FUTURE NETWORKS
Where the Internet Began
Learning about how the telegraph opened up the world is kind of inspiring. Basically, in the 1800s Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, because, afterreceiving bad news about his wife, he was unable to communicate fast enough tobe there for her. And so, he dedicated the rest of his life to fastcommunication. And boy did…
Civilization of the Mind
This week, Ted spoke more on understanding the network society paradigm which is dependent on informational communication technologies. My remediation this week, resembles the role of ICT, that can send real time communication through great distance. This real time ICT was formed as a result of a ‘ripple effect’ situation where one communication technology, led…
Liquid Life
The term “Liquid Life’ essentially means “a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty.” This isn’t just about life itself, but more the working life style. I will be basing this blog post more off Deuze, M. (2006) ‘Liquid Life, Convergence Culture, and Media Work’. Today’s society is based around the balance of work/social life…
The Attention Economy
This week we learnt about the attention economy and the long tail effect. For this blog post however, I will be speaking more on the attention economy as I found it quite interesting. Above is a meme I created to show how much times have changed. I remember vividly when I was a kid, my…
Feudalism 2.0
Feudalism, way back in Medieval Europe was where individuals were viewed as ‘free peasants’. In the words of Ted, feudalism “describes relationships between lord and vassal (peasant) organised around property and allegiance.” This basically meant, the peasants were free to do as they please with their land, however their lord told them how to use…
Beta – The Daily Journal
For this semester for my Digital Artefact, I decided to create a blog dedicated to all things journaling, The Daily Journal. Here, I intended to begin my own journaling journey, blog about it as well as information about journaling. This includes; benefits, prompts, facts and so on. Coming up with a name for this DA…
Meme Warfare
“Jeff Giesea, defines memetic warfare as “competition over narrative, ideas, and social control in a social-media battlefield. One might think of it as a subset of ‘information operations’ tailored to social media. Information operations involve the collection and dissemination of information to establish a competitive advantage over an opponent”. Meme’s have become the new way to spread information,…
White Hat Hackers
Learning about hackers was something I never expected to come across through this degree. However, Ted has proven me wrong, once again. When hearing the word ‘hacker’ I immediately think of a system or social media account being hacked into, wiped, personal information shared or taken and all the other bad stuff that hackers do.…
Cyberwar
“Cyberwarfare refers to the use of digital attacks — like computer viruses and hacking — by one country to disrupt the vital computer systems of another, with the aim of creating damage, death and destruction.” The above explanation of cyberwarfare is the perfect one for not only those who do understand what it already is,…
Hey Siri, What is ‘Internet of Things?’
“Pretty much any physical object can be transformed into an IoT device if it can be connected to the internet to be controlled or communicate information.” This week, we learnt all about the Internet of Things. As the very simple explanation states above, it is essentially any device or thing that can connect to the…
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