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Week 12: (iot) and the Power of a Physical Connection | ZacSwan
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Skip to primary content. Week 12: (iot) and the Power of a Physical Connection. October 24, 2014. The internet of things (iot) refers to the ‘connectivity of physical objects to the network,’ ( Mitew. 2014) This connection can enhance our lives by processing and recording information: tracking health and fitness. Reducing and managing energy consumption. And improving safety standards on roads. These devices communicate with the user and each other within the network ( Bleeker. The nude photo hacking sca...
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Week 9: The revolution of Social Media – DIG-Diaries
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Week 9: The revolution of Social Media. It feels like a lot of today’s conversation start of with something along the lines of “Omg, did you see this link on Facebook” or “Did you see on Twitter…? 8221;, that it is funny to think that someone like Gladwell. Sees social media as practically useless when it comes to serious activism (Popova, 2010). But one cannot go to say that they do not play a major role in gathering numbers and allowing messages and stories to surpass past just their own borders. Where...
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Are you working in your “spare” time? – DIG-Diaries
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Are you working in your “spare” time? Our lives today can be said to have become controlled by time and work. I myself am totally subject to this. Coming back from exchange i told myself that i would take up new. In my lifestyle. 2-3 weeks back at home and i have found myself back into the same routine of university, work and university workload. Funny that, isn’t it? Anyway, i’m off to work…. August 22, 2014. August 22, 2014. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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KONY 2012: Social Media, Idealism, Realism | anna johnson-hill
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KONY 2012: Social Media, Idealism, Realism. September 27, 2014. October 23, 2014. Has good intentions in its focus of building awareness through online participation but this may not be in the best interest for Uganda when it is real-life action that is needed. A participatory culture is a utopian goal and the premise behind this movement is that an individual’s participation can make a difference (Jenkins and Carpentier 2013). The video. She provides the example of the disruption of Twitter and Facebook...
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Security Guards in Open and Closed Systems | anna johnson-hill
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Security Guards in Open and Closed Systems. September 13, 2014. October 23, 2014. In the early days of Apple, the company favoured an open approach to business. The original Apple Macintosh computer was built in a way that made it open to any outside software. In 2007, however, when the iPhone was released, the openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed. Zittrain 2010). This closed system offers some comfort to users who feel safer in the walled garden . The feedba...
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Week 8: Gooooooodbye to night time news. – DIG-Diaries
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Week 8: Gooooooodbye to night time news. It seems to me that this weeks topic is a further notion of the term ‘Mass amateurization which was described few weeks back. I say this as there is countless arguments on the growth of Citizen Journalism and how good or bad it really is. May i add though for whom? One thing is clear, is that it is reshaping the world. A perfect description of this is seen through Brian Conley appearance on TedTalks. So why is i that we are saying goodbye to night time news? You a...
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September 2014 – DIG-Diaries
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Week 9: The revolution of Social Media. It feels like a lot of today’s conversation start of with something along the lines of “Omg, did you see this link on Facebook” or “Did you see on Twitter…? 8221;, that it is funny to think that someone like Gladwell. Sees social media as practically useless when it comes to serious activism (Popova, 2010). But one cannot go to say that they do not play a major role in gathering numbers and allowing messages and stories to surpass past just their own borders. Where...
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Week 11: How worried should we be? – DIG-Diaries
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Week 11: How worried should we be? Have you ever really taken a step back and thought how much of what you do online is being saved. If someone who knew a thing or two about the world wide web, how much of your information would they be able to reveal? It’s a daunting thought. However, i came across an interesting article. Out that there was no need to delete our emails anymore. I know this seems like a petty thought, but its data, more so personal data that is being stored online. Sterne, J 2014, ‘Is it...
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Week 10: Hacktivism – DIG-Diaries
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Hacking sparks negative thoughts when it comes to mind. One of the first things that pop into my head are all the scandals that have been magnified in the media when it comes to Hacking incidents. As well as this i think of someone anywhere in the world, trying to gather all my personal data. Something which i find quite creepy, and if you don’t you must be a hacker duh. The globe sees hacking as immoral and wrong. Is this because of celebrity scandals such as the current Jennifer Lawrence Nude. Hacktivi...
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Week 7: Open, shut them, Open, shut them, give a little … decision? – DIG-Diaries
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Week 7: Open, shut them, Open, shut them, give a little … decision? If only it were that simple, right? There is no doubt that we all wish we could change certain features about our phones. However, in the land of technology there a certain issues, constraints and such things as open and closed sources that may or may not allow us to reconstruct the idealistic phone of personal choice. Secondly, LET THE BATTLE BEGIN! September 13, 2014. October 24, 2014. October 24, 2014 at 8:22 am. Although it would hav...
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