Lecture- We watched a movie called Alphaville, a movie directed by Jean-luc Godard. It is about a tough detective, by the name of Lemmy Caution, who travels through space to a futuristic city (that looks remarkably like the city of Paris in 1965) to find a fellow detective by the name of Henri Dixon who is his main contact. When he is there, he discovers that a supercomputer called Alpha60 dominates the city’s population. Alpha60 replaces emotions with cold logical, something that only a computer can do successfully. Lemmy Caution is supposed to bring back to his planet the chief scientist, who was banished years before. Instead, Mr Caution kills the scientist and escapes the planet with the scientist’s beautiful daughter.
Tutorial- I have several friends on Myspace that I haven’t actually met. It is a different relationship to friends I have met for several reasons. First, because when I read something from a friend, I read it in the voice that my friend uses. I haven’t heard the voice of the friends I only know through the Internet and so I improvise, usually with a perfect well educated voice. The only way I know what those friends through the internet look like is through several facial pictures that have usually been modified in some way. Therefore, I’m communicating with somebody that doesn’t exactly exist how I imagine them to be.
I’ve been using Virtual worlds for about three years, and Myspace for about a year and a half. Those were the first New Communication technologies I used, after Video games of course. Privacy isn’t really an issue for me; I just don’t reveal my address or my phone number. Sometimes I even use a different name.
Readings- There was six readings. They contained a glossary for film terminology, an overview of Alphaville information, a review of the plot, a detailed essay about Alphaville by Andrew Sarris, an essay on the French new wave era in which Alphaville was a part of, and information on Jean-luc Godard.
Alphaville was released in 1965 and according to a survey done on the Internet movie database; it scored 7.5 out of ten. Jean-luc Godard was not only the director, but the writer as well. It won an award in 1965, the Golden Berlin Bear. Other works by Jean-luc Godard are; My life to live, two or three things I know about her and Helas pour moi.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Topic two
Lecture-
The topic of this lecture was “Is Email dead?” Professor Stockwell first talked to us about email. He mostly centred on Spam, which are mostly scams. These included Nigerian scams, scams that involved pretending to be real banks requesting your bank details, and repetitive emails from organisations such as Facebook.
Then he showed us the results for a survey we did last week. Results that I found most interesting were that Email isn’t dead. About sixty percent of the class agree that email has its place. Nobody in class doesn’t use email at all. Even thirteen percent of people reckon that email is God!
Tutorial-
The tutorial task this week was to create our blog. I am also supposed to write an introductory blog about myself and even my interests. Because we concentrated on writing our blogs in the tutorial, I thought it would be appropriate to write about myself in this section.
My name is Christopher Burns. I love to write fictional stories, most of them being far fetched and involved in fantasy in some way. I am a Christian and have been one for about four years. I had a gap year last year in which I gained work experience. My goal in life is to travel the world and help the poor.
Readings-
This week’s reading is called “Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents.”
It says that a blog is a personal website that contains a lot of news, takes the form of a diary and is usually updated by one person. The content is usually written and can even be commented by the readers. It has two internet addresses, one for the creator of the blog and the other for public access. To create a blog that is quick, easy and simple to make it is best to join a blog community. Good examples of a blog community are Blogger, livejournal and skyblog.
The topic of this lecture was “Is Email dead?” Professor Stockwell first talked to us about email. He mostly centred on Spam, which are mostly scams. These included Nigerian scams, scams that involved pretending to be real banks requesting your bank details, and repetitive emails from organisations such as Facebook.
Then he showed us the results for a survey we did last week. Results that I found most interesting were that Email isn’t dead. About sixty percent of the class agree that email has its place. Nobody in class doesn’t use email at all. Even thirteen percent of people reckon that email is God!
Tutorial-
The tutorial task this week was to create our blog. I am also supposed to write an introductory blog about myself and even my interests. Because we concentrated on writing our blogs in the tutorial, I thought it would be appropriate to write about myself in this section.
My name is Christopher Burns. I love to write fictional stories, most of them being far fetched and involved in fantasy in some way. I am a Christian and have been one for about four years. I had a gap year last year in which I gained work experience. My goal in life is to travel the world and help the poor.
Readings-
This week’s reading is called “Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents.”
It says that a blog is a personal website that contains a lot of news, takes the form of a diary and is usually updated by one person. The content is usually written and can even be commented by the readers. It has two internet addresses, one for the creator of the blog and the other for public access. To create a blog that is quick, easy and simple to make it is best to join a blog community. Good examples of a blog community are Blogger, livejournal and skyblog.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Topic One
Lecture 1
The important thing about this Lecture was watching a tape of a show called “Four Corners.” The fifty minute programme was about Second life, a large Virtual world. In Second life, you can create an avatar, communicate with other people, buy real estate and create all sorts of objects, which you can then sell and make a profit in Linden dollars. Then, if you really wanted to, you can transfer the Linden dollars to American dollars.
Of course, having all this freedom in Virtual worlds brings up several points. The sexual and moral issues, market values and real estate, Tax and even the laws that govern the real world and whether they come into practise in the virtual world.
Tutor 1
In the tutorial, we met our Tutor and then he showed us the basics of “Learning at Griffith.” After that, we discussed more about Second Life. I made a comment that it was ridiculous that so many people spent so much time on it. Some people spend over ten hours a day on it! I said that it was like people were giving up on the real world and living in a pretend one that men made.
Then we briefly compared World of Warcraft (WOW) to Second Life. There were several key differences. Firstly, WOW is more of a game while Second Life is something else entirely. While WOW focuses on adventures, fighting and killing others to gain a virtual profit, Second Life reflects the world more realistically.
The important thing about this Lecture was watching a tape of a show called “Four Corners.” The fifty minute programme was about Second life, a large Virtual world. In Second life, you can create an avatar, communicate with other people, buy real estate and create all sorts of objects, which you can then sell and make a profit in Linden dollars. Then, if you really wanted to, you can transfer the Linden dollars to American dollars.
Of course, having all this freedom in Virtual worlds brings up several points. The sexual and moral issues, market values and real estate, Tax and even the laws that govern the real world and whether they come into practise in the virtual world.
Tutor 1
In the tutorial, we met our Tutor and then he showed us the basics of “Learning at Griffith.” After that, we discussed more about Second Life. I made a comment that it was ridiculous that so many people spent so much time on it. Some people spend over ten hours a day on it! I said that it was like people were giving up on the real world and living in a pretend one that men made.
Then we briefly compared World of Warcraft (WOW) to Second Life. There were several key differences. Firstly, WOW is more of a game while Second Life is something else entirely. While WOW focuses on adventures, fighting and killing others to gain a virtual profit, Second Life reflects the world more realistically.
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