Digital Media to me is information that is in pieces and people can put it together to for one solid piece of material which has a bunch of pieces together as explained in Bob King's audio segment. People can take these different pieces of digital media and can express different ideas by putting different pieces of media and information together.
I fin it interesting that the first time i am hearing about a loom being able to produce an images from a flash card back in the 19th century(second reading). Also i never thought people would be so amazed to see a camera that they would travel around the world to be taken a picture by a machine. Things like this I take for granted without even knowing it. This type of class should be taught in high school or middle school so it can help children understand more about the technological era that we are in and how much we now depend on machines where as before was all man or animal power. I've always wondered how the process of which a computer was made happened. But to think it all started from a calculator being about to store data is mind boggling.
Based on the third reading, cultures are all based on plagiarism. Plagiarism goes back as far as history does. Plays were always reproduced and copyrighted from one era to another. It has been speculated that Shakespeare himself has copyrighted certain piece of work and change it a little and called it his own. Ego has gotten in the way of people in this society People are more concerned with individualistic needs than the society. I feel the need to somewhat agree with the person referring to taking a photograph that he must need permission to take it. I wouldn't go so far as to bring the government into asking permission to take picture but taking pictures of people in public and posting where they are and what they are doing is an invasion of privacy. In England there are cameras everywhere, people are being video tapped constantly twenty four hours a day seven days a week a person could be tracked through different cameras going from one side of the country to another. Long island started putting cameras on all the lights due to people running red lights, but they have also been used to catch murderers. But how far will we let this go, is our daily life going to become on big reality show. I sure hope not and i would not be a willing participant.
Music as stated on the fourth reading is a way for people to express their talent and it was stated in the reading that digital media and things being created by machines are taking away from that part of our culture. Culture has changed so radically over the years that times change before everyone knows it has changed, and it always has been like that since the technological revolution. I do not care for playing music with other creating my own tunes. I am not an artist i take an artists views and dreams and turn them into a reality by building a set that is as close to their design as possible.
As stated in the fifth and sixth readings the digital media world is a big part of everyone's life. I although am not one to use Facebook, blog or use you tube and Google as often as others. I am more of a gamer, video games and interacting socially through means of a headset device through Xbox which is my main gaming console allows me to talk to anyone in the world online for close to nothing in cost. My digital experience is different then most i don't' stay up with the news and day to day activities because most things that happen don't effect me and the ones that do effect me i find out eventually
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