Week 9 - Surveillance

Well after this mornings discussion and this weeks readings im kinda understanding why our generation is not to fazed by surveillance. In the reading there was a discussion about George Orwell's novel 'Nineteen Eighty Four' all about the cocept of Big Brother! Well our generation has grown up watching a show which has turned this concept into entertainment "BIG BROTHER"!So what was seen within Orwell's novel as a warning about surveillance potentials of the nation state, has been completely re-framed into prime time entertainment where we take enjoyment into the total viewing of selected house mates daily lives for three whole months! So maybe the reason why before today i did not see the problem with surveillance is because shows like Big Brother re-frame this issue of survielance into light hearted veiwing material, that installs a relaxed and a sense of 'normality' around total survielence. Maybe shows like big brother are made only to re-assure us that 24 hour surveillance is no big deal but in fact so normal that we to choose to survey a group of random house mates for our veiwing pleasure! So there you have maybe my relaxed opinion of surveillance is only that because its been framed as something both acceptable and well entertaining!And maybe thats why big brother has survived so long on t.v. even though its a crap show, because we use it to reassure us that surveillance is normal in fact maybe comical!

Week 8!

I 2 must admit that i defied the laws of copyright but lets not dwell! after watching that movie yesterday in class i totaly agree that the law needs to be updated for new technologies! Its not really our fault that we are breaking these laws i mean like they said in the video freedom is the way to drive the economy rather than control! So i think that if everyones stopped sitting on their asses bitching and moaning about copyright law and got a little proactive than maybe we could find a middle ground so everyone gets a piece of the pie well that my opinion but who am i! well actualy im a consumer so shouldnt my opinion count or do they only care about me when they think im trying to rip them off by downloading a song! i mean can you blame me for wanting to listen to sweet music! Peace out have a good holidays everyone!

WEEK 7!

SO online and off-line identity: well to tell you the truth i found the reading somewhat depressing i mean the idea of "late modern intamicy based on talk rather than passion, negotiation rather than commitment and the advancement of self rather than the development of the couple suggest that the internet is UNIQUELY PLACE TO FACILITATE!" Is this what the world is turning into dating as a research assingment "a pool of resources" for which we pick and choose from! Like i get the whole like use the internet to overcome barriers like shyness etc but i grew up watching way to many disney movies and whatever happend to the whole "animal attraction" thing i mean since the beginning of time we have basicaly pused dating like hunting for pray i mean Dunedin on a sat night is a battleground filled with hunters (can be men or women) and animals (chosen partner) everyone gets drunk and pursues their chosen catch of the day! like im all for technological advancement but there are some things that should be sacred and thats the mating game! I mean i could be wrong in 20 years from now i might be using one of these sites (touch wood it wont come to that but who knows! scary) But as the artical says when the bodies of users are left behind they are able to choose and construct their virtual forms and identities - so really doesnt that mean we are living a lie through these internet realities? or maybe a sa society we are becoming way to damn picky so we use these sites to pick and choose or should i say NEGOTIATE romantic encounters! well thats all im going to say im sorry if i have upset anyone but that article worried me but whatever works for the individual! Thanks for reading until next week bye bye!

JOKE OF THE WEEK!

SO another week another joke i know everyone is excited.......... sorry last week was joke less it takes time for greatness so here goes..
...One day a blonde comes into the doctor’s office. Her ears are very red. "What happened to your ears?" asks the doctor. She replies,"Well, I was ironing my clothes when the phone rang. I accidently picked up the iron." "What happened to the other ear?" asks the doctor. "The bastard called back."

Week 6!

The power of the Weblog or should I say potential! Well after this morning’s lecture and this weeks reading I have been exposed to the wonders of the possibility of the power of the blog! So what I previously thought to be a boring simple hobby for computer enthusiasts I now realise like most things we study at Uni is a very broad system which cannot be so easily defined! So unlike other media the internet/web 2.0 has given us the power to choose whether we want a blog to keep in contact with friends or get a little more serious and start commenting on current affairs and put ourselves out there in the public sphere for all to hear(well as was pointed out in this morning lecture who ever happens to care or stumble upon our blogs) or even we have the choice to create these weblogs as a hobby or a professional operation that generates income through the commercialisation of the blog, or you can simply use the blog to ask people to give you money, wow,wow,wow! Who’d have thought that there’s so much potential! So I guess there’s really something for everyone AMAZING! Nothings ever really simple even trying to define the blog, well that took two readings and a lecture and then there’s further concern over the impact that A-list bloggers will have on the participatory nature of weblogs! Well like everything nothing last forever sorry to have such a morbid view on the subject! But technology as we have seen will progress and if all this is happened since 1999 then well whose to say we wont have moved on to something new and better to congregate and participate within and the whole process will be able to branch out and start again!