Excell is simple and easy to use. Copying and pasting the code was pretty confusing and didn't work a few times, but after a few minutes of trial and error the pasting was successfull. Even my tutor didn't realize what was wrong with it.. it wasnt creating the same tulre in each box.. however after Excell felt like cooperating it did.. and we ran together through the lush green meadows of cooperation and had ourselves a sweet time. Again same with the Word exercise, I have actually never really used excell so everything was quite new to me. My mind is blown, that the programming is so intelligent, it does all the calculations for you. WOW what an incredible age we truly live in.. for complex calculations and problems, this is wonderfull.. I can see how crutial this owuld be for business.. but After learning about free software, I cant help but feeling the desire to urge people to just get the excell equivelant legaly, and for FREE! Thanks guys for all your help, IM using open office on my computer and GIMP! I love them. I cant believe no one knows of this stuff.. its incredible and powerfull
God bless you new comm team! :)
Friday, 1 June 2007
NIkola's Ninth Post
I began the word exercise, and I'm not sure where I went wrong.... I thought it would be simple, but for some reason I failed.. I must have done some small step wrong, I think its cause I didnt close the programn and start it up again that the rest just didnt fall into place. The mail merge thing is really nifty, I never thought you could program information tino microsoft word like that, again, It did not work for me the way I htink it was meant to but you know... gotta keep at it. I can see how incredibly hwelpfull it woul be working in an office or a job where you must constantly fill out letters like that. Wow Bill Gates.. IM sure the rest of the New communications and technologies team agrees with mke taht... WE LOVE YOU:)
Friday, 11 May 2007
Nikola's Eigth Post
The mobile Phone
The mobile phone has had a large impact on society both in the telecommunication, entertainment and business fields. It is continually having an enormous impact with its effects branching into many areas everyday life. In its short history, the mobile phone has seen an almost unprecedented rate of development and advancement. This essay will trace the technological development of the mobile phone and explore some interesting effects it is having on society in relation to child-parent relationships, communication, independence, health and business. The cellular Telephone is a portable electronic communications device used primarily to keep in contact with other individuals or institutions on the move. The first use of radio telephony was in first class passenger trains from Berlin to Hamburg in 1926. Passenger airplanes also introduced this technology at the same time. Radio telephony was later introduced on a larger scale in German tanks during the Second World War. German police in the British zone of occupation after the war use the disused rank telephony to run the first radio patrol cars. The service, in these first cases of radio telephony use was confined to specially trained equipment specialists. One of the first instances where radio telephony was undertaken by un trained individuals was on the ships to the Rhine in the early 1950’s. The area in which the mobile telephone could be used was restricted by the cell area serviced by a base station. This meant that during one phone call, the individual would have to stay within the proximity of the cell area or lose connection. Amos Edward Joel changed this in 1970 by inventing an automatic “call handoff” system which allowed mobile phones to move through several cell areas without disconnecting.
This quickly led to the beginning of a rapid change and advancement of the mobile phones technology. AT&T’S proposal for an Advanced Mobile Phone Service was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and frequencies were allocated to a Mhz band. This was a major stepping stone to the first fully automatic mobile phone system called MTA (Mobile Telephone systems A.) developed by Ericsson and released commercially in Sweden in 1956. This system required no manual control, but weighed an incredible 40kg, later upgraded to weigh only 9 kg. The DynaTAC 8000X was unveiled in 1983 by Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola and was the first true mobile phone as we know it today.
Mobile phones profoundly increased in their technological advancement during this time and continued to become smaller, and more powerful in their application. Their uses are evolving almost daily, giving users access to the internet, television, music, video games e-mail and cameras on so on. What the mobile phone has now become is almost indescribable. It has evolved in such away that today’s society sees communication as just one, small aspect of its many uses, today’s mobile phone is having a profound impact on society as it reaches deeper into peoples everyday lives. (Fattah, 2003) It is having an effect on nearly every aspect of an individual’s life, and changing the way society functions. The mobile phone gives individuals power which at one stage they may have never had, such as for children and teenagers, which are gaining more freedom by being able to speak without being overheard by parents. This is resulting in kids growing up at a faster rate and creating larger social networks. (Fattah, 2003) The cell is creating a more independent and spontaneous generation, allowing people ot change their plans in an instant and cancel meetings or dates at any time. It is removing the strict adherence to a schedule. (Fattah, 2003) This is resulting in people more frequently making last minute plans, and living a more ‘adventurous’ and unhindered lifestyle. The cell phone is also changing the things which society finds acceptable. For example, being late to meetings or dates is no longer such an issue as the cell phone enables people to warn each other and apologize. Thus people are now more tolerant of what was otherwise seen as intolerant behaviour.
The cell phone is also being used as a powerful communicator in non-direct ways as well as direct. Single women who have no desire to be approached by other men can easily sit at a café and chat on their phone. This gives a clear social signal without any words being communicated. Another example is the showing of respect, turning the cell phone off is seen as a sign of deference to partners or to articulate the dignity of a occasion. (Geser, 2004)
The mobile phone is also giving the average person a lot more power and influence. A great example of this is America’s crime stoppers connection with mobile networks. Anyone can now take a photo with their camera phone of a crime scene or suspicious activity and send it by mms to be used as evidence. (Geser, 2004)The power to change and save lives is given to every person, regardless of age, through this service. Large businesses are also utilizing the mobile phone by sending advertisements through text messages and calling people by telecommunication hubs. This is giving business a lot more advertising room and allowing them to reach people regardless of location. People are this being called about buying a product whilst they may be at a shopping mall, therefore increasing the chances of a spontaneous sale. However, many argue that it is a breach in privacy. This is one of the many negative issues in regards to our growing mobile technology. Mobile phone ethics are being created by society in this very age, with people learning what is and isn’t acceptable to do with their phones. Phones are even having a medically negative effect on society as the radio frequency range can help cause cancer and other migraines and headaches. (Jong and Armstrong, 1997)
With the phone so rapidly advancing, the overwhelming social impact it is having on society is increasing daily, and spanning through every area of our lives. One can only ponder how it will be integrated more deeply into our daily lives in five years time.
Bibliography:
Belson, Ken, October 2004 New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y. pg. 4.12
Fattah, Hassan, March 2003 American Demographic P 34 - 39
Geser, Hans May 2004 University of Zurich,Toward a sociological theory of the mobile phone Phone 1 - 46
Katherine, E. Jong and Brue K. Armstrong October 1997 Australiana and New Zealand Journal of Public Health p 555 - 557
Rynn, Nov 2004 Academic Research Library, The mobile connection: The cell phone’s impact on society P 572
Websites
Beaton, John and Wajcman, Judy, September 2004, Academy of social sciences in Australia
http://www.assa.edu.au/Publications/mobilephone.pdf
History of the Mobile Phone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones
Cell Phone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone
The social impact of mobile telephony by Telecom
http://www.itu.int/telecom-wt99/press_service/information_for_the_press/press_kit/backgrounders/backgrounders/social_impact_mobile.html
The social impact of mobile phones, June 10, 2003http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2003/06/000783.htm
Sociology of the Mobile Phone by Geser, Hans and Trench, Keisa, April 2006Pre teen cell phone adoption:
http://socio.ch/mobile/index_mobile.htm
The mobile phone has had a large impact on society both in the telecommunication, entertainment and business fields. It is continually having an enormous impact with its effects branching into many areas everyday life. In its short history, the mobile phone has seen an almost unprecedented rate of development and advancement. This essay will trace the technological development of the mobile phone and explore some interesting effects it is having on society in relation to child-parent relationships, communication, independence, health and business. The cellular Telephone is a portable electronic communications device used primarily to keep in contact with other individuals or institutions on the move. The first use of radio telephony was in first class passenger trains from Berlin to Hamburg in 1926. Passenger airplanes also introduced this technology at the same time. Radio telephony was later introduced on a larger scale in German tanks during the Second World War. German police in the British zone of occupation after the war use the disused rank telephony to run the first radio patrol cars. The service, in these first cases of radio telephony use was confined to specially trained equipment specialists. One of the first instances where radio telephony was undertaken by un trained individuals was on the ships to the Rhine in the early 1950’s. The area in which the mobile telephone could be used was restricted by the cell area serviced by a base station. This meant that during one phone call, the individual would have to stay within the proximity of the cell area or lose connection. Amos Edward Joel changed this in 1970 by inventing an automatic “call handoff” system which allowed mobile phones to move through several cell areas without disconnecting.
This quickly led to the beginning of a rapid change and advancement of the mobile phones technology. AT&T’S proposal for an Advanced Mobile Phone Service was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and frequencies were allocated to a Mhz band. This was a major stepping stone to the first fully automatic mobile phone system called MTA (Mobile Telephone systems A.) developed by Ericsson and released commercially in Sweden in 1956. This system required no manual control, but weighed an incredible 40kg, later upgraded to weigh only 9 kg. The DynaTAC 8000X was unveiled in 1983 by Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola and was the first true mobile phone as we know it today.
Mobile phones profoundly increased in their technological advancement during this time and continued to become smaller, and more powerful in their application. Their uses are evolving almost daily, giving users access to the internet, television, music, video games e-mail and cameras on so on. What the mobile phone has now become is almost indescribable. It has evolved in such away that today’s society sees communication as just one, small aspect of its many uses, today’s mobile phone is having a profound impact on society as it reaches deeper into peoples everyday lives. (Fattah, 2003) It is having an effect on nearly every aspect of an individual’s life, and changing the way society functions. The mobile phone gives individuals power which at one stage they may have never had, such as for children and teenagers, which are gaining more freedom by being able to speak without being overheard by parents. This is resulting in kids growing up at a faster rate and creating larger social networks. (Fattah, 2003) The cell is creating a more independent and spontaneous generation, allowing people ot change their plans in an instant and cancel meetings or dates at any time. It is removing the strict adherence to a schedule. (Fattah, 2003) This is resulting in people more frequently making last minute plans, and living a more ‘adventurous’ and unhindered lifestyle. The cell phone is also changing the things which society finds acceptable. For example, being late to meetings or dates is no longer such an issue as the cell phone enables people to warn each other and apologize. Thus people are now more tolerant of what was otherwise seen as intolerant behaviour.
The cell phone is also being used as a powerful communicator in non-direct ways as well as direct. Single women who have no desire to be approached by other men can easily sit at a café and chat on their phone. This gives a clear social signal without any words being communicated. Another example is the showing of respect, turning the cell phone off is seen as a sign of deference to partners or to articulate the dignity of a occasion. (Geser, 2004)
The mobile phone is also giving the average person a lot more power and influence. A great example of this is America’s crime stoppers connection with mobile networks. Anyone can now take a photo with their camera phone of a crime scene or suspicious activity and send it by mms to be used as evidence. (Geser, 2004)The power to change and save lives is given to every person, regardless of age, through this service. Large businesses are also utilizing the mobile phone by sending advertisements through text messages and calling people by telecommunication hubs. This is giving business a lot more advertising room and allowing them to reach people regardless of location. People are this being called about buying a product whilst they may be at a shopping mall, therefore increasing the chances of a spontaneous sale. However, many argue that it is a breach in privacy. This is one of the many negative issues in regards to our growing mobile technology. Mobile phone ethics are being created by society in this very age, with people learning what is and isn’t acceptable to do with their phones. Phones are even having a medically negative effect on society as the radio frequency range can help cause cancer and other migraines and headaches. (Jong and Armstrong, 1997)
With the phone so rapidly advancing, the overwhelming social impact it is having on society is increasing daily, and spanning through every area of our lives. One can only ponder how it will be integrated more deeply into our daily lives in five years time.
Bibliography:
Belson, Ken, October 2004 New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y. pg. 4.12
Fattah, Hassan, March 2003 American Demographic P 34 - 39
Geser, Hans May 2004 University of Zurich,Toward a sociological theory of the mobile phone Phone 1 - 46
Katherine, E. Jong and Brue K. Armstrong October 1997 Australiana and New Zealand Journal of Public Health p 555 - 557
Rynn, Nov 2004 Academic Research Library, The mobile connection: The cell phone’s impact on society P 572
Websites
Beaton, John and Wajcman, Judy, September 2004, Academy of social sciences in Australia
http://www.assa.edu.au/Publications/mobilephone.pdf
History of the Mobile Phone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones
Cell Phone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone
The social impact of mobile telephony by Telecom
http://www.itu.int/telecom-wt99/press_service/information_for_the_press/press_kit/backgrounders/backgrounders/social_impact_mobile.html
The social impact of mobile phones, June 10, 2003http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2003/06/000783.htm
Sociology of the Mobile Phone by Geser, Hans and Trench, Keisa, April 2006Pre teen cell phone adoption:
http://socio.ch/mobile/index_mobile.htm
Friday, 27 April 2007
NIkola's Seventh Post
3D Worlds and Socializing on the internet: 2D Vs 3D Communication
The 3d online spaces are a very different experience to ones such as msn.
A whole new layer of interactivity is introduced with adding real elements. It alsmot feels like you literaly are escaping into another world where you can look like whoever you want. I know this is also true for msn, but wiht the 3d spaces, you can edit your own world and change your surroundings however you like.
One has bene given the ability to escape into their own uniqe space.
There is a greater emphasis on community. In habbo, for example, there is a 'habbo of the week', where one random member of habbo has their little 3d character (which they design) placed on the homepage for all the world to see. This way people are more immersed in this virtual community.
My friends little brother, who was thirteen at the time, got involved with habbo and became addicted. He somehow met some shady characters and ended up making a lot of money. He was thirteen. He placed one thousand dollars into my friends bank acocunt and so my friends bought a nintendo gamecube with heaps of games. The bank got suspicious and sent police to their house... I dont know how they got out of it, but needless to say, these communities can have a substancial impact on peoples lives. The kid is 16 now (I think) and his whole life seems to revolve aorund this computer. Is it really a 'Fantasy world.' Or has it become os influential and dominant that it really is part of 'reality'. These community spaces really have become communities, so how can one reallya ccuse them of not living 'real' life. Laying my own ideals and beliefs aside, it really hsa become life. As normal as every other persons 'life.'
I would reallly like ot try this 'habbo hotel' but, with the increasing demands of our technologicla age, the computers are not able to view it.. Certain software is needed which can not be donwloaded at this time. This just shows, how truly quickly our tehcnological demands increase.
WAIT! WAIT! Its working now.. Habbo is a.o.k. And I find it VERY interesting taht people are paying REAL money to decorate a virual room.
People are actually investing real money, they are literally placing a greater importance on their virtual home and appearance than on their real one... Its getting bizzare it is.
The 3d online spaces are a very different experience to ones such as msn.
A whole new layer of interactivity is introduced with adding real elements. It alsmot feels like you literaly are escaping into another world where you can look like whoever you want. I know this is also true for msn, but wiht the 3d spaces, you can edit your own world and change your surroundings however you like.
One has bene given the ability to escape into their own uniqe space.
There is a greater emphasis on community. In habbo, for example, there is a 'habbo of the week', where one random member of habbo has their little 3d character (which they design) placed on the homepage for all the world to see. This way people are more immersed in this virtual community.
My friends little brother, who was thirteen at the time, got involved with habbo and became addicted. He somehow met some shady characters and ended up making a lot of money. He was thirteen. He placed one thousand dollars into my friends bank acocunt and so my friends bought a nintendo gamecube with heaps of games. The bank got suspicious and sent police to their house... I dont know how they got out of it, but needless to say, these communities can have a substancial impact on peoples lives. The kid is 16 now (I think) and his whole life seems to revolve aorund this computer. Is it really a 'Fantasy world.' Or has it become os influential and dominant that it really is part of 'reality'. These community spaces really have become communities, so how can one reallya ccuse them of not living 'real' life. Laying my own ideals and beliefs aside, it really hsa become life. As normal as every other persons 'life.'
I would reallly like ot try this 'habbo hotel' but, with the increasing demands of our technologicla age, the computers are not able to view it.. Certain software is needed which can not be donwloaded at this time. This just shows, how truly quickly our tehcnological demands increase.
WAIT! WAIT! Its working now.. Habbo is a.o.k. And I find it VERY interesting taht people are paying REAL money to decorate a virual room.
People are actually investing real money, they are literally placing a greater importance on their virtual home and appearance than on their real one... Its getting bizzare it is.
NIkolas Sixth Post
For celebrity I simply used photoshop to draw on Oprahs preety face.
For Newsworthy I implemented a staiend glass effect on the people on the steet
For the popular Australian Idol picture I Defused the pic.
For the Australian Pine picture I used a glass effect
For communication I used a patchwork effect
For tHE PS3 games pic I highlighted the edges
Monday, 23 April 2007
Nikola's Fifth Post
Faces of our favourite Friends:
High Tech Equipment. (At least for the next four months)
Flashy, techno-colloured News
Our crops produced in Summer are increasing
unconventional suspendor use
University LIfe
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Friday, 23 March 2007
Nikolas Fourth Post
This is the post regarding the Fourth Lecture and Tutorial Task
Scavenger Hunt:
Worlds Largest Pumpkin: Found in Yahoo! = The largest pumpkin ever grown is 1,502 pounds. It was grown by Ron Wallace of Greene, Rhode Island. It was weighed in on October 7, 2006 at the Rhode Island Weigh-off.
Best Way to contact Grant Hackett: Found in AskJeeves = if u ever need to contact him u can - Leave a message on one of the posts on the main page- Leave a message in his live journal- Send an email gali@granthackettonline.com
How long is a Giraffe's Tongue: Found in Yahoo = An adult giraffe's tongue is 27" long
Ontology: Found in Yahoo! = Ontology = theory of being
David Cronnenbergs First Feature Film: Foudn in Yahoo! = 1966 short film called "Transfer"
The Hacker Manifesto: Found in Wikipedia = The Conscience of a Hacker (also known as The Hacker Manifesto) is a small essay written January 8, 1986
Why do all phone numbers in holywood start with '555': Found in Yahoo = TO REACH Directory Inquiries for a city in the United States, one dials 555-1212 (preceded by the city's area code if one is calling from elsewhere). I'd speculate that movies' use of 555 stems from this. Otherwise, when the film actor flips open a matchbook and dials a number written within it, the most plausible explanation is that he's calling an amnesiac who has forgotten their own number, but who recommends calling Directory Inquiries to obtain it.
Scavenger Hunt:
Worlds Largest Pumpkin: Found in Yahoo! = The largest pumpkin ever grown is 1,502 pounds. It was grown by Ron Wallace of Greene, Rhode Island. It was weighed in on October 7, 2006 at the Rhode Island Weigh-off.
Best Way to contact Grant Hackett: Found in AskJeeves = if u ever need to contact him u can - Leave a message on one of the posts on the main page- Leave a message in his live journal- Send an email gali@granthackettonline.com
How long is a Giraffe's Tongue: Found in Yahoo = An adult giraffe's tongue is 27" long
Ontology: Found in Yahoo! = Ontology = theory of being
David Cronnenbergs First Feature Film: Foudn in Yahoo! = 1966 short film called "Transfer"
The Hacker Manifesto: Found in Wikipedia = The Conscience of a Hacker (also known as The Hacker Manifesto) is a small essay written January 8, 1986
Why do all phone numbers in holywood start with '555': Found in Yahoo = TO REACH Directory Inquiries for a city in the United States, one dials 555-1212 (preceded by the city's area code if one is calling from elsewhere). I'd speculate that movies' use of 555 stems from this. Otherwise, when the film actor flips open a matchbook and dials a number written within it, the most plausible explanation is that he's calling an amnesiac who has forgotten their own number, but who recommends calling Directory Inquiries to obtain it.
Top of the Australian pop Charts 1965: Found in Yahoo = The Seekers
Stephens band!!!!! I cant find it! All that exists is info on some punk band you wrote for!!!!
What is a Search Engine?
A search engine is like a electronic librarian, Comapnies know that this electronic librarian is really popular with the communisty so they pay to have their websites placed into this library. Then people ask the librarian a few simple questions about what they are looking for, and the librarian runs along and in a matter of seconds finds hundreds of thousands of books, and articles on the quesiton asked.
Search negine rakning systems: One of the the main rules in a ranking algorithm involves the location and frequency of keywords on a web page. Call it the location/frequency method, for short.
The first searhc result you will most likely have the most amnount of the keywords you typed in in it, and in hte same order you typed them ect.. then it filters down.
And of course everyone's favourite search engine is Google, I used to search on Yahoo! but once Google stormed the world I caught on. It also checkes and corrects my spelling and has the largest amount of websites on it. So why use another search engine for general questions. Academic searches I use for assignments and what not.
Five sources of journal articles for my essya topic:
The effect the mobile phone has ahd on the world. How much it is costing everyone for those stupid ringtones, all kinds of accidents that accour as a result of them, their dangers, their cures( like boredom).
Friday, 16 March 2007
Nikolas Third Post
This is my third Blog, based on the third Lecture.
Today, the main discussion was on the advancement of the computer through history followed by the first half of the film, Alphaville. Before entering the Lecture I had read the ninth chapter of the new communications and technologies text book which really went over the same basic material.
The film Aphaville was very interesting. It got me thinking on the dystopian ideas which people have had and still do have about the technological future. It seems that man has always been, and will always continue to be afraid of the 'Rise of the Machines.' Although in so many ways, technology has made our lives easier, more comfortable and arguably cheaper, our growing dependence on it has birthed a very real fear of it within our society. Its almost a 'Frankenstein' effect in that our lives are run by our own creation, not our creation run by us.
Can 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' be seen as a frightening glimpse into the eventual annihilation of the human race? Old, and modern cinema seem to think so with the countless amount of films produced that depict precisely this.
'Neo-Ludism' shares a simillar belief, "Neo-Luddites may claim that technology is a force that is doing or may do any or all of the following: dehumanise and alienate people; destroy traditional cultures, societies, and family structure; pollute languages; reduce the need for person-to-person contact; alter the very definition of what it means to be human; or damage the evolved life-support systems of the Earth's entire biosphere so gravely as to cause human extinction"-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-luddism
"The microprocessor doubles in power and capability every two years"- Adam
Considering this, how long would it be until we see this total domination of machines.... Or are we already seeing it, without actually realizing it. Is hegemony taking place without us realizing. As discussed in the text book, have we been disillusioned into believing that we are still in control and that we do still benefit from our technological advancements when in fact, the technology is controlling and benefiting from us?
Looking at this future from a Christians stand point, Christ would have to return withing the next 100 years. I say, Come! *Yay*
Today, the main discussion was on the advancement of the computer through history followed by the first half of the film, Alphaville. Before entering the Lecture I had read the ninth chapter of the new communications and technologies text book which really went over the same basic material.
The film Aphaville was very interesting. It got me thinking on the dystopian ideas which people have had and still do have about the technological future. It seems that man has always been, and will always continue to be afraid of the 'Rise of the Machines.' Although in so many ways, technology has made our lives easier, more comfortable and arguably cheaper, our growing dependence on it has birthed a very real fear of it within our society. Its almost a 'Frankenstein' effect in that our lives are run by our own creation, not our creation run by us.
Can 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' be seen as a frightening glimpse into the eventual annihilation of the human race? Old, and modern cinema seem to think so with the countless amount of films produced that depict precisely this.
'Neo-Ludism' shares a simillar belief, "Neo-Luddites may claim that technology is a force that is doing or may do any or all of the following: dehumanise and alienate people; destroy traditional cultures, societies, and family structure; pollute languages; reduce the need for person-to-person contact; alter the very definition of what it means to be human; or damage the evolved life-support systems of the Earth's entire biosphere so gravely as to cause human extinction"-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-luddism
"The microprocessor doubles in power and capability every two years"- Adam
Considering this, how long would it be until we see this total domination of machines.... Or are we already seeing it, without actually realizing it. Is hegemony taking place without us realizing. As discussed in the text book, have we been disillusioned into believing that we are still in control and that we do still benefit from our technological advancements when in fact, the technology is controlling and benefiting from us?
Looking at this future from a Christians stand point, Christ would have to return withing the next 100 years. I say, Come! *Yay*
Thursday, 15 March 2007
Nikolas Second Post
Pic= (My youth group at Lifehouse Christian Church! Gotta love em!)This is the blog regadring the Lecture if Week 2!
Hey its my second blog, the time is 10:45 pm and after working all day political economy still has not left my mind.
I'm really trying to understand the language of the text book. I know its one of the easier ones but that knowledge still does not help me understand it as quickly as I would like to.
After studying the definition of Political economy, which essentially describes it as the analysis and knowledge of ownership and control of economics. I think of it as the deeper meaning behind things.
I am understanding it in this way: The way that New Media Companies control their products and how they will deal with the rapid change of culture as a result of technological advancements
&
The way in which new technologies are created by existing technologies. (Dialectic?) These technologies are created by the dialectic of of economical, social and political ideologies which create the dynamic of advancement and change.
I'm hoping this is all making sense...
This week Iv'e mainly been going through the chapters in the text book and learning about Capital which is the accumulation of value and Hegemony which is the domination of one social class by another... Mainly making the lower class feel as though they have it great when in fact the dominant class has it better.
Base, superstructure and mimetic mutation. All these were key points in the third chapter.
What the subject is teaching me so far is that, it is not the technologies themselves that change our society or become more advanced and 'new' but that it is as a result of our society, our political, cultural and social changes and views and advancements that technology is changing, and technology is far more than a new type of computer equipment. Plus I found the view interesting that there is no such thing as 'new' technologies because creating 'new' technologies has been around as long as the human race.
My post for week three is more centralized on one issue and hopefully will be more interesting to read. It isnt just a summary
Friday, 9 March 2007
Nikolas First Post
Hey, First lecture and tutorial today, it was far more boring than I expected... Yes, I did the readings ok! Still, the text book really confused me; Dialectic really has gone over my head. Political economy has swept right over my head. Watched some strange French movie, I am finding it a little confusing about linking the film to what we are learning. I understand the movie targeted Time travel, and I understand that time travel has been a very dominant theme in the cinemas history, but linking it to NEW communication Technologies is just a little baffling.
I’m a musician, so lets hope this somehow helps me out... Hey Im sure Chris is a fan of the good old Greek music, dancing, plate smashing ect... Ill just learn a famous tune on the keyboard and post it on here one day... It’s sure to ramp me up to a distinction!
(I can’t believe how amusing the sound is of twenty or more keyboards being punched at the same time in such an incredible velocity, just sitting back and listening to everyone 'Blog' is quite entertaining.)
I find my lecturer (I still don't know his name) very interesting. His sense of humour is very good, which is always a great quality to see in a lecturer. Better than the shocking 'monotoners' with their monotone. Monotone. I just thought I should write the word monotone one more time there, all on its own, so that after you have read this blog you have seen the word 'monotone' far too many times.
I hope that I will be able to understand the core concepts and ideas behind the subject, I know after reading the textbook I still have not grasped the cores or basics of what this subject wants my mind to focus on. I wish to really get my head around the type of thinking.
I’m a musician, so lets hope this somehow helps me out... Hey Im sure Chris is a fan of the good old Greek music, dancing, plate smashing ect... Ill just learn a famous tune on the keyboard and post it on here one day... It’s sure to ramp me up to a distinction!
(I can’t believe how amusing the sound is of twenty or more keyboards being punched at the same time in such an incredible velocity, just sitting back and listening to everyone 'Blog' is quite entertaining.)
I find my lecturer (I still don't know his name) very interesting. His sense of humour is very good, which is always a great quality to see in a lecturer. Better than the shocking 'monotoners' with their monotone. Monotone. I just thought I should write the word monotone one more time there, all on its own, so that after you have read this blog you have seen the word 'monotone' far too many times.
I hope that I will be able to understand the core concepts and ideas behind the subject, I know after reading the textbook I still have not grasped the cores or basics of what this subject wants my mind to focus on. I wish to really get my head around the type of thinking.
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