Prompt: what is the most complex or difficult about the reading's references to Boole, Russell, Gödel, Maxwell, and others? Why is it challenging? What words or concepts in particular are problematic? I pose these questions because I know that difficulty is often a way in or point of access: if you figure out what's difficult about a text, you've figured out its problem. That lets you investigate the problem. If you're a designer, an artist, a videographer, a musician, or somebody who works in media other than text, I'd love to see how you'd represent and upload to your blog the most complex or difficult problem posed by Gleick.
I guess one of the most confusing parts of Gleick's reading was the part of how analog sound is changed into binary digits of 1s and 0s.
To start I understand how 1s and 0s work in binary. How the numbers are placed so that the code makes since and ceates something out of that code. I guess I just don't understand binary as well as I thought I did. However, I did look up "How do you convert sound to binary" on YouTube and I got this video.
These two college students did an experiment on how to convert audio (songs from a Zune) into Binary using a computer program that they had to program. They went through trial and error trying to find the correct amplitude to fit with the 1s (or on position) and they used the 0s to represent silence. This still is over my head but I understand how it can be converted and what the 0s and 1s could possibly represent. This helped answer my original question of how it is converted into 0s and 1s, I still think that the total concept is over my head but I understand the basic meaning of sound and binary.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Blog 4: Gleick 125-143
Gleick writes early in the chapter that in 1849, "already railroad time was telegraphic time" (125). Why was this so? How did the invention of railroads lead to time zones? What are the implications of differences in the velocity and magnitude of transporting information and transporting things? Are those differences today getting larger or smaller, and what do you see as the effects of that trend? Find at least one Web link that supports your opinion and quote it and link to it in your blog post.
Gleick first writes about how railroad time was initially similar to telegraphic time. Telegraphic time is represented by the transfer and receiving of information through long systems of wires. The railroad is similar to this because of the idea that telegraphs carried information while railroads carry people and things. Time zones initially came about because people used to follow the time by where high noon was. So in different places across the world high noon was at different points in the day. This allowed the railroad to travel along with only taking a couple of hours. Condensing the travel time helped in aiding the time zones to be permanent. Time zones helped train travel because when they had to travel to places that were further it made scheduling (arrivals and departures) more accurate/easier to plan.
Today the difference in velocity, magnitude, and transporting information and things has increased. I believe that they way that we get information has increased. Now we have access to many different ways of getting information and things. Since the internet people can move information easily, but not all of this information is exactly good information. In my Sociology 430 class we discussed the way that news has changed due to social networks and news sites. People use social networks to share information then that information gets passed on to their friends. Just because we have access to the information and things easier but the problem with this today is the type of information that is getting passed around. Just in the last couple years a dozen celebrities "died" when in real life they didn't.
This is a link to an article on Forbes.com written by Ryan Holmes who owns a social media management system with five million users. Ryan states that "in the nine short years since Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com, social media has evolved from dorm room toy to boardroom tool. Last year, 73 percent of Fortune 500 companies were active on Twitter, while more than 80 percent of executives believed social media engagement led to increased sales." This may seem normal to us growing up surrounded by new social medias being developed every day. Having companies attached to social networking gets there things and information out there for ht world to see. This seems to be increasing the velocity in which information and things can be distributed. The speed at which information is being uploaded and distributed is increasing dramatically over the years more and more information (good or bad) is being digested by people on social media and just the internet in general.
Gleick first writes about how railroad time was initially similar to telegraphic time. Telegraphic time is represented by the transfer and receiving of information through long systems of wires. The railroad is similar to this because of the idea that telegraphs carried information while railroads carry people and things. Time zones initially came about because people used to follow the time by where high noon was. So in different places across the world high noon was at different points in the day. This allowed the railroad to travel along with only taking a couple of hours. Condensing the travel time helped in aiding the time zones to be permanent. Time zones helped train travel because when they had to travel to places that were further it made scheduling (arrivals and departures) more accurate/easier to plan.
Today the difference in velocity, magnitude, and transporting information and things has increased. I believe that they way that we get information has increased. Now we have access to many different ways of getting information and things. Since the internet people can move information easily, but not all of this information is exactly good information. In my Sociology 430 class we discussed the way that news has changed due to social networks and news sites. People use social networks to share information then that information gets passed on to their friends. Just because we have access to the information and things easier but the problem with this today is the type of information that is getting passed around. Just in the last couple years a dozen celebrities "died" when in real life they didn't.
This is a link to an article on Forbes.com written by Ryan Holmes who owns a social media management system with five million users. Ryan states that "in the nine short years since Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com, social media has evolved from dorm room toy to boardroom tool. Last year, 73 percent of Fortune 500 companies were active on Twitter, while more than 80 percent of executives believed social media engagement led to increased sales." This may seem normal to us growing up surrounded by new social medias being developed every day. Having companies attached to social networking gets there things and information out there for ht world to see. This seems to be increasing the velocity in which information and things can be distributed. The speed at which information is being uploaded and distributed is increasing dramatically over the years more and more information (good or bad) is being digested by people on social media and just the internet in general.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Blog 3:Lessig 161-173
Prompt: You should answer in more depth and detail the question we started talking about in class on Monday, using examples from the videos we've seen and from your own experience, and connecting the examples to quotations from the readings: what are the most important "harms" that you, personally, see facing the ways intellectual property operating today, and how are those different from or similar to the harms faced by previous generations?
In class on monday my group was faced with the question of what types of sharing that wsu students and staff currently engage in, and what types are the legal, economic, and ethical implications of doing so? My group came up with tons of ideas. Economic problems that staff and students contribute to are the use of libraries because the school has to pay for the use of articles and books and allowing students and staff free access to the books. Other types of books that can cause economic problems would be textbooks because students either find ways of getting the books by sharing or they sell their books for prices well below the market value which means that the publisher is losing money. Some legal issues that students and staff have is with file sharing because some students use this and it is illegal because of copyright laws. Students and staff also face the problems with making sure that they cite their sources and also cite all the types of things they use in their works if they don't it is either plagiarism or copyright, having either of these happen can cause major legal problems for the person using the source. Some ethical implications our group came up with was that old tests and papers that students keep a collection of a give to other students to help with tests or papers. These types of things have ethical and economic implications. The ethical implications are the integrity of the student using old tests to cheat or old papers to cheat, the student will have their own conscience guiding them and telling them what is right and what is wrong. The economic implications of tests and papers that are being recycled means that the money that you pay for the class but you cheating yourself out of the money you are paying for the class.
In class on monday my group was faced with the question of what types of sharing that wsu students and staff currently engage in, and what types are the legal, economic, and ethical implications of doing so? My group came up with tons of ideas. Economic problems that staff and students contribute to are the use of libraries because the school has to pay for the use of articles and books and allowing students and staff free access to the books. Other types of books that can cause economic problems would be textbooks because students either find ways of getting the books by sharing or they sell their books for prices well below the market value which means that the publisher is losing money. Some legal issues that students and staff have is with file sharing because some students use this and it is illegal because of copyright laws. Students and staff also face the problems with making sure that they cite their sources and also cite all the types of things they use in their works if they don't it is either plagiarism or copyright, having either of these happen can cause major legal problems for the person using the source. Some ethical implications our group came up with was that old tests and papers that students keep a collection of a give to other students to help with tests or papers. These types of things have ethical and economic implications. The ethical implications are the integrity of the student using old tests to cheat or old papers to cheat, the student will have their own conscience guiding them and telling them what is right and what is wrong. The economic implications of tests and papers that are being recycled means that the money that you pay for the class but you cheating yourself out of the money you are paying for the class.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Blog 2: Lessig 85-115
Freestyle: Based on the movie Copyright Criminals.
The movie Copyright Criminals made me think a lot about last semester when I watched the movie RiP: A Remix Manifesto. I loved this movie I thought the ideas in it were good arguments to challenge the copyright laws and bend the rules for art. The best part of the topic is listening to people like Girl Talk talk about his passion for making art. Copyright laws on music (as we learned in class) is different than other copyright laws. Movies like this make me want to join the side of the remix artists and challenge the copyright laws. But I also feel conflicted because as an artist myself I also do not want other people using my art and calling their own. I did not realize this till I was in my graphic design class and I was creating digital pieces of work that could easily be altered and changed to remix them. Also as an artist I want to be able to use other peoples art and make my own because remixing can fuel creativity.
This creativity and wanting to keep my work as mine can be conflicting. To help solve this problem Creative Commons was created. Creative Commons was created to allow people to get copyright license for free. You also get to choose how people use it and how people republish it. The author can choose if they can use it for commercial purposes or not. As a creator myself the ability to allow people to use my art and alter it just as long as they give me credit. Publishing your art via Creative Commons helps some artist get their work out there and also use other peoples works to create new things.
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