Freestyle: Reading about online privacy concerning social networking.
Being a child of the computer age, I grew up on the internet and grew up learning how to use the internet. The first social networking site I ever really used religiously was MySpace. I was in 8th grade when I created my MySpace account. It took a little getting used to but I found myself connecting more with friends on the internet verses in other forms. When I was elementary school (around 5/6th grade) I talked on the phone with my friends, we gossiped about which guys we thought were cute but we would do this on the phone after school. When I got into middle school we would message each other or comment on each other pages as a way of contacting each other. When I first created my MySpace page I found myself wanting to put information down that was fun, every one of my friends did the same thing. We were all 100 years old and from towns across the world, there were points when i lived in Italy then Egypt even though I really never lived there. An event did occur when I was in 9th grade, a cute boy at school was adding some of the girls at the school. This boy would message the girls and talk to them and eventually get their numbers and start texting them. Little did the girls at the school know this boy was in his mid forties and talking to many girls. The girls at my school lucked out and the man was caught before anyone was hurt but it was still a very scary event. This made me think twice about what I put on the internet and who I talked to. Being shy this wasn't hard I tended to only accept friend requests from people that I know outside of Facebook.
Security has always been a large priority and being in the age group that they surveyed in Raynes-Goldie Essay I was not shocked by that at all. "They found that despite the fact that Facebook users shared personal information, students ranked privacy policy as a very important public issue — even more important than terrorist threats." Personally I don't want people that I don't know to have access to my personal information, earlier this year I also had a identity scare. The company that my work sent my tax information to was hacked and my social security number was potentially leaked. Having this problem I wanted to make sure that I kept all of my information to myself, because of my information leak i had to be careful about identity theft and in our world today that can ruin a person. Having information on Facebook and other social networking sites is like leaving your identity out for anyone to use. I mean the show Catfish is a perfect example of what people can do with just a couple of your pictures. Catfish is an action of using someone else's pictures and talking to people on the internet using a fake profile. Most of the time these online relationships form and people are hurt no one knows why people do it, sometimes out of pain, or revenge, or possibly for personal enjoyment. These privacy problems all form over social networking sites.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Blog 8: Varian and Shapiro & Stiglitz on information economics
Freestyle
I wanted to talk about the dot com era. Growing up in the dot com era was different, I never really thought of the computer as something super special. When I was really young my parents gave me their first computer, it had a black screen with amber writing all I knew how to do was play PAC man and other generic games that you could buy on a floppy ..floppy that's something that makes me laugh. For me the internet wasn't really something that I thought of until I was well into elementary school and even then I really didn't know how to use it. I did learn eventually but the only website that i knew was Google and for the longest time I only used the internet to research for school and really nothing else. During the era that the books were published were during my very little knowledge of the internet so for me all I remember is my parents yelling at me to not talk on the phone or answer the phone when they were on the internet. The real dot com era really hit me when I was in middle school and social media really became a "thing" that kids my age were doing. At the time that I was just getting email, IM, and MySpace was around the same time that Mark Zuckerburg was creating Facebook which for the last seven years has been my newest social media.
When asked, how does what you do make money, and is that OK? I have to really think about it being a designer I tend to stray away from the accounting world and how companies make money. At my internship I try and listen when my boss talks money. I try and pay attention just so that I can explain to my own clients why things work the way they do. All I got out of it is why we have to pay listening and how more colors cost more because of the number of screens that it takes. The other talk about where money goes and our commission (as a company) and how people get paid. I don't know what I would do if people in my company messed up the accounts and I lost my job because of someone else mistakes.
There was a dot com era but I don't know what happened to those who experienced it may have had a bigger impact than it had on me. Growing up with out computers then slowly being introduced to them, I think made it easier for me to balence my life and why the internet is ruining some kids today.
I wanted to talk about the dot com era. Growing up in the dot com era was different, I never really thought of the computer as something super special. When I was really young my parents gave me their first computer, it had a black screen with amber writing all I knew how to do was play PAC man and other generic games that you could buy on a floppy ..floppy that's something that makes me laugh. For me the internet wasn't really something that I thought of until I was well into elementary school and even then I really didn't know how to use it. I did learn eventually but the only website that i knew was Google and for the longest time I only used the internet to research for school and really nothing else. During the era that the books were published were during my very little knowledge of the internet so for me all I remember is my parents yelling at me to not talk on the phone or answer the phone when they were on the internet. The real dot com era really hit me when I was in middle school and social media really became a "thing" that kids my age were doing. At the time that I was just getting email, IM, and MySpace was around the same time that Mark Zuckerburg was creating Facebook which for the last seven years has been my newest social media.
When asked, how does what you do make money, and is that OK? I have to really think about it being a designer I tend to stray away from the accounting world and how companies make money. At my internship I try and listen when my boss talks money. I try and pay attention just so that I can explain to my own clients why things work the way they do. All I got out of it is why we have to pay listening and how more colors cost more because of the number of screens that it takes. The other talk about where money goes and our commission (as a company) and how people get paid. I don't know what I would do if people in my company messed up the accounts and I lost my job because of someone else mistakes.
There was a dot com era but I don't know what happened to those who experienced it may have had a bigger impact than it had on me. Growing up with out computers then slowly being introduced to them, I think made it easier for me to balence my life and why the internet is ruining some kids today.
Friday, October 11, 2013
Blog 7: Midterm Making Connections
Making Connections
This is a piece of work that I created for my internship. We were asked to create a visual magazine spread and also a copy (informational) spread. For the visual spread I wanted to create something that would inspire graphic designers and artists to create their own work and how to gain inspiration for their own work. A hard aspect of graphic design is making your own creations without using other people's work. With using other peoples works you can be sued for copyright laws. I wanted to show graphic designers that mixing images and words can give you a totally new image. The only problem is using and remixing images violate copyright laws. In this print I altered and used the logos for Google, Tumblr, Blogspot, and Pinterest. I altered the logos to fit with my design by doing this I am remixing and by copyright laws that is in violation of certain designs that are protected under those laws. As a designer I would have to get permission to use those designs and pay for every time that I use it. In Lessig's book Free Culture he discusses his view on remixing, his point is that people should be allowed to use stuff like under the creative commons licencing. I have a similar view to Lessig, I feel that you should be able to protect your work but I feel that with permission you should allow other people to use that work of course in a positive view. Remixing is a very difficult topic because there are the two extreme views, one is to protect everything only allow the public domain to be used, while the other is to let everything free and allow people to do with it what they want. Lessig is a supporter of Cretive Commons which as a designer you need to be able to use because inspiration and remixing cannot be done without other designers sharing their work.
This is a piece of work that I created for my internship. We were asked to create a visual magazine spread and also a copy (informational) spread. For the visual spread I wanted to create something that would inspire graphic designers and artists to create their own work and how to gain inspiration for their own work. A hard aspect of graphic design is making your own creations without using other people's work. With using other peoples works you can be sued for copyright laws. I wanted to show graphic designers that mixing images and words can give you a totally new image. The only problem is using and remixing images violate copyright laws. In this print I altered and used the logos for Google, Tumblr, Blogspot, and Pinterest. I altered the logos to fit with my design by doing this I am remixing and by copyright laws that is in violation of certain designs that are protected under those laws. As a designer I would have to get permission to use those designs and pay for every time that I use it. In Lessig's book Free Culture he discusses his view on remixing, his point is that people should be allowed to use stuff like under the creative commons licencing. I have a similar view to Lessig, I feel that you should be able to protect your work but I feel that with permission you should allow other people to use that work of course in a positive view. Remixing is a very difficult topic because there are the two extreme views, one is to protect everything only allow the public domain to be used, while the other is to let everything free and allow people to do with it what they want. Lessig is a supporter of Cretive Commons which as a designer you need to be able to use because inspiration and remixing cannot be done without other designers sharing their work.
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