Wednesday, 11 July 2012

My Internet Video



  1. the conclusion is that more people use the internet than read books which shows that internet has taken over people
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  2. my self evaluation

    A - aesthetically successful
    C - Flair
    T - Competent
    U - Demonstrates understanding
    P - Competent

    WWW. We worked well as a team and our production was original and funny

    EBI a better camera
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Monday, 2 July 2012

Research Homework


Taking the long view.

Its almost as the fear of unknown with what more things the world has to give us. The introduction of hindsight is something that we as humans can not do, so its as if we are on a journey with the internet and we are unsure where it's going to take us next. He says "that people tend to overestimate the short-term impact of new technologies — and to underestimate their long-term implications.". 

The web isn't the net

People seem to commonly mistake the web as the internet. They are different. He says "Think of the internet as the tracks and signalling, the infrastructure on which everything runs. In a railway network, different kinds of traffic run on the infrastructure — high-speed express trains, slow stopping trains, commuter trains, freight trains and (sometimes) specialist maintenance and repair trains.

Disruption is a feature, not a bug

In the 1970s, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn, the lead designers, were faced with two difficult tasks: how to design a system that seamlessly links lots of other networks, and how to design a network that is future-proof -> by implementing these twin protocols, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn created what was essentially a global machine for springing surprises

Think ecology, not economics

Life was now morphing into an ecosystem in which billions of smaller species consume, transform, aggregate or break down and exchange information goods in much smaller units – and in which new gigantic life-forms (Google, Facebook) are emerging.

Complexity is the new reality

Our emerging information environment is more complex – in terms of numbers of participants, the density of interactions between them, and the pace of change – than anything that has gone before. This complexity is not an aberration or something to be wished away: it's the new reality, and one that we have to address.

The network is now the computer

Transition from a world in which the PC really was the computer, to one in which the network is effectively the computer. Data stored on the cloud rather than networks.
A quote from this section is "sleepwalking into this brave new world" which shows we are none the wiser of what's happening around us and we are willing to trust technology

The web is changing

Web has gone through at least three phases of evolution – from the original web 1.0, to the web 2.0 of "small pieces, loosely joined" (social networking, mashups, webmail, and so on) and is now heading towards some kind of web 3.0 – a global platform based on Tim Burners-lee 's idea of the 'semantic web'

Huxley and Orwell are the bookends of our future

Neil Postman predicted that the insights of two writers would, like a pair of bookends, bracket our future. Aldous Huxley believed that we would be destroyed by the things we love, while GeorgeOrwell thought we would be destroyed by the things we fear.
The net has been a profoundly liberating influence in our lives – creating endless opportunities for information, entertainment, pleasure, delight, communication, and apparently effortless consumption

Our intellectual property regime is no longer fit for purpose

Digital technology has provided internet users with software tools which make it trivially easy to copy, edit, remix and publish anything that is available in digital form. As a result, millions of people have become "publishers" in the sense that their creations are globally published on platforms such as Blogger, Flickr and YouTube.
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Monday, 25 June 2012

Representation of Muslim in the UK: Islamophobia or legitimate concerns?

Islamophobia?


Extreme or irrational fear of all Islamic persons
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http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/07601-discrim-hc-islamophobia-web.pdf 



What were the main triggers for the increase in incidents of Islamophobia in the UK, at that time?
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Why does this website exist?

This website was created for The Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism which is an annotation for FAIR. So, it's a place where people who are against discrimination and racism for Islamic people. It also provides information about Islamic people. On the front page of the website it says ' Raise Awareness ' so that is their main aim, having that can be shown to casual browsers who may of happened to have seen that site. It gives them a first impression of what they are about.

How does it attempt to counter and challenge negative media representations of Islam?

FAIR challenges the negative media representation of Islam as it is a forum so people can talk and discuss issues that may be concerning them. They have campaigns that people can sign up too and create their own campaigns so that they can try and stop the negative media representations. They have introduced POSITIVE images of faith so people can get a different perspective of Islam and not what they hear in the media. 

The website on a whole is about community and togetherness which is used to challenge the negative representations of the media about Islam. The website has very valid information about the religion and about what they do. Their aim is 'to work towards establishing a Safe, Just and Tolerant Britain in which Islamophobia and racism have no place.'

They have also introduced Media and Culture watch. This means that FAIR's Media & Popular Culture Watch monitors specific incidences of Islamophobia and issues of concern and/or interest to the multi-faith communities in Britain. This is a way  to counter any negative representations.  

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Research their representations of Muslims in the UK

Daily Mail.


BBC news website.



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Thursday, 14 June 2012

YR12 Cover work.





  • How much information is in circulation on the internet (in gigabytes)?

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  • The number of people who could access the internet in 1995?
    http://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm (scroll to the bottom)
    http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/03/31/internet-1995/

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  • What proportion of the world’s population can now go online?
    • http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
    http://news.yahoo.com/close-half-world-population-2016-cisco-154422156.html





  • The number of people who can access the internet in today?
    • http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_access


    How has the internet changed the following? 
    • nature of information
    - We all are too reliant on the internet as we now use it for everything. In school we use it for teaching and learning new things. As it is a great way to access information, quickly.
    • communication
    http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/how-has-technology-changed-communication
    - in my own view, communication has changed from the cause of the internet because as one wise person said : "we are alone together" because of the internet.
    • privacy
    - I think that privacy on the internet isn't protected as much as it could be. It almost seems acceptable to put personal business on social networking sites and put card details online. I think we as a community/society are too naive 
    • community
    - People depend too much on the internet as now they can access anything. This is changing the community because there's hardly any interaction between people as everything is accessible online. People believe in this online community almost feels like another world.
    • online safety
    - online safety has become an issue because everything has become available on the internet and there are loads of scams that can trick people into using it to put their details down. Scammers can target certain people in order to get their card details and use it for themselves. But online safety can relate to people broadcasting their whereabouts every minute, this can attract stalkers
    • business
    • culture
    • copyright
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