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Everybody Blogs#4 (Task 8)

Write about the responses you had to your survey. Were you surprised by the answers you received? How could you improve your results? How could you use this tool in the future?

The responses I received from my survey were not that surprising, in such a digitally oriented world, social networking is a way for people to connect using new and convenient technologies. With these apps and sites it's possible for a person to socialize while never actually going outside, although this is a pessimistic outlook  on social media. There are two sides to every coin, and social networking can allow for people to form special bonds with others when there's a state or country standing between them. I can speak from experience, and while it can be very dangerous meeting people from the internet, I personally have formed very close bonds with people who live down state and even overseas. Results from the survey could be improved with the inclusion of more questions. This survey tool could be useful in the collection of anonymous data/information for future assignments/projects.   

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Everybody Blogs#1

This blog is the first of the many that will follow in the coming weeks. These blogs will be structured in a Q&A manner. Q: Which communication technologies and developments have been particularly important to you?

A: The development and evolution of console (and PC) gaming has had a substantial impact on my life. I play video very often. Being the very careful and picky person I am, video games are a great release for me. Video games allow me to do things that, not only would I be unable to do in real life, but things that break the natural boundaries of reality.

Q: Is there any communication technologies that are no longer used or easily accessible that you miss or wish you’d had access to?

A: Yes, Typewriters are an old form of communication technology that I wish I had access to. I've always loved the aesthetic of typewriters and how they can add to a room or house's ambiance. There's also no better sound than typing on a typewriter. 

Q: Discuss a significant product of new communication technology that isn't mentioned in the timelines that you have discovered in the past twelve months.

A: Audio editing. I've recently found that I have a aptitude for audio engineering. Although I'm unsure if this constitutes to a form of Communication technology, it isn't mentioned in the timelines, so I'm at least half right. Audio engineering can be useful for many different communication purposes; I.E. Recording narration for a Digital Narrative, sending or keeping an audio log, etc. 

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Follow Up: Happy Readings

Here are some good articles online about Facebook's demise.  http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/48421/facebook-on-the-brink-of-collapse/

http://stoweboyd.com/post/6979147874/the-collapse-of-the-complex-why-facebook-will-fall

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2154941/Facebook-disappeared-years-says-founder-major-investment-firm.html

Happy Readings. 

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What are the Olden Days?

A little research into the history of social networks over the past 15 years suggests that social networks collapse far more quickly than they are created. So it is probably time to ask the question is the collapse of Facebook inevitable? and, is it actually possible to build a social network that is immune from collapse? Most studies conclude, no. In the end the users abandon their digital nests because they become bored with yesterday and decide to go in search of tomorrow. Hence "cascading failure is the inevitable end game" for all social networks no matter how big they become at the height of their popularity.

Pultar, E. Raubal, M. A case for space: physical and virtual location requirements in the CouchSurfing social network,

"It would appear to be self-evident that Social Networks are a risk of rapid collapse through Cascading Failure (i.e. one or more of the high-capacity nodes catches a cold (i.e either becomes bored and gives up, suffers congestion failure (i.e. cannot process all the relationships in a timely fashion) or discovers a new alternative) and this creates a viral reaction (i.e. Chain reaction) that kills off most, if not all, of the other nodes in the network." 

Pultar, E. Raubal, M. A case for space: physical and virtual location requirements in the CouchSurfing social network,

Today I suspect the key to understanding the problem of social network longevity is simply the fact that Information Technology renders relationships meaningless. And I will leave you with this, “We live at a time when friendship has become both all and nothing at all… [So] In retrospect, it seems inevitable that once we decided to become friends with everyone, we would forget how to be friends with anyone.

Ellison, N. et al. The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites 

Ellison, N. et al. (2007). The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12 (4), 1143–1168.  Pultar, E. Raubal, M. (2009) A case for space: physical and virtual location requirements in the CouchSurfing social network, Proceedings of the 2009 International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks, Seattle, Washington 

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Tutorial Task: 3

Searching Steven Stockwell

Stockwell, S. (2005). Political campaign strategy: doing democracy in the 21st century. Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing  Stockwell, S. (2010). Rhetoric and Democracy: Deliberative Opportunities in Current Electoral Processes. Sydney: University of Technology. Scott, P & Stockwell, S. (2000). All-media guide to fair and cross-cultural reporting: for journalist, program makers and media students. Nathan, Qld : Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy.

Searching for Alphaville

Godard, J & Whitehead, P. (1968). Alphaville : a film / by Jean-Luc Godard ; English translation and description of action by Peter Whitehead. New York : Simon and Schuster

Silverman, K., Farocki, H., & Penley, C. (1998). Speaking about godard. MLA International Bibliography.  Utterson, A. (2011). From IBM to MGM: Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age. MLA International Bibliography. 

Searching Internet Addiction Using the Griffith University Database which branched off www.sciencedirect.com

Ruiz, C. (2012). Internet addiction. Neuropsychiatrie de l'Enfance et de l'Adolescence, 60 (5), 118.

Searching for IT and Surveillance Cameras  This topic is very broad and It was hard to find anything useful on the net. Most search results came back with job offers.. So to improvise, this is JUST about surveillance cameras. 

Being a HUGE NCIS and CSI fan, I've always thought the use of surveillance cameras to 100% identify suspect faces was far fetched. And I was right;

"Surveillance cameras, as they are currently used, are almost useless for the identification of people. The poor resolution of surveillance images means that it is likely that many of the spatial frequencies important for face recognition will not be present. In addition, the low resolution means that compression DCT blocks will interact strongly with the spatial frequencies important for face recognition."

Peter K. (1999) ”Phase Preserving Denoising of Images”. The Australian Pattern Recognition Society Conference: DICTA’99. Perth WA.

Risto N (1999) “Spatial frequency bandwidth used in the "recognition of facial images”. Vision Research. 39 

 O’Toole A, Vetter T (1999) “Three-dimensional shape and two-dimensional surface reflectance contributions to face recognition: An application of three-dimensional morphing”, Vision Research, vol. 39.

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