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2 years ago
#DIGC101 Group blog, q 2. Create a SL company.
Company name
Private Investigators and Monitoring of Personal Security Inc.
What sort of service would you provide?
Private investigators assist to locate missing persons, obtain confidential information, and solve crimes (Career Planner, 2009). Our service, PIMPS Inc, would also assist people who suspect their partners of SL cheating. We would befriend, track and/or conduct surveillance on the suspected cheater and provide a dossier of information to the client at the end of the time period.
We would also conduct investigations into virtual crimes, and assist individuals concerned about inappropriate development within SL to compose strong cases against them based on good understanding of RL planning principles and regulation.
The monitoring of personal safety aspect of our business is essentially a bodyguard service for those individuals who are unable to appear in SL without fear of attack. We may also act as security escorts for valuable SL property.
Who is the demographic?
The targeted user-demographic of this service is those able to pay for such a premium service. The service is professional and guaranteed, but as such is delivered at a price.
By Travis Holland (@tah727), Meghan Barrell (@MegAgain) and Jones George (@jgc461).
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2 years ago
#DIGC101 Reflection Essay Outline
I haven’t done much reflection essays before. I learned a lot on writing reflection essays since the last essay assignment. My main problem in the essay was portraying the actual image of the essay. I had a good plan of the essay in my head but I couldn’t get it down on the essay. I had a major problem with the structure of the essay. I couldn’t produce arguments to support my thoughts too. I was too weak on the research side. I have been doing some research on reflection essays and I have got some ideas on how to write reflections. As Chris said, I can choose 3 subjects for the topic and argue on them using proper references. In my opinion, online social culture is all about social networking. Over the years, we’ve seen the growth of different social networking sites. I’m going to focus on social networking then and now, the change in people’s attitude towards social networking and how social networking is going to affect the future.
This is just a very brief idea of the essay in my head. The subjects may change if I get a more interesting one.
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2 years ago
DIGC102 Industry Analysis Report
The industry i chose for my industry analysis report is the video game industry. Video game industry is one among the fastest growing industry in the world. People ranging in different ages play video games. Comparing the projections of the gaming industry in 1996 and 2008, the gaming industry then made an overall revenue of 2.6 million USD and towards the year 2008, the revenue came upto 22 million USD. The video game industry stimulates complementary product purchases of about 6.1 billion USD.The three companies i use for this project are Rockstar Games, Electronic Arts and Actvision Inc. Some of the Australian companies work with these gaming giants to create many world famous games. According to the GDAA, Australia’s video game production companies produce $100 million worth of games a year. Rockstar games gained fame through the world famous Grand Theft Auto series. GTA, when it was launched, was a game which was a generation ahead of it’s time. It was a game which was different from all the other games. Rockstar Games grew more famous and they launched two other games which were again among the best games in the world, Midnight Club series and Max Payne. Rockstar games later got expansions and next versions for the games. Electronic arts is another company which everyone is familar with. Electronic Arts is the biggest game developing company in the world. Their most renowned games include Need for Speed, FIFA, etc. They have dominated the world of video games by providing games that satisfy customers like no other. The next company is Activision Inc. Activision Inc. has been in the gaming industry for a long time since 1979. Ever since, it has always remained as one of the best game developing companies in the world. Activision is now world famous through the game Wolfenstein. Wolfenstein is a series of video game and has released it’s latest one last month, August 2009. In the 1970’s companies like Atari, Magnavox etc, developed games which were designed to appeal to a few males. Considering America, the entertainment software industry would currently be one of the best performing sectors concerning the American Economy. Overall video game industry software and peripheral sales revenued upto 22 billion USD in 2008, with entertainment software comprising 11.7 billion USD of that total. The industry’s December 2008 sales alone reached 5.3 billion USD, crossing 5 billion USD for the first time in any single month. By comparison, as recently as 1997, the industry generated 5.1 USD billion over the entire year Today, the growth of gamers and increased demand for games has translated into the explosive growth of the entertainment software industry. The video game software industry makes an unequal contribution to the real growth of the American nation. In the time period of 2005-2006, the industry’s contribution to real growth exceeded its share of GDP by more than four to one. As Brandon Curial, president and CEO of mobile game developer Venan Entertainment Inc., says, “You have the older gamers that haven’t stopped playing, and you have younger kids that are getting into it every day. With something like the Nintendo Wii, you even have parents playing these games now. Each year, the market just expands, and it’s going to keep expanding”. Gaming industry is familiar to everyone. Each industry focuses on the demography for it’s sales. The above mentioned companies all have video games for different aged people. In my analysis, what i found most surprising and a big factor for the growth of the industry is the change in the demography of the gaming industry. According to a recent survey by the NPD Group, the most popular gaming genre in the year 2008 was family entertaiment. This seems to be true as far as Australia is concerned as a recent study called Interactive Study, by Interactive Australia and Bond University stated that the average age of an Australian gamer is 30 years. If the average age is 30 years, then there will be lots of people who are above that age. This shows that most of the gamers in Australia have a family and they play games which can involve the family. Bibliography: Entertainment Software Association, accessed 17/09/2009, http://www.theesa.com/gamesindailylife/transformation.asp Entertainment Software Association, accessed 17/09/2009, http://www.theesa.com/gamesindailylife/economy.asp ABC News, accessed 17/09/2009, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/16/2516911.htm
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2 years ago
reflective essay http://jonesgeorge.tumblr.com/
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2 years ago
DIGC101 REFLECTION ESSAY
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The big idea i was learning about is the “web”. Using the web as a form of communication was always known to me. But about a month back, after i attended the lectures and tutorials i came to know more. I understood that it was way bigger than what i had imagined. The way internet can be used as a medium for communication is numerous. Nowadays, internet is used for all sorts of communication. It has made life very easy and smooth. Around 10 years back, everything in this world used to be comlicated but now with next generation applications using the internet, life is a lot easier. One of it’s biggest gain is in the education sector. Students find it very easy to gather data to help them with with their studies. Universties have now set up online services for their students through which the students are able to update themselves with their academics. I learned about different web sites like delicious and tumblr which i never knew before. I had never used twitter or my space before but now i’m using it and am having fun playing around with it. Using the web is a lot fun.
I had done a few assignments and projects on the web in the past few days. I had mainly used the social networking sites. Some of them were facebook, twitter, my space, delicious and tumblr. The first day i attended class i was asked to create accounts in all of the above sites. I already had an account in a few so i didn’t need to create a new one in all. Facebook and MySpace were familiar to me. These are great social networking sites where you can make friends and play around with your profile. You can create yourself an identity in the web using these networking sites. We can upload images, video and audio to customize the profile. We can change the overall appearance of the page. In the first week of my class, i had an introductory session. The following week we had a session on analysing the web. We learned about the web in the past and now. Most of the web sites and the online applications we use are in web 2.0. We are further advancing to the web 3.0. The communication between the student and the lecturer were through the social networking sites like twitter, delicious, google docs and scribd. During the session, i learned about the various interpersonal communication like verbal and non-verbal, direct and indirect and culturally and contextually specific communication. Then i learned about the different channels of communication which can be in the form of sound, image, touch and taste. The lecture on mediated communication was very interesting. The next topic of study was on the “big idea”. The web from 1.0 to 2.0. I never knew about the web 1.0 or 2.0. Later on in the session, i learned about the difference between the web 1.0 and 2.0. Blogging, wiki’s and tagging are all part of the web 2.0 which weren’t there in the 1.0. The web 2.0, unlike 1.0, enables users to participate in online events, and lets users create a blog to be used just like a personal website. The biggest advantage of the blog is that one can create an identity on the web. You can do whatever you want on the page including changing the overall appearance of the web page. The next site i learned about was delicious. Delicious is an online bookmarking site with which you can bookmark a page and share it with your friends. Sharing information has been faster with the advent of delicious. Also delicious can be added as an ad-on in mozilla firefox. A user can create a profile in it just like creating one in facebook or myspace. The profile and it’s contents will be public by default. The bookmarks can be accessed remotely from any PC. I learned a lot on the site tumblr. I had never heard of such a site at all. It is a blogging platform where the user can upload pictures, audio, videos, texts and links. One can follow others and view their posts in their dashboard. Tumblr can be connected to twitter directly from the users dashboard. This makes tweeting something to users on twitter easy. I had done this for my previous assignment where i tweeted the link of my tumblr webpage to my lecturer. Tumblr is a great blogging platform. We can edit our profile page as we want. Anyone can access the tumblr page. Scribd has interested me a lot too. Scribd is a document sharing site which works with adobe flash. It does a good work of document sharing. It embeds the document into the web. Word documents, pdf’s, powerpoint presentations and open office documents can all be uploaded to scribd. The documents in scribd can be made private to the scribd community or public. It is used in universities to upload lecture notes and slide shows from where the student can later download it.
Google docs is another Web-based word processor, presentation, form and spreadsheet application. It is just like an online microsoft word. Users can create and edit documents online real time while collaborating with other users.
Wherever we look, we see an application of the internet. I learned all this through the assignments i’m doing in this subject. I had to do a web project assignment for which i created a group in a social networking site. The project i did was on mobile phone reviews, i review neew mobiles every week. I was interested in mobile phones and i thought i’ll do the project on it. The group was started in facebook called the mobileworld. I have started gathering people to my group by sending out invites and asking my friends’ friends to join in too. I am editing the appearance of the page now to make it more attractive and get people to join. There are discussion boards where everyone can write their views and comments.
I’ve had a good experience using the web 2.0. I learned things that was never known to me. I can now use whatever i’ve learned for my future references.
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2 years ago
http://jonesgeorge.tumblr.com/ CENSORSHIP DEBATE
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2 years ago
DIGC101 CENSORSHIP DEBATE
I support what Jo had quoted earlier on Socrates. Each and every one of us has the right to make decisions for if we don’t it is just an infringement towards the autonomy. The democracy preaches the right and freedom to every individual. Internet is not a bad place to be at. Censoring the internet would also mean depriving the people of certain people’s rights. Gaming is something that everybody enjoys. Australia is the only developed country in the world to not have an R rating for video games. According to ABC News, the average age of an Australian gamer is 30 years. If the average age is 30 then there must be a lot more gamers above that. The government must permit these gamers to play games suitable for their age. Many gaming companies create chat rooms for their gamers to chat and discuss on the game. The game is the only topic in this chat that there is no need for players to get personal. When a person gets personal, the player must have the ability to understand what is happening. And above all, the case of Brittany Bartlett never took place in a gaming chat room. They met at the social networking site MySpace.com and then became friends.
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2 years ago
DIGC101 SOCIAL NETWORKING
One of the current issues faced by social networking sites are security issues. One can do just about anything on such sites including identity thefts. There have been lots of cases of cyber-bullying and cyber-harassment in the past. One of the reasons to such things happening is identity thefts. There have been several cases of people being blackmailed for money in the past. Using your blogs, a person can know where you are and what you might be doing at a particular time. He can just come to you and convince that he is a distant relative to you and needs some money urgently for some important thing. There is no privacy in social networking sites too. According to a survey by ABC News, around 40% of the users of the sites accept anonymous friend requests. Too much blabbering of company topics can become a big issue. It can just be exaggerated as it goes from mouth to mouth and finally it can pose a threat to your job. Since there is no physical contact with the person you are talking to, people can build up false identities too. All the social networking sites have a database which has all your details. Once you click the “I accept all the terms and services”, you are actually permitting these sites to use your personal data for their own uses (more information, read the facebook and myspace terms and conditions). These sites sell your information to companies in order to gain a target market on the sites. These companies target people with specific interests. This is the main income for such sites.
Therefore, users have to be careful with their friends on social networking sites. Since you do not have any physical contact with these people, it can be a threat.
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2 years ago
DIGC_102_ASSIGNMENT 1
Global warming and climate change has been the most controversial and the most debated topic around the world. From countries to smaller organisations, everyone is debating and doing their part to improve and bring about a change in the environment.
To start off, I checked if climate change and global warming are one of the latest issues that concerns the world by searching the keyword “latest global issues” on Google. I followed the first link to get into another web page and I found that it is second biggest issue around the globe behind the global financial crisis. It says that the developing countries are the most affected by the global warming and also that the warmest year was 2005 and the least warm was in 2004 in the past 5 years. Next step, I searched on how the media had brought this topic around by searching the databases of ABC network and SKY news. Global warming and climate change wasn’t a topic of primary concern for them but they still did put up the issue somewhere in the corner of the page. I then searched the Google database on global warming and climate change and obtained around 111,100,000 results. The Google scholar has done a great work on this topic. There were lots of articles from individuals to governmental organisations to corporates. There were about 308,000 articles throughout the Google scholar. On searching the google database for climate change and global warming, I found a web portal by the researchers of the Carnegie Mellon University published in 1994. It has done a pretty good project on global warming. It showed the consequences and misconceptions of global warming.
Next step to see how this issue has been brought around in the blogosphere I logged into them and searched for user groups and forums on climate change and global warming.
I found a lot of interesting stuff in the blog site OneClimate.com
There has been a lot of heat picked up by the users in debates and arguments on the topic.
As of now, there are lots of activities going on around the internet and blogs about global warming. People have accepted this topic as one of the biggest global issue and are ready to make this world a better place.
Bibliography
Norcia, Vincent di 2009, Key Points in the International Panel on Climate Change 2007 Report, accessed 20/08/09
http://livinggreen.info/LvGnGlblWarmgIPCCRpt.pdf
Shah, Anup 2009, Climate Change and Global Warming Introduction, Report Accessed 20/08/09
http://www.globalissues.org/article/233/climate-change-and-global-warming-introduction
Lovgren, Stefan 2006, Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” Movie: Fact or Hype?, Report Accessed 20/08/09
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2 years ago
my identity-continued
actually i might as well create a fictitious character right now. i can create the character using photoshop and upload it as the profile picture. i can also create a theme for the the profile. i can fill in the “about me” sections with details about the character. the character will be meant for teenagers and will exhibit behaviours just like any teenager. i can ask my friends to join the network of the character. i can promote the character by asking my friends to get people in their network to join the characters’ network. i can make a special comment box so that people can comment on the character and help me imrove it.
i can add modules to the profile to make the character look real fun!.
will come out with more ideas soon!.
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