This portfoilio consists of blogs having to do with digital culture, the last part of the class
COVERAGE
TIMELINESS
pretty much all my entries follow this, but here are some of them
INTERACTION
DEPTH
DISCUSSION
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This is kind of a question that people were asking when the whole idea of cloning became popular. Of course, it isn't anywhere near as readily available as Doctorow perceives it in this story. But it does leave an ethical kind of question. If you look at the examples in movies and other books where people decided to use clones in a "harvesting" kind of way, it makes this idea seem kind of sick. After this line of course, Julius goes on to describe the procedure with the HREF gun and it leaves him much less advanced.
I was taken back by the use of the word "offline" in this chapter. I had trouble understanding exactly what it meant. To me, witht he technology information I know, offline means disconnected in a sense. Yes disconnected from the internet, but also maybe emotionally disconnected. I wonder if that is what Julius is feeling about what has been happening to him. It is also funny that I connect to this made up language with my own ideas and feelings of technology
To me, when someone says "I was texting Bill" or "I'll just text her" it is as if they are saying "I'll just tap so and so on the shoulder and we'll have a chat." I do not look at texting in the technical terms of transmission or sending and receiving. To me it is as communicative as actually talking to someone face to face. ( how bout that?) I think to an older generation, the word texting may seem more technological and advanced. Again it goes back to looking at this type of communication as infromation sharing or just conversating.
]]>That is a way I have never looked at interactive fiction. I do not know anything about the genre of gaming, but it makes sense that the breakdown is an important part of anything having to do with technology. The internet itself is soemthign that has been broken down alot for a clearer understanding. Even computer programs we use in our everyday life have probably been broken down from when they first emerged.
]]>The beginning of this book makes me think of how police have to sometiems go into someones computers to get files and information for crimes. All that "To Catch a Predator" kind of stuff of online chats, pictures, etc. It really is like reading into a different language when you work with a hard drive. Computer Forensics sounds like an important job that the average person like me has never reallylooked closely into.
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This patriotic and political image spoke to Key in such a way that he scribbled the poem down on the back of a letter. The poem went on to be published in many papers on the east coast, and sent a message of “we are still standing” to the people of this early time in our country.
The funny thing was that this was just poem people were reading. Key eventually decided it should be set to the tune of music. In particular, to the music of a popular British drinking song called “To Ancreon in Heaven. AKA “the Ancreontic Song.” It was the anthem of a men’s music club/society.
One example is the democratic election going on right now. With this election attracting more and more younger voters and campaign people, the culture of the internet has become highly involved. Myspace, youtube, facebook and the photosphere have all done their part in taking the message both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to a new medium.
Examples:
Will I Am of The Black Eyed Peas music video inspired by Obama’s New Hampshire primary speech
Saturday Night Live Skits that have parodied election
- I could not find the Saturday Night Live skit that parodied one of their debates and suggested that the media is biased to Obama, but I do have an example of how it got the attention of Hillary Clinton
What I wanted to do on this blog for the class, was show how the concept of the remix is a key in politics now. The media has adapted to the digital age and to it’s audience to be able to get their attention and keep it. Not only are they looking for the attention of the reader, they are now looking at the interactive part. With the news giving the public the power to comment and watch different pieces of news, they are helping the concept of the remix adapt and advance.
* There will be more of a class discussion on Thursday so please read and look at some of this stuff*
Though the author goes on to talk about those 3D image posters from the early 90's. You know if you stare at it long a enough, a picture shows. I found that I could take that to how I relate to this interactive fiction world. With some of the games I experienced in Writing for the Internet, I had very wavering feelings about them. I could see myself getting into some of them if I could just figure out the secret to getting unstuck. I would type an action into "Hitchhikers Guide..." and I would get super denied or die. I thought that things would be a bit easier and it would defintley would make it more fun. I'm sure if I were an expert on this genre of games, I'd have a less either - or outlook, cause the have the potential to be fun for non players.
]]>I definitley believe that the internet has messed with the publics view of real pleasures in life. Take a look at online dating. With the emergence off iming and chat rooms,the face to face intimacy of a normal conversation has really died out in society. While the whole online dating deal may work for some, it is still amyster to others how one can be connected so closely to someone they only communicate with via emails or iming. Even texting is a new tool used in the dating world to avoid that very scary first phone call after a date. The line between real life and the safety of being behind a keyboard effects society in a weird way these.
]]>This portfoilio consists of blogs having to do with the introduction of print culture and the beginning of the intro to digital culture
COVERAGE
TIMELINESS
( all my entries from the past month account for this but here are a few)
INTERACTION
( I got alot of good interaction from my classmates this past month)
DEPTH
DISCUSSION
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I feel that reading hypertext is just as education as reading a textbook. To most students of all ages, hypertext is the new textbook. I feel, when I am reading something online, that I can go back and reread things alot easier than reading a book. I can find what information is most useful to me faster it seems.
Well in the end the bad guys win. It is a grim reality, but sometimes governments do get the best of society. Look at WWII, many of the tactics described in this book were based on Stalin and Hitlers propaganda techniques. It makes me wonder how people felt when the book first came out and they read the ending. Books with such a terrible and relatable plot as this, people hope the ending turns out to be a happy one. I wonder how it affected people in 1950?
I read somewhere that language was one of the major themes Orwell used in this book. I felt this quote showed how strong language/ the spooken word can be politically. How important it is to the well being of a society. Imagine having a language that did not grow and become inventive, but did the opposite as newspeak was meant to do. Newspeak was meant have less and less words in it to stop people from thinking against Big Brother. This is just another form of political propaganda, yet it is eye opening that it can be reached orally. Language is a took both normal people and the heads of society can use for or against good. It can control actions.
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How eerily true is this? this book has a copyright of 1962. It holds true to the era of technology we are in right now. With the ever popular war against print vs online journalism, it is crazy how Mcluhan was able to relate to it before the argument really came up. Is an electronic age like this is more organic than mechanical?