Lecture 1

On Thursday morning the 28th of July i attended the very first lecture for New Communication Technologies at Nathan Campus of Griffith University. The title of the Lecture was Introduction/Communication Technology in the Everyday. In the course of the lecture a number of different communication methods where discussed to point out the difference between the old communication technologies and the new and developing ones. After a pointed discussion on what the definition of old technologies and new technologies are based on age we also briefly covered a small portion on hacking crimes and how that is forcing change on the electronic world.


We also covered the theory of communication transmission by Aristotle which was then further developed in more recent times by Shannon & Weaver with the addition of broadcasting technology. The original theory was developed in response to the great theatre productions of aristotle's time where the actors would be encoding and sending a message out to the audience who where recieving the message in person. With the addition of Shannon and Weaver's developments we bring in the more modern broadcasting where the message is sent out to a wider audience who are not present where the production is performed. This then generates a far wider audience than the original theory but can also result in a far wider interpretation and in some cases even disruption due to loss of signal in the broadcast. This has further developed from the original broadcast form of analog technologies to the newer digital systems. Where analog systems worked by sending out a wide wave of signal on a freaquency band the newer digital signals are on a narrow frequency band and sent as a binary infomation signal. This change has both its upsides and downsides that may only come fully apparent in years to come.

Technology has also been converging in recent years. As an example of this we just need to look at the modern "smart phones". An average smart phone retains the ability to make a phone call and send a text message of the original mobile phones but they now also have integrated cameras and video recording capability, internet browsers, social networking capability, instant messaging, music players, radio access and other tools that previously would have required a far wider range of appliances to be carried around with a person. What will this convergence of varied technologies bring to us in their next incarnation? I hope to learn this in the coming weeks.

Introduction to myself

Hello there all. My name is David James and i'm a first year student at Griffith University in Brisbane. I'm studying a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Creative Writing and Literature with a view to doing a postgraduate degree in Book Editing. This blog was created for the New Communication Technologies Subject. Other classes i am studying this semester are Social Enterprise, Academic Writing and Great Books A. I chose the New Communications Technology class to gain an understanding on where literary and creative works may be viewed and written in the near future on top of the older more common methods at this point in time.