Archive forSeptember, 2014
Sep
24
People’s Thoughts
September 24, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Mia, is very happy because she has bought a ticket to Japan, woohoo have fun there Mia! Michael has done an amazing job is summing yesterday symposium 🙂 Kenton finds Adrian discussion to be the most interesting and uses the example of cowbird.
Sep
24
9th Symposium : Watts and Barabási
September 24, 2014 | Leave a Comment
I enjoyed the symposium from yesterday, It is very clarifying and make my head less spin. Previous symposium always answers question but in the end generates more confusion than the actual getting answers. But Yesterday symposium is much easier to understand as the tutors explained how they take the reading and how they interpreted it. […]
Sep
19
Watts and Networks
September 19, 2014 | Leave a Comment
One of this week reading is by Duncan Watts. Watts discussed how networks can be seen as a particular systems and explain how we as the audience could understand the behavior of individual component as well its collective behavior changes. The idea reaffirms that relationship between parts is more important and far more crucial that […]
Sep
19
My Fellow Bloggers Works…
September 19, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Caitlin wrote how confusing last symposium and I can’t say I blame her since I felt the same way. Don’t worry Caitlin you’re not the only one! Bonnie had done a super amazing job in simplifying, summarizing week 8 reading by Watts. You go Girl! Carli posted something related to the very recent stuff, people […]
Sep
19
Week 8 symposium – Craziness with hammers –
September 19, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Have you ever tried of touching wind? Do you feel the frustration when you touch nothing? Thats what I feel today, Adrian symposium is super confusing. I don’t even think I managed to scratch the surface. He started clarifying the difference between digital media and network media. Adrian said that the meaning for digital media […]
Sep
16
Fellow bloggers great posts
September 16, 2014 | Leave a Comment
My fellow bloggers are a great writers. George has written an amazing post on the Shields reading, I find his writing is easier to understand and I love the comment and understanding. Mia as always has an excellent view and content on her blog, this time her Duncan comment. Again I find it easier to […]
Sep
10
Ugh Technical Determinism …
September 10, 2014 | Leave a Comment
In class today we were split to three groups to discuss about the reading by Murphie and Potts. Though we mainly just discussed the first two page, already there were a lot of theory and perception from so many different people. Though i’ve learned it before in my previous semester, I’ve found it interesting and […]
Sep
10
Your intent!
September 10, 2014 | Leave a Comment
This week symposium, I found it interesting when Adrian opened it with the question of intent. This takes me back to my other course lecture, International Human Right Law lecture on genocide. It is mentioned in that lecture that genocide is determined by the intent of a person, in this context, the intent to destroy, […]
Sep
7
Books to E-books
September 7, 2014 | Leave a Comment
The Douglass reading for this week is long but interesting. He mainly talks how the future of books might be replaced by the hypertext book and be more interactive. (The Death of the Book by Ben Ehrenreich by A litquake tumblr) I believe that that is already starting. I’m an avid reader so I always keep […]