Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Bibliography

  1. Guidelines for HE progress files, 2001, para 28
  2. Connected but not alone,2012, Ted Talk ,02/12, 05:57, 12:04, 10:07
  3. Murray schafer
  4. Alien. Dir Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon. PerfsTom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver. Film. 20th centurary fox, 1971
  5. Personal development planning: guidance for institutional policy and practice in higher education , Quality Assurance Agency, 2009, page 6
  6. Jaschik, S. “Academically Adrift,” Inside Higher Ed, January 18.- Paragraphy 2, bulletpoint one and two.
  7. Personal development planning: guidance for institutional policy and practice in higher education , Quality Assurance Agency, 2009.
  8. Webster, F. “The information society revisited,” from S. Livingstone and L. Lievrouw (eds.), Handbook of New Media, (London: SAGE, 2006),
  9. Avoiding plagiarism,” Philosophy Freak, YouTube, March 15, 2010
  10. “Why can’t I just Google?” YouTube, February 9, 2010
  11. “Harvard Referencing Style,” Edge Hill University, 2011, page 8,9,11
  12. Kellehear, A, The unobtrusive researcher, (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1993), page 3 and 8
  13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6EU0DRdPUk&feature=youtu.be
  14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIm2lZIl36I&feature=player_embedded
  15. http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html
  16. http://marvel.com/games/play/31/create_your_own_superhero
  17. Pickup, H. 13/03/2012. i.e: https://twitter.com/madeforpickup
  18. Aryes, P. 21/05/2012 http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150904585789250&set=a.168063814249.118388.759759249&type=3&theater
  19. Weymouth, A. 02/10/2012 https://twitter.com/ashley_weymouth / https://twitter.com/ashley_weymouth/status/253180243827904512
  20. http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html

Sunday, 14 October 2012

WEEK FIVE - METHODS



WEEK FOUR- SOUND



    A rap in class: about the course and others issues such as faceless racists and her interprtation on scholarship:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6EU0DRdPUk&feature=youtu.be, 17/10/2012



Video recorded some sound... and will ask a few students around Hollins Halls of residence to draw on paint there interpretation of whats going on: THIS CAN BE CLASSED AS A UNOBTRUSIVE RESEARCH METHOD





Scarlett Owen


                                                               Podcast on sound:

WEEK THREE - Visual literacy



Sherry Turkles: the Goldy locks effect: This is where two people cant get enough of each other, by texting! the person is at a distance and they can control how much you talk to them/when to stop- this is what people love, you can control it! I think this is bad, since people don't know how to have a conversation in real life without deleting/edit a text message but having a conversation that has no control, we swap conversation for connection! this doesn't do well with child development/ growing up. - Connected but not alone,2012, Ted Talk ,02/12 http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html,: 05:57

"we expect more from technology- rather from each other" because we become lonely, technology is our xscape. - Connected but not alone,2012, Ted Talk ,02/12 http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html : 12.04.



Visual Literacy is us as a person decoding:
  •  text
  •  images - anchorage, words anchor images.
  • cinematography
  • Objects

Which others have encoded with typical codes and conventions which relate to the genre or narrative.

If we watch a love film or a horror film for example, we see the same thing happen over and over.
Love film: couple break up/or get together-- someone gets in the way -- the original couple is always back together in the end
Horror films- the protagonist defeats the antagonist somehow.
But if we didnt see these typical story lines, how would we react? would we feel satified?

We can also neglect things we dont want too see (Deterrorization):
  • Spiders- we block it out on TV/cinema/real life
  • being outside your body - a digital life online (fake/real: runescape, facebook, world of warcraft- all big distractions for every day life!)
We learn more:
  • real life experiences rather than watching TV or the news!
Because directors show us what they want us to see, sometimes using propagranda.The more we hear or see something the more we believe it, this is why I believe strongly of propaganda and the influence it has on mass audiences.

Cinema Verite: (reality TV)
  • Funny
  • See people react in a strange envroment
  • No technology
  • To exscape from reality
  • Looking into someone elses life
  • Relate to that person
  • Curiousity

Digital story telling??
Creative non-fiction??

Facebook/twitter

  • "good to have a lot of friends"
  • have people you do not know or barely know/met- pointless? but you will still add/accept there friend request
  • privacy concern
  • something that is growing on twitter is becoming "twitter famous"

Why So Many Followers
Pickup, H. 13/03/2012. i.e: https://twitter.com/madeforpickup
David Blanchard 17/10/2012 i.e: http://marvel.com/games/play/31/create_your_own_superhero
A Classic Text Message Conversation

WEEK ONE- Arum and Roska / PDP

 
 
My opinion/ short intro:
 
The questions:
  • Do you think your school prepaired you for university?
  • Do you think your prepaired for university?
  • Do you think you will learn much out of your degree?
  • Why do you think some people think its controversial to go to univeristy? (changed the question since the people I am asking do not know/have learned about  Arum and Roska's report)
  • In Arum and Roska's report they found 45% didnt find improvements in learns over two years of college and 36% found no improvement in learning over 4 years of college- Jaschik, S. “Academically Adrift,” Inside Higher Ed, January 18, 2011, Paragraphy 2, bulletpoint one and two. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/18/study_finds_large_numbers_of_college_students_don_t_learn_much.  Also states that there concerns lie within students clubbing and drinking when actually a lot of time is spent doing coursework and working at a part time job.
 

LISTEN WITH HEADPHONES/TURN VOLUME UP

 


                                                       First person: Mark Handratty, 21.
 
Second Person: Holly Craven, 19
 
 
 
 Others:
 
 
RESULTS:
 
 
 
 
 
I had a look on moodle at the ePDP and saw a template for me to fill in, I created my own because I feel is much more personal too me and the course I am doing.
 
This ePDP is to help me
  • Grow as a person/individual
  • Help me get the support I need from my pears and lectures
  • find out specificly what im doing wrong and where
  • See what my weaknesses are and my strengths- then apply my stregths to overcome my weaknesses
  • See were my main focus areas are- where I avoid/stay within the box, rather than going that extra mile to get/think outside the box!
 
What I think now of my course/ PDP at University Level
(sorry for pausing a lot I have the book up online + paragraphs and quotes all over a word document!)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Where am I now




one thing I have missed from my ePDP, is another weakness of mine is being too scared to try out new mediums/ways of presenting work etc- because im scared of trying out something new then failing- I have already over come this weakness as Iv done a few podcasts (sort of) on this blog posts! This is something iv never done before.


Doc1

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

WEEK TWO- Information Society / plagiarism

brian wansinks

The web 2.0 helps us:
  •  as ameatures become professionals within the media industry
  • social networking sites as youtube for film/singing
  •  flicker/instragram for our photography
These sites offer cheap films/podcasts and photos outside expensive studios and photoshop. 
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Facebook ameature Picture: Flashlight
  • simple idea but unique in her own way.
  • the darkness within the picture shows she wants to be hiden, insecure?
  • Makes the image very mysterious...
  • Uploading this photo gets her quick likes, shares and feedback helping her to improve her work.

Aryes, P. 21/05/2012  http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150904585789250&set=a.168063814249.118388.759759249&type=3&theater

Social networking sites good points:
  •  Are portable to use use from different mediums
  •  Quickly create an idea/photo/video/opinion
  • This also advertises for free our work and cheaply created.
  •  This can relate too the music industry as well, since Justin Beiber got famous over youtube.

Safety and Privacy:
  • People out there can easily make a duplicate identity of ourselves and either start trolling online, or stealing ideas and images we have taken
  •  Cant do anything about this when the person is on the other side of the world and they steal an image of theres, and use it for personal gain such as a coursework assignment.
  •  These issues have been raised by the government and are starting to issue some sort of ban on social networking sites on how much information is too much.
  • Reading such stories online about people writing how they are out of a long walk or meal- a burglar on your facebook now knows your not home?
  • Social networking sites are now just starting to fight back by letting US control the site, what we want people to see, adding our facebook friends into groups and choosing what group you want to see an image, an image you DONT want your boss to see? Also by letting us report abuse and trolling when we come across it.

  • she would get retweeted or favourite/quoted by another user, within minutes even if your not friends with the girl you can see her tweet
  • This can be a privacy concern.
  •  The tweet states she just saw a child at the age of 9 years old with a blackberry, which can be very controversial when it comes to children and technology, how young is too young?
                                                                Social networking:





                                                      Wikipedia:



GOOGLE SCHOLAR:

 
 
Thoughts on google scolar and summory of wiki:


                                            Plagiarism:

  • Always cross reference to check the info is correct
  • use harvard referencing
  • Dont always secondary reference/citation it is a poor academic standard-
    “Harvard Referencing Style,” Edge Hill University, 2011, page 11, para 1.