The Body, The Mind and The Computer: ALife, AI, Cyborgs etc.
*What is life? 1. the period between brith and death, the experience or state of being alive.2. life is the quality which makes people, animals and plants different from objects, substances and things which are dead.3. life is everything which is alive. For people, DNA make up the human genome. People have the living systems. DNA is the code of life.
*ALife: Artificial Life
ALife is the study of systems related to life. Artificial life, or a-life, is devoted to the creation and study of lifelike organisms and systems built by humans.
*AI: Artificial Intelligence
*Hive Mind: networks and neural nets
Hive is highly intelligent and capable of learning about its environment.
Saturday 17 November 2007
Lecture five notes
Blogs and Citizen Journalists
The Cult of the Amateur
*User-generated content and citizen journalists
Blog: *offer knoledge, but not an authority
*Trust
*Function as a hub spreading information all together
The Cult of the Amateur
*User-generated content and citizen journalists
Blog: *offer knoledge, but not an authority
*Trust
*Function as a hub spreading information all together
lecture four notes
News in the Age of Computers
*News: pubilc by information
*News relate to techology. From oral to written news, cyberculture = writting media. The controlling of news is very important of news media.
*Techology of written and writting message.
*16th century, westen Europe began the modern news- gathering.
*Printing techology brought about changes in the levels of lieracy and allowed the mass-production of writing for the first time.
*Cultural changes in European society.
*The "Massification" of the media in the 20th century. Cyborg: resistance in futile
*Culture changed in 20th century. Internet into people life. Media was in competition now.
*News: pubilc by information
*News relate to techology. From oral to written news, cyberculture = writting media. The controlling of news is very important of news media.
*Techology of written and writting message.
*16th century, westen Europe began the modern news- gathering.
*Printing techology brought about changes in the levels of lieracy and allowed the mass-production of writing for the first time.
*Cultural changes in European society.
*The "Massification" of the media in the 20th century. Cyborg: resistance in futile
*Culture changed in 20th century. Internet into people life. Media was in competition now.
Consideration of Cyberspace
Cyberspace enter people's common life nowadays. It is amazing to communicate with friends who were in the other parts of word. For example: I use ichat or Skype connect with my friends whose in China. When I talk with them, my body and my mind was separate in some extent. My body is sitting in UK, but my mind is flying back to China. My eyes look the window of computer, my mind was thinking the matter, which happened far from me. But my body was still at home.
It is interesting that this kind of things happened frequently. Cyberspace has entered into common life. This means: the use of internet strengthenthe communication between people and society.
But some people argued, internet will lead people's psychological well-being dropped. It is report that people who often use chat tools and e-mail, always feel loneliness. They contact with family and friends declined. Therefore, the internet brings convenience to people, but in the other hand, it can't instead the face to face communication between people.
It is interesting that this kind of things happened frequently. Cyberspace has entered into common life. This means: the use of internet strengthenthe communication between people and society.
But some people argued, internet will lead people's psychological well-being dropped. It is report that people who often use chat tools and e-mail, always feel loneliness. They contact with family and friends declined. Therefore, the internet brings convenience to people, but in the other hand, it can't instead the face to face communication between people.
lecture three notes
The Birth (and Death) of cyberspace
1. Cyberspace was familiar with real spatial, for example: cities, buildings, which were the metaphors of social structures.
2. Cyberspace made of information, people who can operate information, have great power.
3. Cyberspace was bodiless.
4. Cyberspace was made up with data.
With the developing of information, cyberspace enter people's common life. Internert developed a lot nowadays. It has became to one of the most important media in people's life.
1. Cyberspace was familiar with real spatial, for example: cities, buildings, which were the metaphors of social structures.
2. Cyberspace made of information, people who can operate information, have great power.
3. Cyberspace was bodiless.
4. Cyberspace was made up with data.
With the developing of information, cyberspace enter people's common life. Internert developed a lot nowadays. It has became to one of the most important media in people's life.
Monday 5 November 2007
Consideration of "old" and "new" media
Nowadays, we had entered into a new media world.
In my opinion, for most theories in the world, including the theory of the media had never been fully innovation and it always be a product in specific period. Most of today's old theory just update. Although some of these theories appear on the old theory of a fundamental rewritten or complex synthesis. It is important to understand the foundation of new media theories. So there is no real "old" and "new" media.
For old media needed large capital, cultural and technical resources. ( local cinema, few television station) But the user of new media is no longer just a consumer. It is easy to become a new media author with tying errors, spelling mistakes and factual inaccuracies.
And now, people can watch a film from cable channels, satellite, video and DVD. People can received different lastest news from television or radio broadcast whenever they are. Use personal PC access remote database. Various of press feast for the people's eyes, which can fix different reader's taste.
In my opinion, for most theories in the world, including the theory of the media had never been fully innovation and it always be a product in specific period. Most of today's old theory just update. Although some of these theories appear on the old theory of a fundamental rewritten or complex synthesis. It is important to understand the foundation of new media theories. So there is no real "old" and "new" media.
For old media needed large capital, cultural and technical resources. ( local cinema, few television station) But the user of new media is no longer just a consumer. It is easy to become a new media author with tying errors, spelling mistakes and factual inaccuracies.
And now, people can watch a film from cable channels, satellite, video and DVD. People can received different lastest news from television or radio broadcast whenever they are. Use personal PC access remote database. Various of press feast for the people's eyes, which can fix different reader's taste.
Thursday 1 November 2007
lecture two notes: old vs new media
The pervasice-ness and inviniblity of media:
Media are seen to procide a sense of commonality between people. Media make many millions of people to understand the world in the same way.
A brief history of modernity:
With the rise in state bureaucracies, development of eduction and welfare systems, the growth of the urban proletaritat and bourgeois mercantile class, the rise of scientific rationality. In western eurpoe, first modernity was the initial movement from pre-modern society to modern society. Idea of class, race, nationality, religion are seen not to hace the power they did for those licing in secondary modernity. 'indicidualisation' typifies secondary modernity
Back to "old" and "new" media debate:
1. Techological determinist
2. Computer-based deeply effected by the effect of earlier mediation.
3. Discuss the effect of media
4. What is new from many different dirctions
Five types of 'yardstick': systemic, technical, aesthetic, logical and political
Systemic consideration: Owership, Regulation and Access
Technical consideration: Electric vs Non-electric, Analogue vs Digital
Aesthetic consideration: New media was differences from old media in look, taste, sound, smell and act.
Remediation:
New media will not dramatically different in look the style of the old media.
Logical considerations:
Old media needed large capital, cultural and technical resources. The user of new media is no longer just a consumer. It is easy to become a new media author with typing errors, spelling mistakes, and factual inaccuracies.
New media is the effect that they hace no time and space.
Media are seen to procide a sense of commonality between people. Media make many millions of people to understand the world in the same way.
A brief history of modernity:
With the rise in state bureaucracies, development of eduction and welfare systems, the growth of the urban proletaritat and bourgeois mercantile class, the rise of scientific rationality. In western eurpoe, first modernity was the initial movement from pre-modern society to modern society. Idea of class, race, nationality, religion are seen not to hace the power they did for those licing in secondary modernity. 'indicidualisation' typifies secondary modernity
Back to "old" and "new" media debate:
1. Techological determinist
2. Computer-based deeply effected by the effect of earlier mediation.
3. Discuss the effect of media
4. What is new from many different dirctions
Five types of 'yardstick': systemic, technical, aesthetic, logical and political
Systemic consideration: Owership, Regulation and Access
Technical consideration: Electric vs Non-electric, Analogue vs Digital
Aesthetic consideration: New media was differences from old media in look, taste, sound, smell and act.
Remediation:
New media will not dramatically different in look the style of the old media.
Logical considerations:
Old media needed large capital, cultural and technical resources. The user of new media is no longer just a consumer. It is easy to become a new media author with typing errors, spelling mistakes, and factual inaccuracies.
New media is the effect that they hace no time and space.
lecture one notes
A Cultural Studies Model: There are five key points, which are representation, identity, production, consumption and regulation.
On Line Research Issues: Nowadays, internet comes into people's common life. Internet is tich in information. Bell Notes: "Information is not knowledge, knowledge comes from sorting, filtering, and using information. Issues: Citation, Depth of Analysis and Ephemerality of Websites.
In 20th century, people paid more attetion on broadcasting and the mass media. 'The media' have been defined focus on such issues as means of production, governance and regulation as important aspects of medern life.
Question: 1 what do we mean by media? 2 why is media studies an important subject to study?
Cyberculture: It can be thought of as the social and culture effect of the interaction between humans and digital devices.
On Line Research Issues: Nowadays, internet comes into people's common life. Internet is tich in information. Bell Notes: "Information is not knowledge, knowledge comes from sorting, filtering, and using information. Issues: Citation, Depth of Analysis and Ephemerality of Websites.
In 20th century, people paid more attetion on broadcasting and the mass media. 'The media' have been defined focus on such issues as means of production, governance and regulation as important aspects of medern life.
Question: 1 what do we mean by media? 2 why is media studies an important subject to study?
Cyberculture: It can be thought of as the social and culture effect of the interaction between humans and digital devices.
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