Digital content vs television (essay, 3rd topic)

Co-existence of television and YouTube

By Samantha Miller

“We are living through the largest expansion of expressive capability in the history of the human race and it wouldn’t be a revolution if there were no losers,” stated Clay Shirky (2007), New York University professor in the graduate interactive telecommunications program. Creative skills used to produce television shows were once developed by professionals but now digital content has replaced these skills. Digital content has enabled amateurs to produce television shows similar to those produced by highly skilled professionals. Further the amateur productions are created in a shorter time-frame, with less expense. Consequently, television shows, as an area of expertise, has become a hobby, leaving professionals to lose income, employment or production as the competition between professionals and amateurs becomes fierce.

Television professionals have worked to develop their skills in production but these skills have been replaced by digital media. Professional is defined as “relating or belonging to a profession” where profession refers to “an occupation that requires extensive education or specialized training” (Macquarie, 2004, pg. 1491). Therefore, in television a professional is a person who has extensive education or training in producing television, they could be classed as anything between an actor, director, writer or even best boy electric. Television show professionals have a long history with television being introduced to the world on January 26th 1926 when John Logie Baird demonstrated the first working television (R.W. Burns, 2000, pg. xi). The first ever television show was released in America in 1928, by Mortimer Stewart titled ‘the Queen’s Messenger’ IMBD: the Queen's Messenger (IMBD, updated 2009). After this television shows evolved with digital media, even adapting to DVD’s after they originated in 1997 (Nicholas, 2009). During this time professionals have struggled with costs, time and competition yet it is digital media, such as YouTube which has created the most hardship. ‘New York times’ blogger, Melissa Lafsky (2007), refers to the crisis in a recent article, ‘Is web really hurting TV?’.

“The current conventional wisdom is that the rise of Internet video may mean the end of television as we know it... much of the TV industry’s anxiety is based on the assumption that entertainment viewership is a zero-sum game — i.e., if more people are watching programming online, then fewer are left to watch TV.”blog

With digital media still evolving predictions have been made that there might not even be a future for television shows as amateurs use digital media (teevio, 2008).

The internet has been in constant evolution since its conception in the 1960’s until the most recent unveil of Microsoft’s windows 7(Webopedia, 2007). With the internet other digital media has evolved such as phones (the iphone or the smart phone). In the evolution of all of these products it soon became possible for amateurs to record anything for it to be uploaded onto the internet. The next step for digital media is creating a format to be viewed on the wide screen television, completely replacing television shows. “If people start demanding to see these “homemade” movies in a different format, on a larger screen, I’m sure someone will figure out the means to do so” (Teevio, 2008). Previously it was the music industries turn to battle with losing customers to online music downloading but now it is television professionals turn to battle with amateurs that were once consumers of their work due to the effect of digital media upon the world.

Digital media has enabled amateurs to produce content, previously only done by professionals. An amateur, defined as somebody with limited skill or knowledge of an activity (Macquarie, 2004, pg. 53), uses digital media, such as smart phones, software or handy cams, to create television shows which can then be shown to an audience through YouTube or other such sites. An example of this is the popular storm trooper which is shown as a series on YouTube . This show, which is a play on the television show cops and star wars, has many viewers but it is shown in low quality and is cheap to produce, also YouTube is currently a free program where amateurs can upload videos without cost. Digital media, such as the smart phone, have given amateurs a cheap way to film television shows. Although the smart phone in particular is still facing some developmental issues, such as sound, videos can still be produced such as ‘mankind is no island’, filmed all from a smart phone. Due to YouTube also being free to view many consumers have moved from television shows to the alternate amateur productions.

There are two arguments regarding the ability of television show professionals and amateurs to co-exist; the first is that television will fail as it loses its audiences to amateurs and the second is that amateurs actually aid television shows. The first argument is based upon ratings. Television shows are based on ratings (Smith 2008). It is a fact that digital content has enabled amateurs to create cheap, online versions of television shows, or webisodes as shown during the television off-season, and it is believed, although not proven, that the decrease in overall television viewing is due to the online alternate. The second argument believes that being able to watch television online increases viewers. Television shows such as ‘Heroes’ or ‘Lost’ are written in a way that missing one episode could mean missing the whole season, the internet provides a way to watch that missed episode (Gahr 2007). The debate between the two will only be proven over time as either television shows dissipate or evolve.

Creative skills, once necessary to producing television shows, have become irrelevant as digital content has replaced it. Digital content has enabled amateurs to produce television shows, more efficiently then before, similar to those produced by highly skilled professionals. Consequently, television shows, as an area of expertise, has become a hobby, enjoyed by amateurs, leaving the television show industry to lose income, employment or production as the competition between professionals and amateurs becomes fierce. “Video cameras and editing software are getting less and less pricey. It won’t be long before some geeky kid can put his well-made clip next to a movie trailer and actually show it up…” (Teevio, 2008).

Reference List

Books/ Journals:

1. Shirky, C., in Carr, D., 2007, ‘the media equation: the 24 hour people’, the New York Times, New York.

2. Burns, R.W., 2000, ‘John Baird, television pioneer: volume 28 of history of technology series’, IET, Scotland.

3. Macquarie, 2004, ‘international English dictionary: complete and unabridged edition’, Pan Macmillion Australia Pty Limited, Australia.

4. Nicholas, J., 2009, ‘from big screen to small screen’, lecture: new communication technologies, Griffith University, Gold Coast campus, Australia.

Online/ journal sources:

1. IMBD, updated 2009, ‘the Queen’s messenger’, IMBD movies, accessed 12/10/2009, from

2. Lafsky, M., 2007, ‘Is the web really hurting television’, new york times online: freakonomics, as accessed 12/10/2009, from

3. Teevio, 2008, ‘Will YouTube and friends kill television’, teevio: josh, accessed 12/10/2009, from

4. Smith, S.A., 2008, ‘How the internet has affected television viewing’, Helium: know what you want, Accessed 12/10/2009, From

5. Gahr, E., 2007, ‘how the internet has affected television viewing’, Helium: know what you want, Accessed 12/10/2009, from

6. Webopedia, 2007, ‘Brief timeline of the internet’, Webopedia, accessed 12/10/2009, from

Embeddings/Links:

1. ‘Storm troopers’, embedding taken from the online service YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MMAoOPa0Pg&feature=PlayList&p=C9F8F06D275AA19B&index=1

2. ‘Mankind is no island’, embedding taken from the online service YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrDxe9gK8Gk

3. ‘Timeline’, link to an online timeline of the history of internet: http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/timeline.asp

4. ‘the Queen’s Messenger’, link to IMBD, information on the first ever television show: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378625/

5. ‘is the web really hurting television’, link to an online blog by new York times: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/is-web-video-really-hurting-tv/

lecture and tutorial week seven

tutorial: ireport (load a fake news report after filming it on a mobile phone onto ireport)

lecture: Jason's lecture on freeware

This lecture is really simple to explain, we learnt what freeware is, where to find it, what to look for and how to use it. Freeware is pretty much free computer software which can be downloaded (not to be confused with openware which is software that can be edited). You can find fareware many ways. One way of finding freeware is by googleing it, this shows various freeware programs but it also may show software that needs to be brought or freeware that doesnt do what you want it to do. A better way to find freeware in to go onto one of the many sites that shows freeware and search through that. What to look for is obvious, just search for the particular thing that you want your software to do for you. lastly using this software is a bit more complicated. sometimes the site where you downloaded this from shows instructions, sometimes you look for a forum to show you how, sometimes you find a tutorial and sometimes you figure it out by playing around with it.

censorship and democracy

in last week's lecture for news and politics we were shown a scale. on the left side of this political scale was left wing beliefs such as communism etc and on the right side was beliefs such as nazism (or whatever that is) etc. Australia (as a labour democracy) sat close to the center but swinging to the right side. censorship is purely a right wing belief so how can Australia be both a democracy and way over near being nazi's (do we even want to be associated with that?). so i believe no, there is no place for censorship in a democracy (well at least not a good one).

essay topics

ok, after looking over all of the topics for the online essay i chose:

3. Digital media put the tools of production into the hands of the everyday computer user making it incredibly easy to produce content. These creative skills used to be something that people worked to develop. Now it appears that amateurs can produce content of a fair standard within a relatively short period of time. Where does this leave 'professionals' and highly-skilled artists? Choose one area of creativity and discuss some of the challenges facing practitioners vs amateurs in producing digitalcontent.

the reason i chose this is because i plan to go into film (film critic) and i was brought up on moving images (even though im only 17 and havent really grown up yet). and for this topic and don't know what my opinion is. i admire people like m.night shamalon and quentin tarentino but at the same time i think its good that poor people can reach that goal as well through new communication technologies. i think i will enjoy deciding which side im on...or jsut writing the essay from no point of view but an equal one.

downloading freeware

ok i recently brought a multimedia iriver (because they are way cooler than ipods :), although i can't wait til i get a mac computer) so i decided to download a program that will convert my downloaded flv youtube videos to avi which can then be added to the iriver. this was easy because i just googled 'convert flv to imc' and it came up with a list of downloadable programs. the hard part was finding the free ones. i eventually found one that was free but i put a watermark on the videos so i kept looking til i found one that worked. i found it really easy to use and it didnt suck up the internet as some downloads do (my mum is really concious of that) so i belive it was worthwhile (ive now got a whole bunch of youtube videos on my iriver whooo). i also think i will use freeware more often now.

third video embed

ahhahaha, ok well i chose this clip of the numa numa man for my third video. I chose this one because this random guy, obviously kinda geeky, was unknown (by anyone but friends and family) but after this clip he became slightly famous. He realesed this clip of him doing a rendetion of the song by European 'o-zone' and suddenly became the famous numa numa guy and he got quite a bit of money out of it all. Not only is it funny i think it summarises what technology has become, people becoming famous for no reason and using new communication technologies to do it...watch it its funny....

Second video embed

ok for my second video i chose 'star' which is apart of the hire series. We were shown this is class and i thought it was helarious so i watched all of them, of course i found this one the funniest. The reason i have chosen to embed this video is because it is an add, filmed by a professional movie director with professional actors, but it is only an add. I think this shows new communicaiton technologies, as we have learnt this year, and shows what technologies we have had for decades can become, eg, television adds becoming online short films.

1st video embed

This is my first chosen video. This video is titled 'gossip girl cast come to the rescue'. It was created and posted by Kristen Bell and a not-for-profit organisation called Invisible Children. This organisation is run by young adults, most of whom are celebrities such as Ryan and Amy Hanson and Kristen Bell. And because they are young and famous the use of youtube (where it was posted) is extremly useful. Many young people watched their celebrities as they supported of this organisation and the effect was proven by the huge increase in public support. I think it is youtube and the internet that made it possible and without this use of technology, well the child soilders in Africa would not have the support Invisible Children can now offer. Some might think that consumers shouldn't become ametur producers but this is one reason why it would be good.
xoxo (hehehehehe)

clean feed

i recently wrote a news article for my news and politics class about a d-notice. a d-notice is like a clean feed only more offical. national security can actually ban mainstream media from publishing stories or they can delay them. the government can do this because we are in a state of war (really!). The government should not have this power, as a 1984 novel 'big brother' points out. This new communication technology is a step of advancing knowledge and developing new technologies. Censoring the internet (and the d-notice) will only create a feeling of resentment towards the government and people will put all their efforts into hacking past the censor. This course has taught me the importance and the advantages of new communication technologies and i know that the government should not do this.

Peter Young in parliament? try Steven Ciobo

ok my local member is Peter Young and he is a counsellor and doesn't actually go to parliament for speeches but Steven Ciobo does speeches there all of the time so i looked up his most recent.
This is a blog on his website which shows his most recent speech in parliament (also his maiden speech):
http://www.stevenciobo.com/mediahub/default.aspx?p=2&pa=6

i told him that i agree with the speech. He is a liberal (as am I) and from what i've heard he is a pretty decent guy...
http://www.stevenciobo.com/contact/default.aspx

political representatives

local: division 5, Peter Young
state: Gaven, Dr. Douglass
federal: Moncrieff, Steven Ciobo
(all answers courtesy of my 2nd yr law sister, thank God for them)

what's Prez Obama up to 2day?

http://wonkette.com/411119/barack-obama-was-doing-this-today

haha Barack Obama is planning a new olympic sport of light saber fighting hehehehehehe (not really but he is playing with one today according to this website)

reply to professional news site blogger

my comment under my nickname 'salami'. to this site......
http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2009/09/vladimir-putin-scores-major-victory-as.html?dsq=17085283#comment-17085283

E-petition

I signed a e-petition about electricty over wires:

this is info about the petition i signed: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/Accept.aspx?PetNum=1290&ID=p%2f1G4rxTymA%3d&lIndex=-1

this is a thankyou for signing the e-petition: https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/Confirmation.aspx?PetNum=1290&lIndex=-1

lecture number 6

lecture number 6,

Consumption and Production,

Consumption (Big screen)

• Cinema (shared experience)
• P.C. (private/ shared)
• T.V. (shared/ private)

(small screen)

• Personal media player (IPOD)(consumer on-the-go but have to fill)
• Mobile phones (IPOD touch, smart phones, consume on-the-fly, don’t have to fill)
  

Production

• Mobile production (www.ireport.com) send in videos taken from mobile phones.
• Film (consumers (star wars fans) – producers (troops). Fan edits/ phantom edits. www.fanfilms.net
• Mashup – re genre (www.thetrailermash.com)- re cut

(Shared experience refers to that form of technology being a group activity whereas private experience refers to that form of technology being a solo activity).

P.S. in next weeks tutorial we will be uploading fake news stories after we record them on our phones.

tute week 5 savenger hunt

ok three qs from the nct blog (anwers not from google and all cant be from wiki)

1. longest giraffe tongue is what length? the longest is recorded at 53cm....wow
(using http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question107669.html which was found through yahoo hehehe)

2. why do phone numbers in hollywood start with 555? because the keys kjl cant make up any land word
(a girl in my pr class mentioned it today after doing it herself whoot)

3. for what band does Stephen Stockwell do keyboards and vocals? Stilerites
(his blog http://stilgherrian.com/film/finally-the-shave/)

Five sites from last weeks lecture

number one is: http://www.archive.org/index.php is the first one. now this one is actually pretty cool. you can put in any site and it not only tells you how long the site has been about but it shows you snap shots of the site through out the years. its pretty awesome to look at the changes from when html were hand written to now when programs do them, lol. check out yahoo http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://yahoo.com

number two is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites this one was so funny in the lecture. there is one site that this mentions 'elf world' and it is full of some weird people. This site is cool for that reason (the fact that it has elf world) and because you can look at all of the social networking sites (nd choose which you'll join)

number 3 is: http://blog.compete.com/2009/02/09/facebook-myspace-twitter-social-network/ this one isnt cool as much as its just interesting. it just ranks the social networking sites. facebook is number 1, myspace is 2 and twitter is 3. Jason (in the lecture) predicted that twitter will go 2 number 2 and then drop. he also mentioned that specialised sites (elf world) will start taking over.

number 4: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php ok im really into this one. it is a link to a map which shows all emergency and disaster sites around the world. It is so awesome cause it acts at the news (telling you what is happening at the exact instant it happens) without the annoying news editing (which cuts the good bits and isnt as raw, even tho i want to be a journalist). wow! right now a 4.5 earthquake hit China, far out :)

number 5: http://www.speedtest.net/index.php?nojs=1 this one is kinda weird (as in it seems useless but thats mainly because a. it goes a bit over my head and b. i dont much care). this link takes you to a site which allows you to ping other countries (cities or continents or something) and it times how long it takes for the data to be sent to the other computer. its kinda funny cause it says that we're in Sydney and because we're pinging real computers across the world.

View United States of Dreaming in a larger map

tutorial week 6

In this week's tutorial we did a lot of stuff, mainly things such as going onto the sites that Jason showed us during the week 5 lecture. The first thing we did was look up our names on some website. It scans all of the internet for traces of the names. This is a snap shot of the end traces of what the site found of my name. Next we made our own google maps. I decided to mark the main travel path i would like to take if i ever save up enough money to travel to the USA (and MEXICO). I added a picture to the New York marking of central park. After posting it (there is a copy of the map in the post under this). After this i drew a really dodgey anime girl on sketch cast (under this post there is a video of the drawing and the process that it took). Then lastly i spent the rest of the tutorial looking up separate websites and writing (in the post) about the usefulness of those sites. out of the list (displayed on the new com tech blog) i chose my five faourites.

Tutorials three, four and five

Due to long standing personal medical appointments i was not able to make these tutorials. But i went onto the new com tech blog and read what i missed, i also followed the directions as well and caught up on what i missed. I won't miss anymore classes and i really enjoy this course so im annoyed i missed it.

Tutorials three, four and five

Due to long standing personal medical appointments i was not able to make these tutorials. But i went onto the new com tech blog and read what i missed, i also followed the directions as well and caught

Lecture number 5

lecture number five for new com tech,

Jason Nelson screwing around,

This lecture was very raondom. I'm not sure what i learnt or what the topic was but Jason spent the hour talking about dot com boom/crash and showing us sites such as elf world. It was a really fun lecture that pretty much showed how funny and useful the internet can be (as well as being full of a lot of crap that makes it hard to find things). During the lecture we learnt that at 8.30 am there was a 2.1 earthquake in Alaska and it takes 900 pings to send data to Rwanda (which is apparently slow?). Jason also spoke about Cadbury owning google and its headquarters being in Tasmania (joke by the way). He told us about Woofer as well which is like the opposite of Twitter (first there was max 140 words and now there's mi 1400 words). We also found out we were in Sydney during the lecture and that Elf world has a lot of weirdos. The main thing we were told is that facebook is number one rank for social networks (although I prefer myspace) whereas myspace is number 2 and twitter has gone up from number 12 (last year) to number 3. Jason predicts that twitter will reach number 2 then drop and that specialised social networks (like elf world) while start rising.

lecture number 4

lecture number four for new com tech,

big screen to small screen (which is very very big anyways).
This lecture was set in the format of a timeline so i am uploading the lecture (with my own words as my own timeline) in a file/picture thingy, well i was going to but i cant work out how to, so copy and paste.

1895
Birth of cinema (first movies were 20min everyday things (people sneezing)
1906
First feature length narrative (made in Australia ‘Ned Kelly’)
1927
“Talkies”, first dialogue feature. Before this they had live orchestras
1929
First all colour recorded movie ‘I’m gonna show’. Before this movies were recorded in black and white and then coloured.
1933
First drive in theatre
1937
1st dialogue, singing, colour, full-length, commercially released animation ‘snow white’
1939
TV joined New York trade fair
1952
3. D (which the 4th final destination movie will be in whooot whoo)
1955
Movies on TV
1956
VTR (videos used by stations, not yet available till public)
1959
Tingler- time of percepto vision (things coming at you), electric jolts under chair (made people scream), aromo-rama (smells in front of air conditioner)
1963
VTC for public (only 30000 sold). Multiplex theatre, blockbuster movies at home.
1967
Sony made VCR and portopack, portably record images
1970
IMAX, as screens got smaller and smaller they made a huge one
1972
Pay TV
1985
First blockbuster video store
1986
First use of cgi, luxar by Pixar
1995
First full cgi toy story
1997
DVD’s released as format for movie watching
1972- 1997
Internet
2001
BMW driver series of 8 short films of 10 mins (watched them all, awesome)

Tutorial week three

i had an long standing apointment...?

Homework!

We were given homework after the lecture (week three), to watch a movie or episode and see if they follow these rules (shown in the blog before this) and the camera shots.

i chose to watch and episode of the old Australian drama, Blue heelers (actually i chose the first episode of the series). I focused on one scene, at the beginning where three of the main characters meet for the first time. When introducing these three characters close ups were used (for all three). An establishing shot (the long shot to show where) was used after first introducing the first two characters (mainly in order to bring in the third character and explain what the other two were doing. This establishing shot worked hard it showed where, when, why and how (two policemen radaring cars along the highway in the afternoon). This scene very much kept to the four rules as it showed the third charcter in her car. The camera was set so that the car framed her while keeping her in a close up but to the side of the camera with room to move. In all the rules were effective in adding to the meaning of that scene.
Sarmi Salami

Lecture number three!

Lecture number three for new com tech,

Understanding film! I was so looking forward to this week because film is my passion! Week three's lecture was all about shots (the shots taken to tell the story of a movie or television show, actually pretty much any piece with shots in it). There are various shots, the three main ones are: long shot, wide shot and close up. From these three shots other shots can be created such as a long long shot, medium long shot, mid shot, medium close up, big close up or extreme close up. Those in the business ( :) ) refer to these shots as ls=long shot, ws=wide shot or cs=close up, with m, l and e ect, standing for sizes. As with any written stiry a film must also show who, what, where, when and how. The w's (and h) can be shown through certain shots. Starting with who, as it is the most important part of a story (the characters make people want to follow the story), is usually shown by a close up. the close up shot shows the character in full detail. Secondly what is shown by a mid shot. this is because is shows the subject (who) performing an action. the mid shot can see the character and action in a single shot. where can be shown through a long shot. This shot is usually shown at the beginning and is commonly known as the establishing shot because it establishes where the next scene will be takiong place. The long shot is used because of distancing and because it can show the spacial relationships between characters (for example if they work together). When can be shown in various ways as it is hard to convey but the most common shots are the wide shot and the close up. A wide shot can show time through either displaying a setting sun (time of day) or by showing vechiles and buildings (time of year/ year). The wide shot can also convey a passing of time (camels walking over a horizon (jump shots can also be used to convey length of time (a person drinking coffee, eating, watch, drinking))). A close up can be used to show a watch of clock on the wall (time of day). Why can be show using the big close up. The big close up can focus of characteristics of the character such as their eyes, or on a photoframe. This can reveals the reasons (why) behind their actions taken throughout the piece. How can be shown by a single meduim close up or by a series of medium close ups. These close ups can show the method taken. There are four rules (guidelines) to keep in mind when shotting a scene. the first refers to headroom. The character must be put in the camera so that their head and body aren't cut off but so that they have some room to move. The second is talking room. It follows the same lines as headroom. In both of these guidelines they are used to allow the viewer to understand spacial relationships between characters and to make the scene more realistic. For example if the chacter is shown on the left edge of a shot they might seem to be talking to a brick wall or on the other side they may seem as if they are projecting their voices to far. simularly though these techniques can be used if two charcters are close or far away (to show distance). Next is the rule of thirds. If a shot has four lines drawn through it, two horizontally, two vertically, then there are four points of intersection. the subject should only ever cross two points of intersection and therefore will always be to the side of a scene as that is where the human eye is naturally drawn. lastly there is the 180 degree rule. This is important as ignoring it will confuse the viewer. when two characters share a scene there is an invisible line of sight. All of the scenes (camera angles) must be shot on only one side of this line. if is swaps over then the characters swap sides and confuse the audience. This rule can only be broken if the cameras movement to the other side is shown. In conclusion, each shot must serve a purpose, must drive the narrative in a way, each shot must say something new.

Sarmi Salami

lecture number two!

the second lecture for new com tech,

The second lecture for new com tech was taken by THE stephen stockwell. The topic was 'history of computing'. This lecture was interesting as it started on the topic of the enigma code and finished somewhere around mac vs pc. The most interesting part for me was seeing the inportance of computers (or the equivalent) during war times. The importance was mainly seen in Alan Turing, a man who was hired by England, as well as many others, as a puzzle breaker to 'crack the enigma code'. Turing devised a plan to produce a machine that somewhat mimicked the enigma code (called a bomb). The idea was that this would allow the English soliders to understand the code. this 'bomb' became the prototype of the modern computer. Stephen Stockwell also shared that Alan Turing commited suicide after the war because he was gay, and somehow no longer useful to anyone...This was after he also created and offered more inventions to the world. The transformation of the modern day computer/internet began with a huge non-portable machine, which then became smaller, then easier, then there was internet, then it was portable, now its all in a phone. The transformation was slow, but when you look back at what it started at, you can't help but be amazed by the genius behind the whole process.

Sarmi Salami

tutorial 2..gettin into the new com tech stuff...

The second tutorial for new com tech,

ok well the second tutorial for new com tech started great! we had free time to check emails while all the newbies caught up. I was so loved with emails/comment/notifications on facebook, myspace, twitter and hotmail....Anyway then we started actually learning things, so i logged off of all of my accounts (yes, all of them) and started work. our subject was convergence. me and the people either side soon found a simple definition and blogged it (can be seen down there>> as "it is convergence". After that we were to choose four new convergence technologies (two were to be communication types, such as phone or something like that). For me this was hard. Mainly because im not into new communication technologies so i have no clue what examples of new convergence technologies would be. after a google search i decided to choose my phone (a smart phone), a Japanese robot house cleaner, a mobilr wheelchair sort of thing that i saw on top gear (awesome show), and a voice control for an ipod (because my sister has one and im constantly mocking her for her laziness). It took me a while to load all the photos and place them where i wanted them...it didnt load the way i wanted but it worked ayways :). then we learnt how to edit web pictures. i choose to edit an i dog because they are sooo cute :). This was easy so i changed the picture then upoloaded a before and after blog...This showed the end of class and i logged off and left.
Sarmi Salami

Before and after of the idog

I DOG (for the ipod) >>>>>>

This is the before picture of an idog (the newest and most decorated version).












<<<<<<< I DOG
this is the after picture of my amazing i dog...whooot whoo

convergence technologies (4 examples)

this is a smart phone>>>>>>
or at least this particular brand is called a web slider. This phone was created to mirror all of the attributes of a computer, phone (both cellular and not) as well as a pda (aka. personal planner or assistant). It even has the numbers/letters set out as it would on a computer and when the slide is shut it can be touch screen.




<<<<<<<
ok well, now that we are to slack to actually move our finger around on the controls of any (new/old) ipod we can hook it up to the slightly bulky contraption and tell it which songs to play or what to do...nice and slack like the way which our generation appears to be heading lol....i wonder if you can yell instructions across a room?










Mobile wheelchair>>>>>>mobile wheelchair
As seen in top gear (amazing tv show) this is the new type of wheelchair. No it cant be driven on the road yet, but it'll happen....when it can go faster. But even though it is old granny speed Richard does enjoy it!

<<<<<<<>
>>>> house maid robot<
for those busy, lazy or useless there is now a little cute robot that can clean your house. convenient!

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It is convergence?

Simply put convergence can be best defined as two or more things coming (converging) together.

In technology and example of convergence can be seen as something such as a smart phone. it is a complex piece of technology which allows for all new communication technologies, such as internet, television, weather updates and games (as well as all of the old telephone uses), to be easily accessible as long as you have your phone on your persons. Convergence is simply the next step in technology overtaking the world, such as displayed in the action thriller 'pulse'.
Sarmi Salami

first lecture: surprise

The first lecture for new communications technologies, or new com tech,

I went to the first lecture for new com tech, even though it was at 8 in the morning and unless I'm working i try to sleep in until sometime past 9. This lecture, like the tutorial, was unlike what i had expected, or, you could say, stereotyped it as. It began with a run-threw of the course outline again but it focused on some points that weren't covered in the tutorial (such as the weekly topics). The time was also spent but discussing/explaining what new com tech (new communication technologies) really is. The lecture, and lecturer were both actually interesting and i was most surprised with the likeness between this class and styles and genres of journalism (which i took last semester). by this i refer to the outline of the development of technologies overtime and the effect of that. this was also discussed in styles and genres of journalism as most believe it is the transformation of the Internet that seems to be destroying the benefit of the standard newspaper. Communication technologies were grouped, beginning with oral and graphic technologies being classed as 'old'. the list also included written (newspapers or letters, which bridged gaps between people overseas), radio, telephone (land line), and television (the one way media). the list was finished with mention to the new technologies computer, Mobile phone and Internet and then it was seen how all three combine to create this world of technology allowing everything to be at ones fingertips. During this evaluation Josh Nicholas, the lecturer, asked surveillance questions, such as who has a mobile phone, or who has a smart phone. i was shocked to see how much of the new technologies i use in everyday life as i am seen as someone who is against to much modernisation in technology (such as events the erase the newspaper as i intend to be a journalist). i am also very computer illiterate yet as i realised I'm more advanced than most. The lecture only went for an hour but it was very surprising, both as a shock to what i had pre-assumed it would be like and as a shock to myself, as what i have assumed i was like. I really think I will like new com tech, even though i didn't want to do it at first.

Sarmi Salami

first tute: refreshing :)

First tutorial for new communications technology, or new com tech,

OK well coming into this course I assumed that it would be a somewhat technologically advanced class which would completely baffle me, leaving me with a barely passing grade. Yet as i realised in the first tutorial, it would be a step by step guide to all things considered as new technologies. Our class was taught by Kaya, who was able to guide us through each step of starting a GMail account and creating our first blog (which, as I am a pen and paper person not a computer person, is not small feat). The class began with a run-threw of the course outline, as seen on the learning at Griffith site. All assignments were explained, including the blog which we began that day. I'm not a blogger sort of person so at first i was unsure of what would be expected, but that was quickly explained. We then logged onto the computers, an apple computer which i have never used before, but we were guided by our tutor who showed us a mirror version on the projector screen of what we were seeing on our computers. Using FireFox we all created GMail accounts. this lead us straight to creating blogs. All of us were stumped when it came to choosing a display name and URL. the pressure was on us for it to be original and nothing to do with fluffy cats (as Kaya seemed to really dislike them). I choose Sarmi Salami as it is my nickname (due to me pronouncing my friends names wrong) for my display name and i choose mcpartygrl for my URL (because i work at McDonald's and I am the party Girl). We continued to edit some aspects of the web page and then it came time for picture choosing. I searched both my myspace and facebook accounts only to discover that i don't have any pictures of just me. So i just choose i recent picture and uploaded that. i then began to add all of the people sitting around me. As Kaya pointed out, when we were stuck we could ask them for help or look what they'd written, so i added as many people as possible. surprisingly i really enjoyed this class as i was able to follow everything unlike i had assumed would happen. Overall i think i will like New com tech (Kaya says the cool people shorten it).

Sarmi Salami!