Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Week 3 Tutorial Task
Tutorial Task 1:
1. What was Stephen Stockwell's first article in an academic journal? What year? Provide a full citation. What database did you use?-
2. In which comic did Governor Slugwell appear? Which Issues? Give their full citation for the earliest. Where did you find this information? What database did you use? (Check the trial databases)
1. What was Stephen Stockwell's first article in an academic journal? What year? Provide a full citation. What database did you use?-
Kuranda police shooting, February 1981 : Stockwell S, 1981, Kuranda Police Shooting,Legal service bulletin Volume 6 pg 48 1/01/1981. Griffith University Library Database
2. In which comic did Governor Slugwell appear? Which Issues? Give their full citation for the earliest. Where did you find this information? What database did you use? (Check the trial databases)
Flaming Carrot Comics, no. 7, 10, 11,
"When the Shoes Aren't Worth the Shine", by Bob Burden In Flaming Carrot Comics, no. 7. (Renegade Press, 1985). page(s) 3-31, Google-http://comx.alexanderstreet.com/Role/CV/3794 3.What is the latest medical thinking on the dangers of mobile phones? Provide a full citation. Mobile phones. (2011, Aug 21). The Assam Tribune, pp. n/a. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/docview/884457618?accountid=14543 4.In Bladerunner, what is Leon's reaction when Holden asks him about his mother? Quote the 1982 draft script and provide a full reference. (Check the trial databases) Leon looks shocked, surprised. But the needles in the computer barely move. Holden goes for the inside of his coat. But big Leon is faster. His laser burns a hole the size of a nickel through Holden's stomach. Unlike a bullet, a laser causes no impact. It goes through Holden's shoulder and comes out of his back, clean as a whistle. Like a rag doll he falls back into the seat. Big slow Leon is already walking away, but he stops, turns, and with a little smile of satisfaction fires through the back of the seat. Fancher, H, Peoples, D, Webb, D, Kibbee, R 1982, 'Blade Runner' (1982). Draft Script, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Alexander Street Press, viewed 11 August 2011, via Trial Database and American Film Scripts Online. 5. What does Paul Soukup say Walter Ong saw as the main paradox in 20th century communication? Cite your source That a society given so much to the use of diagrams and to the maneuvering of objects in space, should at the same time develop means of communication which specialize not is sight but in sound." Soukup, P 2004, 'Walter J. Ong, S.J. A Retrospective,' Communication Research Trends: Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture, vol. 23, pp. 23,viewed 21 August 2011, via Trial Database. Task 2 After the 2002 launch of Friendster, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw the potential that social networking had created and decided to mimic the more popular features of the social networking website creating the phenomenom of myspace. Myspace is a free online social networking site aimed towards the younger generations that composed of personal profiles that includes and lets you share chosen personal information. MySpace profiles typically includes a digital photo and in-depth information about personal interests. The main use for Myspace was for the interaction between friends that could share photos, comment on each others profiles and share various other options between each other. Myspace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006, a position that it held throughout 2007 and until the end of 2008. In the month of December 2008 the Myspace corporation attracted 75.9 million monthly unique visitors in the U.S.(Gillette F, 2011) Rupert Murdoch's News Corp bought Myspace and its parent company, Intermix, in 2005 for $580 million. The company has recently started officially looking for a potential buyer at an asking price of $100 million, according to a person familiar with the sale process Over the past two years, Myspace has lost, on average, more than a million U.S. users a month, but why? (Watkins S, 2009) Mismanagement, a flawed merger, and countless strategic blunders have accelerated Myspace's fall from being one of the most popular websites on earth—one that promised to redefine music, politics, dating, and pop culture—to an afterthought. And of course Facebook, a seemingly better, more initiative, easier to use social networking site that has basically demolished facebook in the competition of social networks. (Gillette F, 2011) References- Gillette F, 2011. The Rise and Inglorious fall of Myspace. Bloomberg Business Week. Viewed 20/8/11. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_27/b4235053917570.htm Watkins S, 2009. The Fall Of Myspace: Race, Class and Social Media. The Young and the Digital. Viewed 20/8/11. http://www.theyoungandthedigital.com/book/the-fall-of-myspace-race-class-and-social-media/ What will be the future: The rise and fall of social networks has been a dramatic one, I think now social networking is an inevitable for everyone in today's society. All company's have some sought of advertising and alliance involved with social media. And whilst they still believe that it is a viable way to promote their product. The question is what is next, with Facebook and Google simply taking over the Internet, sticking their finger into everyone business you may see social networks take over the world other competitors will enter the marketing possibly offering a more an advanced and innovative ideas and concepts that could leave today's heavy hitters in the dark, what they do with their product is the big question. |
week 2 Response to Content
What form of Communication Technology do you use most often? What is your favourite?
Over the years I believe peoples choice of communication changes with the evolution of technology and themselves as a person, with my personal experience and the era I was raised in has had a definite effect on the choices of communication I associate with. As a young teenager instant messaging was all the craze where you would conduct numerous simultaneous conversations with all your friends from school and sports or recreational clubs, and the uses of mobile phones or telephones was a rarity mainly used for emergency's. But as times change so do people and that includes myself.
Obviously today's mobile phone is very different to the mobile phones used in 5- 6 years ago. Today many consider there mobile phone a necessity along with myself. The evolution of smart phones is growing at a rapid rate and you can seemingly do anything on the mobile phones of today. But will in the future the only thing you may need is a mobile phone.Today's mobile phones can already send e-mail, browse the Web, and keep you in touch with friends. Many believe tomorrow's handsets will add even more to the menu, morphing (as needed) into always-connected portable game consoles, full-featured TVs, and credit cards (PCworld). Already I stress when I cant find my phone as I feel I need it for everything, what will the future hold for the needs of having a mobile phone.
Reference:
Yardena Arar, 2006. The Future of Cell Phones. PCW Prin. Viewed 11/8/11 http://www.pcworld.com/article/126854/the_future_of_cell_phones.html
Over the years I believe peoples choice of communication changes with the evolution of technology and themselves as a person, with my personal experience and the era I was raised in has had a definite effect on the choices of communication I associate with. As a young teenager instant messaging was all the craze where you would conduct numerous simultaneous conversations with all your friends from school and sports or recreational clubs, and the uses of mobile phones or telephones was a rarity mainly used for emergency's. But as times change so do people and that includes myself.
Obviously today's mobile phone is very different to the mobile phones used in 5- 6 years ago. Today many consider there mobile phone a necessity along with myself. The evolution of smart phones is growing at a rapid rate and you can seemingly do anything on the mobile phones of today. But will in the future the only thing you may need is a mobile phone.Today's mobile phones can already send e-mail, browse the Web, and keep you in touch with friends. Many believe tomorrow's handsets will add even more to the menu, morphing (as needed) into always-connected portable game consoles, full-featured TVs, and credit cards (PCworld). Already I stress when I cant find my phone as I feel I need it for everything, what will the future hold for the needs of having a mobile phone.
Reference:
Yardena Arar, 2006. The Future of Cell Phones. PCW Prin. Viewed 11/8/11 http://www.pcworld.com/article/126854/the_future_of_cell_phones.html
week 2 tutorial task
Tutorial Task Part 2
How you use new communication technologies to communicate with your friends and family
New communications has played a massive part of my adolescents and I believe a number of other teenagers around the globe. Ever since I was 12-13 I used the likes of msn messenger as the only means of communication with my friends. Reasons behind this was being a young teenager I obviously couldn't afford to send numerous text messages to many people. Obviously the upside of social networks and instant online messaging is it gives the ultimate luxury to talk to numerous people all at once and without the stress of either holding a conversation which we all know teenagers finding difficult and wasting our parents money on land line calls. Obviously privacy is a very big issue within the technology industry, joining programs such as msn messenger and facebook do have some risk with who you accept to talk to and associate with, sometimes you just don't know who it is, especially naive teenagers. I am confident in the processes that google and facebook take in utilising information they are both established and well respected organisations. But there is always a flip slide with internet crime growing at a rapid rate and many are simply leaving themselves to be hacked.
Part 1 (C) http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/
Yahoo!
Web Analytics is a highly customizable, enterprise-level website analytics system designed to help website businesses increase sales and visitor satisfaction, reduce marketing costs and gain new insight on online customers. By storing data in raw, non-aggregated form, Yahoo! Web Analytics is more than simply a reporting tool. It is a powerful, and highly flexible, data analysis tool. Both near real-time and historical data can be segmented instantly and visualized with advanced graphs to help marketers and site designers answer specific business questions and find new insights to improve their business.
Reference
Yahoo 2006. Yahoo! Web Analytics. Viewed. 16/8/11. http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/index
Part 1(B)
How you use new communication technologies to communicate with your friends and family
New communications has played a massive part of my adolescents and I believe a number of other teenagers around the globe. Ever since I was 12-13 I used the likes of msn messenger as the only means of communication with my friends. Reasons behind this was being a young teenager I obviously couldn't afford to send numerous text messages to many people. Obviously the upside of social networks and instant online messaging is it gives the ultimate luxury to talk to numerous people all at once and without the stress of either holding a conversation which we all know teenagers finding difficult and wasting our parents money on land line calls. Obviously privacy is a very big issue within the technology industry, joining programs such as msn messenger and facebook do have some risk with who you accept to talk to and associate with, sometimes you just don't know who it is, especially naive teenagers. I am confident in the processes that google and facebook take in utilising information they are both established and well respected organisations. But there is always a flip slide with internet crime growing at a rapid rate and many are simply leaving themselves to be hacked.
Part 1 (C) http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/
Yahoo!
Web Analytics is a highly customizable, enterprise-level website analytics system designed to help website businesses increase sales and visitor satisfaction, reduce marketing costs and gain new insight on online customers. By storing data in raw, non-aggregated form, Yahoo! Web Analytics is more than simply a reporting tool. It is a powerful, and highly flexible, data analysis tool. Both near real-time and historical data can be segmented instantly and visualized with advanced graphs to help marketers and site designers answer specific business questions and find new insights to improve their business.
Reference
Yahoo 2006. Yahoo! Web Analytics. Viewed. 16/8/11. http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/index
Part 1(B)
week 1 Response to Content
How Do we Distinguish Between Old and New Technologies - It is difficult to tell where the line is drawn in the sand over the difference between old and new technologies. Is there a date or a certain moment in time where technology becomes old fashioned. In my personal opinion the decision is in the eyes of the beholder whether something is new or old. Some elderly people may think that mobile phones is a new technology compared to using a land line or even older forms of communication. Where others involved in the gen Y era would think that the standard mobile phone is old and boring technology compared to the electronic devices such as the smart phones and tablets that we see on the market today.
Gordon Moore, famously predicted that the density of microprocessors would double every 18 months and many believe it will begin to decline over the coming years (cnet). This may be true and the rate technology grows may slow, but new technology will become old, eventually . As long as this world is still spinning, then the innovations of technology are inevitable, the places that technology can take people is certainly limitless and new technology will become old and boring and people will be champing at the bit to obtain the latest on the ever growing market.
Gordon Moore, famously predicted that the density of microprocessors would double every 18 months and many believe it will begin to decline over the coming years (cnet). This may be true and the rate technology grows may slow, but new technology will become old, eventually . As long as this world is still spinning, then the innovations of technology are inevitable, the places that technology can take people is certainly limitless and new technology will become old and boring and people will be champing at the bit to obtain the latest on the ever growing market.
Week 1 Tutorial Task
Hello Blogatron,
My name is Shay Menyweather and I am currently in my first year of Studying a Bachelor of Business/ Communication. My reasoning for studying these two degrees is I am looking towards a career in the Advertising/ Media field. I am a sports fanatic who enjoys any type of sport as long as there is and winner and a loser and I also enjoy spending time with my friends when im not cramming with university studies.
Enjoy the Blog.
My name is Shay Menyweather and I am currently in my first year of Studying a Bachelor of Business/ Communication. My reasoning for studying these two degrees is I am looking towards a career in the Advertising/ Media field. I am a sports fanatic who enjoys any type of sport as long as there is and winner and a loser and I also enjoy spending time with my friends when im not cramming with university studies.
Enjoy the Blog.
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