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Topic 3.3 : Future Trends D/Board Posts

Thread: Official Thread : Web 3.0? Post: RE: Official Thread : Web 3.0? Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 26, 2011 6:23 PM Status: Published

I think iConnect would be a more apt term. Because web 3.0 would connect us to everything - RSS feeds, the web, email, sms, games, sns, msn, chat, mobile - anywhere anytime...iConnect :)

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Thread: Official Thread : Web 3.0? Post: RE: Official Thread : Web 3.0? Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 26, 2011 6:29 PM Status: Published

I've only bought a few things online, mainly from eBay, but now I've discovered Catchoftheday, I shop online more. I watched A Current Affair last night and there was a segment on online shopping. You can save so much money, it's incredible. If you are on a budget it really pays to look into it. As long as it's a reputable site and you're not worried about security - I say give it a go. Of course it's tricky buying clothes and shoes online because you can't try them on, but I'd be willing to buy just about anything else.

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Thread: Official Thread : Web 3.0? Post: RE: Official Thread : Web 3.0? Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 26, 2011 6:33 PM Status: Published

I know people who refuse to put credit card details into a computer, my mum included. I don't give it a second thought. Maybe someone could shed a bit of light on this subject...is it really safe???

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Thread: Official Thread : Web 3.0? Post: RE: Official Thread : Web 3.0? Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 26, 2011 6:35 PM Status: Published

What worries me about online grocery shopping is how well they keep the food cold. When I had my first child I had some food home delivered and the ham only lasted 2 days...I wondered how long it had been sitting in the back of the drivers truck!

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Thread: Official Thread : You web presence. Post: RE: Official Thread : You web presence. Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 26, 2011 6:45 PM Status: Published

"A few years from now we’ll use our mobile devices to help us remember details of people we know" (Arrington, 2008). I can relate to this. I use my mobile phone as a note-taker, diary and task list. I keep notes about my contacts in it like I would an address book, to remember birthdays, anniversaries, their partners and kids names too. In as little as 5yrs I think we will be using our mobiles for more than just phone calls, photos and social networking. Mobile devices will become more interactive and will access many many platforms. Arrington, M (2008). I saw the future of social networking the other day. Retrieved from: http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/09/i-saw-the-future-of-social-networking-the-other-day/

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Thread: Official Thread : You web presence. Post: RE: Official Thread : You web presence. Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 26, 2011 6:50 PM Status: Published

William - what you said about viewing the internet on holograms reminded me of the movie Iron Man where Tony Stark accesses the web and blue-prints in a holographic format - just sitting there in the air...amazing. That would be way cool!

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Thread: Official Thread : Do you think differently now? Post: RE: Official Thread : Do you think differently now? Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 26, 2011 7:06 PM Status: Published

I have learned so much during this unit. The most memorable are: * Copyright laws - I now choose images with Creative Commons licences and ask permission; * Internet Footprints and Digital Shadows - I now ask permission to tag people in photos and am cautious when uploading information about myself and my family; * Wikis - I can't wait for the opportunity to create a wiki that can be used to plan a special ocassion or for a workplace I am excited about technology - I always have been. I still have my very first digital game - the original orange Donkey Kong hand-held game. I can't bring myself to throw it away. I'm a gamer from way back, but nowadays I don't play games so much as I use social networking sites for fun. My concern for the future is that we may all end up like the people on the movie Wall-E - sitting on our backsides in our tracksuits chatting on mobile devices, accessing all we need on a machine, ordering takeaway food, and not exercising. Or like in the movie the Surrogates with Bruce Willis where everyone uses a virtual self...scary stuff!

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Topic 3.3 : Future Trends

Important notes:

The web and data stops being just on computers, but becomes mobile, embedded and embodied (Lever, 2010)

RFID = Radio Frequency Identification Tags - data signatures for every single thing like passports, parking stations, etc

Semantic Web = linking ideas and things

Communication and collaboration includes non-human partners (eg smart fridges) to make things more efficient (Lever, 2010)

Syntax is how you say something and semantics is the meaning behind what you said (Sporny, 2007)

The internet = computers can talk to one another but don't know the meaning (Sporny, 2007)

The web = a huge document storage and retrieval system  (Sporny, 2007)

If we could get computers to recognise what is in a webpage, they could learn what we are interested in. It would change from computers passively helping us to actively helping us (Sporny, 2007)

Reflections:

It is amazing to think how the web will change over the next 5, 10 or 20 years. My guess is that it will all go mobile. Within the next five years, everyone will carry around mobile devices which access the internet, mail, social networking sites, games, etc. They will all be touch-screens.  Maybe 10 years from now we will all have smart fridges where the fridge scans what you remove and don't return so it automatically knows you've run out and will put it on the shopping list. Maybe in 20 years we will all access the internet via holographic images suspended in mid-air like in sci-fi movies. It's exciting but also frightening.

Leaver, T. (2010) Future Trends [Lecture]. Retrieved from http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=2417

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Topic 3.2 : Social Media Rivers D/Board Posts

Thread: Official Thread: Twitter and Trending Topics Activity Post: RE: Official Thread: Twitter and Trending Topics Activity Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 26, 2011 12:47 PM Status: Published

*Trending topics on Twitter at the moment are: #areasonwhyiamsingle #chardonnay *How do those topics compare with the sort of uses and discussions mentioned in the video and readings above?  I have no interest in why anyone is single. I'm sure there are lots of reasons why they are single. Sitting on Twitter all day long isn't going to change that fact! Chardonnay is a wine I don't drink, however I guess Chardonnay lovers have created this topic. From the Twitter video: "Twitter brought Paula closer to people that matter to her". I am afraid I still don't get Twitter. I mean how can those 2 trending topics bring Paula (or anyone else for that matter) closer to anyone? Twitter is definitely not for me! *If you’re following a bunch of friends yourself, take a look at their recent posts and see what sort of things they’re discussing, too. The only friends I am following are food/cooking tweets for my web presence and when this unit is over, I will close my account. *Did you see Twitter's global trending topics reflected in tweets by friends that you follow? Are there 'trending topics' within the community/communities that you follow? Do you see particular websites or themes ripple across these communities? No, no and no! *How did watching people's posts on 'trending topics' add to your understanding of Twitter, and of social media rivers? I watched 20 new tweets arrive within 15 seconds of clicking the #areasonwhyiamsingle topic. When I clicked on them I noticed people giving reasons why they are single....still no interest to me!

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Thread: Official Thread: Social Me(dia) Rivers Introduction Post: RE: Official Thread: Social Me(dia) Rivers Introduction Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 26, 2011 12:56 PM Status: Published

I agree, Leanne. Comments can be taken out of context very easily if a) you don't know the person personally; and b) if you cannot see them face-to-face. Micro-blogging sites like Twitter are only useful for posting a quick update like what are you doing now as opposed to a blog which has a different purpose - a more in depth narrative, a story if you like, of what's really going on in someone's life. Even though I don't like Twitter I guess they both have their place in social networking.

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Topic 3.2 : Social Media Rivers

Important notes:

Everything is always open to change (Leaver, 2010)

Each tool becomes more complex and asks for more information

The web self is no longer present on one single website...user generated content is dispersed across the network...(Helmond, 2010) ie identity is networked!

Social media - user-generated content plays an important role in the identity construction by others (Helmond, 2010) eg tagging a photo or person in Facebook

There is a need for a centralised page within a network, eg your photos, videos and bookmarks on one central hub (Helmond, 2010)

Internet shadows and digital footprints never disappear completely and your digital identity will outlive you (Leaver, 2010)

Twitter is continuous partial presence - mundane messages

Footprints = intended content creation

Shadows = content created by others

Reputation management (presentation of self) = trying to provide your own context(s) to shape how your content is read (Lever, 2010) 

It's important to know what a search engine is saying about us (Leaver, 2010)

Social media rivers = status updates, micro-blogs all updating to several platforms at the same time = linking Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc together so you only have to make one update but all sites are updated at once

Reflections:

Instead of having several social networking sites, I believe we should have one. Personally I don't see the point of having more than one. I feel that Facebook is great for keeping in touch with people, updating your status from time to time, and keeping your friends informed of what YOU are doing. If you want to elaborate and go more in depth about your life, then a blog would be suitable. Instead of sending your family and friends a Christmas card, birthday cards, letters in the mail, or emails - you could keep everyone informed on either Facebook or your blog. 

Leaver, T. (2010) Social Media Rivers [Lecture]. Retrieved from http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=2417

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Topic 3.1 : Your Digital Shadow D/Board posts

Author: Michelle Jenkins Posted date: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:05:44 AM WST Last modified date: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:05:44 AM WST Total views: 2  Your views: 2

‹ Previous PostShow Parent Postdanah boyd states:  "Many young people have a questionable online presence. If Hathaway Jones doesn't want to hire these people, it'll miss out on the best minds of my generation. Bright people push the edge, but what constitutes the edge is time dependent. It's no longer about miniskirts or rock and roll; it's about having a complex digital presence." (boyd, 2007) I tend to agree with her statement. Most people nowadays have an online presence and most people are careful what is able to be viewed, however more than likely there are going to be certain people who don't like what they see, find some statements and photos confronting or uncomfortable. Employers need to realise that employees behave differently at work than they do on weekends...well most do! lol boyd, d. (2007). "We Googled You: Should Fred hire Mimi despite her online history?" Case Commentary, Harvard Business Review, June. Retrieved fromhttp://www.danah.org/papers/HBRJune2007.html

Author: Michelle Jenkins Posted date: Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:23:31 PM WST Last modified date: Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:23:31 PM WST Total views: 3  Your views: 2

How does the notion of a digital shadow make you feel about posting information online a) about yourself b) about others? Until this topic, I didn't give a thought to my or my kids digital shadows. Now I'm actually worried about photos my kids have uploaded on Facebook. My kids security settings are extremely tight and only their friends can view them, but now I know more about tagging - I'm concerned that people who are not friends can see them. Years ago when I first joined Youtube I uploaded some videos of my kids for family members to see. My son who is now 4 years older has asked me to remove them due to embarrassment. I hadn't considered him when I first uploaded them. This unit has made me think and ask myself what right I have to upload photos and videos of them without their permission and without thinking of future repercussions. This particular topic has been a real eye-opener!

Thread: Official Thread: Copyright, Mashups and Memes

Post: RE: Official Thread: Copyright, Mashups and Memes Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 5, 2011 9:49 AM Status: Published

I agree with Sheridan. When an artist produces a body of work - it is theirs and theirs alone. However if they want to share it online for all to see - copyright laws need to be followed. I had no idea about the creative commons laws until now and fully understand why it is important to only use images/videos/texts if you are crediting the original author.

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Thread: Official Thread: Copyright, Mashups and Memes Post: RE: Official Thread: Copyright, Mashups and Memes Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 5, 2011 9:50 AM Status: Published

I believe that mashups need to be credited back to the author. But what about a mashup of a mashup of a mashup? Do all authors need to be credited I wonder?

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Thread: Official Thread: Copyright, Mashups and Memes Post: RE: Official Thread: Copyright, Mashups and Memes Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 5, 2011 9:55 AM Status: Published

I didn't recognise any of these memes. I wonder where I've been?! lol Photos and videos are spread very rapidly these days, especially since YouTube came on the scene. Some go viral in hours. I remember when I saw the video of Christian the Lion and the reunion with his original owners after spending a year in Africa. The background music was the Whitney Houston song "I will always love you". When I saw it it brought tears to my eyes. When I went to show it to the kids later that day, I couldn't find that particular one. There were several videos of the reunion, but with different backing tracks. Therefore others had used the same visual but with different audio. Some were popular, others were not - it all came down to the music, I'm sure.

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Thread: Official Thread: Activity: Me and My Shadow Post: RE: Official Thread: Activity: Me and My Shadow Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 5, 2011 10:49 AM Status: Published

Very interesting! I hadn't heard of spezify so searched for my name. It is such a common name that I gave up after a few minutes of not finding the real me. Then I searched for my other online persona: n****b and was frightened to find it linked me to my real persona on Facebook! This I am not happy about so will see if I can change that. I also saw some images not uploaded by me. Does that mean there is another n****b out there? Highly unlikely!

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We were asked to make either a movie poster, magazine cover or motivational poster using BigHugeLabs. This is my motivational poster. I love the saying "The grass is always greener on the other side". Well sometimes it just isnt!

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Topic 3.1 : Your Digital Shadow

Important points:

We are not always in control of how we are perceived (Leaver, 2010)

Our digital shadow is how visible we are to others on the internet

Employers can google us - what they find is our digital shadow (good or bad!)

Google is now the preferred search engine

The more people who link to your blog - the higher up in the search you will be

Googling my name came up with too many entries - none related to me on the first 5 pages! My name must be too common

Googling my online name linked me to all my social sites, recipes sites and gaming sites, however it also linked me to Facebook, unfortunately

Spezify showed Youtube clips and photos I've uploaded

Bing and Yahoo showed nothing

We need to be careful what we post on the internet and what information we share

My reflections:

We need to consider what we share online is not private. People can have access to information even after we think we have deleted it - especially if someone else uses an image we have uploaded. It's also important to use netiquette while online and not post negative remarks about others - it may come back to haunt us!

Leaver, T. (2010) Your digital shadow [Lecture]. Retrieved from http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=2417

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Topic 3 : Internet Footprints D/Board posts

Thread: Official Thread: Internet Footprints Post: RE: Official Thread: Internet Footprints Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 5, 2011 10:21 AM Status: Published

Who am I online? Well I am different people. On Facebook I am Michelle Jenkins and I only have family and real friends on my friend list. I share personal information with them (but not too personal) and I upload photos for them to see. The security settings for my photos are set so only friends can view them. However I am constantly amazed at how many are for public view. I have come across friends of my kids whose photos I can view when I am not their FB friend...scary! I am another name on sites where I don't want to display my real name and location, like cooking sites, twitter, gaming sites, etc.  Even on my personal blog I don't use my real name. I am just Nell who loves cooking. Cooking is my theme and I upload photos and recipes of meals I cook. I have some followers who are strangers, so I don't use my real name or location nor do I share personal information.

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Thread: Official Thread: Internet Footprints Post: RE: Official Thread: Internet Footprints Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 5, 2011 10:23 AM Status: Published

Edwin, I agree that online we are cyborgs. Just as Donna Haraway states. I mean - I try to come across as an intellectual in these boards, but really I am dumb as a stick! lol

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Thread: Official Thread: Online Presence Post: RE: Official Thread: Online Presence Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 5, 2011 10:30 AM Status: Published

I agree with Leanne about a freelance writer requirements. As a professional he would need to get his message across several platforms in several ways. I think he would need Facebook, Twitter, a blog and maybe even his own website. Obviously he is computer literate and would probably have a large following. A comedian would best have a Youtube channel where he could upload videos of his work...copyrighted of course!

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Thread: Official Thread: Performative Self Post: RE: Official Thread: Performative Self Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 5, 2011 10:32 AM Status: Published

Yes, I am definitely performing right now. As stated in a previous post - in these boards I try to be an academic, always check my spelling and grammar, but in real life I actually have trouble communicating verbally and am often taking my foot out of my mouth!

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Module 3 : Internet Footprints

Important notes:

Erving Goffman in The Presentation Of Self In Every Day Life, states that self is conveyed to others as a series of performances (which keep the audience in mind) (Goffman, 1959)

Judith Butler in Gender Trouble, states that all self is a performance, which is a form of construction, but this is not distinct from a 'real' self (Butler, 1990)

Donna Haraway says everyone in contemporary society is already a cyborg. We are deeply entwined with technology and would be fundamentally different people without it (Haraway)

An avatar is a representation of self (Leaver, 2010)

Anonimity versus psudonimity

There is no social if there is no sense of you (Leaver, 2010)

Movies about virtual lives - Surrogates and Gamer

Prior to Facebook and other SNS's there was only text-based networking where you could only type to people. Due to no facial expression or tone of voice, people relied on emoticons and symbols to make smiley or angry faces, etc.

ASL = age, sex & location. Was ASL enough information to get to know someone?

Fonts are also an expression of self (Leaver, 2010)

Are you your web presence? Does your web presence matter? (Leaver, 2010)

My reflections:

I remember in the 1990's using chat rooms and agree that ASL was the question you asked someone which determined whether or not you wanted to chat to them. ie. I wasn't going to chat to a 12 year old boy from Minnesota, but was happy to chat to a 28 year old woman from Sydney who was closer to my demographic. Online you could be anyone. Old men could pretend to be young men or a woman depending on his motivations. I remember hearing many news reports that police had caught paedophiles using chat rooms to groom girls. It happened alot. In my opinion chat rooms are far to dangerous. I use Facebook for friends and family but have no work colleagues or my boss as a friend because...why would I want my boss to see what I post and look at my personal photos? It's none of his business. He is NOT my friend. He is my employer and will always be my employer. Never mix business with pleasure!

Leaver, T. (2010) Internet Footprints [Lecture]. Retrieved from http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=2417

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Topic 2.4 : Content Sharing D/Board posts

Thread: Official Thread: Copyright, Mashups and Memes Post: RE: Official Thread: Copyright, Mashups and Memes Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 5, 2011 9:49 AM Status: Published

I agree with Sheridan. When an artist produces a body of work - it is theirs and theirs alone. However if they want to share it online for all to see - copyright laws need to be followed. I had no idea about the creative commons laws until now and fully understand why it is important to only use images/videos/texts if you are crediting the original author.

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Thread: Official Thread: Copyright, Mashups and Memes Post: RE: Official Thread: Copyright, Mashups and Memes Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 5, 2011 9:50 AM Status: Published

I believe that mashups need to be credited back to the author. But what about a mashup of a mashup of a mashup? Do all authors need to be credited I wonder?

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Thread: Official Thread: Copyright, Mashups and Memes Post: RE: Official Thread: Copyright, Mashups and Memes Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 5, 2011 9:55 AM Status: Published

I didn't recognise any of these memes. I wonder where I've been?! lol Photos and videos are spread very rapidly these days, especially since YouTube came on the scene. Some go viral in hours. I remember when I saw the video of Christian the Lion and the reunion with his original owners after spending a year in Africa. The background music was the Whitney Houston song "I will always love you". When I saw it it brought tears to my eyes. When I went to show it to the kids later that day, I couldn't find that particular one. There were several videos of the reunion, but with different backing tracks. Therefore others had used the same visual but with different audio. Some were popular, others were not - it all came down to the music, I'm sure.

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Topic 2.4 : Content Sharing

Important notes:

Remixes and mashups - do they have a right to use the sources that they use? It is criticism? Parody? Flattery? Satire? Should they pay for the use of the material? Is it legal? (Leaver, 2010)

The Green Lantern and United States of Pop videos exist in a legal grey area. Copyright isn't policing them!

The remixes we saw borrow existing ideas from old ones

The remix makers take a 10 second sample of a song without permission, but use it with more 10 second samples of other songs. It's a grey area which isn't policed. But does break copyright laws. Or does it?

Fair Dealing gives certain permission to parody or sattire

Mickey Mouse Protection Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier (Leaver, 2010)

For most material copyright lasts for 70 years after the end of the year of the creator's death, or 70 years from the end of the year the material was first made public

Ridicule = take an apology and put in different context (pun) = meme

Memes explode but not because of the source material, but because of our reactions to then, the creativity we as a community devote towards extending and expanding the joke (Miller, 2009)

We can use Fair Dealing for research and study, criticism and review, news reporting, reproduction for purposes of judicial proceedings or for parody and satire

Creative Commons licences:

Attribution - put author's name on it

Non-commercial - make no profit from it (educational purposes)

No derivatives - can't change it

Share-alike - licence your remixed product and mention original author

My reflections:

Memes, remixes and mashups are very popular on Youtube and some are hilarious. I would love to do a mashup myself, however I don't know how to do it - will need to check out a tutorial. The creative commons licences are simple to understand and from now on, I will search for images with these licences for future research.

Leaver, T. (2010) Content Sharing [Lecture]. Retrieved from http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=2417

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Topic 2.3 : Social Networking D/Board posts

Thread: What Facebook means to you (One Word) Post: RE: What Facebook means to you (One Word) Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: April 11, 2011 7:14 PM Status: Published

My word is 'addictive'.

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Thread: Official Thread: Twitter Task Post: RE: Official Thread: Twitter Task Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: April 13, 2011 12:59 PM Status: Published

I didn't have a Twitter account before this unit so when I registered I found it quite difficult to navigate. After a few weeks I am still not fussed about it. I prefer Facebook where I can keep in touch with my friends/family, view their photos and videos, post status updates, play games, and post interesting links. In relation to Twitter your status updates are limited to 140 characters and you can post links to interesting sites. So for me Facebook has more to offer! I found other web101 users, other Curtin students enrolled in other units and also some cooking sites to follow as I am using Twitter as one of my nodes for my web presence. I doubt I will use Twitter past this unit however.

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Thread: Official Thread: SNSs and Privacy Post: RE: Official Thread: SNSs and Privacy Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: April 13, 2011 1:04 PM Status: Published

I agree with Shayne. I also treat my information on Facebook as vulnerable and will never disclose personal information about who I bank with, where exactly I live, or any personal problems. I have gone over the privacy setting on mine and my kids accounts. However I am often surprised how unsecure their friend's profiles are! Obviously their parents are not as concerned about their kids' safety as I am...or are uncertain how to change the settings. I also agree that police should have access to public AND private information in the pursuit law enforcement.

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Thread: Official Thread: Social Networking Sites and Copyright Post: RE: Official Thread: Social Networking Sites and Copyright Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: April 13, 2011 1:19 PM Status: Published

I've read the Facebook Terms and was particularly interested in this point: "You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition: For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it." So I take that to mean that if I feel too much information has been disclosed about myself, and I panic and close my account - as long as my friends haven't reposted some information, photo or video about me - then Facebook no longer own the right to it. How unlikely is it that a friend hasn't copied a photo? Or re-posted one of your status'? I guess if you are really in that much of a panic, you'd need to ask every one of your friends to delete anything they may have re-posted that relates to you. What if a friend who posted an incriminating photo of you no longer uses Facebook because they have forgotten their login details? Your photo is stuck on the net indefinitely! In my honest opinion - if you're that worried about privacy - don't join a social networking site.

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Thread: Official Thread: Social Networking Sites and Copyright Post: RE: Official Thread: Social Networking Sites and Copyright Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: April 13, 2011 1:26 PM Status: Published

Oh and I forgot to answer the question about advertising. I don't mind the advertising. It is minimal and doesn't bother me. Occasionally I even see an ad for something I'm interested in and will click the link to read more about it.

Thread: What Facebook means to you (One Word) Post: RE: What Facebook means to you (One Word) Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: May 4, 2011 11:59 AM Status: Published

Hi Barbara and Jane. Internet security is now part of the school curriculum, well in NSW it is anyway. My daughter is very aware of the dangers. She is in Year 9 and I'm pretty sure she started learning it in Year 7. Re the apprentice having a sickie - that's why I don't have work colleagues as FB friends! lol As for telling people where you live - I've never given my address or phone number on a public site like Facebook, but can anyone find out my address some other way I wonder? Can hackers access your IP address? Anyone?

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Topic 2.3 : Social Networking

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada states the following:

Social networking sites (SNS) make their money by packaging our user data into trends and patterns

Social sites are the public face of a much larger commercial operation. Knowing your home town, your politics is where the money is

By posting user content on any part of the site, you are automatically granting the company licence to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, and distribute such user content for any purpose

Businesses trade information that we like, where we live and what our interests are. Today's technology makes it a gold-mine for marketing

Every time you enter data into a SNS, it's like answering a survey (2007)

Other important notes:

Social interaction actually begin back when the first email was sent

Users were quick to adopt the internet as a platform for communication

Friendster was the first SNS

SNS allow people to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view & traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system (boyd, 2007)

Facebook is now the 2nd most visited site, after Google, with more than 400 million active users, more than 200 million users logging on daily, with 5 billion pieces of content shared each week, with over 100 million active users accessing it through mobile devices. People that use Facebook via mobile devices are 50% more active users.

My reflections:

Social networking sites come and go, however at present Facebook is the most popular. As a Facebooker myself, I can see why it is so popular. I need to log in each day to check what my friends and family are doing and to post what kind of day I've had. When I first joined Facebook I played a lot of games, however now it's all about the social interaction. As I am a fairly shy person I sometimes feel self-conscious when communicating to people face-to-face - especially if I don't know them. With Facebook, there is no face contact. I don't need to worry about appearances as I can update my status upon waking - dressed in my pyjamas and having a bad hair day!

Leaver, T. (2010) Social Networking [Lecture]. Retrieved from http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=2417

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Topic 2.2 : Wikis D/Board posts

Thread: Official Thread: WikiLeaks...not wiki-like? Post: RE: Official Thread: WikiLeaks...not wiki-like? Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: April 7, 2011 10:55 AM Status: Published

This unit is the first time I've looked at both Wikipedia and Wikileaks. Wikipedia is a traditional wiki because it allows anybody to create new articles and edit existing ones. It is, as Jimmy Wales says in his video, a free encylopedia (Wales, 2007). Wikileaks however just appears to be a static website with news leaks on it. I think its founder, Mr Assange, has used the term 'wiki' to make it sound more authoritative. In my honest opinion I have no interest in what the site offers. I believe certain political issues need to be kept from the public.  On a side note, I think it's interesting that the URL for Wikileaks looks like an IP address... another way for Mr Assange to make a statement I guess!

Thread: Official Thread: Activity: It's My Wikipedia Too... Post: RE: Official Thread: Activity: It's My Wikipedia Too... Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: April 7, 2011 11:04 AM Status: Published

I enjoyed this weeks task using Wikipedia. I hadn't used it before. I know my teenage daughter knows of it - she knows not to use it for primary research for school! So taking the time to open an account and make a change was interesting and fun. I wanted to make a change to a topic I love, but couldn't find an article which wasn't protected. So I looked out my window for inspiration and saw my persian cat looking at me. It reminded me of last November when we found a paralysis tick on her. So I searched for paralysis tick and made an addition to the article about the difficulty of finding ticks on long-haired animals. It is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixodes_holocyclus It's under the heading 'Common Hosts'. I wonder how long it will stay like that. Yes, I feel it is a credible change and it is reliable - from my personal experience. I feel most users edit with honest and reliable information. As Clay Shirky says, flaws are fixed or removed quite quickly due to those registered users who are passionate about their articles. (Shirky, 2008)

Thread: Official Thread: The Way of the Wiki Post: RE: Official Thread: The Way of the Wiki Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: April 7, 2011 4:23 PM Status: Published

I've never used a wiki before. I'd never even looked at Wikipedia until I started this course, nor did I know what a wiki was until now. I can definitely see the advantages of using a wiki. Last year, my Mum, her sisters and I planned a large family reunion and it took many many phone calls to organise things. A wiki would have been fantastic if I'd have known about them. They have a purpose...collaboration. I can't say one is more advantageous than the other because they have different purposes. However the main advantage a wiki has over a blog is the fact that many people can make changes, whereas a blog is primarly a one-person responsibility and is mainly created for personal reasons.

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Topic 2.2 : Wikis

Important notes:

What I Know Is

A wiki is a series of database driven pages that can be added to and edited by anyone with the appropriate permission (Leaver, 2010)

Collaboration of a group

Some are secured and others are not

Great for planning an event like camping where all campers can edit details

Easy creation from within the browser, ie. WYSIWYG

Intuitive linking to other articles on other pages (Leaver, 2010)

Wikipedia is considered by some to be controversial because of the fact it can be edited by 'anyone'

Restricted use of HTML and on-HTML elements

Logs all changes

'Participatory culture'

Wikipedia started in 2001 and has 3 million English language articles, 5 million files and articles in 250 languages. It's considered the 'free encyclopedia' which everyone can edit

In 2007 Australian Defence Dept made changes regarding the 'children overboard' affair to give the government a more positive light

Wikipedia is reliable, but cannot be used for university referencing

If someone changes an article there are passionate people who notice and change it back

Other popular wikis include:

www.wikia.com

Lyrics

Wikianswers

WOWWiki (World Of Warcraft)

Wookiepedia (Star Wars lovers)

Marvel Database Project

Recipes Wiki

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia states that Wikipedia is funded by donations and it only takes $5000 per month to run the site. It is one of the top 50 websites and is more popular than the New York Times. It takes only 1 employee who is a lead software developer but editing is done purely by volunteers. It uses 90 servers in 3 locations which are also run by volunteer systems administrators. Wikipedia gets on average 1.4 billion views per month. (Wales, 2007)

danah boyd says "Wikipedia is better than most of the web because YOU CAN CHANGE IT. And if you inform them that someone is acting in a malicious way, Wikipedians will actually track it to keep it neutral." (boyd, 2005)

My reflections:

I hadn't looked at wikis before so this topic intrigued me from the beginning. If I worked for a large company I would be keen to create a company wiki so all employees could collaborate on it and keep up to date with company and staffing issues. It would do away with the weekly and monthly meetings, wouldn't it!? I made changes to Wikipedia and it made me feel 'empowered' in a way because what I chose to say is now out there for the whole world to read. Maybe that's why the seasoned users keep it up to date. I can imagine some fiercely passionate computer geeks sitting at their computers all day, fingers at the ready, 'minding' their favourite articles to ensure their content is not messed with!

Leaver, T. (2010) Wikis [Lecture]. Retrieved from http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=2417

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Topic 2.1 : Blogging D/Board Posts

Thread: Official thread: RSS Reading Post: RE: Official thread: RSS Reading Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: March 23, 2011 7:06 PM Status: Published

Yes I agree re information overload. A prime example is my teenage daughter. She started a blog on Tumblr about a year ago and over the year she has progressively been following more people. Well about a month ago I noticed she was spending too much time on the computer and when I asked what she was doing she told me that she 'had to read all her followers posts'. Well I had to put an end to that! I've also gone from only reading the local paper once a week, to reading the local paper, listening to ABC Radio, reading Yahoo News online and getting Twitter updates. I feel I need to be kept in the loop I guess!

Thread: Official thread: RSS Reading Post: RE: Official thread: RSS Reading Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: March 29, 2011 5:44 PM Status: Published

1a. Do you think RSS will go the way of the Dodo? ....  Yes, eventually. Everything gets superceeded in IT. Something better will come along one day. At the moment though RSS is very convenient and extremely popular. 1b. Has the use of RSS changed since 2009? I have only just started using RSS feeds, so have no idea really. 2. Within the context of the new XML/HTML reading platforms - such as the iPad, Kindle and other mobile devices, how might the incremental web (RSS) be used in the future? I hope that one day I can receive RSS feeds on my eReader and mobile phone. I would consider that very handy. 3. Is such a mobile news stream changing the way we use the web to communicate?  Yes. People can comment on news and current affairs instantly these days. Mainstream and non-mainstream issues are getting more publicity nowadays due to people commenting on them on social networking sites. Hot topics go viral on sites like Facebook and Youtube and raise awareness to the general public very quickly. Eg that bullying issue 2 weeks ago where the 2 Sydney boys were suspended from high school...one for bullying and the other for retaliating. That made the headline news on every channel the next day due to the video being viewed on YouTube by millions of people the day it happened!

Thread: Official Thread: Introduction to Blogs and RSS Feeds Post: RE: Official Thread: Introduction to Blogs and RSS Feeds Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: March 29, 2011 6:11 PM Status: Published

I agree with Belinda. At the moment, I get enough feeds from Twitter and status updates from friends on Facebook and probably won't use RSS feeds past this unit. It's been a huge learning curve for me just becoming familiar with Twitter! I'm happy reading Facebook, Twitter and the yahoo news headlines when I log in to check my mail. Ditto re junk in the inbox too. I spend the first 5 or so minutes while checking email unsubscribing!

Thread: Official Thread: Blood and Walker on Blogging Post: RE: Official Thread: Blood and Walker on Blogging Author: Michelle Jenkins

Posted Date: March 29, 2011 6:53 PM Status: Published

1. Blogging has changed over the years. When blogging first became popular it was mainly teenagers keeping online diaries where they could write their inner most feelings to the blogosphere. As Tama Leaver states "teen angst, poetry and naval gazing" (Leaver, 2010). Since 2004 however bloggers have become more professional often blogging about news and current affairs issues. Nowadays major news corporations gather news from sites like Twitter. 2. Walker Rettberg states "The internet was designed as a distributed network where each computer is connected to a number of adjacent computers rather than to a single, central hub". She goes on to say ..."such a network was thought to be more likely to remain functional in the case of an attack on it than a centralised network would be. In a centralised network, the entire network would go down if the central hub malfunctioned. The relationship between mass media and their readers, listeners or viewers can be compared to such a centralised network, where one central hub connects to many individual nodes, but where nodes cannot connect directly to other nodes." (Walker Rettberg, 2008). I think she is referring to the way a blog goes from a one-person-post to a multi-person-view. That one post then has the potential to get distributed to other networks, other communities, other bloggers and tagged, redirected, saved, reposted, etc.

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Topic 2.1 : Blogging

Important notes:

The media was suspicious of blogs initially

Rebecca Blood believes that blogs change the nature of online interaction and publication (Blood, 2010)

Google owns Blogger

Wordpress is open source

Blogs usually contain blog posts, comments, blog rolls, RSS feeds, permalinks, trackbacks, podcasts and a skin (theme)

Blogging expresses personality types, ideas, or reflects a company or theme because it's through the look the ability to change the look that part of that is communicated (Leaver, 2010)

The early days of blogging consisted of teenage angst, poetry and naval gazing, but since 2004-2006 it became clear that political blogs and media events were blogged frequently (Leaver, 2010)

Bloggers blog for free which is amazing to economists (Surowiecki, 2008)

Communication tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring (Shirky, 2008)

Rebecca Blood's blog is considered eco-feminist, goth and influential

Salam Pax's blog is considered educated, political, humerous. He is gay, literate, julti-lingual and now an architect. His blog put a human face on the everyday Iraqi

Steven Johnson says in his book "Everything bad is good for you":

Mainstream journalism will continue to play a vital role

Bloggers will increase at covering certain events, but not all

Majority of bloggers won't be concerned with traditional news

Blogs draw upon and resemble a number of past traditions and forms, depending on their focus

The term blog came from weblog and evolved from online diaries. They are always in reverse chronological order

Blogs are easy to produce especially when HTML is not required. The software is web-based built-in and hosted on the company's server

Types of blogs: personal, microblogs, corporate, photoblogs, podcasts.

Anyone can pubish to the world wide web - it's initiated a many-to-many form of media

The role of traditional journalists has been thrown into question.

My reflections:

Blogging started out as a way for people, particularly teens to write about their days, woes, issues they wanted to get off their chest. The popularity of blogging increased and now people blog about current affairs and newsworthy issues, they keep music, fashion and photo blogs and even corporations blog to keep their customers updated with information. Journalism has moved to blogging too. Readers can subscribe to news blogs to be kept informed about local and world events. I wonder in a few years whether we will even need television, radio and printed news any longer!

Blood, R. (2002). Weblog Ethics: The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog. Cambridge UK: Perseus Publishing.114-121.

Leaver, T. (2010) Blogging [Lecture]. Retrieved from http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=2417

Shirky, C. (2009). How social media can make history [streaming video]. TED@State Filmed June 2009. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html

Surowiecki, J. (2008, November 5). The moment when social media became the news [video file] Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Xm4ufnoxY