Week 9 Lecture

I didn't attend the lecture this week and its not on learning at griffith so i took at look at other peoples blog to see what the lecture was about. apparently everyone missed it. i did see that it was a different lecturer though and he was talking about 4chan which i don't know what it is but from what i could see on the net it has something to do with anime? and he was also talking about his digital poetry. other then that i don't know what happened.

week 7 Tutorial task

i know the point of the second one was to have film in it but the little film i had would freeze my computer every time i tried to add it and i've had enough troubles with these movie things so i decided that all i could do was another photo one (my live music experiences).

Lecture 8, Political Possibilities

Defining Democracy
Politics of the Internet. cyberpolitics stretches from - power plays around the structure and functions of the net and decided by Internet society and ICANN
- political activity on forums, blogs and games.
Edemocracy covers political campaigning on Internet and govt use of the net to raise awareness and debate issues.
gaps in mass media is increasing in concentration, centralisation and commercialisation and are going down avenues for democratic participation in existing representative democracy.
Free Speech and Censorship
its an American thing to free speech. it isn't a constitutional right in Australia. its only been recently that the high court found free political expression was implied.
battle between free speech and censorship
liberal assumes Internet is like newspaper and should have appropriate content.

Week 9 Tutorial task

for week 9 tutorial task, we are asked to do some research into our chosen assignment topic. the question i have chosen to do is 5:
Creative Commons is both a solution and yet another failure to deal with authorship and copyright on the internet. Discuss and give examples. (hint: if you're having problems finding CC resources there's a slide in the week 7 lecture which points to a large number of books about "free culture").
i haven't done research yet as i'm planning to do it over the week break.

Week 6 Tutorial Task

After spending the entire day trying to get this on youtube or anywhere to put it on here and converting it etc, my day is almost gone! this is for week 6 tutorial task the movie made of photos etc. its pictures from my home town and my reject photography photos so they are pretty dodge.

Week 8 Tutorial Task

Things to do that arnt against our political belief
Sign an e-petition. i signed a stop animal cruelty petition. i found it on petition.net i couldn't really find anything that i liked enough to want to sign it but i signed it all the same one more name to help the puppies and kittens and every other animal.
Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site. Nathan Weaver at the Guardian wrote a news blog on the dust storm which i responded to

What is Barak Obama up to today? i'm not too sure. there is a site called what is obama doing but they haven't updated it since june.

Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.


Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.well its brett raguse but i dont know when his spoken

Let your local member know what you think about their last speech.

Read the lecture and the readings, pursue a couple of the topics that you find most interesting and then post your blog with your well-considered thoughts about the theory and practice of politics.




What do you think of the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")??? i think it should be an option not a regime. the internet is the only way to publish stuff without it being censored so why take it away. its a good idea for kids and there should be a setting for kids but not for the whole internet land.

What place does censorship have in a democracy?

week 7 Creative Commons and Free/ Libre Open source software (FLOSS)

this lectures about copyright and how the net is like a copy machine. creative commons is a non-profit organisation and to consumers, contraccts are signed if some parts of your material, you want kept private.
Public Domain. has no rights, everyone can use/copy anything in there.
"access and control" is one option of sharing creativity on the net and you have the choice to share or not share.
almost all software must be paid for because of its popularity. The programs used to be free to use but large business' depend on them now too. when it was less popular, people used to share codes.
Richard Stallman started organisation called free software foundation. its aimed to share certain software with the public for free. He made his own licence made up of four freedoms
0- freedom to run the program for any purpose
1 - freedom to study how the program works
2 - freedom to redistribute copies
3 - freedom to improve prgoram.

Lecture 6 Consumption and Production

the lecture when talking about consumption is divided into 2 parts of what we use every day. big screens and small screens.
big screens are divided into 3 parts of cinema - shared with other consumers
tv- shared in the private sphere
PC personal private use

small screens are in 2 groups and are consumed everywhere. it includes, Personal media players, ipods, MP3 etc.
and Mobile Phones.
the problem with mobile consumption is the low quality but its popular but of its mobility.