Friday, October 23, 2009
I would just like to add...
I tried to post this essay at 4pm today, well before it was due! But Blogger.com was down till about 5 mins ago!
Bibliography
Bibliography
- Prensky, Marc. 2004 The Emerging Online Life of The Digital Native: What they do different because of technology, and how they do it. markprensky.com
- Weinberger, David. 2002 Small Pieces Loosely Joined (Chapter 1, A New World). Perseus Books.
- Marwick, Alice. 2009 There’s no hiding on Facebook. gaurdian.co.uk
- Carr, Nicholas. 2008 Is Google Making Us Stupid. Theatlantic.com
- Shields, Robert. 1996 Cultures of the Internet. SAGE publications Ltd.
- Segaller, Stephen. 1998 Ners 2.0.1, A Brief History of the Internet. TV Books, L.L.C.
- Prensky, Marc. 2004 The Emerging Online Life of The Digital Native: What they do different because of technology, and how they do it. markprensky.com
- Weinberger, David. 2002 Small Pieces Loosely Joined (Chapter 1, A New World). Perseus Books.
- Marwick, Alice. 2009 There’s no hiding on Facebook. gaurdian.co.uk
- Carr, Nicholas. 2008 Is Google Making Us Stupid. Theatlantic.com
- Shields, Robert. 1996 Cultures of the Internet. SAGE publications Ltd.
- Segaller, Stephen. 1998 Ners 2.0.1, A Brief History of the Internet. TV Books, L.L.C.
Essay
Marc Prensky's "Emerging online life of the digital native" and David Weinberger's "A New World" (this is chapter 1 from a book called "Small Pieces Loosely Joined".
Both present different views of contemporary internet users. In light of your own experiences with new technologies do you think they are accurate portrayals? Discuss why or why not with specific examples.
Marc Prensky’s “Emerging online life of the digital native” (2004) and Dave Weinberger’s “A New World (Chapter one from “Small Pieces Loosely Joined”, 2002) both present different views on contemporary internet users and in light of my own experiences with new technology they both are accurate portrayals. Both texts portray experiences that any internet user would have experienced such as now online norms like shopping on ebay.com, sending emails or chatting (or seeing your children chat) on instant messaging programs.
Anyone who has ever used ebay.com to purchase something online would be able to relate to Weinberger’s portrayal of him trying to find the product that is just right on ebay.com, searching through endless results and trying to judge the seller and the product on very little information “Although the eBay page is formulaic, there's enough context for me to make some tentative judgments” (Weinberger, 2002). This is an accurate portrayal as he explains the uncertainty and quickly formulated judgements we all make when shopping online. Prensky also writes about judgements made online “you get to rate the opposing buyer and the seller on their promptness, honesty, efficiency, etc. Bad apples get weeded out and good ones rise to the top” (Prensky, 2004, 8) which is something all ‘ebay-ers’ would have experienced.
Misinterpretation is something we have without a doubt all experienced on the internet. When we humans communicate with each other we use different tones and facial expressions to express something just as much as what we say. On the internet something that is read can only be taken as what it sounds like. Weinberger mentions a specific example of a man who ended up locked up in a mental ward for saying dangerous and suicidal things to a friend via email. He was expelled from University but later readmitted “when he was able to show that the email was meant as dark humor to a close friend” (Weinberger, 2002).
The internet is the world’s largest information source and there is endless searching and learning available. We have all sat at the computer for hours searching and learning for whatever we desire. Prensky says that searching is the second largest use for the internet after emailing. “Today, when a student is motivated to learn something, they have the tools to go further in their learning than ever before – far beyond their teachers’ ability and knowledge, and far beyond what even adults could have done in the past” (Prensky, 2004, 9). Learning is not restricted to what your teacher knows or what books the library has. It is limitless on the internet. In Nicholas Carrs’s article “Is Google Making us Stupid” he also comments on the world evolving to the internet as a way of life, he remembers “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes” (Carr, 2008). These are good portrayals of today’s research reality. Where the word research almost means typing in what you seek on Google.
Online socialising is now a norm for internet users. Prensky portrays online socialising accurately as this new-fangled technology to parents but just the norm to kids “every parent I talk to marvels (and even sometimes brags) at the number of ‘chat windows’ their kids have open simultaneously – often not realizing that this is universal” (Prensky, 2004, 4). Prensky see’s the “dangers of predators and criminals, which are real, but the Natives are not about to let this spoil their party” (Prensky, 2004, 3). Predators and online criminals are a real problem, especially since according to the article “There’s No Hiding On Facebook” (October, 2009) by Alice Marwick in the Guardian that even with privacy settings don’t stop people from seeing private information. Weinberger’s portrayal of online socialising is different but still an accurate portrayal. He refers to the case of Michael Ian Campbell known online as ‘soup81’ who made threatening comments on a chat room, later saying “that he, as a dedicated actor, was trying on a role. He was seeing what it would be like to be his favorite actor, John Malkovich” (Weinberger, 2002). This is an accurate portrayal as it is “atypical of the tens of millions of chats held everyday, it is not at all unusual on the Web for someone to "try on" a personality and to switch personalities from chat room to chat room;” (Weinberger, 2002). Weinberger see’s the internet as a new world and “If we are entering a new world, then we are also becoming new people” (Weinberger, 2002). Prensky see’s online socialising as a place where “Digital Native son or daughter will be finding some or all of their dates online” (Prensky, 2004, 6).Prensky and Weinberger both present different views of contemporary internet users but both are accurate portrayals.
Both Weinberger and Prensky present different views of the contemporary internet user. Weinberger see’s the internet as a place that has its own time and “Time like that can spoil you for the real world” (Weinberger, 2002). He sees it as an overflow of technology that “sent a jolt through our culture, zapping our economy, our ideas about the sharing of creative works, and possibly even institutions such as religion and government” (Weinberger, 2002). He conveys experiences on ebay.com and the possibility of being taken out of context and describes it as a “new world we're just beginning to inhabit” (Weinberger, 2002) and compares it to Europeans first landing in America. Prensky portrayal of the web is different but accurate as well, though similarly he sees it as a new world, except with ‘digital natives’ and ‘digital immigrants’ being the internet savvy and the people who are new to it and trying to learn “Digital Natives are programmed to – and want to – keep up with it. For adults, some new Digital Native behaviors may be worth immediately imitating and adopting” (Prensky, 2004). He also sheds light on experiences with online shopping and online socialising but he describes the internet as a place where “Today norms and behaviors are changing much faster than in the past, because the technology changes rapidly” (Prensky, 2004) and is “new, emerging, different form of life” (Prensky, 2004) that cannot be ignored.
Both present different views of contemporary internet users and n light of my own experiences with new technologies they both provide accurate portrayals.
Both present different views of contemporary internet users. In light of your own experiences with new technologies do you think they are accurate portrayals? Discuss why or why not with specific examples.
Marc Prensky’s “Emerging online life of the digital native” (2004) and Dave Weinberger’s “A New World (Chapter one from “Small Pieces Loosely Joined”, 2002) both present different views on contemporary internet users and in light of my own experiences with new technology they both are accurate portrayals. Both texts portray experiences that any internet user would have experienced such as now online norms like shopping on ebay.com, sending emails or chatting (or seeing your children chat) on instant messaging programs.
Anyone who has ever used ebay.com to purchase something online would be able to relate to Weinberger’s portrayal of him trying to find the product that is just right on ebay.com, searching through endless results and trying to judge the seller and the product on very little information “Although the eBay page is formulaic, there's enough context for me to make some tentative judgments” (Weinberger, 2002). This is an accurate portrayal as he explains the uncertainty and quickly formulated judgements we all make when shopping online. Prensky also writes about judgements made online “you get to rate the opposing buyer and the seller on their promptness, honesty, efficiency, etc. Bad apples get weeded out and good ones rise to the top” (Prensky, 2004, 8) which is something all ‘ebay-ers’ would have experienced.
Misinterpretation is something we have without a doubt all experienced on the internet. When we humans communicate with each other we use different tones and facial expressions to express something just as much as what we say. On the internet something that is read can only be taken as what it sounds like. Weinberger mentions a specific example of a man who ended up locked up in a mental ward for saying dangerous and suicidal things to a friend via email. He was expelled from University but later readmitted “when he was able to show that the email was meant as dark humor to a close friend” (Weinberger, 2002).
The internet is the world’s largest information source and there is endless searching and learning available. We have all sat at the computer for hours searching and learning for whatever we desire. Prensky says that searching is the second largest use for the internet after emailing. “Today, when a student is motivated to learn something, they have the tools to go further in their learning than ever before – far beyond their teachers’ ability and knowledge, and far beyond what even adults could have done in the past” (Prensky, 2004, 9). Learning is not restricted to what your teacher knows or what books the library has. It is limitless on the internet. In Nicholas Carrs’s article “Is Google Making us Stupid” he also comments on the world evolving to the internet as a way of life, he remembers “Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes” (Carr, 2008). These are good portrayals of today’s research reality. Where the word research almost means typing in what you seek on Google.
Online socialising is now a norm for internet users. Prensky portrays online socialising accurately as this new-fangled technology to parents but just the norm to kids “every parent I talk to marvels (and even sometimes brags) at the number of ‘chat windows’ their kids have open simultaneously – often not realizing that this is universal” (Prensky, 2004, 4). Prensky see’s the “dangers of predators and criminals, which are real, but the Natives are not about to let this spoil their party” (Prensky, 2004, 3). Predators and online criminals are a real problem, especially since according to the article “There’s No Hiding On Facebook” (October, 2009) by Alice Marwick in the Guardian that even with privacy settings don’t stop people from seeing private information. Weinberger’s portrayal of online socialising is different but still an accurate portrayal. He refers to the case of Michael Ian Campbell known online as ‘soup81’ who made threatening comments on a chat room, later saying “that he, as a dedicated actor, was trying on a role. He was seeing what it would be like to be his favorite actor, John Malkovich” (Weinberger, 2002). This is an accurate portrayal as it is “atypical of the tens of millions of chats held everyday, it is not at all unusual on the Web for someone to "try on" a personality and to switch personalities from chat room to chat room;” (Weinberger, 2002). Weinberger see’s the internet as a new world and “If we are entering a new world, then we are also becoming new people” (Weinberger, 2002). Prensky see’s online socialising as a place where “Digital Native son or daughter will be finding some or all of their dates online” (Prensky, 2004, 6).Prensky and Weinberger both present different views of contemporary internet users but both are accurate portrayals.
Both Weinberger and Prensky present different views of the contemporary internet user. Weinberger see’s the internet as a place that has its own time and “Time like that can spoil you for the real world” (Weinberger, 2002). He sees it as an overflow of technology that “sent a jolt through our culture, zapping our economy, our ideas about the sharing of creative works, and possibly even institutions such as religion and government” (Weinberger, 2002). He conveys experiences on ebay.com and the possibility of being taken out of context and describes it as a “new world we're just beginning to inhabit” (Weinberger, 2002) and compares it to Europeans first landing in America. Prensky portrayal of the web is different but accurate as well, though similarly he sees it as a new world, except with ‘digital natives’ and ‘digital immigrants’ being the internet savvy and the people who are new to it and trying to learn “Digital Natives are programmed to – and want to – keep up with it. For adults, some new Digital Native behaviors may be worth immediately imitating and adopting” (Prensky, 2004). He also sheds light on experiences with online shopping and online socialising but he describes the internet as a place where “Today norms and behaviors are changing much faster than in the past, because the technology changes rapidly” (Prensky, 2004) and is “new, emerging, different form of life” (Prensky, 2004) that cannot be ignored.
Both present different views of contemporary internet users and n light of my own experiences with new technologies they both provide accurate portrayals.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Feeing Good
My Essay seems to be completed... It will be ready tomorrow for sure!
What was stupid of me is that the first time I read Marc Prensky's 'emerging online life of the digital native' I thought that the word 'native in the title was 'narrative' and every time I read the word 'native' my mind read 'narrative'. So it didn't make any sense till I relised!
What was stupid of me is that the first time I read Marc Prensky's 'emerging online life of the digital native' I thought that the word 'native in the title was 'narrative' and every time I read the word 'native' my mind read 'narrative'. So it didn't make any sense till I relised!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Course Summary
Course Summary
New Communication Technologies was well run and had a fair bit of fun content and tasks, which was a very nice change to some of the drier and boring tasks of other subjects.
Though many of the tasks which were potentially fun ended up being annoying and frustrating as they didn’t test your intelligence or what you’ve learnt but your ability to sort through pages of rubbish on Google. The tasks were mostly easy but took up huge amounts of time.
It was great that we could have some fun and customise our blogs, add videos and so on, but everything just took so long to do and didn’t feel like anything was accomplished at the end.
Lecture material was quite interesting and the entertaining video’s helped engage me. I learnt many new terms and concepts about communication technologies, but a lot of the content wasn’t ‘new’ to me or probably anyone born after 1989 because it’s what we grew up with and these ‘New Communication Technologies’ aren’t particularly new or exciting, more just a normal part of life. I would consider this new
I just think internet was considered new 15 years ago.
I would consider new communication technologies to be something to do with electronically transmitted brainwaves to other brainwaves or something ridiculous like that.
More or less I found the tutorial tasks very easy but extremely time consuming and annoying and I would prefer something challenging. The idea of the Blog which ran through the semester is a great idea and I was always happy to add things to it. I enjoyed most of the lecture content and was surprised and impressed with the amount of interesting and amusing content.
Overall it was defiantly one of the better courses I have done!
So thanks!
New Communication Technologies was well run and had a fair bit of fun content and tasks, which was a very nice change to some of the drier and boring tasks of other subjects.
Though many of the tasks which were potentially fun ended up being annoying and frustrating as they didn’t test your intelligence or what you’ve learnt but your ability to sort through pages of rubbish on Google. The tasks were mostly easy but took up huge amounts of time.
It was great that we could have some fun and customise our blogs, add videos and so on, but everything just took so long to do and didn’t feel like anything was accomplished at the end.
Lecture material was quite interesting and the entertaining video’s helped engage me. I learnt many new terms and concepts about communication technologies, but a lot of the content wasn’t ‘new’ to me or probably anyone born after 1989 because it’s what we grew up with and these ‘New Communication Technologies’ aren’t particularly new or exciting, more just a normal part of life. I would consider this new
I just think internet was considered new 15 years ago.
I would consider new communication technologies to be something to do with electronically transmitted brainwaves to other brainwaves or something ridiculous like that.
More or less I found the tutorial tasks very easy but extremely time consuming and annoying and I would prefer something challenging. The idea of the Blog which ran through the semester is a great idea and I was always happy to add things to it. I enjoyed most of the lecture content and was surprised and impressed with the amount of interesting and amusing content.
Overall it was defiantly one of the better courses I have done!
So thanks!
Week 9 Tut Task
I wasn't able to get over to a library but I found heaps of online articles. Most of which are useless.
My Essay Topic is 1. Marc Prensky's "Emerging online life of the digital native" and David Weinberger's "A New World" chapter 1 from a book called "Small Pieces Loosely Joined".
Both present different views of contemporary internet users.
In light of your own experiences with new technologies do you think they are accurate portrayals?
Discuss why or why not with specific examples.
A Cnet News article 'Technology is Changing the Advertising Business' written in 2001 by a staff writer.
It explores how online advertising is changing the advertising business. So by now has changed it. It shows how advertising technology has made advertising online aware of situations. Depending on what you search more and what pages you visit, different advertisements more likely to interest you will appear.
It contributes to my point that both works are accurate portrayals of new emerging life online, how it is changing to keep up with online society.
"It is sometimes difficult to grasp the vastness of the Internet as it links country with country, culture with culture, buzzing metropolis with distant one-horse town".
Another article which will b useful is "The Dangers of Social Spam" by Chris Wilson, slate.com.
It is an article about online technologies such as emails and websites which use spam to send fake invites from you to others and many of the time catch people off guard. It contributes to my point that it is an experience of new emerging technologies similar to my own and of Marc Prensky and David Weinberger.
"Sites that pose as social networks are the new spammers, and they're a lot harder to sniff out than the traditional penis enlargement and fake Rolex watch crowd".
An article in The Atlantic, the July/August issue 2008 has an interesting article called "Is Google Making Me Stupid" by Nicholas Carr.
The article conveys the idea of how Google has 'reprogrammed' our brains and the ease at which it is to obtain information (he makes references to HAL) Prensky also writes about Google (before it really took off). It will help me show these to articles as accurate portrayals of contemporary internet users.
"Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after".
Haven't really found anything overly useful or different. There are heaps of articles I could use but I want ot find some more interesting things. So I'm just going to keep searching!
My Essay Topic is 1. Marc Prensky's "Emerging online life of the digital native" and David Weinberger's "A New World" chapter 1 from a book called "Small Pieces Loosely Joined".
Both present different views of contemporary internet users.
In light of your own experiences with new technologies do you think they are accurate portrayals?
Discuss why or why not with specific examples.
A Cnet News article 'Technology is Changing the Advertising Business' written in 2001 by a staff writer.
It explores how online advertising is changing the advertising business. So by now has changed it. It shows how advertising technology has made advertising online aware of situations. Depending on what you search more and what pages you visit, different advertisements more likely to interest you will appear.
It contributes to my point that both works are accurate portrayals of new emerging life online, how it is changing to keep up with online society.
"It is sometimes difficult to grasp the vastness of the Internet as it links country with country, culture with culture, buzzing metropolis with distant one-horse town".
Another article which will b useful is "The Dangers of Social Spam" by Chris Wilson, slate.com.
It is an article about online technologies such as emails and websites which use spam to send fake invites from you to others and many of the time catch people off guard. It contributes to my point that it is an experience of new emerging technologies similar to my own and of Marc Prensky and David Weinberger.
"Sites that pose as social networks are the new spammers, and they're a lot harder to sniff out than the traditional penis enlargement and fake Rolex watch crowd".
An article in The Atlantic, the July/August issue 2008 has an interesting article called "Is Google Making Me Stupid" by Nicholas Carr.
The article conveys the idea of how Google has 'reprogrammed' our brains and the ease at which it is to obtain information (he makes references to HAL) Prensky also writes about Google (before it really took off). It will help me show these to articles as accurate portrayals of contemporary internet users.
"Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after".
Haven't really found anything overly useful or different. There are heaps of articles I could use but I want ot find some more interesting things. So I'm just going to keep searching!
Week 9 Lecture Summary
Well unfortunately we were experiencing some rather dusty weather... and I noticed the online lecture notes are a little cheeky...
There wasn't a chance I was taking my baby out of the garage for the drive to uni, The dust would have got sucked (by forced induction) and I would have to buy a new air filter and mine isn't cheap.
Anyway! I saw the title of the lecture was on Cyber-Utopia...
So cyber is defined as... A combining form meaning “computer,” “computer network,” or “virtual reality,” used in the formation of compound words (cybertalk; cyberart; cyberspace) and by extension meaning “very modern” (cyberfashion).
and
Untopia is defined as #
1.O ften Utopia An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.
2. A work of fiction describing a utopia.
An impractical, idealistic scheme for social and political reform.
So I'm taking an educated guess that Cyber-Utopia is a perferct world in the future where internet content and download limits are free and the internet is a free world networking scheme.
It probably covers the unlikeliness of this occurrence and probably has an internet hippie pronouncing the internet as a product of the people and we as people need to emancipate from society... Go sit in Starbucks and surf!
Though there is no reason why a larger download quota cost more money... Though I can see why internet speed does because of the research, technology and building the resources to provide it.
There wasn't a chance I was taking my baby out of the garage for the drive to uni, The dust would have got sucked (by forced induction) and I would have to buy a new air filter and mine isn't cheap.
Anyway! I saw the title of the lecture was on Cyber-Utopia...
So cyber is defined as... A combining form meaning “computer,” “computer network,” or “virtual reality,” used in the formation of compound words (cybertalk; cyberart; cyberspace) and by extension meaning “very modern” (cyberfashion).
and
Untopia is defined as #
1.O ften Utopia An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.
2. A work of fiction describing a utopia.
An impractical, idealistic scheme for social and political reform.
So I'm taking an educated guess that Cyber-Utopia is a perferct world in the future where internet content and download limits are free and the internet is a free world networking scheme.
It probably covers the unlikeliness of this occurrence and probably has an internet hippie pronouncing the internet as a product of the people and we as people need to emancipate from society... Go sit in Starbucks and surf!
Though there is no reason why a larger download quota cost more money... Though I can see why internet speed does because of the research, technology and building the resources to provide it.
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