Thursday, December 15, 2011
You Are Not A Gadget Video Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8paPiqZHKUc&list=UULYtFFKxOy_tOl-Ld0RNVeQ&index=1&feature=plcp
Monday, October 24, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
UK’s Clubbing Culture Social Site
Chappell Russell
Internet Studies
Dr. Stanovsky
October 11, 2011
UK’s Clubbing Culture Social Site
DontStayIn is a European clubbing social site that bases information off of events and social life in the UK. Its site currently has 430,000 verified members who are encouraged to upload pictures and profiles of the 185,000 lists of events and venues they have attended, hosted or contributed towards in some way. From 2006 to 2008, DontStayIn, or also known as DSI, was ranked in the top three websites of the UK by Hitwise in Entertainment Nightlife. DSI’s website offers videos of upcoming events and new music for clubbing fans as well as, pictures and blogs of music artist, celebrities, and shots of clubbers doing what they do best. The home page has easy access to music reviews, news, competitions, and different social group. It also shows off a gallery area where clubbers can find their own pictures. Site viewers are prompted to join a live chat or find a “hot topic” they wish to read about.
If live music is the passion then DSI has sells tickets to live shows and tours going on at the time. It also offers information on how to attend and where to attend the live events. The site becomes personalized by provided a “free guestlist”, “find your photo”, “upload pictures,” “find event,” “find your friends,” or “add an event.” All of the aspects of the site allow people to become a part of something bigger. It gives them a chance to see who shares common interests in music and parties as well as, getting to know these people and having the opportunity to see what the event looked like from pictures and video clips.
Through exploring the site, viewers will find that DSI allows itself to become connected to Facebook. It gives the option of setting a profile up manually or choosing to link up with Facebook. Promoting through Facebook expands its advancement throughout the Internet. Because Facebook have over 19 million active members the chances of adding members through Facebook connecting are more likely.
Author of the book Remix, Lawrence Lessig, might suggest that the web site DSI would be infringing on many copyright laws. On the home page alone, the site shows music by artists who own rights to the song and video. It also places pictures of album covers, which is sometimes considered artwork, therefore bordering on copyright infringement.
Because this site is so popular with UK clubbers and music fans, Lessig would argue that the site is developing through the culture. DSI has many focuses on techno, dance, pop, hip-hop and a few other popular genres that are well liked within Europe. Lessig might say that DSI does not formulate toward permission culture. However, though there are pictures and music videos and images to be considered art, many of which DSI shows are promotions of bands, artists and fans. This is what Lessig would consider Remix.
The “culture is a culture where the public is free to add, change, influence, and interact with their culture.” Opinions are easily changed or influenced by the idea of one mind. This is very different from the idea of Read/Write culture, where the owner is the one developing ideas for the reader. Clubbers add pictures and comment on all aspects of DSI. They are the ones shaping the culture of Night Life in the UK and a few other places. This feature is what allows the web site to become social. Society wants to see what everyone else thinks is best and to become apart of it. With DSI allowing people to comment on the events they attended it will later contribute to who and how many will attend the next event. In example of this facet, a person attends a techno rave in which they really enjoy as well as, a country music tour where they did not have as much of a good time. When that person goes to upload a video or comment on the event site, they will write one was good and one was bad. Other people interested in similar events will see this and think that maybe they ought to skip out of the country music tour and only attend the techno rave. Therefore, society’s music preference has been shifted by one person’s ability to comment on a blog through the Internet on the DontStayIn web site.
Lessig realized that the world is become more and more dependent on one another and most importantly technology in itself. Without this technology the knowledge of DSI would not exist. In chapter nine of Lessig’s text he discusses several reforms to which DSI follows and thrives itself off of. It is simple. It easily explains what the site is about and how it is used to benefit music and party lovers around the world. It has tabs that allow the viewer to easily access what they are looking for. Also, DSI promotes linkages to other famous web sites, like Facebook, that allow for more promotion and visibility on the world web.
However, when first looking at DontStayIn, the title is slightly unclear of what it is referring to. Lessig suggest using a clear title for web site to better advance the sites viewings. Facebook, on the other hand, does not refer to anything in particular but seems to be upgrading with more members every second.
With many reasons that Lessig discusses in his text, DSI could improve upon so it can stay around longer and make more money. When it become well-known the entire Universe will be using it for event planning. However, at the moment it is growing and evolving into an upcoming advancement with worldwide clubbing and music events.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Back To The Future
Chappell Russell
IDS 3250 sec. 101
Dr. Stanovsky
September 22, 2011
First Web Writing Assignment
Back To The Future
The first encounter I had with a computer was in 1995. Only being born in 1991, I was around the age of five when I came across the new technology. Computers were still in the developing process and at the time, were large masses of machinery with wires and plugs coming out of every end. The monitors were glass bubbled screens attached to 50 pounds of plastic. The actual computer was a large standing structure that would make loud fan noises. My family’s computer happened to be a tan colored plastic accompanied by a tan mouse, keyboard and, what I call a floppy disk drive.
Our computer stood in its own corner nook of our first house. I was not allowed to touch it without parental permission. For a five-year-old child, that was a hard thing to do when it had all those fun buttons to push and click. The dial-up noise is still a noise I recognize to this day.
On weekends out shopping with the family I was allowed to get one special toy of my choice. However, unlike most five and six year-old children wanting to buy fire trucks and baby dolls, I wanted to buy computer games. I had acquired several computer discs with simple kid games like Barbie’s Fashion Designing and other educational interactive games that taught reading and math. I was fascinated that I could pick out doll clothes on a screen and print them out. And even though the concept was new to a young girl, like anything would be, it was also new to everyone else in the world.
We moved into my new house in 1996. Computers were still evolving and becoming smaller and more compact. Something even more exciting than Barbie’s Fashion Designing came out that would take computers to the next level; the laptop. My dad brought home an HP Pavilion computer. It did everything our last computer did but it was portable. My family would take trips to the beach and bring the computer. We would set it up in the backseat of the car and watch movies on it.
I soon became attached to the laptop and begged for a computer of my own. I learned how to use draw in the program Paint. I would write in the program Notebook. I had even moved on to more interactive games like Sims and Nancy Drew Mysteries. I had fallen in love with the new age technology.
A few years later for Christmas, my sister and I were given two flat screen HP desktop computers. To have a computer was one thing, but to have a flat screen was, what I considered, the best Christmas present I had ever been given. I soon became familiar with the Internet. I made myself an email address on American Online or also known as AOL. I learned how to chat online with my friends through America Instant Messenger with a “screen name”, found the wonders of Google to be helpful with anything I needed to learn about and of course, I was sucked in to the social networking of Myspace.
I had become an avid computer wiz. I could listen to music, search the web, chat with friends and anything else. However, the flat screen HP soon become over loaded with all the nonsense that was downloaded on the computer. There was only so much I could do to keep from getting pop-ups and having viruses. The HP’s hard drive blew up and I was left computer-less.
Feeling disconnected to the world, I knew I had to get a new computer. There had been so many updates from my last computer that I had an array of technology to choose from. Stepping away from the average PC, I decided to test myself into something new and exciting, a Mac. I invested in a 15 inch white, 2005 MacBook. I had always been interested in the arts and heard that this computer would be best for the field of humanities. It had the capabilities to avoid viruses and I was most excited about the built in camera that would allow me to video chat with my friends.
In relation to the readings discussed in class, I would say that my situation relates more towards Hawthorne’s ideas. I like the classics, such as Macintosh, but I like the advanced classics. What makes Macintosh Apple computers a classic, is that they have survived decades of evolution and are the highest grossing technological company to this day. They have evolved with the time, such as Hawthorne discusses the wood stove in the beginning and what evolved from the wood stove. Though my focus is towards the evolution of technology and how it has developed and will continue to outshine the next generation, I believe that there will always be traditional technology that stay for many years to use without much advancement towards it.
Word Count: 840
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
First Writing Assignment - IDS
The first encounter I had with a computer was in the early 90s. Only being born in 1991, I was very young when I came across the new technology. Computers were still in the works in the developing process and at the time, were large masses of machinery with wires and plugs coming out of every end. The monitors were glass bubbled screens attached to 50 pounds of plastic. The actual computer was a large standing structure that would make loud fan noises. My family’s computer happened to be a tan colored plastic accompanied by a tan mouse, keyboard and, what I call a floppy disk drive.
I was around the age of five or six when my family bought the computer. It stood in it’s own corner nook of our first house. I was not allowed to touch it without parental permission. For a five-year-old child, that was a hard thing to do when it had all those fun buttons to push and click. The dial-up noise is still a noise I recognize to this day.
On weekends out shopping with the family I was allowed to get one special toy of my choice. However, unlike most five and six year-old children wanting to buy fire trucks and baby dolls, I wanted to buy computer games. I had acquired several computer discs with simple games like Barbie’s Fashion Designing and other educational interacting games. I was fascinated that I could pick out doll clothes on a screen and print them out. And even though the concept was new to a young girl, like anything would be, it was also new to everyone else in the world.
We moved into my new house in 1996. Computers were still evolving and becoming smaller and more compact. Something even more exciting than Barbie’s Fashion Designing came out that would take computers to the next level; the laptop. My dad brought home an HP Pavilion computer. It did everything our last computer did but it was portable. My family would take trips to the beach and bring the computer. We would set it up in the backseat of the car and watch movies on it.
I soon became attached to the laptop and begged for a computer of my own. I learned how to use draw in the program Paint. I would write in the program Notebook. I had even moved on to more interactive games like Sims and Nancy Drew Mysteries. I had fallen in love with the new age technology.
Sure enough, for Christmas, my sister and I were given two flat screen HP desktop computers. To have a computer was one thing, but to have a flat screen was, what I considered, the best Christmas present I had ever been given. I soon became familiar with the Internet. I made myself an email address on AOL, learned how to chat online with my friends through AIM with a “screen name”, found the wonders of Goggle to be helpful with anything I needed to learn about and of course, I was sucked in to the social networking of Myspace.
I had become an avid computer wiz. I could listen to music, search the web, chat with friends and anything else I could dream of. However, the flat screen HP soon become over loaded with all the nonsense that was downloaded on the computer. There was only so much I could do to keep from getting pop-ups and having viruses. The HP’s hard drive blew up and I was left computer.
Feeling disconnected to the world, I knew I had to get a new computer. There had been so many updates from my last computer that I had an array of technology to choose from. Stepping away from the average PC, I decided to test myself into something new and exciting, a Mac. I invested in a 15 inch white, 2005 MacBook. I had always been interested in the arts and heard that this computer would be best for the field of humanities. It had the capabilities to avoid viruses and I was most excited about the built in camera that would allow me to video chat with my friends.
In relation to the readings discussed in class, I would say that my situation relates more towards Hawthorne’s ideas. I like the classics, such as Macintosh, but I like the advanced classics. What makes Macintosh Apple computers a classic, is that they have survived decades of evolution and are the highest grossing technological company to this day. They have evolved with the time, such as Hawthorne discusses the wood stove in the beginning and what evolved from the wood stove.
Word Count: 794
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