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If the technology decides to FLIP OUT on me.

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Click HERE for the youtube link to the below video Over and out.

A conceptual approach to New Communication Technology. Tiffany Pun

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GOODBYE NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY BLOG POSTS. a part of me says it won't miss you.

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p.s Belinda : use the arrows on the bottom of the screen to see older posts. Did I mention your hair looks fab today?

This is the Wikileaks Documentary. It goes for 50 minutes, if you have time, have a browse.

YouTube - The Wikileaks Documentary -- Full Version

seattle4truth (2010). YouTube - The Wikileaks Documentary -- Full Version. [online] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmfOaZ34Pk [Accessed: 6 Sep 2012].

Does Wikileaks put lives at risk?

Who hasn’t heard of Julian Assange, it seems like every country has a vendetta against the man. Huckabee has called for his execution and Gingrich calls him an enemy combatant, while Obama wants him for espionageand Clinton charges him of “an attack on the international community”. But why? Because he is the man behind the infamous Wikileaks. The prevailing charge against Wikileaks is simply that it endangers American and other lives.

Sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com (2010). So, Why is WikiLeaks a Good Thing Again?. [online] Available at: http://sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com [Accessed: 6 Sep 2012].

One would presume that the released documents list names of individuals who would be compromised should they become known to the “enemy”, whoever that may be at the time. However, that is not the case at all, all documents before being leaked, are sanitized of personal information like specific names. How then does Wikileaks put lives at risk? According to the Pentagon: “We have yet to see any harm come to anyone in Afghanistan that we can directly tie to exposure in the Wikileaks documents.”

Bbc.co.uk (2010). BBC News - UN urges US and Iraq to probe Wikileaks torture claims. [online] Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11632839 [Accessed: 6 Sep 2012].

How, then, can the faces of media outlets make such cursory claims? The answer, of course is that journalism has become a lost art at least in the mainstream. High ranking government officials should be held to a higher standard before lashing out but at this point in our governmental discourse, we know standards have gone out the window.

The reason people are so scared of Wikileaks, particularly the higher-ups in the administration, is because it makes clear on many levels the incompetence of the federal government. It causes embarrassment, and it is easier to band together against a fall guy like Assange, than admit that the government is vulnerable and, at least to an extent, incompetent regarding such things as potentially important to our national security as “state secrets”.

In this electronic age, if one document gets into the wrong hands, it can never be taken back. And where one site gets offed, ten more will pop up. Claiming that Wikileaks should be shutdown (or worse) is akin to Senator Jay Rockefeller’s claim that the “Internet should have never existed” because of the high amount of hacking attempts on high-profile DoD databases every day.

Bbc.co.uk (2010). BBC News - Has release of Wikileaks documents cost lives?. [online] Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11882092 [Accessed: 6 Sep 2012].

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Bbc.co.uk (2010). BBC News - Has release of Wikileaks documents cost lives?. [online] Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11882092 [Accessed: 6 Sep 2012].

Bbc.co.uk (2010). BBC News - UN urges US and Iraq to probe Wikileaks torture claims. [online] Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11632839 [Accessed: 6 Sep 2012].

Sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com (2010). So, Why is WikiLeaks a Good Thing Again?. [online] Available at: http://sowhyiswikileaksagoodthingagain.com [Accessed: 6 Sep 2012].

I'm too much of a First World child to have political opinions.

TASK 6 :

* Sign an e-petition: BAN LIGHTWEIGHT PLASTIC BAGS IN QUEENSLAND

* Respond to a pro blogger at a major news site: How eating in Sydney can make you fat

Blogger: Jill Dupleix &Terry Durack. From Sydney Morning Herald. Joined a thread talking about various foods that can be deep fried. Apparently fried butter is a big hit in the U.S.

* What is Barak Obama up to today? Can you send him a message about the importance of freedom on the internet? On (AEST) 06/09/12 12:10 am Barak Obama tweeted: Closing out the first night of the convention, @MichelleObama had the audience members in Charlotte on their feet: http://OFA.BO/h8jRrR

Both his TWITTER and his WEBPAGE are feedback friendly. Drop in and say hello to the president of U.S.A. No Problems. * What are the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet:

Clean Feed: The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers to censor the Internet for all Australians.

This idea seems to be a big NO NO from the publics. Check this out

* What place does censorship have in a democracy?

The public believes NO. This site encourages publics to speak out against Clean Feed

Ways to protest Clean Feed:

1. Visiting a Liberal Member of Parliament or Senator;

2. Writing to the Liberal Party Senators in your State;

3. Calling or emailing as many different Liberal Party Members of Parliament or Senators as you can;

4. Write a letter to the editor

5. Call talkback radio

CHOICE video

This is interesting to. I just really like shopping.

Big stores told to improve service

CLICK HERE TO WATCH

Smh.com.au (2012). Big stores told to improve service. [video online] Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/big-stores-told-to-improve-service-20110104-19f4d.html [Accessed: 4 Sept 2012].

ABC video

A segment on ABC about the rising problem of Online Vs. In Store

ABC (2012). Retail sector demands action on predicted job losses. [video online] Available at: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3454579.htm [Accessed: 4 Sept 2012].

CLICK HERE

Online Shopping vs. Retail Shops

Australians were just not spending as much as experts had predicted. Why not? Was it because in these economically unstable times people are being more cautious about spending and deciding to spend less on material goods? No, according to Myer, David Jones and Harvey Norman, the drop in Australia’s retail sales is all because of foreign websites selling goods at cheaper prices.

Christopher Zinn, campaign director of Choice, stated that Australian retailers only have themselves to blame, with their “high prices, limited range and poor customer service that increasingly encourage people to use the internet.” However, the high prices, limited range and poor customer service you get in store are equally prevalent on the websites of these retailers.

Crikey.com.au (2012). Online retailing: impact on Australian retailers is yet to be felt | Crikey. [online] Available at: http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/27/underestimating-the-threat-of-the-internet-to-retail/ [Accessed: 5 Sep 2012].

A look at the Myer and David Jones sites shows that catalogues get precedence over any user-friendly online shopping experience, and even though it looks like you can, you can’t even buy online on the Harvey Norman site! That’s kind of sad in an age where a twenty-year-old fashion blogger can set up a basic online store overnight using just Blogger and PayPal.

The Internet is how people have learnt to shop, it is the future and Australian retailers like Myer, David Jones and Harvey Norman need to grab hold of it or lose this opportunity to come up against their foreign rivals.

"First things first. We have to admit that the average retail store these days is a bit like a man who is carrying 10 kilograms too much fat. Not as attractive as he could be, a bit slow to move and wheezing slightly when he stretches further than the remote control on the armrest of life. But make no mistake, he is not at death’s door. In fact with a simple change of diet and the right exercise he’ll have a six-pack and a swagger in an instant." - Peter Ryan

Smh.com.au (2011). online retail|the death of the store|. [online] Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/retail-isnt-in-a-death-rattle-just-yet-20110802-1i903.html [Accessed: 5 Sep 2012].

There is no humanly possible way, that I could have worded this better. Thank you Sydney Morning Herald.

Tutorial 5

Click HERE to take the survey on SOCIAL MEDIA.

No one has any excuse not to. I KNOW YOUR ON FACEBOOK INSTEAD OF DOING MY SURVEY.

Cy-Cy-Cyberspace

Cyberspace, is a vaguely defined term - invented by William Gibson - that refers the non-geographical, virtual, even metaphoric space in which all computer objects "exist". The term can include the entire content on the Internet, as well as the objects created by virtual reality simulations and computer games. What you should know is that the exact definition of the term is non-existent. Some people use it as a metaphor for the Internet, some people use it as an all-encompassing term for general networking and anything associated with computers there are some people then who use the term in a philosophical sense, as an alternative reality of some sort. "All I knew about the word 'cyberspace' when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page." -William Gibson, No Maps for These Territories.

Dux, E., Neale, M., Gibson, W., Ford, R., Docurama (Firm), & New Video Group. (2003). No maps for these territories: On the road with William Gibson. United States: Docurama.

It is noted in Book: ‘Communities in cyberspace,’ that cyberspace isn’t remotely or electronically controlled, and therefore is it grammatically correct to call it a VIRTUAL space. But, what the heck, Cyberspace it is. It’s essentially the world that we have created by uniting all computers into a mass of networks. Where we exchange images, sounds, texts, emails, videos, communicate in news groups. In some ways we travel through Cyberspace to: different countries, different worlds. We can travel through it with a mouse and keyboard, you can leave it when you like and it’s there when your back. It can be a dangerous place and a it can be a safe place. This is cyberspace.

Smith, M. A., & Kollock, P. (1999). Communities in cyberspace. London: Routledge

Timetoast : Cyberpunk

Check out this sick timeline created by Timetoast on a small cluster of Cyberpunk history

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/390373

Timetoast.com (2010). Create timelines, share them on the web | Timetoast timelines. [online] Available at: http://www.timetoast.com [Accessed: 5 Sep 2012].

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Blade Runner is a fantastic movie : 92% on the RottenTomatoes doesn't lie http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blade_runner/

This is the trailer: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blade_runner/trailers/

Warner Bros. Pictures (1982). Blade Runner. [video online] Available at: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blade_runner/trailers/ [Accessed: 5 Sept 2012].

Just to LIGHTEN the mood

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.

#newcomtech #readings #facebook

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

#newcomtech #theend #socialnetwork #cya

Following up on the Tutorial Task : 3 Have a look at this This is a study conducted on how well individuals could identify a particular face in an array other faces from surveillance videos.

"When the target was present in the array, 12% picked the wrong person and 18% said they were not present (overall only 70% correct). When the target was not present in the array 70% still matched the target to someone in the array."

Visual Standards, (2002): Aspects and Ranges of Vision Loss with Emphasis on Population Surveys. Report prepared for the International Council of Ophthalmology at the 29th International Congress of Ophthalmology, Sydney, Australia.

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.

#newcomtech

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