Final Project

 

 Can Mobile Devices

Evolve Even More?

           

            Do you remember the days when you used to carry a cell phone around and it would be very heavy, wouldn’t fit in your pocket, or be bigger than a pocketbook that you would carry? Those days are long gone now with today`s cell phones being smaller, lighter, and faster than ever. The type of technology that we have put into our cell phones is astonishing considering the short time period we did it in.  The Future of Cell Phones discusses how far our cell phones have come in the last decade, and offers ideas of what might take place in the future. The one key element to the evolution of the cell phone is the 3G network. The 3G network is like a modem that makes your computer really fast except it’s in your phone. Today`s top cell phones such as Blackberry `s, and Iphones offer various applications such as games, cameras, video cameras, internet service, and much more. In the future, cell phones will be geared up to do much more than we could ever imagine. Also, as the 3G network evolves, it will allow video phones where you can watch your favorite shows while going to school, allow us to play video games with people across the world, and allow us to use a GPS wherever we are. All of these new systems in place will make the cell phone more valuable than ever before. The new devices can even help out our Digital Literacy class by enabling Skype onto the phone too. Besides consumer use, other areas such as Business have taken the initiative to include Smart phones into their everyday lives. Smart Phones make inroad to Business talks about how business is making smart phones part of their Information Technology Strategy more than ever before. Instead of just using phones for calls, and calendars, now they use them for e-mails, presentations, and other specifications made for business. Most business men today cannot work without their phones because they store so much information in them. All of these new tools can improve our everyday lifestyle, but the tool that can help us the most is Mobile Commerce.

            M-Commerce is the process of buying items right through your own cellular device. The process is amazing because the technology has evolved so much, and will continue to evolve over the years. With M-Commerce, people can go on the Internet through their phone and buy items from virtually any commercial retail store. Holiday Cyber Shopping 2008 shows us what stores have taken the initiative this holiday season to get people to buy through M-Commerce. Wal-Mart, Amazon, Sears, and Zappos all offer M-Commerce through their websites. Also, Amazon runs a program called “Textbuyit” where you can go to their website on your phone, order the product you want, and they will text you when it is ready to be picked up from the store you choose. Also, the program allows you to take a picture of a product and send it to the website in order to see if that store carries it. If they don’t, then they will show you similar products they have in stock. This new system of commerce has definitely helped out these stores and have made many people `s holiday shopping less stressful. M- Commerce has allowed people to spend less time shopping in the store, and less time shopping on their own computer.  It has also allowed us to create new secure ways of buying products, and making money transactions.

            In order to improve security for your M-Commerce, Giesecke & Devrient has brought the invention of the Smartcard to the table. They offer various cards that specify to your standards and these Smartcards offer unique abilities with microchips in order to make your transactions the safest possible. This type of transaction exists in Europe and Asia but should make its way over to the United States soon. The evolution of M-Commerce has brought on Banking and other large transactions in order to make our lives easier. Make Way for M-Commerce says that people want more security than the average credit card if they are going to make transactions over a phone. The article says that companies have answered and these Smartcards offer that security with Biometrics. Now, when you swipe this new card for any transaction, they will need an eye scan, a fingerprint, or voice recognition. This seems like something coming from a movie, but it will be coming soon too. These cards can be swiped into phones right now to make bank transaction, or shop online by using MobileSwipe.  The part attaches to your phone, plugs into your charger area, and allows you to swipe your card in order to make a transaction on your phone. Also, to integrate the smartcards into our cell phones in the future, we may not need a card at all. New Scientist Tech talks about Nokia and Visa creating a method where all you would have to do is to put your phone near a scanning device and it will read your phone and charge your account. They use this method over in Japan where it has been successful due to their advanced technology. This method sounds good, but how are we supposed to trust that our money will be safe and our personal information will be safe?

            In any electronic product, there will always be a threat of invasion or a threat of security because many people are greedy in this world. M-Commerce is no different than electronic commerce; products are bought online, and transactions are done online as well. As M-COMMERCE SECURITY mentions, there are three ways your security can be breached while using your phone to buy products. The first issue is transaction. We make transactions all the time on the computer and we make transactions in stores, but through mobile devices it’s a little more difficult. Some websites you visit may not have anti-virus protection and your money could be stolen in the blink of an eye. If you are not familiar with your phone and are doing transactions on it, then mistakes may come about too. Furthermore, BBC News M-Commerce Fraud Fears says that gaps exist in these mobile networks that can be easily breached in order to steal your money. The bandwidth, speed of the mobile network, isn’t strong yet. If you are in the middle of a transaction and you lose service then your money and information could be lost. The next issue is information. Information is held by the websites you make transactions with in order to buy a product. If the website is somehow breached, then hackers can steal your credit card numbers and other personal information that could lead to identity theft. Some websites we just can’t trust because they are not well known, they might not have a secure system of payment, or they might be a fake site just trying to your money. Finally, the Infrastructure in place for M-Commerce is not that secure right now causing all of these security issues with transactions, and stolen information. They need to work out some technological issues such as billing information, site certificates, and other technological problems before M-Commerce can be fully launched in the United States. Once M-commerce develops, I think overtime we will overcome these problems just like E-Commerce has overcome most of its obstacles. With any technology, change is on the way in order to make our lives more secure while using new cellular devices to make a transaction.

            BBC News M-Commerce Fraud Fears says that as long as our technology grows, there will always be some issues with security. We can make different systems and programs in order to stop or hinder the hacker’s attacks, but this will be an ongoing process that we will have to deal with. We all want new and improved technology, but sometimes that comes with a cost. As long as the consumer takes the initiative to make smart decisions on which websites they buy from, and take care of their personal information then we can overcome these security issues in order to enjoy M-Commerce, and to enjoy our new and improved Smart Phones.

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BBC News M-Commerce Fraud Fears                                                                                     

M-COMMERCE SECURITY

New Scientist Tech

Make Way for M-Commerce

Giesecke & Devrient

“Textbuyit”

Holiday Cyber Shopping 2008

Smart Phones make inroad to Business

The Future of Cell Phones

MobileSwipe

 

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Democracy, Politics, and Technology

Flickring here, Twittering there

The future of campaigning for office in the United States is changing. We all saw it change this fall when both Barack Obama and John McCain ran for president. They both used the internet for their advantages, but it seemed like Obama had a better sense of how to use it, what SNS `s to use, how to put up websites, and put up videos. That definitely helped him in winning because he drew a lot of support form the younger people. This will be the future of campaigning for any candidate for any political seat.

Do you think campaigning through the internet is the future, and how do you see campaigning evolving on the internet?

Obama Uses Text Messaging with an Eye on Nov. 4

At Invesco field in Colorado, around 70,000 people attended the Obama rally, and about half sent a text message that night that allowed the Obama team to get their numbers in order to spread the message of Obama`s campaign in order to get their vote. If they said yes to the message the nthey asked if they wouldsend th same message to their friends so Obama can get their numbers to spread the message even more, and this kept going on and on. This technique is very smart way of garnering support for your campaign and spreading your name around the country.

Do you like this new idea of spreading your name around the country, and what other technique would you use to spread your name through the internet during an election?

How much is Youtube worth to Obama and McCain?

Just by looking at the chart of how many hours Obama and McCain spent on campaigning on Youtube shows why Obama did better in the polls than McCain. Obama really reached out to the online community and the younger people online. McCain did not take advantage of youtube like his counterpart did and that probably hurt him because his message probably didnt get out as much or wasnt heard by as many in the online or younger people.

Do you think Youtube is the first place you would start campaiging if you ran for office, or would you start somewhere else?

Twitter: An Antidote to Election Day Voting Problems?

Twitter might be the answer to the voting problems, but it needs more time develop and more time for the average Joe to become familiar with it. They need to get familiar with it in order to trust it once election time comes around. Also in order to use it we will need Twitter to be able to collect votes and keep its speed up while millions of people try to vote. So the technology will need to improve as the article says. It would save us a lot of hassle with the states that dont have up to date voting technology and hold back votes on election night. For example, Minnesota had a huge problem with votes which was resolved finally and they put the Franken in the office after recounting votes. All of this might be resolved if we could vote over Twitter or some other computer device that can log a vote right away. Maybe it will happen in the future, but we will have to see.

Do you see Twitter as a way to solve all of our voting problems and to make it a more clean process?

The Daily Me

This article shows how general news stations, general newspapers, and any other general channel is slowly going away. We want to personalize everything we see, read, and even eat. If that means only reading sports and business, or just reading the conservative politics, or just reading the weather and food section; we are all changing or personalizing what we want. It is a freedom we have been given, and it makes it more difficult for candidates that we dont like, or papers that we dont like to break our barrier and influence us. The same with our TV, the new TIVO recording system allows us to watch what we want and avoid all other channels or views. This technology helps us to personalize our lives, and makes it hard for outsiders to influence us.

Does personalizing our lives make us have tunnel vision, only seeing the things we want to see?

Web of Activism

Viral Advertising can be an up and coming way of romoting things if more people join in to promote what they want. The tools are out there now for us the average person to make a case by putting a video online to stop a local problem. Like retail companies, we can promote a local school budget increase, a road paving to fix potholes case in order to fix problems we want to be fixed. We can use Youtube, Facebook to send out videos to our local towns people to get supporters. All you need to do is take the initiative and become an activist which is not hard to do this day and age.

Have you ever supported a cause from an online facebook group, joined a campaigners facebook group, or just support a local cause that used online help to promote it?

Perspective and Spacetime

Metaforas: Structure

As the times change, our technology will always be changing too. New computer, Tv`s, programs, systems will all emerge and we must be be able to adapt. Once we adapt we all need to be creative enough to use these new tools to the extent of their capabilities. We have always had a strugge with time and space. Time cannot be measured in physical tangible objects while space can. We can structure how we use our time and structure how we can manage space all the time. Thats how we create new things in the world, and manage to do things. As the the College example, they mangaged their time to design and observe how students want to walkon their campus, and then put that structure into the space or ground by putting down pathways. Measuring someones perspective is key when trying to improve orcreate anew object in order to get it right and fix the problem. The same goeswith Cyberspace to with how we created it by managing timeand space. Many artifacts are left behind to define past dynastiesspace and what they did during their time. Some say time is measured in intervals like past intervals of great dynasties while space is mediated and always recorded considering what happened in that space during that time. Fixed spaceis defined such as our own blog and how we can be creative in that space only, or what we have been given to work with. Taylorism was the idea to make workers use less motion or movement and less time in order to get the job done quicker andmake the worker less tired. Many laws and papers have been written over time by famous scientists such as Einstein, Newton, Gallileo, and challenged many theories held deep by thechurch showing how much they cared for time and space. Laws such as Law of Gravity, Relativity, and how the earth and every other planet revoloved around the sun were created. Music in the past was conducted overtime because we could not record it in a cyberspace like today. The music was dense and took time to digest and time to listen and feel the music unlike today where we know what we are going to get. Today we can record all of this music into various spaces that they never had in the past.

Do you think you manage your time well, and the space you choose manage it in?

How has the influence of time and space helped shape our world today?

Virtual Hunting

Wow I cant believe an actual website is up and running with the purpose of allowing people right on the internet to shoot at animals. Right now it is just target practice with nothing wrong going on, but still this man will allow people to shoot animals right over the internet. That doesnt sound ethical at all to me. I am not a fan of hunting to begin with, and now they might let this happen. There are a lot of endangered animals already in the world, and if this expands to many parts of the world then we might see massive killings of animals. If you are going to hunt wouldnt you rather go out there in the field and do it rather than just sit at home. People at home might not consider the what it is like to kill an animal and they wont feel any of the feelings of guilt once they do kill one. This can end up really bad for our country if this expands.

What are your feelings towards virtual hunting, do you believe it is ethical to do this?

Virtual Iraq

This is a good idea about how to cure PTSD because many people suffer from this and have no way of fixing their fears or stress. In my mind though, if you are going to show these people the situations they were in while fighting in the war, wouldnt that just make them worse than before. This machine like the guy said allows them to see whats going on, not allow them to fight, or seek revenge so it lets them think more about the situation and to see the good out of it. I guess if they see the good out the situation then it will make them feel better about what they did and it wont bother them anymore. If it helps people get over their fears and allows them live normal lives or even go back to fight like the man said then I am all for it because I respect what our soldiers do for us.

Do you believe that this virtual reality helps out our soldiers, and do you think it will spread out of San Diego to the whole United States?

Technology and the Body

Play the Game: Grand Theft Desire

I really enjoyed this article because I used to play GTA a lot. I agree with what the author talked about; GTA is just a realm of imagination to all of us. It is a chance to step out of our body and become someone else for a short period of time. Sure the main character is black, and it takes place in Los Angeles, and we can go to Las Vegas on the strip, but I never took it as serious as some critics have. There might have been some instances along the way where people tried to bring the game to real life which is wrong because its just a game. We can step out of our lives for a little bit of time to become someone else, someone that we can never become because it is against the law. A lot of people like Hilary Clinton wanted to regulate this game because of how bad it really is. The game is really bad and young kids should not be touching this game because they probably dont understand how bad this game really is. As the author says this game offers us a chance to rebel. We cant rebel in the real world because it is very wrong, but in the game we rebel. It is all a fantasy that people enjoy to play.

Do you think that there should be regulation on GTA?

Is this Man Cheating on his Wife?

I dont think he is cheating but I dont think he is being loyal to his wife either. He spends so much time online playing Second Life that I dont understand how he has time to make a living, hang out with friends, and especially take care of his wife. He has become a virtual person because of the amount of time he spends online with his virtual wife. I couldnt have a virtual wife, to me that is cheating and it soundslike he has 2 marriages so I guess he is cheating. I feel you have 1 life to live in the real world and I dont believe that we should spend all of our time on the internet and play game like Second Life. he says that when he plays this game, his wife is watching Tv, but I believe she is feeling alone and most of all feeling like she doesnt have a husband. I dont like what he is doing with having a Second life because those games can make you feeli like your real life isnt good enough. In real life the man makes 14 dollars an hour but on second life he is an entrepreneur that is worth 1.5 million. Thats upsetting because it shows that his real life isnt that good and he would rather spend time online with his virtual wife, and virtual life.

Do you feel like he is cheating, and would you want a virtual wife?

You are Cyborg

The jistory of Cyborg is interesting, it starts off with a rat having a pump put in place to put chemicals in its body. It moved onto to superheroes with superpowers beyond our beliefs that we could never harnass. It even allowed humans to have artificial arms, legs, and even put pace makers into humans in order to extend our own lives. The most interesting case is how our military has always wanted someone with AI in order to end wars, or to take down terrorists. It has never happened and who knows if it ever will. Hopefully one day we will have some extra sense, or extra speed, or have powers where we can get injured or even save others from dying.

Have you ever wished of wielding powers for the good of society?

In Korea, A Boot Camp Cure for Web Obsession

This is an extreme way to cure internet obesession. I have never had problems with going on the internet because I didnt know about the internet when I was younger. Some of these kids do have problems especially when someone thinks that 17 hours on the computer is fine. When you start giving up in school, and start staying indoors the whole day then you have to do something to change that. Most people put their children in sports or some other activity to get them out of the house. I believe at a young age you have to play sports because it gets you out the house, allows you to meet people, get some exercise, and most of all teaches about teamwork, dedication, hardwork, and the game itself. I played a lot of sports when I was younger and continued with the one I liked the most in high school, football where I became a 1st All state selection. I dont like the idea about the boot camps but if children start rebelling against their parents and give up in the real world then something must be done, and with that point I agree with the boot camp.

Do you feel that staying on the computer a lot at a young age is okay, if not what suggestions would you give parents in order to get their kids to enjoy the real world?

Mobile Technologies

The Camera Phone

With the invention of the camera phone, many good things have come out of it and many bad things have come out of it too. The creator used it to share pictures of his newborn baby to his family and friends. Bad things have occurred as well including more photos of hazing, beatings, fights, and even nudity. The former ESPN analyst was suspended because he spread pictures of himself nude. A lot of good thingscame out of it as well such as catching criminals from ccommiting crimes, and catching dirty cops too. a lot of actors arent to happy because now people will want to take more pictures with them. I think the camera is a good invention that has its goods and bads like anything else.

Do you use your camera phone a lot, do you think the camera phone has more positives or negatives to it?

A World of Witnesses

The phone has evolved over the years, and Africa is one of the places that it has been a real positive. Instead of just using regular ballots for voting, they ended up using text messages to record the votes of the people. Three instances where mobile phones have been useful include human rights activism where people can now take videos at demonstrations, or even record videos of beatings such as Rodney Kings to get justice. Second is Health, now people can text hospitals and they can tell them where the nearest one is in their location, or report epidemics in a region. Finally, environmental monitioring such as to know if a fish is good, endangered. also, to report air quality in an area or other bad factors too.

By reading this article, it sounds like more poor coutnries are using cell phones to their benefit; do you think that there is more they can expand on with mobile technology? If so, then what do you see them doing?

Always on/Always on you The Tethered Self

This article is very true and it shows how times have evolved with technology. We all used to see those guys in the past that would wear all of these technological gadgets thinking they were weird for doing it. today, we have basically become them, except al of those gadgets are stored in a small phone. When it comes to real life, we depend on our phones and computers so much. Places where we used to go to just talk to one another like a park, a cafe, and even a trainstation have no become riddled with technology. In a park we dont enjoy a nice day, and now we are on our cell phones showing everyone how nice it is. In a cafe people would go to talk to to one another, but now we are all just screaming on our phone. The same with the train station. The author talked about when they went to Paris and his daughter texted the whole time and really missed out on all of the sights. A professor talked about how students would go to Greece to study for a semester and would be on the computer the whole time instead of seeing Greece. Basically, our lives have become networks of people. We use Facebook, Myspace, and Second Life to meet new people everyday and to feel like were not alone. When we talk on these devices now, we are connected to them and if someone tries to talk to us from the outside world, we dont hear them. Phone time has become part of our day with work, relaxation, food, sleep, and even chores. People complain that our world has become more and more complex, and then you hear someone say that they dont have time to think anymore. In a world today, we need to think in order to survive. Thats ridiculuous if you say that you have no time to think. This article was very good.

Do you feel like mobile devices are taking over most of our social place such as parks, cafes, and even taking up our time while traveling around the world?

Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs look so 2004

This article pulls in some true things that blogging isnt the same anymore because people would rather be on the other sites such as Facebook. Its hard to make a really good blog that people enjoy now a days. People want everything to be easy and done for them  already. This is comparable to the articles above because people dont want to sit around and talk anymore in social places, or use a phone where they have to learn; people want things done easily, but at the same time they want more and more features. The old way of blogging or talking to people on the streets isnt cool anymore so we need to join facebook and buy expensive phones to text. These new blogs make everything more easy for us in our lives.

If you are part of a SNS, what made you join and how do you like it?

Do you feel that blogging is in the past now with all of these new websites emerging?

Eight Reasons Why Blogging Will Be Bigger Than Ever in 2009

The article talks about how blogging will be bigger than ever due to many reasons. One is that we need a central hub for ourselves, it helps us to make a little money while the economy stinks, and as more bloggers come on the better the blogging world will become. He is trying to point out how blogging is better SNS`s because they make our lives more simple, making everything easier like a camera phone does, or a video phone does.

Are you interested in making a full time blog along with your SNS in the future?

Appropriation/ Remix Assignment

Second ElementFirst Element

Final ProductI used a picture of a real forest, and a picture of a cartoon forest to form a cartoon forest.

Privacy and Surveillance

On the Record, All the Time

Todays world, many of the things we do or say could be recorded at any time and at any place. The author did a test where he wore a tape recorder with a sign that said that he was recording all the time. Some of the people who saw this werent to happy and threatend to beat him up if he didnt stop recording. Basically, he was just trying to prove a point that we dont see consciously. All of the new technology that we create, we end up recording almost all of our lives. Most of the time we dont know it or see it, but we really do. Cell phones are now equipped with cameras and voice recorders, and video cameras. We use these things all of the time when we go out to capture moments with our friends. We have digital cameras, and video cameras to tape trips or just to tape a fun night we had. Most of this stuff goes onto Facebook, or Myspace and we are throwing away our privacy. The same with doctors, and researchers; they document and tape and record everything that they do. They may lock it up in a safe place like a safe or even in a computer, but people can go in there and steal the information. The same with the government; we tape, record, and document all of our secret plans that could one day be stolen. Finally, new technologies with cell phones have GPS in them so people can watch our every move and know everything we do. I think these men who do lifelog see that when they are finished that there are just some things that we dont want to remember. The author mentioned fights with his wife, and how his son fell down the staris and he recorded the whole time at the hospital. When you start lifelogging you become someone else like your on stage all of the time. It is like those reality Tv shows that always end up bad like Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. It usually ends up ruining relationships if your on camera 24/7.

Do you feel safe knowing that your everyday life can be taped and recorded now?

How would you feel if a GPS tracker was placed in your phone and someone could be watching your every move?

Facebook`s Beacon just the tip of the privacy iceberg

Facebook has been doing some bad things that have made many people mad. They used this Beacon ad service that was supposed to use the user of facebook and check out the websites they look at. The websites were supposed to be ones that were friendly with facebook, but they went further. Facebook started following people once they signed off Facebook or deactivated their accounts. They went to unknown websites and started spying on peoples every move. This is more than an invasion of property, because if someone is buying something online and they get a hold of the credit card number then they are stealing information. I am appalled by this and I cant believe this happened. They can go into our computer and see everything we do which is wrong. You really cant trust anything anymore and that is sad because we should have the freedom to go on Facebook  or any other website and not have to worry about being invaded by viruses or the Beacon system they were using.

How do you feel about Facebook and what they did, and do you think this calls for heavier regulation over the internet?

Narrative

Tone Language

In this article, it talks about a woman who started writing books one day, but not the normal way of writing them. She wrote a 235 page book on her cell phone. She would write about 20 pages in 2 hours while her daughter would be sleeping, and would also do it in her spare time too. I think this is fascinating how mobile phones have evolved over the years and what people are doing with them. Sometimes I feel that we are using them too much now and it takes up too much of our time. We go on the internet now, send text messages, and now write books. She did get a lot of money and is now a hot new writer in Japan. I am happy for her because I think what she did is really amazing. My fingers would probably starting hurting after one page of typing.

Do you believe people spend too much time on their phones, and writing books will keep them on even longer?

Cross platform Story Telling

Interactive television has been taking the world by storm over the years. Many producers and television networks have reached out to people to participate in their favorite television shows. A lot of people offer their ideas more than ever before on websites for the show, and critique episodes so the producers can help make it better or shut it down. The cross platform storytelling comes into play when producers try to take good stories with deep meanings and try to put them in other formats. They will create movies, video games, and could even make a television series about a narrative. Some narratives put examples in them to make you feel like your solving a murder and to see if your right. This makes you feel like your the investigator solving a big time crime. Also, producers use clues from shows like the Heores example with the piece of paper with the website on it. They went to the website, and it seemed real like it was in the show. This stuff gets people more interested in the show and really makes people feel like they are interacting with the show. The author draws to conclusion and basically says that the characters are real, the stories need to explain themselves, and to be successful, you need to be interactive with your audience.

Do you think that cross-platform media is working well in our country, do you think it sells well?

Do you follow shows to the book, critique online, or blog about episodes?

Why Lost is Genuinely New Media

The author talks about a lot of different concepts that shows like Lost have used to transform the television series. The show has websites like other shows where people can write or blog about shows and sometimes they use ideas that people have to improve the show, answer some of their questions about things they put in the show, and to see if ratings are good or bad. The show also used many “lost” items like the book that washed up shore with Hurley. The ISBN for the book was lost and the author of the book was lost as well, but it was real. This goes to show you how the TV show is expanding its boundaries to the internet more than ever before. Now they have podcasts, scenes from episodes, websites with stories made up in the show, and many more exciting things. All of this helps the ratings of a show, and makes it more interesting for the viewers too.

How would you feel if one of your critiques or ideas were used in an episode of Lost?

Saving the Story

In the future at M.I.T., they will be tackling a problem that has been bothering the movie industry for a while, keeping the story alive. Many movies today are packed with action, open ended trilogies that make tons of money. We are missing out on those stories that have a true meaning to them that many other foreign countries are embracing so well. Thats why this laboratory is coming together to figure out what will interest the population in order to make us watch a deep meaning story.

Do you enjoy deep meaningful movies, as apposed to an action thriller?

Metaforas: Narrative

People use narrative for many reasons in the world. Many stories help people express themselves creatively, they let people understand themselves a little better, and it allows people to interpret and understand something they have never witnessed before. People become attached to narratives and become characters in them. In the end of the story, we all need closure,and most of the time we can come up with our own ending. Narratives are a great thing to have, and to cherich in this world.

How do you feel about narratives, and how do you feel when you read or watch a good one?

Copyright and Creativity

The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism

The article is saying to us that over the years, plagiarism has taken place all over the world. Plagiarism has been going on for a very long time, but it only seems to be really enforced when you are in school and writing a paper. The author talks about famous stories such as Lolita which might have been stolen from the original author. Other quotes and stories have been used by other authors as well that didnt ask for permission during that time period. Even today, we see many people using older movies, stories, quotes to remake new and improved entertainment products. Many new movies were based off of old stories, or old movies. Many of todays songs use quotes from famous people, or beats from past popular songs. In the past, photography was almost a broken law if you took a picture of someone, but today we can break laws and sneak into private areas to take those million dollar photographs. All of this calls for a very extensive copyright system that protects the people and their intellectual property. They worked very hard on their work and should have it kept intact for the end of time.

Do you believe copyrights have really helped creators from losing the quality of their work, or do you think people are still copying movies, songs, and stealing famous work?

The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality

The author starts off talking about how he saw a product PyMusique and how it was used to take copyrights of itunes music for people to get for free. He goes into how that is wrong for people to do, and goes into examples of what people consider stealing of products. The deeper he goes into about stealing, and the more he rewords and changes the story, the more people believe that he was stealing. The author talked to high school kids and any question he asked only 2 hands went up at most, where when he talked to an older crowd many more hands went up at the questions that seemed wrong. This shows that todays kids will do anything to get their favorite music or movies, and dont really care about the consequences. Adults lived in a different time period without the internet and they dont realize why kids pirate music for free. The kids who do steal the music dont think its wrong at all, and see it as a way get something for free.

Do you feel that todays high schoolers think that it is okay just to steal music or movies online, and do think its okay?

Larry Lessig

The man talks about about how today our society has lost creativity and has become not a rewrite society, but a read only society. He quotes Sousa who talkedabout how music players would change our society and make us only want to listen to music and not create it anymore. This goes to show us that today people only want to hear the music and take it for themselves rather than create it. ASCAP, a law making cartel over broadcasting, was charging high rates for broadcasters to put music over the air, but once the broadcasters switched over to BMI, second best music, the cartel broke and fell apart. This looks like today where many record companies charge a lot of money to buy cd `s, but once limewire, and kazaa were out those companies lost a lot of money. He goes into talking about many SNS websites that kids use today to show their creativity by remixing movies and music together. This is how todays culture is becoming creative and he says we should embrace it because they are doing it for no money and they are being creative. The law is hunting these kids down even though they are not stealing anything, but they are just remaking older products into new products. He believes that the law should stop this because its not illegal and kids should be allowed to recreaste things in order to be creative and show their inner self to the world. This probably is illegal because the people who did make all of these products worked very hard and if they saw it changed into something they dont like they would be upset.

Are you a person who recreates music or movies, if not do you believe that this is illegal?

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