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Lee's Uni Blog: November 2007
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Friday, November 30, 2007. Today I finally succumbed to the cold my daughter has been struggling with this week. So I have missed the final lecture and tute. But I noticed that there was no lecture notes or tutorial task so hopefully I have only missed the summation. Part of our assessment is to write an evaluation blog on the course itself. So This is it. I found Adam to be easy going and knowledgable. I enjoyed the fact that we could discuss content during the lectures. I was disappointed that the gues...
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Lee's Uni Blog: Day 7 lecture - Electronic Music
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Monday, November 26, 2007. Day 7 lecture - Electronic Music. Todays lecture was to be on Digital Creativity, net.art and electronic Literature. But our guest lecturer was not available. Did this matter? Nope We had a very interesting lecture on Electronic music. What is electronic music? Is it the production. Is it the delivery? 1 Tradition instruments played by hand, mouth etc. Including strings, wind instruments etc. 2 Electronically produced music. Made on computers from pure sound. I think you have m...
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Lee's Uni Blog: Lecture notes Day 9
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Lecture notes Day 9. Interesting to discuss the different ages of the media. First media - centralised dissemination = 1 source to many receivers. Second media - decentralised interaction = many sources to many receivers. Marshall McLuhan believed that it was three media ages - Oral (spoken word) Literate (written word) and Electric (television etc). Robert K Logan has added to this with the Mimetic age and Interactive / digital age. Quote from lecture notes:. Tute Task Day 9.
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Lee's Uni Blog: Tute Task Day 9
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Tute Task Day 9. Given all the things we talked about in this course, what do you think the future of the cultural internet might be. say in the next 10 years? I'm not talking about flying cars or things like that. What would be a 'realistic' future? Consider such themes as. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Lecture notes Day 9. Tute Task Day 9. Tutorial task for day 8. Day 8 lecture notes. Day 7 lecture - Electronic Music. Day 6 lecture run-down.
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Lee's Uni Blog: Final Essay
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007. New Communication Technologies: Keeping the Family Unit and Communities in touch. In the 1980’s it was postcards, aerogrammes and phone calls, the 90’s saw the emergence of email and now in the mid 2000’s, more sophisticated communication technologies such as instant messaging with webcams, blogging, and interactive social network sites such as Myspace and Facebook and have emerged. Families on the Margins: Social and Physical Isolation. (2001). Retrieved 1 December,...Polit...
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Lee's Uni Blog: Day 8 lecture notes
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Day 8 lecture notes. Today we are talking about politics. that is politics with out the capital P. Politics refers to people to people. We discussed the digital divide - the have and the have not's - and I will come back to this later. Then there was the topic of encryption. Is it an option in a democratic internet society. Consider this: to find the terrorists / porn just follow the encrypted lines. If we all used encryption, what then? Is it a nation unto itself? Was shown t...
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Lee's Uni Blog: Tutorial task for day 8
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007. Tutorial task for day 8. Given the conventional wisdom that traditional media are still the dominant form for getting "news" out to the world, do you think the internet will effect the audience for those old media? Check out the local IndyMedia website. What kind of news is there, and do you think a website like that has a place in your life? Do you think the internet is (was? An effective tool for politicians to reach out to their intended audience? View my complete profile.
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Lee's Uni Blog: December 2007
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007. New Communication Technologies: Keeping the Family Unit and Communities in touch. In the 1980’s it was postcards, aerogrammes and phone calls, the 90’s saw the emergence of email and now in the mid 2000’s, more sophisticated communication technologies such as instant messaging with webcams, blogging, and interactive social network sites such as Myspace and Facebook and have emerged. Families on the Margins: Social and Physical Isolation. (2001). Retrieved 1 December,...Polit...
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Lee's Uni Blog: Last Tutorial Blog
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Friday, November 30, 2007. Today I finally succumbed to the cold my daughter has been struggling with this week. So I have missed the final lecture and tute. But I noticed that there was no lecture notes or tutorial task so hopefully I have only missed the summation. Part of our assessment is to write an evaluation blog on the course itself. So This is it. I found Adam to be easy going and knowledgable. I enjoyed the fact that we could discuss content during the lectures. I was disappointed that the gues...