Monday, April 14, 2014
Your Final - The Zing of Authenticity
New media applications became Boston's and the Nation's immediate feed for public safety and information, including Twitter and scanner feeds. Brooke Gladstone discusses this with On The Media's Twitterer, Alex Goldman. Listen to the podcast and address Gladstone's remark, "...the sort of zing of authenticity," when talking about scanner feed applications.
I'm interested to know if this "zing" doesn't frame for us the context of the story, impacting our perception of what's really going on.
Post what you've discovered after some considerable research (three sources, stratified across the spectrum of media research, linked within your writing), discussing harms and benefits of the "zing."
This post is due no later than 2:30p, April 23.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Privacy and Rights in New Media
Apple's Fine Print:
"To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services. For example, we may share geographic location with application providers when you opt in to their location services."
Google's Fine Print:
"Google offers location-enabled services, such as Google Maps for mobile. If you use those services, Google may receive information about your actual location (such as GPS signals sent by a mobile device) or information that can be used to approximate a location (such as a cell ID)."
What do you risk in allowing your apps to use your GPS data? Research and find at least three practical responses, tips that can be used, and respond below. Be sure to include your sources.
"To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services. For example, we may share geographic location with application providers when you opt in to their location services."
Google's Fine Print:
"Google offers location-enabled services, such as Google Maps for mobile. If you use those services, Google may receive information about your actual location (such as GPS signals sent by a mobile device) or information that can be used to approximate a location (such as a cell ID)."
What do you risk in allowing your apps to use your GPS data? Research and find at least three practical responses, tips that can be used, and respond below. Be sure to include your sources.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Solving the World's Problems by Playing
Could game playing be a problem-solving resource? There's much published on this concept. Watch the TED talk and find at least one additional source that speaks to the idea of how gaming can solve real-world problems. Post your findings and opinions below. The posting will close by April 14th.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Rubric - Best Device
Activity Description
Now that you're quickly becoming a new media guru, friends, family and people you don't even know will be asking for advice on what's the best new gadget for them. To prepare for this end you will identify a set of consumer values based on the needs of your client (corporate, finance, medical, communication), review the range of devices available specific to those needs and make a recommendation. Don't count out devices on the horizon. Brook Gladstone in her book indicates that the "propeller-heads over at the MIT Media Lab" project we'll soon be carrying our IT inside us as implants. *shiver*
Point Value: 200
Activity
Know your emerging market. Research development with Apple, Google, Facebook, anyone who is in or is considering entering the device market (and remember, the market is fluid, Google just sold MotoX). Understand that over a third, no that was last year, over two-thirds of internet activity is now happening via mobile devices, and respond to how device developers are responding to consumer values.
Those values are:
- Convergence: Access, Utility, Fair Value
- Consumerism: Choice, Convenience, Performance
- Interactivity: Individualism, Control, Security
- What 's the influence of technological determinism with this device?
- How do consumer values drive market paradigm shifts?
Make your recommendation on your blog, due the end of February.
Here's an idea:
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eLibrary
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I met with a good friend and former student Friday afternoon. His name is Danny Lasko, and if there were one person who personified the outcomes of this social media emphasis, it would be him.
He wrote and self-published, The Children of Hamelin, which he describes as a young adult dystopian fantasy and fairy tale. Up to the point of reading Danny's book, I didn't know what dystopian meant.
If you're a fan of Hunger Games you'll eat this up along with many of his fans awaiting the prequel. Amazon.com describes the book.
"After soundly throttling The Escape National Champions, seventeen year-old Horatio Gaph is approached by a short, stubby creature delivering a curious box wrapped in nine pieces of brown paper and smelling like...peppermint. Inside, a somewhat plain, somewhat boring music pipe and a note requesting its return, but with no return address. While working to unravel the origin of the music pipe, Horatio learns baffling truths about himself and his family-that he is a descendant of the Children of Hamelin, the famed boys and girls led away by the notorious Pied Piper.
"Horatio Gaph teams up with Annie Walker, his girlfriend with an extraordinary gift for music and Linus Sob, a fairytale know-it-all. They discover clues and instruction in the writings and actions of L. Frank Baum, the Brothers Grimm, JM Barrie, and Lewis Carroll that not only suggest that the fairy tales told by these men are real, but the delivery of Horatio's music pipe will dramatically change the nature of this world's existence.
"In a thrilling race around the globe, Horatio, Annie and Linus seek the four keys that will unlock the secrets of the music pipe while being pursued by the fierce, apocalyptic government, The Synarch, and the powerful, mysterious group known as the Wizards, an organization hell-bent on stopping Horatio from returning the music pipe to its proper owner. Unless Horatio can solve the fantastic riddles before being caught or worse, the truths about these fairytales-and the unrealized potential of this world-will forever be lost.
"The Children of Hamelin is a blistering-paced, thoughtful Young Adult adventure that keeps readers guessing through its explosive conclusion."
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My first experience with him was as a competitor on my forensic team. Danny interpreted a piece I wrote, "Think I'll East Some Worms," prose that extolls the plight of the average white American male. He shook up audiences with his interp, polarizing opinions and evaluations alike. Judges loved him or hated him.
He's taking a big risk with Children of Hamelin. Self-publishing is no small feat, especially with paperback distribution. But he's been able to capitalize on an eBook trend in using Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing. While there's a price in doing so, exclusivity and 70% return, the service is free and better yet, Danny's getting paid monthly.
So, he's in print and he's in ePrint, reaching distribution goals not just through sales but through KDP's lending program, a loaning trend much like you'd find at our local library.
But not everyone's eager to market stories based on a lending paradigm, the very one upon which this nation's literacy could be attributed.
Alex Alben explains in his The Seattle Times Od-Ed:
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Technological Determinism
Think for a minute how different life would be without internal combustion, that wonderfully caustic concept of horsepower. If you removed the technology of the automobile from our society, how would it be different?
Technological determinism is the idea that a society's technology drives the development of its cultural and social contexts.
"Technology marches in seven-league boots from one ruthless, revolutionary conquest to another, tearing down old factories and industries, flinging up new processes with terrifying rapidity."
-Charles Beard
How would food be different without the influence of the automobile? While the sandwich is rooted in seventeenth century English origins, I'd venture it was the car that made it a hit, along with the hot dog and the hamburger. Where would fast food be without the car? Where would any food be? We'd still be agrarians.
Mobility technology shaped the planet. More than that, though, it fostered mankind's most feared and least understood attribute, the ego.
Technological determinism asserts that technology is a "key governing force in society." Internal combustion certainly validates the notion. But, I'd have to assert that regardless the social and cultural impacts of the automobile, I'm still the one in the driver seat.
What is it about technology and paranoia? 2001: A Space Odyssey introduced the innocuous Hal. The Terminator series paints a grim view of technology and the future. The Matrix, my goodness, we're all copper tops. What is it about human nature that vilifies technology?
Enter New Media. Talk about terrifying rapidity. What's most terrifying is shelling out bank as an early adopter for TNBT offering knowing full well that something better is right around the corner. Has technological determinism entrenched social communicative values or are we still in the driver's seat?
Please respond on your blog.
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