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Week 9


Jason’s all everything, gigantic and super lecture on how to teach yourself software.

Jason talked about stuff we need to know so we don’t get fired in our first job.
First he explained Adobe Flash for us. This software is used for almost all our micro website, almost all sites with movies. It is really complicated software, it’s so much to learn before you start using it. And before you have learned how to use it, it has changed.
 He had many steps he talked about:

  • You have to begin by figuring out what you need to do, and then find the easiest way doing it.
  • Then find out what you want to do, use this software to.
  • Now you need to learn the software!
  • Don’t think you can do it in a few days, just because it’s designed to be simple.
A good software is deep, and it will probably take me many years to learn.
  • First I have to start playing , just make something.
  • The most important thing he said, we had to remember to SAVE IT! 100 000 MILLION TIMES! Save it with a new name every time! Save it with long names (descriptions)
  • If I get problems, I can use the help sections, but that’s if I know a little bit about the software, it’s not for new beginners. And if I get problems, I have to try to not spend hours to figure it out ( something I always do…)
But I can always use Google to search for help, eg. “flash tutorials”.
      Join a forum and ask a question, is also a good solutions.

At the end, it’s all about content!



WEEK 8

Our guest today was Stephen Stockwell. He spoke about Political Possibilities, CyberPolitics, eDemocracy, liberal democracy.
 
CyberPolitics is the politics of the internet that exists on the internet. Cyberpolitics stretches from the around the actual structure and functions of the internet through to the political activities that occur on forums, between bloggers and even in games.

eDemocracy is the internet's intervention in the real world politics that exists predominantly off the internet. eDemocracy covers everything from political campaigning, debates, criticise governments and reveal their mistakes.

He talked about the definitions of democracy in different ways and what has happened the last two hundred years.

After that he talked a little bit about the gaps in the mass media which has resulted from the closed avenues of public debate in today’s media.

He briefly spoke about the battle between free speech and censorship on the net has taken many strange turns. Is free speech a basic right? In Australia we don't have the constitutional right to free speech - that's an Americanism. In Norway, where I’m from, everyone have the right to free speech as long you concern for people’s dignity and integrity.

China is perhaps the greatest champion in surveillance and censorship of the media and the Internet, and those in power using all means to control information and opinion exchange.
Many are punished with several years in prison or even death for "disturbing public order", "undermining the state" and "destroy the party's reputation", which can include almost anything.

Finally he spoke about CyberPunk - One outlet for political expression with regards to the internet is Cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre based in the potential inherent in computers, genetics, body modifications and corporate developments in the near future.

Tasks: He asked that we watch a movie called the conversation.





WEEK 7


In today's lecture we had Jason (The Canadian guy) and he spoke about open source software and free ware.

Open source software is software that people can edit/modify to make the programs better. Freeware is software that is free to download and use.

He showed us some websites we could download music and movies.

He said that instead of paying for windows office etc. People can download the freeware versions like openoffice etc to use which does the same thing. But virus is a big problem for software, so you have to remember to update your software regulary.

At the end of the lecture, he showed us some videogames he had made on internet to earn some money.


WEEK 6

In today’s lecture, we learned about the producers and consumers of big and small screen.

  First he talked about the consumers and the media we consume.

CONSUME

Big screen
  • Cinema (shared)
  • Television (shared/ private)
  • Personal computer (private/ shared)

Small Screen
  • Personal media player (ipod) "on-the-go"
  • Mobile Phones (ipod touch) “ Smart phones”
  • 3G - used for information

He said that on mobile phones it is tricky to have many moving images because the data transfer rate which makes it harder for wide audiences to view them.

PRODUCE
      Re-genre   http://www.thetrailermash.com/
            Re-cuts  

We watched a movie “ 280 days later”





Tasks: Make a fake news-story with your mobile and try to upload it at www.ireport.com

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