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Week 7 #Sensor

https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/23?page=5 (barcode scanner) https://www.sparkfun.com/categories23?page=4 (photo interrupter) My journalistic story would take place around the year 2047. Imagine this. Every American citizen now has a bar code embedded in their left arm. Instead of enforcing “stop and frisk” authorities are now able to stop citizens at any given time period. Authorities can scan the citizen’s arm and view their identification and criminal record if they have one. This scanner can be plugged into a usb device for power. It then creates a laser like keyboard. By this time, technology had literally taken over the world, and was uncommon for someone to not be technologically savvy. People were now finding ways to decode the barcode scanners. This was happening through the use of photo interrupters. By emitting a beam of infrared light from one upright to the other, the sensor can detect when an object passes between the uprights, breaking the beam, and therefore causing the barcode not to work. Then data collected in this futuristic story through both sensors, could be used to determine what demographic is being targeted by the authorities. They could then use this information to create a platform that fights back against the discrimination taking place against them. A field test of this sort would be hard to conduct but could still take place with the use of maybe mobile devices instead of the barcode scanners. With the advanced technology that we now have readily available we are able to track anyone with their location enabled.

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Week 4 Blog 360 Video

360 videos and 3D videos are happening, and if you do not join in on the fun now, you will never catch up! 360 degree videos allow the viewers to really engage into all aspects of what they are seeing. (Top to bottom- left to right) The days of seeing just one perspective of a video are slowly fading away. We now, with 360 degree video, are able to see a spherical view allowing the viewers to experience a new-age video technology which allows the viewers to interact with footage by clicking and dragging their view in all directions, or moving their smartphones or other mobile devices to capture the footage. Some 360 degree videos even give the option for the viewers to move their mobile devices in certain ways to get the best 360 experience. While working in the field of education, I am extremely excited about all of the possibilities available for the students when it comes to really using the 360 degree videos as a learning tool. Instead of showing history students pictures of a war battle ground, they could watch a video that allows them to see the entire area of the battle and get a better understanding of what the environment was like at the time. When I think of a story that I personally would like to experience through 360 video I think back to 911. That tragic day will be forever embedded into all of our memories. There were so many lives lost, and so many questions still left unanswered. I was in the 5th grade when the terrorist attack took place. Although I still remember the day like it was yesterday, I really wish we could go back and see how everything happened with a 360 view. It would give amazing footage for news stories and really portray to those who were not on New York City that day a better look into what happened and how it affected the citizens there. For a field test we of course would not want to film something tragic, but maybe capture an old building being torn down due to not being used for years, and the reaction of the crowd. I look to forward to my future with 360 Video.

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Week 2 Blog

Innovators Dilemma

One aspect of media that has changed due to technology that we have not covered in class, would be the transition that has taken place in the way that people now view movies and recorded television shows. As a child, I always looked forward to my mother taking my sister and I to the Block Buster video store to rent the latest movies. I loved being able to go home and play the movies over and over again before I had to return them. The Video Home System (VHS) seemed to be apart of the family. Once the year 2000 came the VHS began to be considered a product of the past as the DVD player took over every household. We have since ended that love story as well as the new wave of technology quickly approached and users transitioned from have DVDS in their hands to nothing at all. We can now watch movies and recordings from any device just by being connected to the internet. I believe that with everything so readily available it makes it hard for someone to create new technology in this area.

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Week 2 Blog

Innovators Dilemma One aspect of media that has changed due to technology that we have not covered in class, would be the transition that has taken place in the way that people now view movies and recorded television shows. As a child, I always looked forward to my mother taking my sister and I to the Block Buster video store to rent the latest movies. I loved being able to go home and play the movies over and over again before I had to return them. The Video Home System (VHS) seemed to be apart of the family. Once the year 2000 came the VHS began to be considered a product of the past as the DVD player took over every household. We have since ended that love story as well as the new wave of technology quickly approached and users transitioned from have DVDS in their hands to nothing at all. We can now watch movies and recordings from any device just by being connected to the internet. I believe that with everything so readily available it makes it hard for someone to create new technology in this area.

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With Time, This too Shall Fade

A rose is a rose except for when it is the salt drying on your cheeks or the fiery lipstick staining your stark white pillowcase or the sticky sweat gathering between your thighs or the empty sheets icing over in the dead of the night.

A rose is a rose except for when the time has passed the perfume has become muted and the last velvety petal has shriveled up and been tossed aside.

Week 1 Blog Post #EMPJ

This week we discussed all of the possibilities available with emerging media that continues to develop in the world of digital media. I have learned this week about virtual reality and augmented reality, and it's influence on the future of journalism and user experience. These types of realities allow the user to experience moments in computer generated- scenes. Currently, I am pursing my career in the education field. I believe this type of media would influence the way the classroom operates. In the past students were used to listening to lectures and taking notes on paper. With the new technology children would be able to not only learn about distant countries or an important wars, but they will be able to experience this time period through virtual reality. This will result in a better and lasting learning experience.

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