So this week my College is having ‘wedding week’. This is a tradition that happens every year in which people propose to other people and the most extravagant proposal wins. Obviously it is not a real proposal but it is a really fun week and now I have become addicted to finding funny wedding proposals. Like this one…

 

All through the semester I have found the Nikis a bit of a chore really. However finishing it off and writing the reflective essay has made me realise how much I actually enjoyed writing the Nikis and how they are really something to be proud of! I can’t really see myself picking it up as a hobby but you never know, it really was a rewarding experience!

Especially the one I handed in on David Weinberger!

Rather than commenting on this weeks Symposium alone in this blog, seeing it was the last for the year I thought I would refelct on how the un-lectures or Symposiums have been this year.

I truly feel that the format for the lectures for Networked Media have been really effective. I feel like the knowledge we have gained and built up over the semester would not be the same had we had the generic learning style of a proper lecture. The main thing I liked was that we learnt and discussed what we wanted to, this way we could focus on information we found interesting and therefore we were much more engaged with the subject. As this was the first time this has been tried, I can really see the symposium style lecture taking off and becoming an excellent learning tool for Networked Media in the future!

The ten dreams of technology as taken by me (a.k.a probably not very well)

1. This is the aspect of the internet and technology that so many people are afraid of – technology and computers becoming as smart as or smarter than us. – the ability for us to communicate with technology in order to create a two way learning path.

 

2. Emergance – this dream confused me. I guess it relates to the evolution of technology and it becoming more humanised?

 

3. Virtual reality. The dream of becoming even more realistic. I tell you what, with some things it may not be perfect yet but it’s getting pretty close to when virtual realities will be extremely life like.

 

4. The communication technology being developed has already provided ways for people from all over the world to communicate and contact each other. I think that it being the single cause of world peace is probably a bit of a stretch at this stage… but it would be great if I was wrong about this.

 

5. Transparency … meh… the bit of the section that I noticed is soooo true is the fact that your computer grows to become or at least reflect you!

 

6. ??? I don’t get this one – it went straight over my head!

 

7. I think this one explores the opportunity for open and public work or art… kind of like the nikis.

 

8. To experience another person or being’s feeling and emotions is kind of creepy, but I can see how it would be extremely useful in many areas of life.

 

9. As art and technology collide a whole new world or art is being created and it will be ever growing and changing as technology continues to develop and grow itself.

 

10. The potential for hacking opportunities is great! And it is pretty much un-policed as so many parts of the Internet do not have security or wall protecting it from such acts.

 

Basically it’s all going to end up like iRobot…

 

so confused…

this helps a bit…

This is actually what instragram has done to some of my friends… #socialmedia #makingnetworks #soannoying

I already posted about this once before but I am so excited about going to The Falls Festival   in Marion Bay!!

I will be seeing this:

 

 

and this:

and this:

oh and this…

No very descriptive notes but I am putting them hear as reminders of what stood out to me as well as things I want to know about…
• Aim of WWW to empower people to make change – regulation would not have let this happen
• Free exchange of knowledge
• Patient law
• Free information – very hippie
• Hippie culture – internet – web
• Gift economy
• No one can own the internet
• Like manners
• Freely donate information to FB who sell it for billions to others

• RFC (WCC)

• Domain names instead of numbers

• Participatory culture (Us Now)

• Bought back to life through online and social media culture

• Not moving from one thing to the next, but reshaping things

• Database and narrative

o Cowbird

this discussion about how technologies are finally catching up the theories about ‘the medium is the message’ draws on some good points from the reading.