaver.net/2007/03/11/its-a-small-world-after-all-from-wireds-minifesto-to-the-twitterati/
Reading: Identity 2.0: constructing Identity with cultural software
Status updates with Facebook was introduced in 2006: this then made it a big concept of twitter and blogs, it's more essential to micro blogging tools as it allows people to check in with what you are doing. Life streaming is when you write a post on FB and it shows up in your twitter, friend feed, tumblr account. It makes it easier for you to keep all your social media sites on line updated. Search engines act as centralising forces of our distributed identity by indexing the content of the platforms we perform our identity on, and recently, by indexing the actions we perform within these platforms, including status updates. Search engines have changed platforms: the rise of search engines happened around the same time as the rise of blogs. Identity construction in the Blogoshere is largely performed by the engines. Google, being the main search engine and website, making this the main entry point to the web, through it's search engines reveals the traces of your activity online, The main objective of this cynical enterprise, google, is to monitor user behaviour in order to sell traffic data and profiles to interested 3rd parties. Social networking sites are favourite targets for search engines as they contain user profiles filled with data and a large amount of user-generated content. Walled gardens, means that no be can see your profile or personal info unless they are accepted by you into their network, online presence. They require registration and login to enter.
Cultural software, reconfigures identity online to = Identity 2.0. Cultural software is social networking sites and search engines. Identity 2.0 is seen as a break from online identity pre-Web 2.0, it's main characteristics are perpetual beta, networked, participatory culture with user-generated content, distributed, indexed by search engines ad persistent. Beta software, in which the product is developed in the open, and update fetish, with google's Google Me you have to keep updating your personal page and add more details to increase your page ranking, which offers users control over your page ranking. Search engines play a major role in identity construction online. Each social media platform has a different demographic using it. Life streaming is all about user activity but it is much less about the user than it is about the applications and platforms exchanging and distributing user data. It's more service centred than user centred. Networking identity: Each networking site serves a different purpose and different demographic users. Google and twitter are found in the centre of the social media flower. Google being the centralising force, indexing content, linking social media activity. Twitter is also in the centre as it acts as the central social node.
RSS also acts like a central node due to feeding all information from blogs, websites etc via this feed that sends updates. User generated also alters our identity due to the fact that people can upload photos about us and publish content that is tagged to us therefore affecting our online identity. Facebook relies on Flickr for its ease to upload photos that automatically share on FB.
Identity construction is largely performed by engines then tagging is the key, as it is he description mechanism. It's is starting to become more popular with Facebook via the @ symbol, twitter also uses this via # symbol for groups/topics and @ for individuals. Distributed identity: this enhances the need for a central identity hub, this is so all the photos, music, posts, updates are easily traced on line. Finding the line that connects all that you are online together. Indexed identity: changing your work status, relationship status, etc the cooperation of the services allows you to do all of this easy? So the changes are indexed just not uni formally changed. Persistent identity; this is creepy that you can leave posts for people after you die.
Different social media pages have different terms as to what happens to your images etc after you die. Suicide machine works over months to remove everything, private content etc. insanely complex and time consuming. This all describes how online identity is performed and shaped within the symbiotic relationship between users, search engines and social software platforms. Changes of the centralised identity of the homepage to the distributed data of the life stream. Constructed by software engine relations and how identity formation is subject to software engine politics. The identity in identity 2.0 is never complete and always under construction. Ha got this one, very enlightening.
Facebook and it being a platform, where other programmers can develop apps and games so that people can from the onset keep you hooked especially when you time limits, virtual homes and friends. It is a money making scheme worth hundreds and millions of money where people can buy certain things in their virtual worlds. Zuckerberg has done this amazing thing for our social lives. The 80% of their persona is reflected on FB, the question is whether it is a distraction or a help, as we hide in this virtual world. It does open my world for me so when I feel lonely studying at home on my own during the day. We're better if we are open and connected, it is a social aspect of our online presence that we choose what we want, like pages we are interested in, it's easier to unsubscribe, to voice concerns. What we became cultural comfortable with, with releasing new technology that we may have initially found a bit intrusive, they over a longer period of time in a subtler way.
Anne Helmond (2010) ' Identity 2.0: Constructing identity with cultural software.' Anne Helmond. New Media Research Blog. Available: http://www.annehelmond.nl/wordpress/wp-content/uploads//2010/01/helmond_identity20_dmiconference.pdf
Activity 1; Twitter: I have just opened another twitter account so only have a few of the group following me but since linking it with Tumblr and the website, I had 4 new people follow me in a day. Can't wait to get back on these sites after my social presence has been marked I want TI keep the plates spinning. Plus I found some awesome blogs on Tumblr and Del.icio.us that I would like to check in on. I chose what was trending globally and it seemed to be reality shows that are at a pinnacle stage overseas :/. Friend feed; love looking at this as it shows me what I have done in each of my social media applications. Therefore I update and do different activities on each, it has allowed me to easily group all my social media applications together. Posted my link in this weeks discussion topics.
How does the idea of ‘Continuous Partial Presence’ work in terms of building a picture about someone from their microblogging? Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities. This allows us to see how people are going about their day due to their constant updates, giving us updates during their day. Before reading this unit I found Twitter overwhelming and something I didn't really use on its own, it was always used as a repost model. This is due to its open source API and it's reciprocal nature of its links.
This reading has Have to edit this more later...
Akshay Java et al (2007) ‘Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities’, Procedings of the Joint 9th WEBKDD and 1st SNA-KDD Workshop 2007, August 12. Available: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/get/a/publication/369.pdf
Topic 3.1 - Your Digital Shadow
Information contributed about me by other people, we are not always in control of how we are perceived. This visibility, digital shadows, is determined by search engines.
Google is a search engine that uses an algorithm called Page Rank, love the sense of humour with the assistance of pigeons link, hehe. Emphasis is placed on the incoming links - what does this mean? The more people that link to my blog the higher my page ranks, which wads back to Clay Shirky to the those who have power get more power.
Activities; Google ego surfing: my twitter page, Facebook page, wind and water designs website. Blind search.fejus.com Came up with my website, Facebook, twitter, blue caravan and Etsy stores. Has 3 columns and 3 different search engines.
Spezify (spezify.com) is the coolest so far, told me where the onfrimtuin on me was found, my website was on Yahoo, my Facebook page was found on http://www.profile.ak.fbcdn.net As the web becomes more a 'semantic web' my presence will be reflected by more than what I out up there, friends putting images up and tagging me. This is all from tagging, being connected to people in ways I have no control over, although what about untagging as you can do this on FB. Managing our web presence is about dictating what and how we put things on the web, thus with our central node and ways that people can contribute. Giving google something to find on us, this is why Facebook and twitter works so well with my business name as I have it all linked together and it the efficiency of this allows me to create this impression of my business and me.
Readings; Angewin, J. (2011). How Much Should People Worry About the Loss of Privacy?
Stewart Baker, a partner in Washington, D.C., at the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson.
Danah Boyd, a senior researcher at Microsoft Corp.
Jeff Jarvis, an associate professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, whose recent book, "Public Parts”.
Christopher Soghoian, a fellow at the Open Society Institute, created the first browser software—called TACO—that blocked online tracking.
Are all interviewed in this article to discuss the topic; the main point that resonated with me through the other readings is that we innately want to be social but we don’t want that sharing to be available to everyone.. Online privacy , the discussion discusses that we want to be involved online but Jarvis eludes that our privacy is protected its our public ness that we need to be more guarded about. boyd points out that 'most people don’t have the ability to make informed decisions about how they engage in public' and argued that restrictions were required to limit how data can be used to harm people. Calling for transparency from powerful entities about their data practices.
Mr Baker, pointed out that we will adjust just as when Facebook introduced timelines and people could see what the other person was doing on FB that they/we choose to out this information online, to reveal it to our friends, so either don't be so liberal with who friend in FB and keep the info you share monitored. The man who invented privacy, Louis Brandeis, was appalled to have his photo taken and published without his permission. Just as photography when introduced was seen as a violation of privacy when someone could take your picture and publish it is a technology we have adapted to.
The cost of free content; Facebook observes our browsing activities on non-Facebook sites as long as the Like button is present, then they allow 3rd party developers to have access to that. This information is collected by 'parasitic firms' that track what we research either conditions, travel plans, interests etc, so the use of surfing the web and Internet sites does come at a price, the collection of data on our habits online. How this will affect people? It depends on your situation, whether you are looking to be insured and they know you have been researching conditions that could be fatal, identity theft, hence keeping your birth date off the net. It is impossible to keep this information completely secure, alarm bells. The cost of protecting privacy, it may inhibit advertising, cause less content online, exclude children from being on social networking sites till they are 13 or above. Will these laws cause damage on the time that we make our adjustment to this new technology which we eventually will become desensitised. 9/11 is an example of not sharing intel or being able to print name searchers, which is a sore point on the ease it could have been prevented but this new technology wasn't accepted as a necessary due to privacy laws. Is this really the cause of 9/11 or just a contributing factor in a ladder of missteps.
The fear of the last governments breaking privacy laws, tapping phones, there is a requirement for privacy laws but if there is a person of interest for criminal offences then there can be rules for inception but other than that the general person, privacy rules.
Angewin, J. (2011). How Much Should People Worry About the Loss of Privacy? Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204577024262567105738.html
Lecture Digital Shadows; Google is always dynamically changing its results based on my language etc. Google stays faithful to which web page has the most links to it. Google has only been the dominant search engine for less than 10 years and this will change. Spezify, it tries to organise its information visually, text it finds a way to make an image from it. Different search engines prioritise different things, so change the images for spezify. As tools change we need to be conscious of how information changes in certain ways, I.e photos, text, etc. Google, through the policy introduced a legal rite in Germany, it's an outbreak in privacy, not a law being broken anywhere else that google when someone complains removes the images.
Danah boyd has discussed an 'opt-out privacy' which says something about the individual in what they want to withdraw, so it becomes the individual responsibility. Reputation, when your searching you look for information about someone to work a reputation about that person. You will need a reputation to be able to be employed, as it will be a core part of whether you get to be a journalist, as an example. An existing reputation is a barrier against false information being posted about you. So if there is limited information about you online whatever is there is going to be loud as it isn't being dulled in the other information about you online, so there is a contradiction in privacy, as other people in this matter will design what your online reputation is like. The ability to create and share with people has become so easy to due to our mobility with technology. Back to star wars kid, 10 years after the fact, the Wikipedia link, photos, then some articles about how you prevent this happening to you online. This shows how long this reputation of you/him has lasted online. How do we build a river of information about ourselves that tells the story that we want to tell.
Reading Future of Reputation; by D Solove The progress of first printed media by Jonathon Gutenberg in the 15th century, made access to information easier, as it was written by hand before, but people were still illiterate so it was still limited. Then number of papers printed increased by 900% from 1850-1890 in America. Then news, online and on tv today is available 24/7, though we can not appear on there and now we have blogging and social media platforms that allows the niello fence of the many to increase our involvement our push for being educated and to think globally instead of what is happening in our street or suburb or city. 'Were living in the next media revolution, this time we are the media' inspiring thought. Bloggers, of which a small amount make an income from, are a source of information for editors as due to location and inside information they can have more pull, be in more locations etc than the manpower of media organisations.
They are an inspiration for story ideas. Elle and other fashion mags use the same images or similar looks, whereas the Satorialist and other fashion bloggers take a different point of view, I have scaled back magazine purchases and scour those sites instead. Our reputation is our most cherished asset, the importance that reputation has on our social structure and acceptance is reflected in the sentence poised by blah blah as even though our speech is free it may fall on deaf ears if our reputation is tarnished. Reputation is also used to preserve social control, people not using your service as it wasn't good, therefore feedback and positive and negative responses on eBay, etsy etc allow you to confidently buy due to seeing what other people said. There was a time when due to lifestyle we were becoming more insulated and it is said shorter with patience and poor behaviour. Though through the Internet and social media we are connecting with our friends and family but connecting with our weaker ties even thou to those they know us through snippets of information that is easily and hastily read. For me this allows me to connect with my wholistic friends, fashion friends and mum friends and be the different me to each of them and their networks.
Lightbulb moment, with more of the assimilation of this book and the facts or views it reflects on. 'A man's character is what he is; a man's reputation is what other people may imagine him to be.'. The web has created a free democracy of speech, whether it creates or crashes a reputation is in some part ours to control and in others, depending on our behaviour publicly what others say about us.. Facebook's privacy train wreck; exposure, invasion and social convergence. Interesting point about evolutionary biologist Robin Dunbar; she discusses that we need to gossip, networks connect, for the same reason monkeys like to groom, to keep up with the social world around them. Though we like monkeys can only socialise with so many people, they can groom only do so many monkeys. Thus beware the RSS feeds as they can lead to a data overload, yep I'm finding that, I have 1800 updates to read so far. I did catch up on 30 today. Cognitive addiction to social information is great for Facebook because news feeds makes FB sticky. People relish personal information because it is the currency of social hierarchy and connectivity.we trust others who share, it's in our biological structure to do so, friendships are built on mutual knowledge.
Bloggers for instance from their posts may seem familiar to the reader but to the blogger there may not be that communication so that unfamiliar relationship that the reader may want may be beyond the blogger, like when clients want to friend me on FB. A fake sense of intimacy. What is social convergence it is where people from different paths meet on a social platform. danah boyd describes it as when we have ways to act in certain social settings that makes us feel comfortable but social media makes it so that the act or discussion can is taken out of context and greyed leaving it open to how people will perceive the sharing. Example Leonie being captured and shared and her image giving one perception whereas hers was different. This was never an issue before as people being able to see those images had to be shown it by lengthier means, also weaker ties don't usually have access to that kind of intimacy usually.
But with technology convergence comes social convergence and the reason why we feel insecure about it is information and images are taken out of context and for the most part we have no control over it. Is this because the main user does not engage in understanding all the technology can do for them and just educate themselves with how to use the new technology for the desired needs they have for it, business or social. Without reading the fine print, of what is theirs and what through posting becomes everybody's. Danah argues that with any convergence there is a loss of control. Social convergence is here to stay so it just depends on how we will adjust to it..
Reference; boyd, danah (2008). "Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence." Convergence, 14 (1), http://www.danah.org/papers/FacebookPrivacyTrainwreck.pdf.
Note; after linking lots of photos from my tumblr account and I couldn't find Irene's style sessions before that and after 2 weeks of linking to and from my main node to support nodes to get a result on my search.
Activities; Google ego surfing: my twitter page, Facebook page, wind and water designs website. Blind search.fejus.com Came up with my website, Facebook, twitter, blue caravan and Etsy stores. Has 3 columns and 3 different search engines.
Spezify (spezify.com) is the coolest so far, told me where the onfrimtuin on me was found, my website was on Yahoo, my Facebook page was found on http://www.profile.ak.fbcdn.net As the web becomes more a 'semantic web' my presence will be reflected by more than what I out up there, friends putting images up and tagging me. This is all from tagging, being connected to people in ways I have no control over, although what about untagging as you can do this on FB. Managing our web presence is about dictating what and how we put things on the web, thus with our central node and ways that people can contribute. Giving google something to find on us, this is why Facebook and twitter works so well with my business name as I have it all linked together and it the efficiency of this allows me to create this impression of my business and me.
Readings; Angewin, J. (2011). How Much Should People Worry About the Loss of Privacy?
Stewart Baker, a partner in Washington, D.C., at the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson.
Danah Boyd, a senior researcher at Microsoft Corp.
Jeff Jarvis, an associate professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, whose recent book, "Public Parts”.
Christopher Soghoian, a fellow at the Open Society Institute, created the first browser software—called TACO—that blocked online tracking.
Are all interviewed in this article to discuss the topic; the main point that resonated with me through the other readings is that we innately want to be social but we don’t want that sharing to be available to everyone.. Online privacy , the discussion discusses that we want to be involved online but Jarvis eludes that our privacy is protected its our public ness that we need to be more guarded about. boyd points out that 'most people don’t have the ability to make informed decisions about how they engage in public' and argued that restrictions were required to limit how data can be used to harm people. Calling for transparency from powerful entities about their data practices.
Mr Baker, pointed out that we will adjust just as when Facebook introduced timelines and people could see what the other person was doing on FB that they/we choose to out this information online, to reveal it to our friends, so either don't be so liberal with who friend in FB and keep the info you share monitored. The man who invented privacy, Louis Brandeis, was appalled to have his photo taken and published without his permission. Just as photography when introduced was seen as a violation of privacy when someone could take your picture and publish it is a technology we have adapted to.
The cost of free content; Facebook observes our browsing activities on non-Facebook sites as long as the Like button is present, then they allow 3rd party developers to have access to that. This information is collected by 'parasitic firms' that track what we research either conditions, travel plans, interests etc, so the use of surfing the web and Internet sites does come at a price, the collection of data on our habits online. How this will affect people? It depends on your situation, whether you are looking to be insured and they know you have been researching conditions that could be fatal, identity theft, hence keeping your birth date off the net. It is impossible to keep this information completely secure, alarm bells. The cost of protecting privacy, it may inhibit advertising, cause less content online, exclude children from being on social networking sites till they are 13 or above. Will these laws cause damage on the time that we make our adjustment to this new technology which we eventually will become desensitised. 9/11 is an example of not sharing intel or being able to print name searchers, which is a sore point on the ease it could have been prevented but this new technology wasn't accepted as a necessary due to privacy laws. Is this really the cause of 9/11 or just a contributing factor in a ladder of missteps.
The fear of the last governments breaking privacy laws, tapping phones, there is a requirement for privacy laws but if there is a person of interest for criminal offences then there can be rules for inception but other than that the general person, privacy rules.
Angewin, J. (2011). How Much Should People Worry About the Loss of Privacy? Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204577024262567105738.html
Lecture Digital Shadows; Google is always dynamically changing its results based on my language etc. Google stays faithful to which web page has the most links to it. Google has only been the dominant search engine for less than 10 years and this will change. Spezify, it tries to organise its information visually, text it finds a way to make an image from it. Different search engines prioritise different things, so change the images for spezify. As tools change we need to be conscious of how information changes in certain ways, I.e photos, text, etc. Google, through the policy introduced a legal rite in Germany, it's an outbreak in privacy, not a law being broken anywhere else that google when someone complains removes the images.
Danah boyd has discussed an 'opt-out privacy' which says something about the individual in what they want to withdraw, so it becomes the individual responsibility. Reputation, when your searching you look for information about someone to work a reputation about that person. You will need a reputation to be able to be employed, as it will be a core part of whether you get to be a journalist, as an example. An existing reputation is a barrier against false information being posted about you. So if there is limited information about you online whatever is there is going to be loud as it isn't being dulled in the other information about you online, so there is a contradiction in privacy, as other people in this matter will design what your online reputation is like. The ability to create and share with people has become so easy to due to our mobility with technology. Back to star wars kid, 10 years after the fact, the Wikipedia link, photos, then some articles about how you prevent this happening to you online. This shows how long this reputation of you/him has lasted online. How do we build a river of information about ourselves that tells the story that we want to tell.
Reading Future of Reputation; by D Solove The progress of first printed media by Jonathon Gutenberg in the 15th century, made access to information easier, as it was written by hand before, but people were still illiterate so it was still limited. Then number of papers printed increased by 900% from 1850-1890 in America. Then news, online and on tv today is available 24/7, though we can not appear on there and now we have blogging and social media platforms that allows the niello fence of the many to increase our involvement our push for being educated and to think globally instead of what is happening in our street or suburb or city. 'Were living in the next media revolution, this time we are the media' inspiring thought. Bloggers, of which a small amount make an income from, are a source of information for editors as due to location and inside information they can have more pull, be in more locations etc than the manpower of media organisations.
They are an inspiration for story ideas. Elle and other fashion mags use the same images or similar looks, whereas the Satorialist and other fashion bloggers take a different point of view, I have scaled back magazine purchases and scour those sites instead. Our reputation is our most cherished asset, the importance that reputation has on our social structure and acceptance is reflected in the sentence poised by blah blah as even though our speech is free it may fall on deaf ears if our reputation is tarnished. Reputation is also used to preserve social control, people not using your service as it wasn't good, therefore feedback and positive and negative responses on eBay, etsy etc allow you to confidently buy due to seeing what other people said. There was a time when due to lifestyle we were becoming more insulated and it is said shorter with patience and poor behaviour. Though through the Internet and social media we are connecting with our friends and family but connecting with our weaker ties even thou to those they know us through snippets of information that is easily and hastily read. For me this allows me to connect with my wholistic friends, fashion friends and mum friends and be the different me to each of them and their networks.
Lightbulb moment, with more of the assimilation of this book and the facts or views it reflects on. 'A man's character is what he is; a man's reputation is what other people may imagine him to be.'. The web has created a free democracy of speech, whether it creates or crashes a reputation is in some part ours to control and in others, depending on our behaviour publicly what others say about us.. Facebook's privacy train wreck; exposure, invasion and social convergence. Interesting point about evolutionary biologist Robin Dunbar; she discusses that we need to gossip, networks connect, for the same reason monkeys like to groom, to keep up with the social world around them. Though we like monkeys can only socialise with so many people, they can groom only do so many monkeys. Thus beware the RSS feeds as they can lead to a data overload, yep I'm finding that, I have 1800 updates to read so far. I did catch up on 30 today. Cognitive addiction to social information is great for Facebook because news feeds makes FB sticky. People relish personal information because it is the currency of social hierarchy and connectivity.we trust others who share, it's in our biological structure to do so, friendships are built on mutual knowledge.
Bloggers for instance from their posts may seem familiar to the reader but to the blogger there may not be that communication so that unfamiliar relationship that the reader may want may be beyond the blogger, like when clients want to friend me on FB. A fake sense of intimacy. What is social convergence it is where people from different paths meet on a social platform. danah boyd describes it as when we have ways to act in certain social settings that makes us feel comfortable but social media makes it so that the act or discussion can is taken out of context and greyed leaving it open to how people will perceive the sharing. Example Leonie being captured and shared and her image giving one perception whereas hers was different. This was never an issue before as people being able to see those images had to be shown it by lengthier means, also weaker ties don't usually have access to that kind of intimacy usually.
But with technology convergence comes social convergence and the reason why we feel insecure about it is information and images are taken out of context and for the most part we have no control over it. Is this because the main user does not engage in understanding all the technology can do for them and just educate themselves with how to use the new technology for the desired needs they have for it, business or social. Without reading the fine print, of what is theirs and what through posting becomes everybody's. Danah argues that with any convergence there is a loss of control. Social convergence is here to stay so it just depends on how we will adjust to it..
Reference; boyd, danah (2008). "Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence." Convergence, 14 (1), http://www.danah.org/papers/FacebookPrivacyTrainwreck.pdf.
Note; after linking lots of photos from my tumblr account and I couldn't find Irene's style sessions before that and after 2 weeks of linking to and from my main node to support nodes to get a result on my search.
Module 3: introduction - Your Internet Footprint
Footprints is something you are purposely doing, shadow is more about things that are online that are about you and are out of your control.
Shift from module 2.0 user content, content generated user, aggregation of digital fragments that speaks about who you are in regards to how people understand you on the web.
Theories of self; frameworks through who we can think about the self, perspectives of how we may consider about ourselves. Self is subjective, my ideas and others ideas of my self is something we need to think about when the context of self shifts. How we replicate that if we want to project a particular image about ourselves. Erving Goffman, the presentation of self in everyday life (1959). Thought he put forward is to think of ourselves as a series of performances, not fake or superficial, edit the sense of self depending on the needs of particular group of settings we are with. Goffman's ideas are influential in digital media studies, we create something on line that will create our digital self. When we have self in the physical self our visual presentation in dialogue we don't think about our personalities as it happens automatically so we have to think about that to create our social online presence. So do we want different senses of self in different areas we mix in with.
A contemporary theorist is Judith Butler; has written a number of influential books, gender trouble in (1999).
All self is a performance, which is a form of constriction, there is no way of constructing ourselves that isn't constructed through language culture and ideas. Part of postmodern and post structuralist movement: saw everything as discursive and thus constructive. Is a blog a performance, what are we trying to achieve by that? Donna Haraway; cyborg: everyone in contemporary society is so engrained in technology and that we would be fundamentally different people without it. Entry one in contemporary society is already cyborg. Technology of immunisation, diets etc, we are fundamentally different because of all these options and changes that is available to us. They are extensions of our self that is fundamentally important to us, i.e. communicating mainly via mobile devices, we social with greater circles of friends through FB. This is an insight into how we consider of how we talk on line does change ourselves, consider identity and self online. Every single medium we use online, profile; because we need reference material we need to know more about someone to understand what they are saying. Build something in order to convey meaning, so questions to understand you.
Networked self; self is not the product of just the online tools, sns, when they are indexed by search engines and reconfigured and presented differently in search engines. We want a variety of tools and add them together, this is different to how early identity was done. Is communicating on kind is that part of our identity, how does that situate us.
Personas project; who someone is and what is it that they like online. Online marketing companies want this information which is why Facebook is pushing people to use their real names, thus that is why FB is working on this as they are making a lot of money through access to this derived information from our online activity. Presentation of the self on the Web plays an important role in defining the nature of your web presence. Interesting reading this week about online communication and self disclosure, how we can choose what parts of ourselves to show and how we want that portrayed, also being more vulnerable and talking with a variety of people about other personal issues we are interested in with our greater network of friends allows another form of expression and the chance of being ridiculed is based on the topic. Research shows that self-disclosure plays an important role in intimacy development in interpersonal exchanges. The more anonymous one feels is due to the fact they limit the information they release about themselves, less self disclosure. The goals of the blog are important in understanding possible relationships between anonymity and self-disclosure. Anonymity does not resolve all bloggers concerns about privacy. Fake names are not about anonymity but more about being cool.
Papacharissi, Z. (2010). Conclusion: A Networked Self. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites (pp. 304-318). Routledge. [Via Curtin Library eReserve]
Once you’ve read one (or more) of these articles, post your reactions to the discussion boards.
As part of that discussion, consider how much time you put into thinking about your own identity online – is this something you’ve considered before?
In what settings have you considered your identity online (for example, have you considered what happens if a link to your Facebook profile turns up in Google or Bing)?
My brain is working faster at adopting this as the terms and the contexts are becoming familiar.. I'm spending alot of time on this due to,loving it.
All self is a performance, which is a form of constriction, there is no way of constructing ourselves that isn't constructed through language culture and ideas. Part of postmodern and post structuralist movement: saw everything as discursive and thus constructive. Is a blog a performance, what are we trying to achieve by that? Donna Haraway; cyborg: everyone in contemporary society is so engrained in technology and that we would be fundamentally different people without it. Entry one in contemporary society is already cyborg. Technology of immunisation, diets etc, we are fundamentally different because of all these options and changes that is available to us. They are extensions of our self that is fundamentally important to us, i.e. communicating mainly via mobile devices, we social with greater circles of friends through FB. This is an insight into how we consider of how we talk on line does change ourselves, consider identity and self online. Every single medium we use online, profile; because we need reference material we need to know more about someone to understand what they are saying. Build something in order to convey meaning, so questions to understand you.
Networked self; self is not the product of just the online tools, sns, when they are indexed by search engines and reconfigured and presented differently in search engines. We want a variety of tools and add them together, this is different to how early identity was done. Is communicating on kind is that part of our identity, how does that situate us.
Personas project; who someone is and what is it that they like online. Online marketing companies want this information which is why Facebook is pushing people to use their real names, thus that is why FB is working on this as they are making a lot of money through access to this derived information from our online activity. Presentation of the self on the Web plays an important role in defining the nature of your web presence. Interesting reading this week about online communication and self disclosure, how we can choose what parts of ourselves to show and how we want that portrayed, also being more vulnerable and talking with a variety of people about other personal issues we are interested in with our greater network of friends allows another form of expression and the chance of being ridiculed is based on the topic. Research shows that self-disclosure plays an important role in intimacy development in interpersonal exchanges. The more anonymous one feels is due to the fact they limit the information they release about themselves, less self disclosure. The goals of the blog are important in understanding possible relationships between anonymity and self-disclosure. Anonymity does not resolve all bloggers concerns about privacy. Fake names are not about anonymity but more about being cool.
Papacharissi, Z. (2010). Conclusion: A Networked Self. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites (pp. 304-318). Routledge. [Via Curtin Library eReserve]
Once you’ve read one (or more) of these articles, post your reactions to the discussion boards.
As part of that discussion, consider how much time you put into thinking about your own identity online – is this something you’ve considered before?
In what settings have you considered your identity online (for example, have you considered what happens if a link to your Facebook profile turns up in Google or Bing)?
My brain is working faster at adopting this as the terms and the contexts are becoming familiar.. I'm spending alot of time on this due to,loving it.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Introduction to module 1; What's in a Name?
My user name that I searched on namechk.com was windandwaterdes, I have this already in use on Blogger and Twitter and Facebook so kept with that as the username I would research. It was available on all social media pages, I joined Flickr with that username and linked it to my Facebook page and also to my blog.. I had to disable Flickr's cookies to be able to allow to reach the info on my Facebook page..
http://www.namechk.com
01.05.2012
I have since gone through and changed all my user names on Flickr,tumblr, my blog and my website to be either ISryleSessions or Irene's Style Sessions, Tumblr shortened my user name to istylesessions and I like it.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Module 2 intro - What is Web 2.0
Web 2.0 became more of the vision that Berners-Lee had for it instead of being organised by organisations and limits dot people who knew HTML, programming code.
User participation: The web became more of a platform, and the term cloud computing also help describe it. This mesms the user to trust other platforms to store the data, so that it is on servers outside of the home, this replaces floopy discs in some way? Enabling the public, users to generate and upload their own content, through platforms like Flickr, Facebook, YouTube. Then the use of Folksonomy as well where we the public creates descriptive tagging that allows us, through the phenomenon of collective intelligence, organise this large amount of data that users generate. Read and watched Clay Shirky, have since bought his book and have read half the book Di far, love it as it has clarified for me the power of intelligence of the many as opposed to the knowledge of the few (i.e. doctor Karl on JJJ, specialists).
Delicious - my initial account was under windandwatedes but I have changed all my user names over to istylesessions or irenesstylesessions. It has taken me a while to let go of my established online identity to adopt this new one. Delicious is one platform that allows us to efficiently to store and file data, all the links to websites that hold information we may wish to find again. Through tagging and creating descriptive stacks we organise this data in delicious. #Web101 stacks was an activity that was required.
Http://www.delicious.com/istylesessions
RSS feeder - was a little fuzzy initially and went through 2 different types of RSS feeders before settling on FeeddlerPro and have subscribed to web, style and Internet development blogs to receive updates directly to my iPad and iPhone and being able to read it all in one place has made it all very efficient for me.
Different applications used on Web 2.0 that we touched on was wiki, blogs, social media I.e twitter and Facebook,
Through this reading it was a conference about after the web1.0 bubble and how Web 2.0 would develop. It was interesting the explaination about the difference of marketing and approach between Google and Netscape approaches to its developments. Netscape wanted to keep its power through its privately run servers and people buying their software and high priced server products, as well as a web browser and desktop application. Whereas Google started as a web platform and it's one point of difference is that it wasn't selling to people it was helping people find what they needed and allowed the supplier of those services be the one to pay.
Web browsers and servers turned out to be commodities, something of value, so the difference was Netscape wanted to have all the power and keep the information on their servers software, whereas google wanted to harness the information people shared to make it valuable to marketing and the new direction of commerce online business.
Longer and greater potential, for even the housewife can become a successful business person, with the ability to market.
Google's service is not a server--though it is delivered by a massive collection of internet servers--nor a browser--though it is experienced by the user within the browser. Nor does its flagship search service even host the content that it enables users to find. Much like a phone call, which happens not just on the phones at either end of the call, but on the network in between, Google happens in the space between browser and search engine and destination content server, as an enabler or middleman between the user and his or her online experience.
This shows that Google saw the value in their ability to organise data, what the user generated and enable it to be easily found.
The value of the software is proportional to the scale and dynamism of the data it helps to manage.
It was a comparison of each web1.0 software and web2.0 explaining the differences. This is a great reading to give me insight into how these apps and platforms work, what they are, how they came about and what the strength was that made them successful in Web 2.0, whether they were a carry over or a development born from mistakes of Web 1.0.
The importance of permalinks like RSS, by being able to allow people to find your blog but be kept up to date with new entries. Love RSS. Working on how to connect it through my web presence, made a start but got to a dead end will try again tomorrow. Oreilly (2005,1-16)
Reading;
Wisdom of the Chaperones:
This reading is about web diplomacy and it explained the hierarchy of contributors and users who edit wiki and digg. 20% of the people do 80% of the editing and updating and they are all self managed by volunteers given to certain areas and their is ways of tracking changes and by whom. This gave me a great insight into how wiki actually worked as I hadn't thought if it before.
Http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2008/02/the_wisdom_of_the_chaperones.single.html
Http://www.oreilly.com/webz/archive/what-is-web-20.html
Reference for diagram for cloud computing
Friday, May 11, 2012
1.2 and what is the world wide web
Activity 1:
HTML is used in computer coding when you are designing a web site and you want to create different looks, fonts etc on the page in the form of texts and spaces and locating certain tabs on the website. It depicts how the page will look.
HTML - this was practiced in bold - by adding <strong>, and capital letters.. 'Hello world'
as we may think - the atlantic read that got some from it. but it was a bit complex initially so read it a few times..
Tim Berners-Lee developed HTTP - hyper-text transfer protocol, which would communicate through a web server, each page could have a unique look through the text being variable through the hyper text markup language and then the final piece through a web browser call the world wide web. The goal was to allow everybody to not only talk to every body but be able to contribute content so that all the valuable information around the world could be stored on line and through software development and first taxonomies and then folksonomies were could find it all.. Tagging is the key to give an indexing of how to find the information when we need it.
URL's Uniform Resource Locators is what web addresses were being familiarly referred to and Berners-Lee designed these so it was easy to remember the places that information was stored on the web. URL's are more than web addresses, they are emails, ftp://fttp, usenet: news//user:password etc.
Domain Names are given to certain IP addresses so that data packages can be routed efficiently.
Activity 2;
going way back.. went through the history to see how Curtin University had developed over time, as well as;
Curtin - Jan 1997, very basic and web science 101 was what this unit was called, January 1999 this version hurts my eyes, January 2002 this is a lot easier on the eyes but not my favourite yet, January 2005 is my favourite front page of Curtin.
Apple - October 1996 - there are some new websites today that still look like this and I don't rate it.
Google - November 1998, back when it was a prototype. - this didn't stay like this for long they went to the centre page look quite quickly and have just been refining. The blue marks on the calender went banana's within 18months.
Wikepedia - July 2001, back when they had over 6000 articles, very simple but still with that amount of data that was a very simple format.
Dominos.com - February 1997, find out where the 1000th store was. Perth, WA.
This was a great example of showing that what we do online stays online.
The internet is a combination of hardware and software..
HTML and Hypertext was pioneered by Ted Nelson in the 60's but refined by Berners-Lee..
Discussion online; March 16th
https://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_4_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_35129_1%26url%3D
Unit reference;
https://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_group=courses&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Fcontent%2Ffile%3Fcmd%3Dview%26content_id%3D_2100499_1%26course_id%3D_35129_1%26framesetWrapped%3Dtrue
HTML is used in computer coding when you are designing a web site and you want to create different looks, fonts etc on the page in the form of texts and spaces and locating certain tabs on the website. It depicts how the page will look.
HTML - this was practiced in bold - by adding <strong>, and capital letters.. 'Hello world'
as we may think - the atlantic read that got some from it. but it was a bit complex initially so read it a few times..
Tim Berners-Lee developed HTTP - hyper-text transfer protocol, which would communicate through a web server, each page could have a unique look through the text being variable through the hyper text markup language and then the final piece through a web browser call the world wide web. The goal was to allow everybody to not only talk to every body but be able to contribute content so that all the valuable information around the world could be stored on line and through software development and first taxonomies and then folksonomies were could find it all.. Tagging is the key to give an indexing of how to find the information when we need it.
URL's Uniform Resource Locators is what web addresses were being familiarly referred to and Berners-Lee designed these so it was easy to remember the places that information was stored on the web. URL's are more than web addresses, they are emails, ftp://fttp, usenet: news//user:password etc.
Domain Names are given to certain IP addresses so that data packages can be routed efficiently.
Activity 2;
going way back.. went through the history to see how Curtin University had developed over time, as well as;
Curtin - Jan 1997, very basic and web science 101 was what this unit was called, January 1999 this version hurts my eyes, January 2002 this is a lot easier on the eyes but not my favourite yet, January 2005 is my favourite front page of Curtin.
Apple - October 1996 - there are some new websites today that still look like this and I don't rate it.
Google - November 1998, back when it was a prototype. - this didn't stay like this for long they went to the centre page look quite quickly and have just been refining. The blue marks on the calender went banana's within 18months.
Wikepedia - July 2001, back when they had over 6000 articles, very simple but still with that amount of data that was a very simple format.
Dominos.com - February 1997, find out where the 1000th store was. Perth, WA.
This was a great example of showing that what we do online stays online.
The internet is a combination of hardware and software..
HTML and Hypertext was pioneered by Ted Nelson in the 60's but refined by Berners-Lee..
Discussion online; March 16th
https://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_4_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_35129_1%26url%3D
Unit reference;
https://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_group=courses&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Fcontent%2Ffile%3Fcmd%3Dview%26content_id%3D_2100499_1%26course_id%3D_35129_1%26framesetWrapped%3Dtrue
1.1 What is the Internet?
Activity 1;
Performing a proximity trace on websites to determine the track of the routers and see how many stops it took to get to the main server. From Australia all websites went through Singapore to get to the states.
Amazon.com did 19 hops and took the longest out of the websites at 22.9 seconds to reach its server in California. 19796 miles
Wikipedia.org did 17 hops in 3 seconds, this went to Europe, Germany, after going through both sides of the states, it's total distance was 11963 miles.
Flickr.com did 21 hops in 2.7 seconds, this went to an island off the east coast of America, then to the west coast, east coast and back to the west to stop at yahoo.com Some extras I did were google.com it took 2.5 seconds to do 15 hops.
Windandwater.com.au this took 3 seconds and did 22 hops and ended up in Chicago.
ebay.com this took 22.2 seconds traveled 17493 miles and ended up in California Reference; Http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert/ Second activity;
Who owns this: Through the autowhois site.
Flickr.com - yahoo owns this
YouTube.com - google owns this
Mickey.com - Disney Enterprises Inc
Who owns these domains and why? I did get involved in an online discussion with this. But it was mainly in a questioning way. Each of the companies listed are the parent companies and during the process of growth and business development they have acquired these companies to improve their online data researching and indexing abilities. Mark monitor is a global online brand protection company, this is the registrar of all the above websites. They specialise in anti counterfeiting, anti piracy, anti fraud and also domain management. It's all about intellectual property of these major companies as well and keeping in control of their online presence.
Reference: Http://www.hexillion.com/asp/samples/AutoWhois.vbs.asp
Curtin study unit web101 I had this all written in a pages journal and didn't have the time or sense to start this earlier.
This unit was about distinguishing what the difference is between the world wide web and the Internet. The Internet is a connection of computers through networking cables, routers, satellites and software. the importance of the theorists of technology and the software developers especial Sir Tim Berners-Lee, all these creative people, including Steve Jobs with the software that he developed with his defunct Next computer, we're all pivotal role players in how the web and Internet came about. Server client networks, peer to peer networks, packet switching and IP - internet protocols identifies your computer and TCP allows data packaging to happen and find the easiest way to the IP address of my computer - hyper texting allowed us to be creative with how the page looks on the computer.
The improvement of bandwidth came the improvement to bring more of the outside world and social world into the home. Noticing myself how we can watch YouTube,download movies and use apple tv all with the use of broadband. SMTP - is the rule that is used to set up the protocols of the email addresses on any device that is used so that we may receive our emails to our iPhones, iPads or iMacs, without glitches. FTP - file transfer protocol is more a background protocol that we don't see so much but it allows the efficient transfer of files. Name says it all. Download speed of my broadband was 9297 Kbps Upload speed was 442kpbs
Reflection;
Prior to this unit I was not aware of how this all came about on the internet and world wide web. I was not aware of the difference in the terms. I am more enlightened on the importance of web developers and programmers based on code and how their code can change, improve the look of websites. I did not grasp this fully but looking back from reading, researching, watching and using my website and apps more I understand now the importance of code and how it travels across the internet.
Amazon.com did 19 hops and took the longest out of the websites at 22.9 seconds to reach its server in California. 19796 miles
Wikipedia.org did 17 hops in 3 seconds, this went to Europe, Germany, after going through both sides of the states, it's total distance was 11963 miles.
Flickr.com did 21 hops in 2.7 seconds, this went to an island off the east coast of America, then to the west coast, east coast and back to the west to stop at yahoo.com Some extras I did were google.com it took 2.5 seconds to do 15 hops.
Windandwater.com.au this took 3 seconds and did 22 hops and ended up in Chicago.
ebay.com this took 22.2 seconds traveled 17493 miles and ended up in California Reference; Http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert/ Second activity;
Who owns this: Through the autowhois site.
Flickr.com - yahoo owns this
YouTube.com - google owns this
Mickey.com - Disney Enterprises Inc
Who owns these domains and why? I did get involved in an online discussion with this. But it was mainly in a questioning way. Each of the companies listed are the parent companies and during the process of growth and business development they have acquired these companies to improve their online data researching and indexing abilities. Mark monitor is a global online brand protection company, this is the registrar of all the above websites. They specialise in anti counterfeiting, anti piracy, anti fraud and also domain management. It's all about intellectual property of these major companies as well and keeping in control of their online presence.
Reference: Http://www.hexillion.com/asp/samples/AutoWhois.vbs.asp
Curtin study unit web101 I had this all written in a pages journal and didn't have the time or sense to start this earlier.
This unit was about distinguishing what the difference is between the world wide web and the Internet. The Internet is a connection of computers through networking cables, routers, satellites and software. the importance of the theorists of technology and the software developers especial Sir Tim Berners-Lee, all these creative people, including Steve Jobs with the software that he developed with his defunct Next computer, we're all pivotal role players in how the web and Internet came about. Server client networks, peer to peer networks, packet switching and IP - internet protocols identifies your computer and TCP allows data packaging to happen and find the easiest way to the IP address of my computer - hyper texting allowed us to be creative with how the page looks on the computer.
The improvement of bandwidth came the improvement to bring more of the outside world and social world into the home. Noticing myself how we can watch YouTube,download movies and use apple tv all with the use of broadband. SMTP - is the rule that is used to set up the protocols of the email addresses on any device that is used so that we may receive our emails to our iPhones, iPads or iMacs, without glitches. FTP - file transfer protocol is more a background protocol that we don't see so much but it allows the efficient transfer of files. Name says it all. Download speed of my broadband was 9297 Kbps Upload speed was 442kpbs
Reflection;
Prior to this unit I was not aware of how this all came about on the internet and world wide web. I was not aware of the difference in the terms. I am more enlightened on the importance of web developers and programmers based on code and how their code can change, improve the look of websites. I did not grasp this fully but looking back from reading, researching, watching and using my website and apps more I understand now the importance of code and how it travels across the internet.
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