There were three main points to the article I enjoyed reading, the cause and effect technology has and creates on society, the history and the history of the uses of television technology. The article Technology and the Society was something that fascinated me. Williams summarizes the relationship of technology and the society and also how tec. changes culture and psychology. Professor Perez quotes on her page "the technology is in effect accidental". In other words, technology is the cause for change. The article talks a lot about television and how it mirrors society yet we mock what we see on tv. To me, this is an interesting theory, but according to the article the ideas of Williams are often ignored. In other words, the change would have happened regardless of technology. This was interesting because I go back in my mind to the invention of the wheel, because of the wheel we drive further distances, but without the wheel we would have created something else more effecient, it's the human way.

WEll, My favorite thing about this course would have to be the Journal assignments because they were first person accounts of the life we lead online. The things I would change were some of the articles that seemed very hard to read. Such articles come to mind "The Medium is the message" by mcluhan, which for me, was torchure reading. I realize in a college course, or any course for that matter, we may not enjoy all the required reading. I loved the article Virtual death and all the articles about avatars, especially learning and writing my final paper. I have learned a lot, thanks to that paper. In the future I'd have more options like the option to chose from the list of what the instructor is reading for the third blog. Having this option really allows to student to hone in on what they hope to gain from this major. I also would add the option of a text, specifically because some people like having the text. As a whole I loved the idea of analyzing twitter, youtube and facebook, which was what I expected from this course. THat's what comes to mind when I read 'new media, you media." Soon the course should just be renamed You Media, because it's newness is wearing away bit by bit :()

After reading this document and being extremely confused I gained the following information. “It is intended that after reading this article you will have an idea of what W3 is, where it fits in with other systems in the field, and where it is going. There is much more to be said, especially about providing information,but this is described on the Web itself. Also in the “Web about the Web” are lists contributed research and development work and ideas, and pointers to work in progress, so that those interested can work together.”

A W3 “client” program runs on your computer. When it starts it displays an object normally a document with text and possibly images. Some of the phrases and images are highlighted in blue, or boxed, or perhaps numbered, depending on what sort of a display you have and how your preferences have been set.
“Highlighted “anchor” causes the client program to retrieve another object from some other computer a “server” so the process of navigation continues. When viewing some documents, the reader can request a search, by typing in plain text (or complex commands) to send to the server, rather than following a link. In either case, the client sends a request off to the server often a completely different machine in some other part of the world, and within (typically) a second, the related information, in either hypertext, plain text or multimedia format, is presented. This is done repeatedly and by a sequence of selections and searches one can find anything that is “out there”
I assume it’s talking about the program and I just hope there’s not too much of this awful article on our final exam, it had way too much tech jargon which I cannot follow.

After reading this story Virtual Death- A real Dillema, I say…wow. So this woman Debbie Swenson, a resident of a small town in Kansas, created a false person, Kaycee Swenson, and led people to believe Kaycee was real. Kaycee was portrayed as a girl with leukemia and on her blog gained friends and as her battle went on the number of people involved in her story grew. What is crazy, and made me say ‘oh my god’ after reading, was that a woman named Debbie Swenson actually made this character up, and didn’t reveal the hoax until after Kaycee’s ‘death’. People felt hurt and angered, and understandably so. Let this be a warning to all of us, a stranger is still a stranger, even more so on the computer. Something we are told growing up is not to talk to strangers. I don’t understand why people think that should go away as adults?

Marketers will find you

"All the internet really does is give those same market research firms more data to work with. What did we click on? What web page did we visit and for how long? Where did we come there from and where did we go next? This information helps create a behavioral model about us. It doesn't matter how sensitive the data; the imprint is just as real.” Hallarious the tivo comment that the viewer mentions his tivo predicted he’d like gay shows, because of the types of shows he likes I don’t think the commercial privacy bill of rights needs to restrict it’s campaign efforts although when it comes to sexual orientation, advertising sex or relationships (the infamous zoosk.com) and financial and health care we need to be protected. I don’t see the harm in them predicting I’d like devil wears prada because I liked princess diaries, or that I’d like a striped sweater because I bought a striped purse. These things can be beneficial and also I’m so interested in the field it’d be a shame if they illiminated it altogether.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Douglas Rushkoff.
the link is below-
https://sjsu.desire2learn.com/d2l/common/navBar/externalLink.d2l?ou=47388&k=c_16126

After reading the article about blooging and privacy, it seems the main topics people keep private are details about relationships arguments religion finances sex or emotions or postings about other people. When I think of privacy I think of hackers in my information, not keeping my thoughts personal. Because I remain anonomous I would love to express myself through blog, however I am extroverted. For some people it's not this simple."Therefore, the disclosure of personal information by bloggers appears to pose very unique privacy threats as expressive privacy plays a fundamental role in our lives. It enables us to choose and dictate the way that we will live, it promotes the creation of our self identity,and it allows us to enjoy a wide variety of social relationships and roles, including intimate relationships. " How private we are or arent on our blog either opens or shuts the door for other commmenters and social interactions.

it's as relative as the 'falling apple'

Something I gained from the reading ‘end of books’ was that hyperspace and text are two different realms, and the writer for hypertext must write for their audience accordingly. With the advent of kindle, ebooks and blogging I find the article really relevant for todays students, and the author makes a point to mention she isn't accostomed to online text(using a mouse) This quote from the article sums of her idea of what authors run into online-

"There is still movement, but in hyperspace’s dimensionless infinity, it is more like endless expansion; it runs the rist of being so distended and slackly driven as to lose its centripetal force, to give way to a kind of static low-charged lyricism-that dreamy gravityless lost-in-space feeling of the early sci-fi films. How does one resolve the conflict between the readers desire for coherence and closure and the text’s desire for continuance, its fear of death? Indeed,what is closure in such an environment? If everything is middle, how do you know when you are done, either as a reader or writer?” I love this quote because it’s relatable, and I love how the author mentions online, we tend to ramble I can so relate to this quote! I also loved the last two paragraphs of the article which mention the text needs to fit it’s audience, a change in mind and text, that’s as relative as the ‘falling apple.’ Hyperspace is a one way street, that leads to a culdesac, unlike text which is a two lane highway- this is the conclusion I’ve drawn from the article.