This is the last post for this MLC bolg and also the last blog assignment for this semester.
After that, this coming june will turn to beta year, hope i can pass all my subject kilter.
The final exam coming soon.
This week I'm quite busy, other subject final assignment still in process, all of that must be done before the next week presentation.
Suddenly feel that the time was so press.
Wish me luck for my final exam.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
MLC week11
Critical thinking 1 & 2
It’s typical for a new technology to be adapted within a culture and used to support existing patterns of behavior. With your own relevant examples, answer these questions.
1) What kind of culture influences through technology can you see from today’s world?
2) Is there a possibility to reshape the (new) culture today via new technology, How?
1) For me, Internet was the very influences nowadays. The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available servers and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory. The same connection allows that computer to send information to servers on the network; that information is in turn accessed and potentially modified by a variety of other interconnected computers. A majority of widely accessible information on the Internet consists of inter-linked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW).
In normal use, web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Apple Safari, access web pages and allow users to navigate from one to another via hyperlinks. Through keyword-driven Internet research using search engines like Yahoo! and Google, millions of people worldwide have easy, instant access to a vast and diverse amount of online information.
resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#The_World_Wide_Web
2) In my opinion, I think there’s a possibility to reshape the (new) culture today via new technology. It was online shopping. Online shopping is the process consumers go through to purchase products or services over the Internet. An online shop, eshop, e-store, internet shop, webshop, webstore, online store, or virtual store evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a bricks-and-mortar retailer or in a shopping mall.
The metaphor of an online catalog is also used, by analogy with mail order catalogs. All types of stores have retail web sites, including those that do and do not also have physical storefronts and paper catalogs. Online shopping is a type of electronic commerce used for business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions. Through using online shopping, we can don't worried about the trasportation problem, we can stay comfortable at home and chosing what the stock you want and pay through online.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
MLC week10
Critical thinking 1
The documentary entitled "The Power of Nightmares (Part 3 - Shadow in the Cave)" by Adam Curtis was shown in class on Monday. How do you relate the information given to you in the documentary to the theory of Media Imperialism that we talked about in lecture?
As we know, Media Imperialism is the idea that powerful and wealthy countries can exercise economic, cultural and social control over others through control of media industries. It also can be definite as a theory stating that smaller countries are losing their identity due to the force-feeding of media from larger nations. Media imperialism is not just seen internationally. But their power and authority came from the optimistic visions they offered to their people. Those dreams failed. And today, people have lost faith in ideologies.
Inside the video is about two group of story. The American neoconservatives and the radical Islamists. The wars between this two groups had killed a lot of people. For example, two huge suicide bombs were detonated outside American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 200 people. This showed how Media Imperialism affect societies so much.
Critical thinking 2
The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. It's argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies. This flim has been praised by film critics in both Britain and the United States. Its message and content have also been the subject of various critiques and criticisms from conservatives and progressives.
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
Personal thinking
A lot of assignment need to done for this week, really lazy to do it.
Because of the assignment, keep rushing for it, thus I lack of sack time.
Feel sleepy at class and I can't pay full attention to the class. So I didn't know what the lecturer teaching. But due to the slide that upload by lecturer this week was about "Media Imperialism".
It's a very difficult topic to me. T.T
The documentary entitled "The Power of Nightmares (Part 3 - Shadow in the Cave)" by Adam Curtis was shown in class on Monday. How do you relate the information given to you in the documentary to the theory of Media Imperialism that we talked about in lecture?
As we know, Media Imperialism is the idea that powerful and wealthy countries can exercise economic, cultural and social control over others through control of media industries. It also can be definite as a theory stating that smaller countries are losing their identity due to the force-feeding of media from larger nations. Media imperialism is not just seen internationally. But their power and authority came from the optimistic visions they offered to their people. Those dreams failed. And today, people have lost faith in ideologies.
Inside the video is about two group of story. The American neoconservatives and the radical Islamists. The wars between this two groups had killed a lot of people. For example, two huge suicide bombs were detonated outside American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 200 people. This showed how Media Imperialism affect societies so much.
Critical thinking 2
The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. It's argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies. This flim has been praised by film critics in both Britain and the United States. Its message and content have also been the subject of various critiques and criticisms from conservatives and progressives.
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
Personal thinking
A lot of assignment need to done for this week, really lazy to do it.
Because of the assignment, keep rushing for it, thus I lack of sack time.
Feel sleepy at class and I can't pay full attention to the class. So I didn't know what the lecturer teaching. But due to the slide that upload by lecturer this week was about "Media Imperialism".
It's a very difficult topic to me. T.T
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Personal thinking
Personal thinking
The assignment 2 that need to pass up in this week will be postponed to next week only pass up, because lecturer asks us to add something inside. Sigh, need to do again.
On the side, the blog assignment for this week is very difficult for me, I’m not really understood about it.
I’ve learn about the media concept from the slide that given by lecturer. The slide is about the concept of media, for example like type of hot media and cool media.
The assignment 2 that need to pass up in this week will be postponed to next week only pass up, because lecturer asks us to add something inside. Sigh, need to do again.
On the side, the blog assignment for this week is very difficult for me, I’m not really understood about it.
I’ve learn about the media concept from the slide that given by lecturer. The slide is about the concept of media, for example like type of hot media and cool media.
MLC week9
Critical thinking1
The social processes underlying the adoption of a technology/medium by dividing its effects into four categories. There are enhances, reverse, retrieves and obsolesces. According from the note given by lecturer, McLuhan developed a basis for his thought around what he termed the tetrad. The tetrad allowed McLuhan to apply four laws, framed as questions, to a wide spectrum of mankind's endeavors, and thereby give us a new tool for looking at our culture. The tetrad is a means of examining the effects on society of any technology or medium.
Critical thinking2
What does it (the medium or technology) extend?
In the case of the blogging it would be the paper writing.
What does it make obsolete?
Again, one might answer that the blogging makes paper writing obsolete. Blogging can substitute the pen ink or pencil to write in a piece of paper.
What is retrieved?
The sense of composition returns with the typewrite of the blog.
What does the technology reverse into if it is over extended?
It’s a very insecure way to type any private thing in the blog and it will be easiest hack by hacker.
The social processes underlying the adoption of a technology/medium by dividing its effects into four categories. There are enhances, reverse, retrieves and obsolesces. According from the note given by lecturer, McLuhan developed a basis for his thought around what he termed the tetrad. The tetrad allowed McLuhan to apply four laws, framed as questions, to a wide spectrum of mankind's endeavors, and thereby give us a new tool for looking at our culture. The tetrad is a means of examining the effects on society of any technology or medium.
Critical thinking2
What does it (the medium or technology) extend?
In the case of the blogging it would be the paper writing.
What does it make obsolete?
Again, one might answer that the blogging makes paper writing obsolete. Blogging can substitute the pen ink or pencil to write in a piece of paper.
What is retrieved?
The sense of composition returns with the typewrite of the blog.
What does the technology reverse into if it is over extended?
It’s a very insecure way to type any private thing in the blog and it will be easiest hack by hacker.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
personal thinking week 8
Personal thinking~
Assignment again, this week start to do assignment 2 already, and have to write 800 words.This assignment 2 need to submit on next monday by print it out. It was a bad news for me, because we have many assignment need to do.
The topic of the assignment 2 are not so interesting for me but I will try my best to do it well.
Anywhere.... good luck for me...
Assignment again, this week start to do assignment 2 already, and have to write 800 words.This assignment 2 need to submit on next monday by print it out. It was a bad news for me, because we have many assignment need to do.
The topic of the assignment 2 are not so interesting for me but I will try my best to do it well.
Anywhere.... good luck for me...
MLC week8
Critical thinking 1&2
The differences between Obscenity, pornography and indecency.
The differences between this 3 term are that:
Obscenity is the state or quality of being obscene.Something that is offensive or repulsive to the senses.
Pornography is the pictures, writing, or other material that is sexually explicit and sometimes equates sex with power and violence. It is the presentation or production of porn.
Indecency is the state or quality of being unseemly or immodest. It is also about the attitude.
The differences between Obscenity, pornography and indecency.
Obscenity is a term that is most often used in a context to describe expressions (words, images, actions) that offend the prevalent sexual morality of the time. It is often replaced by the word salaciousness.The definition of obscenity differs from culture to culture, between communities within a single culture, and also between individuals within those communities.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity
Pornography is the explicit depiction of sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer. It is to a certain extent similar to erotica, which is the use of sexually arousing imagery.Pornography may use any of a variety of media—printedliterature, photos, sculpture, drawing,painting , soun recording, film,video, or video game.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography
Indecency means is not sociocultural standars of behaviour and speech, and indecency oftens use to describe some sexual acts , and restrict one's ability show certain part of body publicly . It may also be referred to as "sexual misconduct" or "public lewdness". Common incidents include indecent explosure and sexual intercourse or masturbation in public view.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_indecency
The differences between this 3 term are that:
Obscenity is the state or quality of being obscene.Something that is offensive or repulsive to the senses.
Pornography is the pictures, writing, or other material that is sexually explicit and sometimes equates sex with power and violence. It is the presentation or production of porn.
Indecency is the state or quality of being unseemly or immodest. It is also about the attitude.
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