Well when I started this course I honestly didn’t think that I would get so much out of it! There have been so many issue raised that I would never think twice about. I’ll admit that although I use my computer daily im no whiz and I defiantly don’t have a wide knowledge on how to do extraordinary things with my computer but as I have discovered it doesn’t matter if you use your computer for basic things like emails, banking and social networking we all need to be aware of how our usage is affecting our identities, how we represent ourselves and who is watching us! Online activities are now primed into most aspect of our daily lives so its more than beneficial that we should all be aware of the network we are engaging with and information flows we are sending and receiving its only going to get more complicated and more confusing maybe this should become a compulsory subject at school I mean I will never use algebra again or trigonometry but the internet and online activities are only going to keep saturating the world around us!
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Week 12!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
JOKE OF THE WEEK!
There was a blonde driving down the road one day. She glanced to her right and noticed another blonde sitting in a nearby field, rowing a boat with no water in sight.
The blonde angrily pulled her car over and yelled at the rowing blonde, "What do you think you're doing? It's things like this that give us blondes a bad name. If I could swim, I'd come out there and kick your butt!"
Moses replied, "The last time I spoke to a bush, we starved for 40 years!"
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| A blind man walked into a bank with his seeing-eye dog that guided him everywhere. He walked into the center of the bank floor, took the dog by the chain, and started swinging him around his head. | |
| A man went to see his doctor. |
UNTIL NEXT TIME KEEP SMILING!
Week 11
JOKE OF THE WEEK!
Three Doctors are dicussing which types of patients they prefer.
Doctor Watson says, ''I prefer librarians. All their organs are alphabetized.''
Doctor Fitzpatrick says, ''I prefer mathematicians. All their organs are numbered.''
Doctor Ahn says, ''I prefer lawyers. They are gutless, heartless, brainless, spineless, and their heads and rear ends are interchangeable.''
(sorry to the future lawyers in the class!)
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Week 10!
So the digital divide, well if the world didn’t have enough problems we are now faced with the question of a digital divide well i think that after this weeks reading discussing convergence culture and the expanding opportunities for both producers and consumers in the 21st century it occurred to me that maybe divides occur in society because certain things are being neglected and other things are seen as our main focus, I mean our obsession with media consumption and the process of convergence within our media culture may be an influential topic but lets face it its not going to end world hunger or end poverty. The media industry is concerned with one thing making money, and we as consumers use it to make life easier and more enjoyable! I mean I don’t think we can ever eliminate social inequality it is always going to happen but maybe we can eliminate the extremes between these inequalities so maybe this whole looking beyond the basics to escape true poverty isn’t such a bad idea but in the end just surviving is difficult enough for people living in poverty so maybe this issue should be of a little more of importance. I mean in today’s society it is hard to imagine that these inequalities still exist when we have access to things we do its hard to understand why we cant be as involved or as innovative when it comes to the issue of social inequality than as we are with our pursuit of the production consumption of media