Research and provide short answers to the following questions. Provide references where applicable.
1. What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?
'Creative Commons is a nonprofit organisation that works to increase the amount of creativity in "the commons" - the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing and remixing'.
Source: http://creativecommons.org/
2. Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.
a) http://freemusicarchive.org/
b) http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos - This website allows all video makers to use the music provided on the website for free and without copyright.
c) http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ - Flickr is a great website where SOME photographers allow their work to be distributed and used under a Creative Commons license.
3. Find an academic article which discusses creative commons using a database or online journal. Provide a link to and a summary of the article.
Implementing a web site that will provide technical and legal support for Latin-American publishers of academic journals to satisfy open journal standards.
This article is a proposal to design, develop and implement a website that will provide technical and legal sipport for Latin-American publishers of academic journals.
4. Have a look at Portable Apps (a pc based application) – provide a brief description of what it is and how you think this is useful.
I was not able to do this as I only have a MAC.
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My chosen application is VLC Media Player. VLC is a great free program that is available to both Windows and MAC users. The features I use most often are the 'screencapping' feature as well as the fact that it can play a variety of video types, such as .mov, .avi, .flv, .mp4 and others, as well as being able to play my dvds. I love this program and don't know what I would do without it. I would recommend it to every computer user.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
7 - Response to Lecture
Week 7's lecture focused on 3 key words: community, collaboration and choice. It also discussed the differences between freeware and copyrighted software.
These days, there are so many programs that require you buy them such as Photoshop. Purchasing Photoshop can set you back thousands of dollars these days so most people just download it for free via the web. When purchasing a computer, also purchasing Microsoft Office is generally a necessity, especially for students and people who work in an office or business, as applications such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint are a part of many people's everyday lives.
The lecture also discussed writing code. Having done HTML and CSS assignments for Writing for the Web, I can say it can be a frustrating thing for a lot of people but I find it quite easy and fun to do. I've coded my own layouts for websites such as Livejournal and have also made my own websites since I was around 13 years of age but programs such as Dreamweaver are a life saver for people who find coding difficult, though it can cost over $100. There are dupes for programs such as Photoshop and the most popular one seems to be GIMP or Paint Shop Pro.
Source code is freely available to everyone and consists of certain applications such as VLC Media Player, Firefox and OpenOffice. These are usually developed by internet communities through collaboration methods. These communities come together to create programs and codes that will serve their needs, without having to pay large sums of money for a program or modifying software and having legal trouble.
As a consumer, we havechoice. We have many options when it comes to software and free source software so that we are able to run our computers the way we'd like to without paying extreme amount of money for numerous paid programs.
I use many free software applications, the most used one being VLC Media Player. VLC is a great alternative to programs such as Quicktime, Windows Media Player and other video/media players and even offers extra bonuses that those programs don't have, as well as the fact that it's free and available for both Windows and Apple computers.
These days, there are so many programs that require you buy them such as Photoshop. Purchasing Photoshop can set you back thousands of dollars these days so most people just download it for free via the web. When purchasing a computer, also purchasing Microsoft Office is generally a necessity, especially for students and people who work in an office or business, as applications such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint are a part of many people's everyday lives.
The lecture also discussed writing code. Having done HTML and CSS assignments for Writing for the Web, I can say it can be a frustrating thing for a lot of people but I find it quite easy and fun to do. I've coded my own layouts for websites such as Livejournal and have also made my own websites since I was around 13 years of age but programs such as Dreamweaver are a life saver for people who find coding difficult, though it can cost over $100. There are dupes for programs such as Photoshop and the most popular one seems to be GIMP or Paint Shop Pro.
Source code is freely available to everyone and consists of certain applications such as VLC Media Player, Firefox and OpenOffice. These are usually developed by internet communities through collaboration methods. These communities come together to create programs and codes that will serve their needs, without having to pay large sums of money for a program or modifying software and having legal trouble.
As a consumer, we havechoice. We have many options when it comes to software and free source software so that we are able to run our computers the way we'd like to without paying extreme amount of money for numerous paid programs.
I use many free software applications, the most used one being VLC Media Player. VLC is a great alternative to programs such as Quicktime, Windows Media Player and other video/media players and even offers extra bonuses that those programs don't have, as well as the fact that it's free and available for both Windows and Apple computers.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Culture Jam
Other group members: Ashleigh, Stefan
Our culture jam was based off of the fact that people are so addicted to their iPhones (and iPods) and rely on them so heavily, so how would they feel if it was taken away? Ashleigh had the idea that Griffith (and other Universities) participate in banning iPhones from being used on campus so we made a video presenting the idea somewhat like a news report. By making this culture jam we are rebelling against the way people are obsessed with their phones and need to have them with them 24/7.
6 - Response to Lecture
This weeks lecture focused on forms of new media and ways they are affection our consumption and production of information.
The most prominent form of new media in my opinion is social networking websites. Websites such as Facebook are the most used websites by the general population as it allows people to communication with friends and people they've known in the past, in such a lazy way. You can rebuild friendships just by talking for a few minutes a day or by taking a few seconds out of your day to comment on one of their posts. Having a Facebook page also allows people to project themselves in the way they see themselves or the way they want to be. I have a Facebook and it's very rare that someone has the same profile and presence on Facebook that they do in real life when I talk to them. A problem with this is that there are so many creeps that can easily get online, upload a fake photo and present themselves as that person which is very worrying. Most Facebook users also don't realise that they can sell information about their users to corporations, as is disclosed on the website when you register.
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