So we kicked off week three with a two hour screening of Alphaville. The opening scene started and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Here I was in the year 2008, watching a black and white, 1960's film in some foreign language. Yes, we had to read captions the whole way through. I'm pretty sure the language was split between French and German? I found it hard to stay focused; occasionally I would find my self day dreaming about what to pack for my Easter trip to Sydney! Then I thought to my self, I better stay focused and try to figure out what this film has to do with New Communication Technologies? I honestly had no idea.
From what I could comprehend of the film, the main connection to our course was the idea and concept of new technologies. A major aspect of the film was revolutionary ideas of what technology will be like in the future. The 1964 film displayed ideas and concepts of what technology will be like in the future and what impact it could have on society. Could an innovative giant computer, known as Alpha 60 in the film control society in the future? Well today in 2008, computers do, to some extent control peoples lives. To the degree where people have stated “I could not live without my computer or mobile phone or the internet”.
In our week three tutorial we got together with other students and we discovered how to add ‘friends’ to our blogs. After some trial and error Courtney figured it out and showed me how to add friends to my blog. Now I have four friends – Courtney, Aleisha, Eve and Chantelle! I look forward to reading their blogs every week!
Our blogging task is to explain how we use new communication technologies to communicate with our friends and family. Well I guess it’s different for each person. My friends and I communicate a lot through myspace, facebook and text messaging. Whereas, for my family I mainly use text messaging, instant messenger and phone calls. Although it has changed over time, I used to use instant messenger for friends, but as technology changed and myspace became the 'in thing' I started using comments on myspace to connect with my friends. As for my family, mainly being my parents, I have only in the past year or so began to use instant messenger with them. The reason being is they are a bit behind with the times I guess. Who knows maybe in a few years my mum and dad will have myspace or facebook?
Now to summarise the reading for this week on French New Wave:
My understanding of French New Wave is the evolution of the French film industry, which peaked between 1958 and 1964. It was the development of new filiming techniques such as, jump cuts, shooting on location, natural lighting, improvised dialogue and plotting, direct sound recoring and long takes. Many of these techniques are still used today, but back in the late 1950's and early 1960's they were groundbreaking.
Have a nice Easter Break! See you all in week 4!
Alyce.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Blog 1
Introducing me, Alyce Jayne Elliott. I am a 21 year old Journalism student at Griffith University and I am a casual news presenter for 105.7 Radio Metro. You can listen in every Wednesday at 4 O'clock to hear my news bulletin. For this week’s blog I will endeavour to explain the world of ‘Second Life’ and examine email phishing. I will also analyse blogging and if it is journalism?
So what is this ‘Second Life’ we learnt about in our first lecture? For those of you who don’t know, Second Life is an internet based virtual world, it enables users to interact with each other. Residents can explore, meet each other, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, create and trade items and services from one another, buy, sell and develop property and many more ‘real’ life like activities. It was launched in 2003 by Linden Research Inc. Since then approximately 13 million accounts have been registered, although a lot of them are inactive and some users have multiple accounts. In the lecture we watched a video clip which portrayed the great debate surrounding Second Life. It displayed the opinions of people for and against the idea of this ‘second life’. One main point being that chronic users of Second Life, should try getting a first life. Ideally it is up to the individual how much time and effort they want to spend in front of a computer screen.
In our second lecture we touched on this subject of ‘Email Phishing’Email phishing is when bulk email is sent to get money out of the receivers, other wise known as spam. We learnt that a lot of these types of emails appear to be from well known banks such as Commonwealth and Westpac. The sender uses the banks logo and requests the details of the receivers bank accounts. From a show of hands it was evident that almost everyone in the lecture theatre had received one of these emails at least once in there emailing life. Although, there were a handful of people who have never received a phishing email. Maybe those of us who are getting these emails daily, need to find out what spam filter thoes people are using.
Other than the lectures we had tutorials and readings which extended our understanding of blogging. Before New Communication Technologies, I thought blogging was just used as an online diary. Now I have a greater understand of blogging and how much it can impact readers. We even come across the debate ‘is blogging journalism?’ or are ‘bloggers, journalist?’ This is still an ongoing debate and honestly I believe it comes down to your own individual understanding and opinion. Either way, journalists and bloggers inform their audience on what they feel are important issues. Essentially blogging offers an ideal format for some aspects of the craft of Journalism. It can be seen as journalism in the form of entertainment.
That’s it for week two. I wonder what I will learn in week three?
Alyce Elliott
S2638654
So what is this ‘Second Life’ we learnt about in our first lecture? For those of you who don’t know, Second Life is an internet based virtual world, it enables users to interact with each other. Residents can explore, meet each other, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, create and trade items and services from one another, buy, sell and develop property and many more ‘real’ life like activities. It was launched in 2003 by Linden Research Inc. Since then approximately 13 million accounts have been registered, although a lot of them are inactive and some users have multiple accounts. In the lecture we watched a video clip which portrayed the great debate surrounding Second Life. It displayed the opinions of people for and against the idea of this ‘second life’. One main point being that chronic users of Second Life, should try getting a first life. Ideally it is up to the individual how much time and effort they want to spend in front of a computer screen.
In our second lecture we touched on this subject of ‘Email Phishing’Email phishing is when bulk email is sent to get money out of the receivers, other wise known as spam. We learnt that a lot of these types of emails appear to be from well known banks such as Commonwealth and Westpac. The sender uses the banks logo and requests the details of the receivers bank accounts. From a show of hands it was evident that almost everyone in the lecture theatre had received one of these emails at least once in there emailing life. Although, there were a handful of people who have never received a phishing email. Maybe those of us who are getting these emails daily, need to find out what spam filter thoes people are using.
Other than the lectures we had tutorials and readings which extended our understanding of blogging. Before New Communication Technologies, I thought blogging was just used as an online diary. Now I have a greater understand of blogging and how much it can impact readers. We even come across the debate ‘is blogging journalism?’ or are ‘bloggers, journalist?’ This is still an ongoing debate and honestly I believe it comes down to your own individual understanding and opinion. Either way, journalists and bloggers inform their audience on what they feel are important issues. Essentially blogging offers an ideal format for some aspects of the craft of Journalism. It can be seen as journalism in the form of entertainment.
That’s it for week two. I wonder what I will learn in week three?
Alyce Elliott
S2638654
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