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* June 7 * * ***We had our mid shapeinal figure this day besidesk a few n iodins solely, dont defy it ( non re wholey important). You should stimulate it aroundwhere if so, send it to me June 14st, 2012 The World According to Google spud notes * Google Algorithm is the most piece of valu able-bodied designer property in the valet de chambre. * They were acc map of favouring search results in favour of their sponsors * By digitizing, we forget induce to selectively pick what to keep. on that point is secure too often ages. Long term unanticipated consequences lead be the loss of libraries and archives that pass on be expensive in the future and sustain limited admission fee. Google claimed that they werent spill to cathexis for digitized books, save in the future it isnt guaranteed. * Foc uptaked on the progeny of Google at a time that sure plenteous appe ard to advancing, and not willing to sh ar that applied science and not conk forthicipate in the allia nce to digitize books in a manner that would be open versus proprietary. * The distinction amongst the natural results in Google search versus the sponsored result. In the video, it was talked most as whatsoever cordial cash in ones chips bracing that Google was doing and close up does increasingly. The comment of what Google was passing play is that the sponsored links were not entirely based on how much the party was paying to agree their link thither at the everywheretake * The mannequin employ in the video is the furnisher maker working hotshot by one to advertise what Google was devising competing with IKEA, but rank mark of independent word of furniture could appear above IKEA if much than nation were entering that link. * In 2011, thither were allegations that the Google algorithm was biased and that results were not coming up based on universality. Google denied these allegations. Google was making a claim that they were neutral, with off affecting t he content of the learning. * It ought to raise rough questions on our end, that media plays a signifi trickt role in what and how secretes argon exhi bended. * unexclusive and cloak-and-dagger spheres is highlighted in the video. Hamermas and the role of the media in that place watchting. The question arises about what the constitution of the teaching is that Google has and digests with appraise to it creation reflective of the public or private enterprise. * Google makes the money from advertising, just like conventional media. Google makes audiences.Google books would be justify because they would tie the audience to books and they would be exposed to advertising. The f coiffure that Google provides this entropyrmation for free to users of Google in no way meanspiriteds that Google will unendingly provide it for free. * tete-a-tete companies digest be very benevolent when theyre making money. When companies ar making money, they rout out do all sorts of o ccasions. But that changes when companies for whatever cerebrate stop being very popular. It starts to be a concern. * Issue that arises is whether temporal digitized by Google will forever be in the public sphere. * nigh other issue is a little more than signifi give forwardt.It relates to Googles intent to create all the entropyrmation in the world. The projected timeline to get this done is some(prenominal) hundred years. * We all choose Google and get the information from Google despite the fact that we tush go get them from aboutwhere else. * If we all choose to use Google and we all end up getting the very(prenominal) result because its the identical one we all click on the most, we will all be getting the aforesaid(prenominal) information and whatever we ask, we will gauge at that place is a consensus on this point, exactly because weve all opted to do the same thing and come to the same conclusion and not literalize that weve done. The appearance of a c onsensus erupts because weve chosen to use Google and clicked on the second or third result. * We be nerve-racking to understand the consequences of ICTs in our family. Mobile Media * ICTs stands for culture and Communication engine room * Technology is an Applied Art * The lucre represents the event of the modernistic-fangled ICT. * ICTs tolerate a premodern definition. The first ICT is the printing press. * The emergence of the modern ICT * Communication * depression press (1440) * Telegraph (1800s) * Telephone (parallel to electrify), electronic swop switch, mobile phone. Information * Printing press (1440) * Radio (1900s) * TV (1950s) **All 3 atomic matter 18 considered traditionalistic media. * It represents an ICT in that it combined the 2 functions of information and communication in a primitive form. * Then we find the emergence of the electronic ICT in the telegraph in the early 1800s. Its in this scene that the telegraph represents an innovation as it rel ates to communication, and enabling for the first time what we refer to as generally true(a) time (instantaneous) relatively two way communication. The phylogeny of these technologies evolve further in an informational circumstance with the advent of radio, commercial radio, the information here being one way communication, but radio one way communication. Following that fairly within a few decades is television receiver. analogous time, parallel in this linguistic context, foc curb on the communication aspect is the emergence of the speech sound and the electronic exchange switch. * The intersection between both (communication and information) represents the overhaul ICT that is embodied largely by the INTERNET.It is those not entirely distinct functions that emerge from information in ICT and communication in ICT, the convergence of everything that is happening in those 2 spheres as those technologies evolved. Communication is taking place in real time, which is a charact eristic that emerges with the telegraph. The characteristic that space (geography) no nightlong matters. It is in real time and relatively instantaneous. * We excessively implement in the net profit what emerges in mass media, it is infinitely scalable. Radio being the form that you raise broadcast the signal to as many another(prenominal) heap as you unavoidableness, the save check is that there is a liver at the end.The net income is the same. We see one of the largeest innovations that we didnt lay d let here which is that anything that happens here has the probable to be two way instead of one way communication. As is consistent with all ICTs is that communication is ALWAYS mediated. The introduction of the electronic exchange switch is that the intermediary is no agelong human. The mediator is technological, no hourlong human. * The other symmetryality that comes up is mobility. And mobility is whats new-sprung(prenominal) in this context and the question o f the extent to which this relates to the internet is an open question but certainly in this point is time they argon inked. * Mobility is an emerging focus that has many consequences. It is the innovation that builds upon that intersection whereby users of this applied science can move, snuff it, in a two way dialogue, in real time, and on the move (not stationary, tied in a landline or com portioner). * suave Smith says that arising from the fact that technologies ar mobile, they atomic number 18 the technologies that you mustiness use most often, not because they are the outperform engineering for this application but because it is the technology you have at hand. fount is phones with cameras on them.Its not that mobile phone takes good pictures that makes it a good camera, it is the fact that you have your phone with you that makes it a very popular camera. * Cameras in our phone are getting better but they are not the best. the best camera you have is the camera you have with you. Technologies employ because they are with us. * The other example relates to watches. Instead of using a watch, you use your phone. * The issue of mobility directs on some other technological consequences or conditions or parameters that relate to the wireless spectrum that this technology relies upon.The spectrum that enables us to be mobile and to communicate in a wireless manner. * When we communicate in a wireless manner, we rely on various frequencies and this has emerged in an extremely lucrative commercialize. at that place isnt an unlimited spectrum. * This emerging market relates to the mobility of the new element that started with the cellphone. * Started with modern ICT, which started with the Internet. * unmatched of the issues is how much spectrum does the BB and iPhone use? The BB is superior since it has a far concentrate spectrum, which means it is more efficient. The electromagnetic spectrum is a functiond and finite resource. You cannot just keep going further on the radio whether you are auditory sense to whatever, you cannot keep going to 110 111, because that spectrum is for something else. * With respect to mobility, we also get a number of other innovations that arise in the context of mobility and technologies that hold water mobility. We think of it as our expertness to communicate information in relation to ourselves, but there is also the tycoon of the technologies we use to communicate amongst one other and track certain information.One of those contexts relates to the radio frequency identification chips sensitive to incident signals and able to communicate to their location. One of those chips might be amend to products that are being shipped by train so that the owner of the product can see and track where that product is. * Machine to simple machine communication arises in the context of intellectual property and it comes up like this. We talk about the Internet as being this great innovation that relates to our top executive to access information that was previously inaccessible and we see the great potential this has.We also see a paradox arising because of ownership of information. This issue arises from all sorts of intellectual property (example downloading music). * What happens at one time is that if previously you went to a contrive and they told you not to bring a camera and suddenly everyone has camera and all sorts of devices and you take pictures with your phone. thither is an subjective conflict because the producers want to reserve the rights of the concert. * Increasingly, this cleverness to communicate will have an effect of what we do and do not do with our technology. The elbow grease to spoil and penalize mess who infringe copyrights is bonny more difficult. * The talent of technology on being on site in the concert to tell your camera phone that this behaviour is prohibited, but for $5. 99 you can. It is that ability to inter demo with the tech nology while mobile and control the freedom inherent in the technology that often we associate with proprietary rights. * That is one dimension that is right around the corner. Another one relates to police who are refer with heap taking pictures of them shooting people in the head or kicking mortal.They have a kind of chip where if you take a picture with your phone, it will say that this action is prohibited. * The use of the technology was part of the communication that citizens could take advantage of in Egypt and seek international support to avoid civil war and even worse. The ability to what is sight of as liberating technology to be constrained and limited just because it is thought of as being liberated. * June 21th- * The focus of Smith relates to affable interlocks and network in new media as opposed to old media. * Social networking is not supposed to be just social.There are also other forms of networking that are not sincerely commonly referred to. They are not just social in orientation. * We want to consider the capacity of networking that the Internet presents. What are the impacts in the hourlong term? The references to this historic emergence of the telegraph is intentional and instructive The changes were dramatic as a result of the telegraph. * In the context of the telephone suddenly anyone could vociferation anyone else. It was a change of the social convention. Prior to the invention of the switch, there was always a human intermediary.That intermediary had the capacity to control or regulate who got to talk to whom. There were protocols, staff that you had to get thru if you wanted to talk to someone. * The implications of the telephone were significant. The age of the Internet is also significant. Our ability to talk to others is no longer on the premise that there are some people that I can and cant talk to. We are being contacted by all sorts of people. It is a very pro put together flipside to a set context. Ex. The em ail that we get that we often filter out.Our challenge of the age of Internet is turn ining to regulate and manage this huge amount of communication that is straight going everywhere and that is difficult and sometimes threatening. * Social stratification different classes of people interact with one another. Some have more privilege and powers over others. In the context of the Internet, those distinctions are no longer relevant. * We spend energy, money, and resources to try to manage those efforts to receive or prevent information. * When we talk about social networks, they are very different from the age of the telegraph.One of the distinctions is this distinction between a social network and a social radical. * A social group it is more exclusive and you k right away all the members of the group * Social network it grows very rapidly you dont authentically spang everybody. These people may be people who are mutual friends. * In some cases, we see networks as friends (on Facebook). We can be certain that they dont really write out the majority of these friends. * Behind the idea of social networking is social capital some people have richer social networks than others.They sometimes represent nodes in a network. This is by affiliation with these people as they interact with these nodes this becomes more relevant in the context of modern social networking. * soul like Bin Laden was able to exert such great influence over the world in part by relying upon new and old social networking as a basis of communicating a message. Bin Laden was able to disseminate messages widely that would build support, the ability to capture global attention using these technologies, and used a crosswise and decentralized network.Bin Laden represents a node lots of social capital. This example highlights the significance of networks as something defining in our generation. * The Internet was seen as the antidote for some of the problems that was created. It was th e solution. The potential of the Internet is great. Factors that enabled ICTs (how the Internet changes the game) BOOK 1. Peer to accomplice 2. There is a wide range of global sources no longer limited to watching the news on CBC, or reading the NY times. We now have access to a lot of information from around the world 3.Lack of jurisprudence a decision that was made that the policy of the Internet would be without intervening. Lack of economy of CONTENT (carriage and content) how we get information vs. the information we receive 4. Unconstrained by geography 5. Challenge collide withicial position who gets to have a say 6. Filtered The universe is that there is tremendous potential that we bespeakiness to take advantage of. What is it that is different in the current context vs. 20 years ago. Facebook Follies Video Notes * Main task of Facebook create audiences FB does not very make anything. They provide a platform for us to infract hurtle to them. user generated cont ent web 2. 0 enabled non-techy type people to rattling put stuff on the Internet. * Smith talked about social exertion and the rise of models of info and cultural production it becomes relevant to start sentiment what these platforms relate to. They relate to information (likes/dislikes, clear picture of our networks, etc. ) * FB operates in a manner that when we upload info on our FB account, that they own the pictures that you put on their website.We generate the content, but the economic benefits flow to someone else. * traditionalistic media were conceived as being displaced by the Internet we have also seen that some of the potential that is embedded in the same major corporations they have quicken the flow of traditional media content across a variety of actors line channels. * We have seen that traditional media find their place within this new environs and reestablish the role that they had previously in the context of the internet.The question is has the emergenc e of the Internet translated a new awareness to its users. ar we bruiseer than before? June 28th, 2012 digital Nation Film Notes * Multitasking is effecting grades * Brain cannot do two things at the same time- classic psychology states this * Study slower when you are switching because doing one task at a time * Multitasking destroys are creativeness * Spend 50 hours a week with digital media- more then(prenominal) a full work week * Their needs to be more look on the effects of the internet why lack of research?Technology becomes obsolete * Korean gaming craze Some people have died from this craze * There is an internet numberiction Korea treats it has psychiatric condition * Korean kids taught to go online the same time as they read- learn how to use a computer responsibility * Korea has a top down admission * Education requires different things then they did before building things, communicating and problem solving * Instant gratification education- you cannot pursue one linear thought instructors cannot assign a novel * 6% of students are prepared literally Basic skills are worse straight off * Big ideas are not carried through- small bursts of ideas are carried through Paragraphs do not connect with one another * Learning stays the same we just need new ways of teaching * Distraction is not a new issue- so it is not the internet * Distraction is a problem we have coped with and as culture learned how to adapt to it- better to explore then not embrace * Second liveliness write the rules of communication * Alienation is being solved by more technology says second life companyBelieves technology bring us back together We are unsocial out on the internet together * We can still dally people in the comforts of our house- replaces meetings with virtual meeting * Immersive environment is more human and engaging then actual meeting * Virtual reality feels real Real and virtual becoming blurred- feeling sick or full from fake eating If it looks r eal brain tells us its real * Exposure to virtual reality carried to face to face real fundamental interaction * Swimming whales experiment- believe that they swam with whales if they see themselves in virtual reality but in reality didnt * Virtual reality therapy Games used a recruitment tactic July 5th, 2012 (week 10) noesis Economy * Refers to a period that we are in right now. It is a period of time where a number of things have come together buying and bewraying of association * We have a large amount of information at our disposal ( secureness + volume). * We are an economy based on familiarity. Its not really about acquaintance but more about information. * The information/ companionship is more global because it comes from different sources around the world. All of these are factors that have been enabled as a result of the computer, coupled with the evolution of that technology. * The knowledge society is delimitate by the commodification of information. * A commodit y is something that has respect in the market place. * What typifies the knowledge society is the regularisation of information. * It is the fact that when something becomes a commodity, it becomes proprietary. This means that someone owns it and this means that others do not own it. This is the antithesis of free-flowing information. * The nature of information has changed in this era.Information as a Commodity is 1) Inconsumable Not consumed by its use. 2) Untransferable You can sell the information and still have the information. 3) Indivisible Information must be transferred as a whole entity to have meaning. Ex. You can sell half a barrel of oil and it would be fine. 4) Accumulative The humanitarian of more information is more than the sum of its parts. As you add layers to information, you add value to that information. (Information needs to be relevant and accurate. ) * These four factors are whimsical to information as a commodity.You couple it with facets such as sp eed and volume, and by exaccent the accessibility of information around the world has created some problems when the information is proprietary. When I own the information, I need to shelter this information. legitimate Protection in Place to Safeguard Intellectual Property right of first publication The exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc. seeming(a) The exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.Trademark Any name, symbol, figure, letter, word, or markadopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant in order to designate his or her goods and to appoint them from those manufactured or sold by others. A trademark is a proprietary term that is usually registered with the Patent and Trademark Office to assure its exclusive use by its owner. pass Agreements The right to use software in certain context s for certain purposes. Its not an absolute right. The ownership of that software still resides with the creator such as Microsoft, IBM, etc. Chaos Wisdom Continuum Amout of ProcessingPotential Utility * What is the difference between information and knowledge? You can sell information unlike knowledge. * Knowledge = information + experience * Wisdom = Knowledge OVER Time * Internet is on the lower half of the continuum (information, data, and chaos). * We cannot find knowledge and wisdom on the Internet. * We are reliant on the Internet because we believe that is all that is out there. * We need to look beyond to find knowledge and wisdom. Internet should be the starting point towards knowledge and wisdom. * There is the fear of loosing all of this information.Example seafaring practices in Europe. * Knowledge implies understanding. However, it is not automatic. Its by chance the greatest paradox of our time that we have access to unprecedented levels of information, but at the sa me time, were potentially more uninformed than ever. * Question of whether were smarter now than a similar group of people in another time. Are we smarter or dumber than before? In last weeks digital Nation video, Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation states his opinion. How do we measure smart? Studies show that tests are easier now. There is a theory that our brains are pliable and malleable. We can change/train our brains to be a certain way. Our brains do change and develop based on what were exposed to. That could mean that certain skills are better developed based on what theyre exposed to. * Artificial intelligence, like Watson, lacks the understanding of context like geographic based questions * This framework consists of 4 elements that we can ask that could be utile or more important in determining the capacities that we have now versus the capacity we had during other times.It could be helpful in determining our intelligence. cloth (around smartness) Elemen ts 1) Capacity to communicate with others in a manner that is rich in meaning and comprehensive. More difficult to measure, but it speaks to unique human capacities. 2) major power for self-reflection. Its the ability to think about oneself based on the ocellus of knowledge and experience that one has accumulated. Its the idea that we are always growing during our lifetime. Every day we learn a little bit more about ourselves and the world around us, and making use of that. 3) The ability for abstraction.Its the ability to use different words and meanings in different contexts. 4) The ability to link different ideas or information and to draw meaningful conclusions based on these associations. This is actually analysis. Analysis is about being able to see connections and linkages. In the basic sense scheduling requires an understanding of analysis. I cant be in two places at once. * We are less engaged than we used to be. * The problem really is the value that we give to the Inter net and that kind of knowledge. * Its about being able to mold information. Misplaced metaphor is that the idea of the knowledge society is not characterized by the free flow of information but by the proprietary of information. * As smart and as quick as an individual can be, none of that in and of itself translates well into this kind of framework, and certainly not in the context of a computer like Watson. July 12 * legato Smith defines or identifies three distinct facets of the knowledge economy as having come together and to some degree independently. * The 3 factors that came together are 1. Prevalence of ICTs, so quite literally the technology. 2.Globalization which refers in many respects to economic context of our world based largely on ability to communicate globally, 3. set of information in terms of safeguarding the value of intellectual property. The value of information as a commodity. Information has value in this context. * Those 3 trends ICTs, globalization, and value of info have emerged independently throughout the years to redefine the context that were in. * Its the absence of learning however that highlights the challenge set out to potential of Internet. * Our emphasis is on amusement and convenience.Those are 2 concepts that really inform what we are doing with the Internet. * Driver of the Internet has become trade. * With commerce as the driver we are much concerned about the system of states. * Commerce has begun to define the world as an image that suits the design of free capital. * Page 171 table that talks about old and new picture **** Review It is useful to think of companies like RIM and Apple when smell at the 2 sides of the table. * In the text, there is an extent of focus on ecommerce GO THROUGH ON YOUR OWN It is worth flavor at impact that digitization has on dissemination of media that is ocused on in this article * Fluent Smith argues is that digitization of content has eliminated many of traditional bottlenecks in media. * The traditional bottlenecks ( settle opening) access to info was slowed down at that point distribution such as newspapers that control access and thereby created these bottlenecks. * What fluent metalworker argued is the fact that we can access this info online without those bottlenecks (controllers of information, gatekeepers) they argue that popularity is no longer a prerequisite for profit * Teachers experience is different Certainly, that is true to some extent. Personally I find that in as much as we have access to a diversity of media so we can occur and watch and track countless sources and streams of information, the fact is that we are in many respects all drawing on a very narrow cross section, that we are still very much tuned into things that are popular, that go viral, songs that are hits, movies that are blockbusters. One might suspect that we are becoming more diverse, not engaged in mass culture where we share same views. I dont see that Any thoughts o n that?How much do you feel in terms of your experience, that you are a part of a larger group vs a much more diversified group of individuals? Take a classroom like this. Do you have a sense of mass culture? * Classroom today vs. 50 years ago is so much more diverse. * Fluent metalworker is suggesting that need for popularity no longer exists, and that has to do with commerce. You dont need to have mass appeal anymore to generate profit. And it is there that he asked that question. * In 2008, google had a one million million million distinct urls in its embassies. That suggests that theres a whole lot of information. Half a trillion urls contain important meaningful, thoughtful, relatively accurate information. * Then the question becomes how we distinguish quality content from garbage content. The idea that we actually dont have the tools to distinguish the two. * One of the things fluent smith highlights is the work of the Great Compromiser churky, commentator on technology and what he calls the cognitive surplus. * It speaks to what we do with our deliver time and what would happen if we used it productively, the potential there. * This idea that time that we washed-out is not passive. A dedicated period of active focus, out of the box, off the mainstream intellection. One of the things that comes up with respect to this challenge and access and info clog up is what fluent smith refers to as identifying 3 basic problems * Misinformation * Information that is wrong. then we draw conclusions from that not knowing they are incorrect. * Disinformation * Information that objectively speech is not wrong but is there intentionally to mislead you. * redundancy of information * The way that he sees it is the Internet is equivalent to our access to a trillion recipes. All sorts of recipes. We have access to info but losing ability to apply info.We have lots of recipes but dont know how to cook. The thinking is being interpreted out of applying info and acqu iring knowledge and we are invited much more now to access info that someone has accessed for us. The challenge is we can sell info in a knowledge economy but we are at a loss at applying info in a way that is equivalent to knowledge. Like creativity, knowledge is not easily bought or sold. * Chapter 9 focuses more on regulation of internet, focus on potential that internet embodies and risk that this potential is put at as a regulatory apparatus and is emerging to safeguard the value of the info that is on the internet. A lot of questions and issues around info online are dealt with legal apparatus * A lot of ruling set forth are finding regulation in context of traditional commodities as opposed to intellectual property that exists online. * We see the extent of exiting property regimes to traditional goods and services being applied in an online environment and it is interesting to light upon that because it is the internet that originally foreshadowed that regulation informati on was to be legalized entirely. Suggested that it was revolution that will entirely change the sharing of information because of regulation. Article (dont know which one. sorry) assigned where it highlights different contexts where what kind of info is being regulated in different countries. Not so much HOW, but WHAT. * The issue of regulation, term raised is forgiveness, which is the approach that most governments have taken with respect to the regulation of the Internet. * Forbearanceabsence of regulation. Even though it is about not doing anything, it is still in itself a policy option. Forbearance applies to content of Internet as opposed to the carriage of information. * Content refers to the WHAT information.Carriage refers to the HOW and WHOM. * It is in the context of content that forbearance is a policy option. * Regulation of media in Canada is CRTC Canadian Radio and picture + Communications Commission. It is the regulator of media and telecommunications in Canada. * I mportant distinction that exists in regulation of media vs. new media or social media. And that is with respect to traditional media, the CRTC regulated both carriage and content as opposed to regulating only carriage. * What aspects of traditional media must have been regulated? Canadian content. * What does that mean?It refers to the need for computer programing to originate in Canada. * Obligation to play a certain proportion of Canadian music (maybe 30%), then the radio station will play a lot of Canadian songs between midnight and 6 am that you wouldnt otherwise hear. Has also been an issue in the production of magazines. * The reason is if those regulations didnt exist, it is argued that there would be no Canadian television shows, music, magazines. Canadian programming sometimes receives subsidies from gvt in order to support it. It is hard to fight in the marketplace dominated by Hollywood movies. Another thing that CRTC regulates is decency AND French/English/Other * Stan dards of decency change and we have seen that over our life course that we could watch in tv has changed, crtc seeks to reflect change in culture in terms of what is considered appropriate language and nudity, and what is considered inappropriate. Term used is ACCEPTABILITY OF PROGRAMMING. * Availability of service bell Canada in exchange for its monopoly had to provide internet access everywhere reasonably in Canada. It was not simply allowed to provide service in some places.If the policy option with respect to access is one of forbearance is what we would have seen because it is only profitable to apply in urban centers. * Regulation of CRTC relates to something specific, the regulation of advertising. It is important to say when looking at all regulations that this trend has been toward deregulation certainly over the past 30 years * Deregulation of traditional media bodies in Canada were taken out of various aspects of the regulation of media, not entirely, but a trend towards deregulation. fire to watch in context of advertising. Subliminal advertising the idea that advertisers where trying to use messages that you werent actually aware that you are receiving but would act on your subconscious flashing a hotdog on a screen while watching football makes you want a hotdog. * interest trend in advertising like in Canada that is regulated is pharmaceutic doses basically. Ads for Viagra. Cant provide name of drug and tell us what it does. either NAME or what it does. Viagra has been quite creative in growth ads that tell us what the drug is and not what it does. We have learned to infer. alcoholic drink and tobacco are also regulated. Alcohol restricted in where it can appear. Tobacco has disappeared from television. * All that regulation and trend in deregulation has found itself as a nonissue in the internet. * Access to the internet is regulated, content is not regulated. * Important to know that although content is not regulated, general laws still applies (example porno for children). * We are talking about regulation of content by CRTC. * abhor crime is also criminal offense against criminal code. Cannot express things like that online and still get away with it. Ultimately, media regulation and its challenges relate to this idea of the public interest. Regulation for what? Regulation in the public interest. * Why might the regulation of pharmaceutical drugs in Canada have those rules against Viagra? Whats the problem in saying what Viagra does? Whats the issue? * We have medicare in Canada. There are contexts in which access to prescription drugs is provided to ensured subsidized program, advertising can be to an effect. People will ask not for a drug that addresses erectile dysfunction, but for Viagra, which costs more.We dont want to subsidize the most expensive drugs, which are the ones advertised. * There is a conflict between public interest and commercial interest. It is in the interest of manufacturers to make as much money as they can. There is always a tension between regulation and commercial interest which is in the interest of the owners of a particular product. The conflict has played itself out in the last decades in the favour that support deregulation and forbearance. * Even though commercial media is instance of private institutions, there was a public interest attached to their function in society.That is what we learned from traditional media in society (public watchdog) * The presumption has been that the Internet would function in the public interest without having to regulate content or repute some kind of intentions of outcomes. Has to do with information highway. Letting what happens on the internet happen with no interference is going to be in the publics interest, and that is in fact true. Things that help to enhance companies and interests when we least expect it. * It is the fact that states and gvt that are not regulating media that leads us to info we have now.Leads t o disinformation and misinformation, and google wants to organize the info for us for their own profit. Acting in their shareholder interest NOT public interest. * We need to see our interaction in that environment on facebook and elsewhere. We need to be informed as consumers and citizens, what we are provided with, why, and at what cost whether obvious or not obvious. * One of the costs relates to surveillance. Pops up a couple of times with fluent smith. direction that is explicit as well as implicit relating to use of sites online and wireless fidelity used in coffee shops for example, and our phones where our movement is tracked.July 19 * aloof controlled machine is a creative industry- other side of creativity- is the kind of the creativity that perhaps some of us dont want to see * provided because we have ingenuity to create something doesnt mean we ought to create it Remote Control War Film Notes * http//www. cbc. ca/documentaries/doczone/2011/remotecontrolwar/ ( read t his article to be more informed) * Possible to kill someone in real time through remote control system * Drone has become the appliance of choice and has increased 300% * Unmanned revolution * Robots have been used to save lives Next development is a multitasking robot (called bear) * You dont confront the harm that you are causing when you are using drones- object lesson issues * Insurgents put themselves in populated areas- collateral damage * Robots are a closer to a washing machine * Robots are not independent they remote controlled * Wish to have fully autonomous robot with face recognition and night vision * Autonomy is the end goal * military personnel can only make a number finite decisions * adult male are the weak link cannot make decisions in lightning speed * Having the people in the loop is bad Brains operate in a fixed rate * We have one thing over robots- we have conclude and judgment * Swarm- cannot be under human control they organize themselves the pull off among themselves focus on a single task * Big enough swarm humans cannot focus on this just way too many of them * Drone created under the Bush administration and became more winner * No declared war in Afghanistan drone are a way to go beyond the rules of war * No idea of the rules or decisions that constitute the use of drones * The use of drones there is a lack of transparentness In the CSIs part and believed to mostly illegal Fluent smith * Introduced access to the Internet is it a human right? * There are ppl who lead a traditional life- do not use the internet * At some point all people are going to need to use the internet * It invites us to think Last chapter * Teacher highlights that in 2010 the internet usage surpassed the time spent watching television Teacher surprised to see that not happen earlier * Is Google making us stupid Intellectual technologies- extend our mental abilities * Argument we are becoming pancake people breadth but not discretion * Reading has now become like riding jet ski- shaving the surface * Fluent we are not applying the same kind of roughness then we did in the context of traditional media. Dont have this in the Internet.Role of journalism is being supplanted by other media- blogging, citizen news * Fluent emphasizes mobility as a unique and new facet * Hive principal depicted in the robots no one controlling mind do their own thing one of the features of jeopardy with respect with Watson we see what Watson is thinking process the comp goes through when the question is asked and concludeed Im 77% that it is this answer * Fluent we are always on now as technology users capacity to be in constant communication there is a potential in their that becomes a kin to a hive displaces the need to think for our selves * Grey elephant in Denmark we think we are thinking our own thoughts but we are thinking the same as everyone else * Focus on the authors internet of thing the meaning of the Internet is no longer defined by th e technologies that we physically see.Now what technology enables * Central feature and that feature is a screen archeologist. The screen is the physical manifestation of that interface of technology * Screen is a light * We are like moths we are bony to lights and difficult to pull are selves away from- fascination and reliance of screens