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DIGC101 - Week 12 Group Task 1

For our group task we decided on a movie studio specifically Time Warner to expand their product and service from real life to second life.

We will provide SL users with the opertunity to go and online movie thearter and pay to watch movies, previews, extra content of current released movies and even user generated content.


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DIGC101 - Final Reflective Essay

For my final reflective essay I am thinking I may go in the direction of how easy and stream lined it is to be able to put your self and you ideas out into world through the use of user generated content such as blogs and youtube. I will relate this to my own project where I have been posting videos up onto youtube talking about my thoughts on music that come across. A bit like a reviewer.


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Plagarism Video Projects - People’s Choice

I would have to give my vote to the Ed Project. The reason for my discision is simply that I thought it was clever, short and to the point.

I liked how they related the evil duck to the issue of academic integrity, I know I would never of thought of that. Why didn’t think of that??? Damn


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DIGC102 Research Companies

The three organisations

Lists all ad agencies in Australia http://www.afa.org.au/public/content/ViewCategory.aspx?id=669

Other possible sites of interest


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DIGC102 - Against Internet Censorship in Australia

Internet censorship within Australia would have a profound negative affect on the individual not to mention as a group.
Focusing more on the Governments propossed ISP filter it will create issues such as:

  • slowing down internet speeds
  • the creation of a black list (and if mistakenlly put on the black list how do you get off)
  • the elimination of P2P filesharing

As detailed on EFA’s (Electronic Frontiers Australia) site who are apposed to this propersition.

I would like to mainly focus on the censorship of P2P filesharing music.
As I detailed in my blog post from subject BCM101 I asked the question to what extent has online music (Regulated vs Unregulated) consumption had an effect on the artist and the recording industry? I obtained opinions from several figures within the recording industry such as DJ Tydi and DJ Bass Kleph owner of Vacation records.The main point that kept appearing was that an Artist that who is trying to establish themselves in the industry were able to build a fan base and or a following due to the use of filesharing. You take that away and you will only have music produced by the big record labels that decide on what you as an individual can listen to.


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DIGC101 Wk 5 Class blog

Q: Report on your own SNS usage, with reference to at least one of the background materials from the course outline.

Boyd and Elison define social networking sites as web-based services that allow individuals to 1) create a public or semi public profile 2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection 3) view and traverse their list of connection and those made by other within the system.

With the SNS facebook I became a user in mid 2008 as a way to stay in contact with people I normally wouldn’t communicate with on a daily basis over the phone or face to face such as friends that live overseas, interstate and old school friends as well as my close network of friends that I see on a regular basis, as Boyd & Elison state SNSs are primarily organized around people, not interests.

The original purpose of Facebook was to support the Harvard student network but gradually facebook expanded and began supporting other schools (college level & high school level), coorporate networks and than ultimately the genral public.


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DIGC102 - Infromation Search Assignment Report

The global financial crisis (GFC) is an issue that has been affecting businesses, organisations, individuals and families dating back to August 2007 up until the present.

So how has this global issue been discussed in the online community through weblogs and online media sources?

Using various search engines to gather a better understanding of what affect this issue has had and how it is being discussed. 
Searching the term ‘Global financial crisis’ on the most common search engine, Google, returned a total 37,800,000 results.


Looking at the fig 1 below captured from Google trends you can see what level of activity there has been with searches as well as News article references.
As you can see searches didn’t peak until the start of 2009 when possibly the full effects of the recession are being felt by your average person where as News references peaked in the final quarter of 2008 possibly due to businesses starting to feel the effects.
fig 1.


So after looking at the trends to the search term ‘Global financial Crisis’, what kind of activity has there been from news media sources and bloggers?


Looking at two blogs commentating on the current global financial crisis they take a more satirical viewpoint of the whole issue but rather approach it in different ways. 
With Chris Pirillo’s ‘five ways to survive the current financial crisis’ gives quirky suggestions to people on how to survive the GFC such as become a bank, get elected to congress or to train pets to start working.


Where as the Mogambo Guru’s ‘Cloudy With a Chance of Economic Stupidity’ gives a satirical commentary of a number of identities within the financial and business industry with comments such as “Oddly enough, this comes at the same time a doofus named Robert Lucas at the U. of Chicago whines in The Economist magazine”


On the other side of this there are hundreds of articles written, giving an insight into the effect the GFC has on businesses on sites such as the INQUIRER.net, Bloomberg.com and the Financial Times. There is also the style of reporting that is informative, that provides the reader with news on the history of the GFC (how and why it began). One good site is from the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis where it provides a timeline of the financial crisis. The Guardian from the UK provides a report into how the credit crisis began, whereas Bio-Medicine.org provides and insight into the more personal affect the GFC has on the individual with claims that due to the GFC there has been an increase of suicides and homicides as to why the GFC has occurred to what effect this has on the individual.

It’s interesting to note the differences of approach the various forms of media have taken on this global issue. From bloggers taking the satirical view to the investigative reporting into the causes and affects it has on business and up until recently the individual.

Bibliography

Banks Face More Demanding Global Regulations, Costs, RBA Says, Bloomberg.com, accessed 19 August, 2009, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aEMlfUA0ouuY

Cloudy With a Chance of Economic Stupidity, RevolutionRadio.org, accessed 19 August, 2009, http://revolutionradio.org/2009/08/18/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-economic-stupidity/

Credit crisis - how it all began, The Guardian, accessed 19 August, 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/aug/05/northernrock.banking

Financial crisis increases suicides and homicides, Bio-Medicine, accessed 20 August, 2009, http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Financial-crisis-increases-suicides-and-homicides-51386-1/

Financial Crisis for Dummies, INQUIRE.net, accessed 19 August, 2009, http://business.inquirer.net/money/features/view/20081026-168579/Financial-crisis-for-dummies

Five Ways to Survive the Current Financial Crisis, Chris Pirillo, accessed 19 August, 2009, http://chris.pirillo.com/five-ways-to-survive-the-current-financial-crisis/

The Financial Crisis Timeline, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, accessed 19 August, 2009, http://timeline.stlouisfed.org/index.cfm?p=timeline#

Global Financial Crisis, Global Issues, accessed 19 August 2009, http://www.globalissues.org/article/768/global-financial-crisis

Global Financial Crisis, Google trends graph, accessed 20 August, 2009, http://www.google.com/trends?q=global+financial+crisis&ctab=0&geo=au&date=all&sort=0

In depth coverage of Global financial crisis, The Financial Times, accessed 19 August, 2009, http://www.ft.com/indepth/global-financial-crisis


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DIGC102 - Research Question

My research question for DIGC102 is:

What are Australia’s rules and regulations for fast food advertising towards children?

I have identified a number of key words such as

·        Fast food

·        Children

·        Advertising

·        McDonalds

·        KFC

·        Rules & Regulations

advertising +fast food +children +issues –adult

Various links that I have found so far are:


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