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.

I booked my flight back to Hobart for the summer break!! I am both excited and sad… there are many pros, Mum’s cooking, old friends, family and of course being able to get everywhere in 5 mins. There are also MANY cons, not seeing my new friends everyday like I do now, the city of H-Bart, the fact that there is NOTHING to do!!!! I might just have to spend the whole summer writing blogs, mind you I will have nothing to write about… I guess it’s a good chance to make a dent in my never ending MUST WATCH movie list.

It is pretty though…

I thought it would be interesting to find out more about Wikipedia seeing as that is similar to how we are constructing our Nikis. I found this short and informational video to help.

 

• To find the relationship between culture and technology, first the word ‘culture’ must be defined.
  • Murphie and Pott look at many ways that the word culture is used and defined and ultimately find that it is a ‘difficult word to define’ and decide to discuss the word as an amalgamation of its meanings and connotations.
• Then we must look at the massive impact various technologies have been created and have effected the word throughout history.

 

We come to the main conclusion that culture cannot be created without technology, even though they are different things and both words come with their own meanings, connotations and implications, in reality the two rely on each other.

 

http://youtu.be/8z81G2dX1Bc

The Chaser’s view on how reliant culture is on technology…

I went and saw Queen’s College production of Sweeny Todd on Wednesday and was blown away! I thought I would give it a plug on here, even though zero people will probably see it… So if you like amazing theatrical musicals, go to the Union House Theatre at Melbourne Uni tonight or tomorrow to see the performance!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/358065650991454/?fref=ts

 

Shapur 1 the second King of the Sassanid Empire in Iran, he rules from 240/42 – 270/72 CE

This mosaic Perso-Roman floor mosaic was at his palace, He was in heaps of wars including many with the Roman Empire and instructed many things, such as parts of cities, to be built, often refured to as the ‘builder of cities’

 

The two major ideas that I thought needed focusing on in this week’s reading were the 80/20 rule and the power law. I found these videos that helped me understand the concepts on a deeper level…

http://youtu.be/pDcaclreGc4

This one is long and I’m not going to lie, I didn’t watch it all, but even skimming through it helped!

 

The three points from this week’s symposium that suck with me were:

1. The difference between hypertext and narrative discussed in the conversation about whether or not a video game is hypertext or not. There were valid points both for against video games being hypertext and I feel after hearing both opinions that one some level they are, or at least resemble the idea of hypertext, but when it comes to the narrative side of games they are not.
2. The practical side to how you actually write hypertext, making sure that every link stands alone, there can be no assumption that the reader has viewed other link before or will read other ones after was the most interesting aspect for me.
3. Just thinking about ‘life before Google.’ I can’t even imagine life without Google – high school history would  have been a hell of a lot harder, that’s for sure!