The Internet is a whole new technology which has changed our life forever. The space of the web is infinite. For instance, eBay is a website which everyone is familiar with. It provides service based on the customers’ interests. Everyone wants different stuff. There are thousands and thousands of thoughts which makes it unpredictable. When we look over the space of eBay, we can see a vast landscape.On the Internet, we can always choose the time suits us most to do our work. The web is made up by hundreds of millions of threads. However we never can do the same thing in reality. On the web, selves is not the real selves, we all have a name, a identity which is written. We will never know the true identity of others on the Internet. On the Internet we can use the search tool to get as much information as we want about the subject we wanted. There is a vast range of information and knowledge about it. Maybe some of them is unsystematic and uncertified knowledge, but it is presented in a human voice way and it is richer and in some level more reliable.
Everyone is an author on the internet, everyone is a participator and they make contributions to this great community.We don’t get our authority from degree here, but from what we are writing. The Web is a voice with affect and passion. We listen, write, discuss and evaluate and create the Web!
This article argues that the entire generation should fight for more valuable knowledge storage. It has not been a scientist’s war, a biologist’s war and a physicist’s war. Everyone should join in. The use of science and of the new instrument has a lasting benefit existing. Their health got improved by improving the their material environment. Science provides individuals with the fastest speed of communication. It encourage individuals to do their best to have an academic engagement. ‘So the knowledge evolves and endures throughout the life of a race rather than that of a ‘individual’. Science cannot live with out a record. The record of science must be extended and stored and the most important, consulted. At present, we record science by writing and photography and then by printing. We also get record on films and disks and wires. And there will be new ones appear in the future.
As far as I’m concerned, as a individual, we should back up our knowledge about all the aspects from time to time to improve our mental health. Also we can get plenty useful skills that will be helpful to us in the future some times. As we are reading or going throughout the Internet, we could do some deeper research about the subjects we are interested in. We should consult the topic and find other sources about this topic and have a critical thinking and analysis about it.
Networked media is a subject make the use of blog strongly integrated into the learning. This is a sign shows that the Internet has developed quickly and it has become a significant new form of media. We used to rely on print literacy like papers and books. We can actually read stuff from the paper. Now we use computers every day, we read blogs, news, listening to music, watching videos all from the internet. Internet has already replaced the traditional media platform, television and radio. Actually we can do all the stuff on a computer and it is even faster and we have wider sources.
Digital literacy is the ability to learn, evaluate, understand, analysis and organize the information by using technology tools like computers. Also we need to have a critical attitude about the sources we found on the Internet and try to analysis and evaluate the reliability of the sources we found.
Copyright
In Australia, when you create your own work, you create the copyright at the same time. Copyright protection is automatically generated and it always protects the original work of creators. The copyright owners has various rights like change their work and publish on the internet. In general, the ‘creator’ or ‘maker’ of the work is the copyright owner. Nevertheless, there are some exceptions. For instance, the creator is an employee, belongs to a community, is a freelancer, the government control and create the work. The duration of copyright is the lifetime of the creator plus 70 years. The information from the internet doesn’t mean that we can use it without a permission. Usually you just need to get a verbal permission to use the source. Short words, names, titles, slogans or phrases are not protected by copyright.Copyright also do not the actual idea, fact, style or technique itself. So generally, facts and ideas are free to use. If you want people to use your original work, you can get your own creative commons license. To clarify your blog when someone leaves a comments, you can add a creative commons license to your blog comments page. You need to be more careful about providing a link to other blog or website. Although it does not infringe copyright owners, it is important to find out whether the blog or the website infringe the copyright. You can use another blogger’s image only when the copyright duration is expired and the work belongs to ‘public domain’, you get the owner’s permission, there is sufficient acknowledgement, the image is ‘clip art’. In Australia, there is no exception for ‘fair use’. It is just for the purpose of research and study, criticism or review, parody or satire and reporting news. If you cannot find a creative commons license on the work you want to use in your blog, collecting societies may help you arrange a license to reproduce or use the works on your blog.
Moral Rights
When you get the permission to use someone ‘s work, you should also be aware of not changing the work or being derogating about the work.
Trade marks
A trade mark is a sign of the trader or service provider of goods and service. there are two types of trade marks, registered trade marks and common law trade marks. A person who has a trade mark in Australia can be able stop others form using the same or a similar one.
Defamation
Consider about your words when you are venting and make sure that they are not defamatory.
Right of Publicity
There is no ‘right of publicity’ in Australia. If you use someone else’s work without a permission in Australia, they may stop using their name, image and so on. They can do this by relying on the law of defamation.
To download and share digital content legally and let people know that you want them to reuse your own work, creative commons licenses can help you do both when something like a photograph or a sound track is created, it is automatically protect by copyright, you may always get the permission of sharing and reusing their work.
Creative commons licenses elements:
-you must acknowledge the author and contain their work when you publish your work
-the author is the only person who can make money from their work
-you must get the permission before retouching or mixing up the original creation
Click here to view the more specific content about the licenses:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/?lang=en
This essay argues that blog can and will play an significant role in network literacy. Blog is a platform which requires sophisticated network literacy. This is what a media student needs exactly. So blogging can achieve this outcome for media students and education in a appropriate and considerable way.
what is a blog? Based on Miles Adrian, a blog is a publication based on web. It is made up by consists of entries of different lengths, shorter ones and long ones. usually shorter ones are more normal. A blog usually has a author, a title and a date of publishing. They appear in the form of posts and in reverse chronological order. Also, all blogs are free for readers to leave a notes about individual posts.
Why use a blog? First, blog is not the replication of print literacy which students are familiar with. It might be closer to ‘post print-literacy’. Learning how to blogging successfully is a long process. It takes a long time to develop well. Secondly, the intention of using a blog is not connected well with the learning process. Then students will thought that blogging is just some work they must finish and cannot apply it into real work. Blogs have variety of advantages like supporting peer work and communication, providing a record of study process, encouraging creative ideas of your own and so on. It just make you be the creators instead of just consumers.
Blogs are like journals, they both can keep a record of ideas, reflections, activities and so on. However they have differences too. The most obvious one is that blog is a public document, and it gets readers. So what you write needs to be considered well and makes sense for other readers. So blogging requires more consideration and clarification than a personal diary. The second difference is that once your words is in public, it will have some comments about it. You will interact with others in a bigger community with others. And you will realize that you are making a contribution to the bigger community. You will also read other’s blogs and have more interactions.
The use of blog develops the use of category. ‘Blog support the use of categories, which are keywords that can be applied to individual post, and each category has its own archive within the blog.’
Contemporary media students requires a range of literacies about internet and digital technologies. Blogging require students to publish digital photos, audio and video via their blogs, and to write and explore practices that are relevant to present networked platform.
Reference:
Miles, Adrian. “Blogs in Media Education: A Beginning.” Australian Screen
Ed.41 (2006): 66-9
First day to use a blog, so excited! So this semester is all about online participation. We will have lots of fun using blogs to communicate with each other.Although it sounds like fun, we need to use this online tool to develop some academic skills, notes made in lectures, thoughts from the readings every week and our own study and research activities…
We post our own thoughts and points we are interested in, others can leave comments about it. it is like a big community. everyone is making contributions to it.
Im really looking forward to it. HAVE FUN!!
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