Week 9 Tutorial Task

ESSAY TOPIC

I have decided to do my essay on; ‘Does the extensive use of computer/ video games have an adverse impact on the health of young people. What are the most recent papers? Clarify what both sides of the argument claim and only then offer your reasoned opinion based on facts.’

I chose this topic because I did an response to content on this earlier in the semester. The small amount of research I underwent to write the response interested me and I would like to further my knowledge the gaming world, as I have no personal insight into gaming at all.

I plan to first research a range of published material on the subject and from there devise my own opinion of the health effects associated with gaming. I plan to address the benefits of gaming as well as the down falls associated with it. I also plan to link the health effects gamers to that of gamblers, as the two are similar. I will also address the government’s response to the gaming industry and the negative/positive health effects occurring in young people as result of gaming.   

Although I have no background knowledge on the gaming industry and the health effects associated with it, I am interested to learn, as the industry is growing at an accelerating pace.  

SIGN AN E PETITION

I Signed an e petition in support of protection for rural residence and small communities.

http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/work-of-assembly/petitions/e-petitions

RESPOND TO A PROFESSIONAL BLOG

http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/the-new-business-traveler/index.php?success=1#comment-26662

WHAT IS BARACK OBAMA DOING TODAY?

Today, the 21^st of September, Barack Obama “hosted the first white house LGBT reception”. I found this information by following him on twitter.

http://twitter.com/#%21/BarackObama

THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT PLANS FOR “CLEAN FEED”

“The Australian government is seeking to make the internet a safer place, especially for children.  Cyber-safety was an electoral promise of the newly-appointed Labor government.^[i] A key aspect of the Rudd government’s cyber-safety program, unofficially known as Clean Feed, is a national internet filter.^[ii]  This means legally mandating Internet Service Providers (‘ISPs’) such as Optus, Telstra and iiNet to implement technical means to filter out a prescribed list of websites.  Sites containing images of child abuse, in particular child pornography, will be the initial focus of the list.”

Maurushat A & Watt R, ‘Clean Feed: Australia’s internet Filtering Proposal’, Internet Law Bulletin March 2009

WHEN WILL THE NBN GET TO MY PLACE AND WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS

The benefits of the NBN for me personally will be to be able to communicate with my family more clearly. My family live on a farm in the center of New South Wales and they don’t get very good internet reception or phone reception. The NBN will reach me in Southport and my parents in central NSW around the second release date.

  http://www.nbnco.com.au/our-network/maps/nsw_act.html

This video explains more clearly the benefits of the NBN

FIND OUT WHO YOUR LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES ARE

Local
Ron Clarke is the local representative for the Gold Coast City Council.

http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/t_standard2.aspx?pid=346

State
The State MP for Southport is Peter Lawlor

Federal
The Local Federal Government member Is Mr Steven Ciobo, Electoral division of Moncreiff

http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/t_standard2.aspx?pid=4351

Week 9 Response to Content

Censorship in Democracy

Does censorship have a place in democracy? The word democracy derived from the ancient Greeks and means to rule by the people. In ancient Greece all city affairs were subject to an assembly where all male members belonged and all decisions were made by a majority vote (Kilcullen, 2000). Therefore if the majority vote for censorship, then yes, censorship does have a place in democracy. Furthermore, if the majority do not vote for censorship, should the censorship still be put in place. This essay outlines Australia’s censorship as well as the public’s view on censorship in democratic Australia.     

Not all censorship is evil. The current system of censorship ‘classifies material into appropriate categories rather than looking for reasons for it to be banned’ (Williams, 1997).  For example, the classification on movies and video games is a form of censorship that prevents young children witnessing images that would be offensive to them. This, however, is not what the public have a problem with.

Technology in recent decades has advanced to the point where ‘government agencies have unlimited capabilities for surveillance, command and control that challenge the authority of national representative democracy’ (Stockwell, 2008). This is where Australia’s public becomes angry. The government has the power to filter through our computers and telephone conversations to gain information that they feel is needed for ‘government protection’. Although this might be for the better of the country, it is still an invasion of privacy and does not reflect a democratic nation.

Obviously there are upsides and down sides to censorship within democratic Australia. The overall product needs to be a line drawn as to where the censorship should stop to keep privacy and democracy intact.   

References 

Kilcullen. J, ‘Democracy in Australia’, Macquarie University, accessed on 29^th September 2011 http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/y67xa.html

Williams. D, ‘From censorship to classification’ Press release database, 1997, accessed on 29 September 2011 http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=(Id:media/pressrel/plm30);rec=0;

Stockwell, S, ‘Where all Hackers Now, Doing Global Democracy’, 2008, accessed on 29^th Setpember 2011 https://learning.secure.griffith.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_101249_1&frame=top

Week 8 Tutorial Task

The Publishing of the Masterpiece 

We have gathered many images using Wikimedia commons and creative commons over the past week with only some rights reserved that suited the purpose of the film. A lot of the pictures we wanted to use had all rights reserved copy write, therefore we were unable to use them. Filtering through all the images was very time consuming. The first batch of images that we found we had not sourced correctly resulting in having to find the images a second time to gain the correct source information.

We have also made a short film using iTimelaps on Bridget's iPhone to show the changing between classes at university and students walking past on their mobiles or with computer cases, reiterating the statistics that have been used throughout the short clip. Our plan of filming people answering questions fell through as most people were reluctant to fill out the surveys, we assumed they would not be keen to take precious time away from their Facebook stalking to be filmed. 

We encountered a few problems transferring the iTimelaps film onto windows movie maker because of the wrong format, although we were able to change the format using an internet conversion program.
This is the film we have come up with

The Film has been uploaded under a creative commons licence so others can use the work that we have made in the same way that we have used others work to create our masterpiece. 

Week 8 Response to Content

How does open source software create revenue?

Open source software is the 'free redistribution, source code, derived works, integrity of the author's source code, no discrimination against persons or groups, no discrimination against fields of endeavour, distribution of license, licenses must not be specific to a product, license must not restrict other software and license must be technology-neutral' (McNamara, 2010). So how do the companies that produce these free software alternatives create revenue to function?

The down side to open source software is that if a problem occurs with the software and the user does not have the technological knowledge to fix it, there is no support package to assist with the problem. One way that companies make money from open source software is by selling support packages with the free software so a university student for example, does not lose their whole university assignment (Heffner, 2005).

Another way that these companies create revenue is by attaching a dual licence to their product. For example, the open source database company MySQL offers its open source software package under a general public licence for open source developers. When creating your own software package the distributer then has to release the software package under the same general public licence. If the creator of the new software package wants to sell their software, they need to purchase a traditional paid licence from MySQL, therefore creating revenue for MySQL (Heffner, 2005).

There are many other ways that companies can create revenue from open source software. Although this does not make the software ‘free’ in respect to price anymore, it is cheaper than purchasing proprietary software and is still free to use.  

References

Heffner. B, ‘How do you make money from open source software’, 2005, accessed 29^th September 2011, http://clarklane.blogspot.com/2005/01/how-do-you-make-money-from-open-source.html

McNamara. K, ‘Open Source Software’, 2010, PreQuest  Central Database, Accessed 29^th September 2011 http://search.proquest.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/docview/756008530

Week 7 Tutorial Task

The Makings of the Masterpiece 

This week Bridget and I printed out the surveys and got 15 people to answer them. This is an image of the survey.

From these surveys we generated some statistics about university student’s use of communication technology to create impact within the film. Getting people to fill out the survey proved more difficult than expected. People, ironically, were too busy looking at Facebook on the library computers.  

For the sound track for the movie we decided instead of chopping and changing already existing sound tracks and filtering through soundtracks without copy write restrictions we would use our creative talents and built out own track to fit the mood of the film. We used the program Magix Music Maker to create the track. This was very time consuming, although much more rewarding than filtering through copious non-copy write web pages to find a track that someone else had made.

Next week we will assemble the film using windows movie maker. 

Week 7 Response to Content

The Positives and Negatives of Citizen Journalism.

Citizen journalism is the reporting of news to the public without being employed to do so and is said to flourish under governments of ‘soft authority’ (indymedia.org, 2009). Is citizen journalism a good or bad phenomenon to come out of increased communication technologies such as blogging and camera phones?

A case of positive citizen journalism occurred during the London Bombings on the 7^th of July 2005. On this day, news teams carried a huge weight with intense pressure to get the news out to the public quickly and accurately as possible. When the bombings occurred many citizen journalists sent images and emails containing information to the news rooms, this becoming an integral part of the investigations and broadcasting for the crisis. The new technology at the time, the phone camera, allowed images to be sent into these news rooms allowing instant editing enabling news to reach the public quicker. The quantity and quality of the London bombing events could not have been reported so successfully without the help of citizen journalism (Sambrook, 2005).

The negative aspects of citizen journalism lay mainly in the content published. Journalists have certain ethics and editing rules to abide by before being able to publish their work. Citizen journalists however, don’t have these gatekeeping constraints. Using the example of the 2005 London bombings, journalists that received information from the citizens still had their news reports edited and refined with a fine tooth comb making sure the material published was accurate. However, citizen journalists are able to post what they feel is newsworthy and accurate onto website, such as a blog, without the accuracy being assessed (Lewis, S, C, Kaufhold, K & Larsorsa, D, L, 2010)

Citizen Journalism does have its positives and negatives. These journalists can both hinder and help the reporting of news to target publics. However there are no current measures in places to stop citizen journalists publishing their view on a news story, it is up to the readers of the news to filter through the copious news items published by all journalists and decide for themselves what they want to believe.
    

References

·         ‘Citizen journalism flourishes in dark corners’, Independent Media Centre Australia, August, 2009 viewed 10/09/2011 http://indymedia.org.au/2009/08/05/citizen-journalism-flourishes-in-dark-corners

·         Lewis, s, C, Kaufhold, K & Larsorsa, D, L, ‘Thinking about citizen journalism, the philosophical and practical challenges of user-generated  content for community newspapers’, 3^rd March 2010, viewed 10/09/2011 http://sethlewis.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/915813980.pdf

Sambrook, R, ‘Citizen Journalism and the BBC’, Nieman reports 2011, 2005, viewed 10/09/2011  http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100542

Week 6 Tutorial Task

The Beginnings of a Masterpiece

This week Bridget Wagland and I formed a group to make a short video with the theme of New Communication technologies. We had a few ideas, one being the evolution of communication through our generation and using an actor to act out the progression of technology through primary school, to high school to university eventuating in communicating telepathically.After discussing this idea we decided that there would be may difficulties with editing, time, gaining the copyright to put for the background music as well as finding a willing participant to act. 


We looked at a few home made films on YouTube and in the end we decided on a documentary type film. We decided to accumulate information on peoples view on new communications technologies by asking questions on a survey, such as how many times you use social media sites per day and what are they, which social media sites etc. We plan on filming their answers. We will make sure that these people are aware that the film will be posted on the internet. We plan on having a statistics throughout the clip to show what our sample of interviewees feel about new communication technologies.We plan on filming the footage with an iPhone and assembling the presentation together with prezi or a similar program.  

Week 6 Response to Content

Movie Piracy

Piracy of movies and music has become an increasing issue in the past decade (Jacobs, 2010). Until recently downloading movies as been a rarity, people in the past were more likely to download music files due to their small size averaging 3 megabytes. Comparing this to downloading an average size 700 megabyte feature film (Jacobs, 2010), there is no wonder why the trend was swinging towards music downloads. Although, due to recent technology of high speed internet and unlimited downloads home viewers are able to download movies or television shows for free in the time it takes to drive to the video store and back, less the cost of fuel. This, although convenient and seemingly harmless is highly illegal. “Copyright law protects the value of creative work” (R.I.A.A, 2011). “Penalties for first time offenders of the crime can be as a high as 5 years in prison and $250,000 in fines” (R.I.A.A, 2011), while “the minimum fine equates to $75,000 per song downloaded” (R.I.A.A, 2011). There are many clips that have been put together to deter people from illegal downloading such as this;   

 

In contrast to this, a recent trend of independent film makers is to post their films on the internet to be downloaded. The idea of crowdsourcing is becoming a popular means of gaining creative material and free marketing for independent film makers through the internet medium (Mascioni, 2010).  Through this medium independent film makers are now laying their own path to success with websites such as busika.com, which pays independent film makers for content, or Azureus, where aspiring film producers can post their films for free and be discovered by big time movie makers.

Although these two ideas are at different ends of the downloading spectrum, it highlights the highs and lows of “piracy”, and how it can be both beneficial and hindering to film and music makers.

References:


Jacobs. R. S, ‘Digital Movie Piracy; A Perspective on Downloading Behaviour through Social Cognitive Theory,’ University of Twente, 2010 sourced from  http://essay.utwente.nl/59875/ on 04/09/2011

Mascioni. M, ‘Film making through crowdsourcing’, Internet Evolution, 2010, sourced from

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=709&doc_id=190970 on 4/09/2011

Recording Industry Association of America, ‘The Law’, 2011, sourced from http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php?content_selector=piracy_online_the_law  on 4/09/2011

http://www.scriptologist.com/Magazine/Interviews/azureus.html

http://www.bukisa.com

Week 4 Tutorial Task

Facebook is a social media site that I visit a few times per week. The content that Facebook allows includes pretty much whatever you like to put on it. There are clauses under the “protecting other people’s rights” and “safety” sections of Facebook’s terms of use stating that you cannot upload viruses, bully, post spam etc. although there is nothing set in place (that I could find) that stops these things happening. The only way i could find that you can get caught for doing these things is if someone is offended by it and reports you. Nudity and the like are not recommended and you can have your account suspended if the mentioned material is posted, although, again there is no screening that stops such material being published, aside from being specifically reported by a fellow user. The terms of use sight does say that they will not give your content or information to advertisers without your consent, although earlier in the page it states “for content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permissions, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grand us non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensed, royalty-fee, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP licence).” my understanding of this clause is that they have right to use your information however they want,  if you have not changed your Facebook privacy settings to state otherwise. These seem like two contrasting statements.  Facebook’s privacy statement does not actually guarantee anything, unless you go through the privacy setting and change them on your own. When someone first joins Facebook their privacy settings are automatically set to the lowest setting, this person needs to take it upon themselves to change their privacy settings to how they would like them. To me, If I put something on the internet that I didn’t want anyone to see and that information was taken by Facebook and sold onto a third party, that is my own fault! If Facebook decided to make a coffee table book of stupid status updates, funny groups or ugly photos, (which legally they can do) it would be highly unethical, and a stupid move by Facebook in a marketing sense. Facebook has over 750 million active users (as of July 2011), and is one of the most popular social networking sights in the world. If for example Facebook did decide to make this coffee table book, they would evidently upset these 750 million active users thus resulting in a decline of active user.This could possibly lead to a fall that social networking sights such as MySpace or bebo have suffered in the wake of Facebook. All in all, Facebook could shape up their privacy settings to make its users more aware, and could maybe implement more screening processes to make sure that explicit material could not be posted. But if people do not want their information searched and found by third parties, then they should not post their information in an easily accessible place such as the world wide web.      

www.facebook.com/terms.php

www.facebook.com/policy.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

Week 1 Tutorial Task

Greetings, My name is Steph. I have just moved to the Gold Coast from Melbourne to complete an undergraduate degree of Bachelor of Communications. I love the weather here!! In Melbourne I was half way through completing a double degree of Sports and Recreation Management and Marketing but I did not like it. So I opted for a change. After a couple of big drives from the cold south east of Australia I arrived in the Sunshine State. New Communication Technologies doesn't pay a huge role in my life, I use a mobile phone and facebook, but that is about as far as it goes for me. I am interested in learning more about New Communication Technologies so i don't get left behind the rest of the world both socially and in a career.

Week 5 Tutorial Task

Question 1

·         Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, 967AD

·         http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060729054252AAiUY0V veiwed 24/08/2011  

·         Found using yahoo

Question 2

·         The black Assassins, Steve plays keys and sings.

·         a few songs; 

o   Death Take Me Now

o    Drugs

o   Azaria

o   Multinational Corporate Lifestyle

o   Planet X

o   Death Comes To Townsville

o   Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight.

·         Found using Bing

·         http://members.optusnet.com.au/~toxicoh/blackas.htm

Question 3

·         Liebherr T 282B is Largest Earth-hauling Truck in the World

·         Costs: US$3.5 M

·         Weight;

o   empty - 203 tons

o   maximum operating weight - 592 tons

o   maximum capacity - 365 tons

·         http://www.bukisa.com/articles/40463_worlds-largest-machines-ever-built

·         Found using Ask

Question 4

·         Justin Bieber has not announced his lawyer/lawyers to the public. His talent manager is Samuel “Scooter” Braun.

·         Found using ChaCha

Question 5

·         Fying jet star or virgin, both costing $99

·         http://travel.webjet.com.au/webjettsa/home.aspx?TripType=OneWay&CityFrom=OOL&DateOut=2011%2F9%2F13&CityTo=Melbourne&DateBack=2011%2F9%2F13&TravelClass=ECONOMY&NumAdult=1&NumChild=0&NumInfant=0&EntryPoint=Flight&RequestFrom=Outside

·         Found using about.com

Question 6

·         She is the main voice from the Vocaloid 2 program.

·         She belongs to Yamaha

·         http://dumbotaku.com/2009/01/17/who-is-hatsune-miku/

·         Her birthday is the 31^st of August

·         Found using Zuula

Question 7

·         http://www.camscape.com/view/5976 (live web cam in Minsk Belarus)

·         http://www.icemarathon.com/live/155.html (accommodation in Antarctica)

·         Found using dogpile  

Question 8

·         Everything I do I do it for you, by Brian Adams.

·         http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1991/main.htm

·         Found using Quintura

Question 9

·         Google uses the new Volkswagen beetle to make Google Street view.

·         http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/01/take-a-look-at-the-vehicle-thats-taking-a-look-at-you/

·         Found using Kartoo

Question 10

·         Spanish translation

¿Dónde estuvo la primera Universidad establecido y en que año? ¿Qué es llamada la banda de Stephen Stockwell y qué juega él? ¿Puede denominar un par de sus canciones? ¿Qué es el peso de la máquina más grande de mundo? ¿Cuánto costó construir? ¿Quién es el abogado de Justin Bieber, y qué son la mejor manera (más rápido, más seguro) contactar al abogado? ¿Qué es la forma más barata de viaje de la Costa de oro a Melbourne? ¿Quién es Hatsune Miku? ¿A qué compañía pertenece ella? ¿Qué es sus cumpleaños? Encuentre una webcam viva en Bielorrusia. Encuentre que un lugar para permanecer en Antártida. ¿Qué canción fue la cima del taponazo australiano traza esta semana en 1991? ¿Qué tipo de coche es utilizado para hacer 'Vista de Calle de Google'? Traduzca estas preguntas en español y entonces tradúzcalos atrás al inglés.

·         English translation

Where it was the first University established and in which year?  What is called the band of Stephen Stockwell and what plays he?  It can call a pair of its songs?  What is the weight of the largest machine of world?  How much it cost to build?  Who is the lawyer of Justin Bieber, and what they are the best way (faster, surer) to contact the lawyer?  What is the cheapest form of trip of the Coast of gold to Melbourne?  Who is Hatsune Miku?  Why company belongs she?  What is its birthday?  Find a webcam alive in Belarus.  Find that a place to remain in Antarctica.  What song was the top of the Australian pop outline this week in 1991?  What type of car is utilized to do 'View of Street of Google'?  Translate these questions in Spanish and then translate them behind to the English. 

·         http://www.freetranslation.com/

·         Found using blekko

Week 5 Response to Content

Humans have been developing movies for over a century, and due to the rapid technological advances that have occurred throughout this century movies have undergone significant change. The first motion picture ever recorded was titled “horse in motion” in 1878 by Governor Leland in Californian. To record this picture he used 12 cameras placed side by side at a distance of 21 inches. Wires were connected to the cameras and set up in a way that when the horse, Abe Egerton galloped past, he triggered the wires. This allowed 12 successive photos of a galloping horse in a single stride of 22 feet to be taken. At the time, this was not intended for entertainment purposes; rather, it was used for practical purposes, to clear up the errors assumed about trotting and galloping horses (New York Times, 1880). Little did these horse enthusiasts realised that they had just stumbled upon the first motion picture, in turn breaking into a medium of entertainment that had never been explored.

For a long time motion pictures were created and admired by audiences without the luxuries that we have in today’s society. Walter Murch, an American film editor and sound designer explains that the first film on record with sound was in 1895. This film was an experiment of men playing a violin into a large megaphone and people dancing around it. Although this film has been put together only recently by Walter Murch,  it was recorded in 1895, therefore this film has become the oldest film with sound on record (Edited from, The cinema Audio Society Discussion Board, 2000).

In recent decades the technological advances of the film industry have hurled forward at an amazing pace. It is now possible to watch 3D films on a movie theater size television screen at home, played through a blue ray player or USB. There is an option of LED, LCD and Plasma screen televisions. People can chose between high definition, standard definition and full high definition. All this amazing technology that the population back in 1878, when the first motion picture was “accidently” recorded, would never have dreamt of.

This is the first motion picture spoken about above. 

Sources:

Unknown Author, “photographed in motion, instantaneous pictures of horses while running and trotting”, New York Times, January 14 1880. Sourced from  http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A03E5D81131EE3ABC4C52DFB766838B699FDE August 26^th 2011

Edited excerpt from:

Discussion thread "Dickson Experimental Sound Film 1895", The Cinema Audio Society Discussion Board,  June 3 , 2000   www.ideabuzz.com/cas/webboard/ Sources from http://www.filmsound.org/murch/dickson.htm  August 26^th2011

Week 4 Response to Content

Bronnec, Rocher, Baujn and Venisse in their journal article Gaming, Gambling and addiction define gambling as “one who plays more often, longer and more than he can afford it” (2010). Gambling is a huge problem throughout the world. There are many different help lines and programs that run to help the vast number of gamblers. Another huge and similar problem that is presenting its ugly head far above the surface is gaming. Gaming addiction has grown exponentially over the last 20 years and is making people stand up and pay attention (Bronnec, Rocher, Baujn, venisse, 2010).

Although there has been no scientific validation stating that gaming is considered an addiction, there has been links drawn between the social and emotional problems associated with both gamers and gamblers, such as anti-social behaviour and isolation (Bronnec, Rocher, Baujn, Venisse, 2010). Unfortunately mortality rates of gamer's are growing higher, just as that of gamblers, although these are from varying reasons. In 2007 a man in china was pronounced dead after a week-long gaming session. The reason for his death was said to be his 330 pound obesity, this too, a result of his gaming habit. Other fatalities have been recorded from gaming habits, one of which a man engrossed himself in a 50 hour long gaming session in a video café. Another where gamer's "forgetting" their reality fatally play out their precious games in real life. (McIntyre, 2007).   

The Crown Casino in Melbourne experienced over 881 ambulance calls between August 2007 until August 2009.This is an average of 1.2 calls per day. Although not all these calls are related to suicide attempts in relation to gambling, experts in the field of suicide help line say they believe a suicide occurs every week within the casino in relation to gambling. In contrast other statics show that in this two year period 18 suicides have occurred and 21 people have threatened to suicide in relation to gambling(Rolfe, 2009). Both statistics, although one more frightening than the other, are outrageous, and make one take a good hard look at the problems associated with gambling.

These two “addictions” have similar and contrasting attributes. Regardless of this it is clear that there is a serious problem associated with both, and both need copious amounts of ongoing research and funding. “Pathological gambling is recognised and validated in the field of gambling and money by rich international scientific literature that makes model for some non-drug addiction. Practices of excessive video games are on the other hand an emerging issue warranting research to better understand their reality and the risk factors involved (Bronnec, Rocher, Baujn, Venisse, 2010).

References

Bronnec. M, Rocher. B, Baujin. G, Venisse. J. L, 2010, ‘Gaming, Gambling and addiction’, Annales medico-psychological, psychiatric journal, Vol. 168, No. 7, pp. 509-512, retrieved August 18 2011, From SciVerse database.    http://www.sciencedirect.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/science/article/pii/S0003448710002052#secx1

McIntyre. T,  ‘Chinese man dies of gaming addiction’, Tech.Blorge, top technology news, 28 February 2007, Retrieved August 18 2011 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/02/28/chinese-man-dies-of-gaming-addiction/

Rolfe. P, ‘Gambling with life crown’s emergencies’, Sunday Herald Sun, 13 December 2009, Retreived August 18 2011 http://global.factiva.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/ha/default.aspx

Week 3 Tutorial Task

Task 1

Question no 1

What was Stephen Stockwell's first article in an academic journal? What year? Provide a full citation. What database did you use?

Stephen Stockwell’s first article published in an academic journal was called “Kuranda police shooting”.  It was published in 1981.

Full citation:  Stockwell, S. 1981, "Kuranda police shooting", Legal Service Bulletin, vol. 6, no. Feb 1981, pp. 48-49.

I found this on HeinOnline Law Journal Library.

Question no 2

 In which comic did Governor Slugwell appear? Which Issues? Give their full citation for the earliest. Where did you find this information? What database did you use? (Check the trial databases)

Governor Slugwell appears in the “Flaming Carrot Comics”. There are 3 issues in which he appears and these are numbers 7, 10 and 11.

Full citation:

Flaming Carrot Commics, No, 7, by Bob Burden. (Burbank, CA:Renegade Press, 1985) 36 pages      

I found this on the Underground and Independent Comics” database and looked up the character page.

Question no 3

What is the latest medical thinking on the dangers of mobile phones? Provide a full citation.


"the absence of an exposure-response relationship either in terms of the amount of mobile phone use or by localisation of the brain tumour argues against a casual association."


Full citation: D. Aydin, M. Feychting, J. Shulz, T. Tynes, T. V. Andersen, L. S. Schmit, H. Poulsen, C. Johnason, 2011, 'Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumors in Children and Adolescents: A Multicenter case - Control', Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol 103, Issue 16, June, Pp. 1264-1276 Viewed August 25th 2011 


Full Citation:

http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/content/103/16/1264.abstract?maxtoshow=&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&title=Mobile+Phone+Use+and+Brain+Tumors+in+Children+and+Adolescents&andorexacttitle=and&titleabstract=a+multicenter+case+study&andorexacttitleabs=and&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT

Question no 4

In Bladerunner, What is Leon's Reaction when Holden asks him about is mother? Quote the 1982 draft script and provide a full reference. (Check the trial databases)

Leon's reaction is to check if Holden really asked about his mother he then offers to tell him about his mother Leon then shoots Holden.

Leon: My mother?

Holden:                Yeah.

Leon: Let me tell you about my mother...

[Leon shoots Holden]

Full citation:

Fancher, H. Peoples, D.W. Kibbee, R. (1982). Blade Runner. [Script]. American Film Scripts. Chicago.

Question no 5

What does Paul Soukup say Walter Ong saw as the main paradox in 20th century communication? Cite your source.

Walter Ong saw the main paradox of 20th century communication as "that a society given so much to the use of diagrams and to the manoeuvrings of objects in space... should at the same time develop means of communication which specialize not in sight but in sound" 

Full citation:

Soukup. P, 2004, ‘Communication research trends’, Centre for the Study and Communication of Culture, Vol 23, p.14, viewed 25 August 2011

Task 2

Newsgroup, shortened to Usenet, was used before there was such thing as the World Wide Web. This idea was discovered by two university graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979. These two boys came up with the idea of using UUCP to connect machines to exchange information.  Usenet was a world-wide discussion system that distributed global information for public access. For example News articles could be posted onto Usenet by people with topical or interesting information and the correct software; these articles were then broadcasted to other computer systems making the information available via a wide variety of networks. Back in the day when there was no World Wide Web, but the internet was available, although very expensive, users of the internet could gain information within limited systems, such as a university system. Usenet allowed these people to gain information from other systems globally, not just within their own community. Usenet was the World Wide Web of its day. Usenet gained an influx of users every September as freshman university students were able to access the network. The September of 1993 however, was a never ending influx of new users as Usenet could be accessed from outside university systems and opened to the general public. At its peak Usenet had over 120,000 groups dedicated to various topics, such as computer programing languages as well as many other topics of interest.

It has been reported that Usenet played an important role in the attractiveness and expansion of the internet. Unfortunately due to decline of use and increased costs the plug is being pulled on the Usenet server.  

For more information on Usenet please view this clip.

Sourses:

http://tldp.org/LDP/nag/node256.html

http://today.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/20/usenet_duke_server/

http://www.usenet.com/usenet.html