In last week’s Networked Media symposium, the bulk of discussion surrounded databases. Having already touched on this in a previous post, as well as the topic being a little underwhelming at times, I’ve decided to delve into something else that was mentioned. In 8 years time we could have cars that drive themselves, and remote control camera’s. We will have…
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What’s in the Middle?
Does a network have a centre? The answer is, it depends. What kind of network? What defines a centre? The Internet network has no direct epicentre. It is a correlation of hyperlinks that take you from one site to another. There is no defined beginning or end. It is defined only by the choice of the individual and their interests.…
What is Neutral?
Can technologies be neutral? This question, which we discussed in Networked Media Symposium 8.0, was a tricky one. To be able to answer the question, we first need to decide on what actually is neutral. Let’s start off by actually looking at the definitions, and see if they can help. “not supporting or helping either side… impartial.” “having no strongly marked…
Adrian Vs Betty, Round 6
I’ve decided calling the Networked Media ‘lecture’ a symposium could take a twist this week. Introducing the lengthy intellectual boxing match between the course tutors! It seems like they’re always disagreeing, which at least provides me with some entertainment after a long day at Uni. Actually, today Betty clapped at what Adrian said – hooray! They are finally getting along. One…
Haters can hate, but not in AUS
I found myself wondering during this week’s Networked Media symposium if in fact I had stepped it a Law lecture. It seemed that the hour (time flies when you’re having fun, right?) was an episode of Suits or Boston Legal, with the talk of defamation, copyright, patenting, liability, legalities, and more complex big words. We discussed freedom of speech in an online environment.…
What if Little Red never met the Big Bad Wolf?
Once upon a time there was a bloke by the name of Aristotle. He was born into the 300’s BC. He revolutionised an excessive number of concepts through his philosophical writing on logic, knowledge, as well as biology. It was this historically significant figure who kickstarted the narrative convention of beginning, middle, end. Beginning… middle… end… While the beginning and…
The Lytro camera
The first lecture for Networked Media, or symposium shall we call it, was overwhelming at the least. However there was one thing that was mentioned which particularly caught my attention – the Lytro camera. The what camera? Don’t worry, I hadn’t heard of it before either. The new model is yet to be released, only in pre-order stages, however apparently…