"Facebook"
www.facebook. com
What is the focus of the community?
Facebook is an online network that has been designed to link friends and families to one another, throughout the world. Facebook encourages participation and socialization. Facebook is privately owned by Facebook, Inc
What services are provided? How interactive is this site? How can people contribute?
Facebook allows you to design and create your own profile page. You can add personal information, photo's and comments ab our yourself. You can also be tagged in other peoples photos, join fan clubs and groups, add videos, play games and do quizzes.
Facebook is a very interactive site. You can talk to other members of facebook live through facebook chat, which is like an instant message that is only between the two members. You can also place comments on both your own page and on other peoples pages, or you can send a private message.
Facebook allows you to choose who views your profile, by letting you control who you accept to be your facebook friends, and allows you to delete and block other users. Abuse can also be reported.
Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment on why people choose to contribute to this community. What is it they are seeking?
Facebook users choose to join the facebook network to increase their social interactions, to gain a sense of identity and belonging. Users feel they can truly express themselves as an individual and communicate their opinions and everyday thought freely. Through the acceptance of facebook friends it gives a sense of community. Also through the joining of fan clubs and groups they can form a sense of belonging and be able to communicate with other users that have similar beliefs and religious/cultural characteristics as them.
Cut and paste an example of the types of topics being discussed
The following page has been designed to make people aware of the unnecessary slaughter of horses and the abuse that they are subjected to. Page is called STOP HORSE SLAUGHTER
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000371830014&v=info&ref=profile#!/pages/Dubai/STOP-Horse-Slaughter/36593282409
Considering material presented during the course and make comment on the potential ethical issues that may arise in this community, eg. lack of identity and accountability
There has been a large amount of criticism in regards to facebook and its usage, especially in relation to the privacy of its users, use of advertising, child safety, inappropriate pages and photos and the inability to deleting content before terminating the account. Identity theft is another major issue that surrounds facebook, as users disclose personal information, and attach photos. Facebook users may also fake who they really are when setting up a profile, this subjects other users to false of identity. There is also ethical issues with groups that are promoting concepts/issues such as anorexia, i hate...., disrespecting individuals with disabilities, and discrimination of races and cultures. The people that create these pages can not be held accountable for setting up these pages and do not face punishment. Though facebook.Inc does have the power to delete pages and users can report pages that are offensive.
Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment on the benefits of this community holds over traditional notion of communities ,eg. communities reliant on geographic proximity. Facebook can influence users lives in many ways and holds great benefits for them. Facebook's benefits include allowing users to keep in touch with family/ friends that they would otherwise not be able to contact due to geographical issues- eg, overseas, isolated areas. Facebook connections are instant, the information they would view is up to date. Facebook allows connections and relationships to be formed and as it is a free service is an accessible service throughout the world.
Consider material presented during lecture and make comment what this community lacks or can not provide which traditional communities can.
Facebook is an online community and therefore does not have the same personal aspect as traditional communities. Traditional communities involve face to face, personal contact which allows people to interact on a deeper level. This aids them to communicate more fully through their body language, facial expression and tone. While facebook only allows the users to communicate through written messages, which are often mis-interrupted and not understood, which can change relationships.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Video Production Sessions
" Youtube"
Youtube is a popular video hosting and sharing service. The service lets users view and upload video files. It also lets users rate videos, add comments, and subscribe to their favourite producer.
Googleabout. (2010). Youtube. Retrieved March 19, 2010 from
http://www.google.about.com/od/moreaboutgoogleleaps/p/youtube.profile.htm
The importance of planning when making a short film
Planning is an important aspect of making a short film. This can be done through the use of storyboards and scripting which allows the producer to have a clear view of how the film will turn out after being completed. This also allows the other members of the crew to understand the overall result that the producer is aiming for, and what hey should be doing and saying when they are filming.
Storyboarding aided my group in making short film as we all knew the outcome that we were aiming for. It also allowed filming to be aliot smoother as we all knew what was happening and what needed to be done.
Youtube is a popular video hosting and sharing service. The service lets users view and upload video files. It also lets users rate videos, add comments, and subscribe to their favourite producer.
Googleabout. (2010). Youtube. Retrieved March 19, 2010 from
http://www.google.about.com/od/moreaboutgoogleleaps/p/youtube.profile.htm
The importance of planning when making a short film
Planning is an important aspect of making a short film. This can be done through the use of storyboards and scripting which allows the producer to have a clear view of how the film will turn out after being completed. This also allows the other members of the crew to understand the overall result that the producer is aiming for, and what hey should be doing and saying when they are filming.
Storyboarding aided my group in making short film as we all knew the outcome that we were aiming for. It also allowed filming to be aliot smoother as we all knew what was happening and what needed to be done.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Digital Camera use and Application
"A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature"
This statement states that though technology has advanced the changes are not always superior than the old devices. Newer technologies are different, and they will not totally replace the old technology as not every individual has the assess to computers ect or they are not willing to change or advance with society.
Digital technology is immediate as you can view the picture on the screen before it is developed. It is flexible as you can crop, delete and photoshop the picture to suit the needs of the user and also it is cost effective as the unwanted pictures can be deleted. Also digital technologies can have a larger memory and storage system allowing the increase the amount of data they can store.
Digital images can be stored, transferred and manipulated using communication technologies in many ways. They can be transfered to computers and uploaded to sites, blogs or emailed. The images can be printed at home and viewed using a computer. Digital images can be stored on disks, pen drives and in computers allowing a large data collection. Computers allow images to be manipulated through photoshop such as cropping, reduceing colour, red eye and the quality of the image.
Some ethical issues that arise with the use of image capturing devices is privacy issues, with others viewing the image without consent. Also consent of those captured in the image needs to be considered, including those in the background. Individuals need to take care in diclosing the location of individuals through images due to saftey. Another issue is identity thieft or the misuse of pictures by other users.
Digital images are being used in occupational therapy practise in many forms which include..
- Pictures of home visits- layout
- Progress pictures
- Instructional pictures- how to use equipment ect
- Cognitive assessments
- Memory activites
- Assessments
Flickr is a stite that allows the users to upload their images/ photos inorder to share them with others. Images can also be downloaded, swaped and viewed by other members. Anpther photo storage website which offers similar serivces to Flikr.com is google images.
Digital zoom simply crops the image to a smaller size, them enlarges the cropped portion to fill the frame again. Digital zoom results in a significant loss of quailty. Optical zoom works just like a zoom lens on a film camera. The lens changes focal length and magnification as it is zoomed. Image quality stays high throughout the zoom range.
A megapixel is one million pixels. Individual pixels go into making each image.
This statement states that though technology has advanced the changes are not always superior than the old devices. Newer technologies are different, and they will not totally replace the old technology as not every individual has the assess to computers ect or they are not willing to change or advance with society.
Digital technology is immediate as you can view the picture on the screen before it is developed. It is flexible as you can crop, delete and photoshop the picture to suit the needs of the user and also it is cost effective as the unwanted pictures can be deleted. Also digital technologies can have a larger memory and storage system allowing the increase the amount of data they can store.
Digital images can be stored, transferred and manipulated using communication technologies in many ways. They can be transfered to computers and uploaded to sites, blogs or emailed. The images can be printed at home and viewed using a computer. Digital images can be stored on disks, pen drives and in computers allowing a large data collection. Computers allow images to be manipulated through photoshop such as cropping, reduceing colour, red eye and the quality of the image.
Some ethical issues that arise with the use of image capturing devices is privacy issues, with others viewing the image without consent. Also consent of those captured in the image needs to be considered, including those in the background. Individuals need to take care in diclosing the location of individuals through images due to saftey. Another issue is identity thieft or the misuse of pictures by other users.
Digital images are being used in occupational therapy practise in many forms which include..
- Pictures of home visits- layout
- Progress pictures
- Instructional pictures- how to use equipment ect
- Cognitive assessments
- Memory activites
- Assessments
Flickr is a stite that allows the users to upload their images/ photos inorder to share them with others. Images can also be downloaded, swaped and viewed by other members. Anpther photo storage website which offers similar serivces to Flikr.com is google images.
Digital zoom simply crops the image to a smaller size, them enlarges the cropped portion to fill the frame again. Digital zoom results in a significant loss of quailty. Optical zoom works just like a zoom lens on a film camera. The lens changes focal length and magnification as it is zoomed. Image quality stays high throughout the zoom range.
A megapixel is one million pixels. Individual pixels go into making each image.
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