New Comm Tech 1501LHS
Finally, and only after hours and hours of constant frustration and painstaking effort, my 2 minute movie is completed. Nothing about this project was easy, in fact it nearly broke me. But I've managed to hold in there and get it done. It wasn't fun, and I am not looking forward to the next one, …
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Producing a movie is hard, especially when you have never attempted to create one before. Not to mention being camera shy, or even having talent to star in your movie. Having an idea is a start, but putting that idea into action is a challenge I underestimated. I always imagined that if I could have …
Today in 1501LHS New Communication Technologies lecture, we watched 'The Social Network'. This is a brilliant movie about how Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook, and how quickly this phenomenon became a world wide success. Its hard to meet anyone these days without a Facebook profile, and you couldn't imagine there are many people in existence who …
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Copyright is an ongoing issue faced by artists all over the world, who are trying to protect their intellectual property from theft and use without authorisation. To avoid being caught out misusing other peoples work, there is a solution. Creative Commons is an online hub of creative works, submitted and donated by artists for free …
Thank you to the people who took the time to fill out the survey created with Survey Monkey. This information has helped get a deeper understanding of what different types of social media people choose to use, what they do or don't like about their social media preferences, and what they would change to improve …
Put simply, technology based activism is known as cyberactivism, (Hennefer 2013, p. 1). Activism has existed for the best part of societal existence. Choosing to act in defiance of authority is not a new phenomenon, however with the rapid increase of technology and information access, the activist experiences a greater means for protest, and a …
You would be hard pressed these days to find a person who doesn't have a Facebook account, or an Instagram account, maybe even a Snapchat or Twitter account, and even possibly a LinkedIn account just for good measure. Social networking, although accessed by the ease of application of technology by way of smart devices, is …
Here is a timeline showing when the very first iPod was launched by Steve Jobs of Apple, right up until the release of the very 1st generation iPhone. iTunes was created to help us enjoy music more freely, and Apple was on the forefront of music and communication technology. Please find the link here: …
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For nearly every child born during, or after the 1990's, the idea of a world without the internet seems ludicrous. However in a short space of less than 30 years the world has gone from having no such thing, to a world wide dependency of internet related things, involving more than half of the entire …
Cyberpunk; noun 1. Science fiction featuring extensive human interaction with supercomputers and a punk ambiance. 2. Slang. a computer hacker, (dictionary.com 2017). The term was first conceived by novelist, Bruce Bethke in his short story, ”Cyberpunk”. First written in 1980, and published in 1983, Bethke combined the idea’s of science fiction, punk anti-establishment and computer …
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