Asian Cybercultures Semester One, 2013

Benjamin Gaynor// Tutorial #1

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DISTINCTION

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FINAL GROUP ASSIGNMENT

Topic: Internet Addiction in South Korea

Medium: Awareness Campaign

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PERSONAL LEARNING CRITERIA

Attend each lecture: listen and take note of the subject matter and theme

Attend each lab: engage in the class discussions, work effectively and contribute

Reflect on subject matter discussed in lecture each week

Archive any subject matter that is relevant to the personal learning experience

Work on assignments consistently and gradually

Interpret key learnings through personal skills: i.e. creativity, research etc. 

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Quotes from Ted Talks

"once tools were an extension of the physical self, now technologies are becoming an extension of the mental self" 

"we must present ourselves in the digital world as well"

"mobile phones mentally transport ourselves" 

"we are increasing our humaness" 

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Repliee Q1 appeared at the 2005 World Expo in Japan, where she gestured, blinked, spoke, and even appeared to breathe

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Tokyo, Japan. - A Saya the teacher does not mind being touched or pinched, or if the students play in class: it is an android designed to teach children that science and technology can be fun subjects.

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Japan’s Love Affair with Robots, Explained

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Ghost in the Shell

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ASTRO BOY

鉄腕アトム Tetsuwan Atomu (Mighty Atom)

Original 1952 Manga by Osamu Tezuka

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“For many Japanese, robots, automatons and virtual computer girls possess the same tamashii — spirits — that devotees of Japanese animism, or Shinto, believe can inhabit all things, from rocks and streams to humans.”

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Commuters use their mobile telephones enabled with prepaid financial credit to pass though the ticket gates of the Shinjuku JR East train station, in Tokyo, Japan. The use of mobile phones as "i-wallets" is on the rise now that more and more of the required technology is being installed by transportation companies, shops, supermarkets, cafes and in vending machines.

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Japanese Streetstyle

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Japanese Streetstyle

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Liu Xiaobo

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Controlled Internet access in North Korea

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Inside North Korea: No ads, no planes, no internet, no mobiles, no 21st Century... A rare dispatch from deep within the lunatic rogue state enslaved by Zombie and Sons