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Chantelles blog 1NCTThursday9-11: Copyright and Peer-To-Peer Music File Sharing:

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The 20th Century, people had their own music that they sang, played and passed from one generation to the next and that the idea of paying for music was perhaps just a passing fad. The students in the class made the moral distinction between stealing from a tangible product from a shop and downloading music and movies which are (eventually) given away for free on the radio and TV. Steal This Film 2. Infamous statement that 'intellectual property is the oil of the 21st century'.

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Chantelles blog 1NCTThursday9-11: Electronic Civil Liberties / Creative Commons / Free and Open Source Software

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Thursday, May 29, 2008. Electronic Civil Liberties / Creative Commons / Free and Open Source Software. In the lecture we discussed. We spoke about some of the cases that the Electronic Frontier Foundation are currently defending. This includes the NSA/AT&T alleged spying case, where the government allegedly wiretapped the internet communications going through San Francisco. The lecture showed funny examples of how creative commons can work. Mozilla Thunderbird - Email. Run on specific computers. Eg code ...

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Chantelles blog 1NCTThursday9-11: May 2008

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Thursday, May 29, 2008. Essay - How the films Alphaville and Matrix epresent new communication technology. Matrix was filmed in 1999 and was written directed by Andy Wachowski. It’s asking what we can believe is real. Morpheus quoted in the film Matrix, “If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.”("Matrix," 2008). When movies were new, a century ago, the mere motion of people and objects was special effect enough. Now we wan...

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Chantelles blog 1NCTThursday9-11: Are games a waste of time?

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Are games a waste of time? Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Video Games Studies includes the following types of games:. Arcade, Games, Consoles, Computer, Games ,MUDs, MMOGs. Approaching Video Games in an Academic Way:Some Theoretical Considerations. Media Effects and Games;. The Persistence of Effect;. Games and Utopia;. What are some ways to approach thinking about games that might be unique to this genre? Is a good example). Ludology, in contrast to...

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Chantelles blog 1NCTThursday9-11: Cyberpunk

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Thursday, May 8, 2008. Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre based in the possibilities inherent in computers, genetics, body modifications and corporate developments in the near future. Comes from the Greek kybernetes. Which means steersman or pilot and the concept developed during and after WWII to indicate the use of a systematic approach to complex issues such as managing a large number of computers at distributed sites or understanding the operationms of the brain. 1 Technology and Mythology. Some of...

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Chantelles blog 1NCTThursday9-11: April 2008

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008. History of the computer and the internet. In today’s tutorial we are learning how to research for our exams using things such as the databases supplied on learning at Griffith. These databases are very good sources of information as all articles are looked over twice by experts. Ada Byron, she first conceived of a machine which would be able to compose and play music, produce graphics and be of everyday use. She also conceived the first computer program. Digital Research, Inc.

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Chantelles blog 1NCTThursday9-11: Bladerunner

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Thursday, May 15, 2008. In the lecture we watched Balderunner. Its based on the 1968 novel, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Phillip K Dick. Common themes in Dick's work include artificial intelligence, cities out of control and post-industrial dystopia dissected with a film noir sensibility. Other of Dick's novels include Ubik, A Scanner Darkly,. And Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Movies made from Dick's stories include: Total Recall, Minority Report, Next. His description of Blade runner.

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Chantelles blog 1NCTThursday9-11: March 2008

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Thursday, March 20, 2008. In today’s tutorial we have added some friends to our blogs. So now we can all post comments on each others blogs and see everyone’s different opinions on what we have learnt. Yesterday in our lecture we watched Alphaville (1965) by Jean Luc Goddard. It was a French new wave film set in black and white with English subtitles. The movie was set in the future. Thursday, March 13, 2008. In yesterdays lecture with Steven Stockwell the main discussion point was ‘Is Email Dead? When w...

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Chantelles blog 1NCTThursday9-11: The ethics of peer to peer file sharing.

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Thursday, May 22, 2008. The ethics of peer to peer file sharing. When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide. Demonbaby: Wednesday, October 24, 2007. 1 Stop buying music from major labels. Period. 2 Support artists directly. 3 Get the message out. Get this message out to as many people as you can - spread the word on your blog or your MySpace. Teach them how to use torrents and where to get music free. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).