Week 5 Task 2: Scavenger Hunt

1. The first University established is that of the University of Bologna, Spain which was founded in the late 11th century. I found this information on the Encyclopedia Brittanica website on the following link on the 26th of August 2011. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/618194/university/284212/Early-universities

2. Stephen Stockwell's band is called The Black Assassins. He played the keyboard and was also a vocalist. Some of their songs included Death take me now, ASIO, Run Ronnie Run and Death comes to Townsville among others. http://members.optusnet.com.au/~toxicoh/blackas.htm 26/8/2011

3. The Largest machine in the world is the Hadron Collider in overall size but the heaviest machine i can find reference too is the Krupp Digging machine which weighs in at a collossal 45,500 tons. http://www.oddee.com/item_97210.aspx 26/8/2011


4. Justin Bieber's Lawyer is Kenneth Feinswog but i am unable to find his contact details. i located his name on the following link http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/w0006112.html 26/8/2011

5. The cheapest one way flight from the Gold Coast to Melbourne that i have been able to find costs $89 and is available on www.airfaresflights.com.au i found this information on the 26/8/2011

6. Hatsune Miku is a 3d Hologram owned by Crypton Future Media. I'm not sure what her birthday is unfortunately as this is one interesting use of future technology. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/11/japanese-pop-star-takes-the-stage-as-a-3-d-hologram.html 26/8/2011

7. Live webcams in belarus can show many things. the link provided here and accessed on the 26/8/2011 show tourist cites around the city http://www.camscape.com/Europe/Belarus/index.html. Come tour Antartica with Antartic Dream Tours http://www.antarcticdream.com/en/index.html

8. The number one song in australia on the 26th August 1991 was Brian Adam's Everything i do, I do it for You. http://www.take40.com/music/number-ones/date?day=26&month=7&searchYear=1991&Search.x=44&Search.y=13 26/8/2011

9. The google street view cars where Volkswagon New Beetles. http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/01/take-a-look-at-the-vehicle-thats-taking-a-look-at-you/ 26/8/20122

Week 5 Task 1: How does the film "Rubber" utilise the elements of screenplay in its first act

The main character of the film Rubber is a tire with psychic powers. The film however starts with a deserted street in the middle of nowhere with chairs which where then destroyed by a car knocking them down. Following this a police office got out of the boot, retrieved a glass of water and proceeded to give a treatise on the use of "no reason" in films. The first act then shows an audience with a variation of people from a child dragged to the movie by his father too a pair of know it all film buffs. The tire then awakens and starts to learn to move. The tire itself is a diversion from film norms in where the primary character is human based or at least able to speak the language of the films viewers e.g. English. The tire then proceeds to learn how to move and mastering that then starts to learn what it can do. After squashing a water bottle and a scorpion it comes across a beer bottle which it cant squash. From this point it learns how to use psychic powers to shatter the bottle and then proceeds to continue using this power. Music is heard during its second psychic power usage which is then revealed to be coming from a car driving nearby. the tire then starts to follow this car as a possible love interest until it is hit by another car. After recovering from being hit it then proceeds to follow the 2 vehicles and exacts revenge with its psychic attack on the second cars driver. During the leadup to this point we also see other things from the audience to display a sense of time elapsed. The audience had to stay on location overnight and where woken up by the usher and realised that none of them had food.

NCT Week 4 Post 2

For this task i chose Facebook as the social network site. In the ToS agreement anything you post on Facebook is owned by you but Facebook has the right to remove anything that would be of offensive content to other users, or any posts that may be deemed to incite riots or similar discontent that may be illegal. Facebook can also backup your content for a period of time in the event that you delete the content after use of the web site is ended. They have privacy regulations that seems to have been significantly relaxed in recent years as is visible on the charts listed here on http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/ . This may be partly due to recent events happening in regards to global security issues and intelligence communities.

There is also an indemnity clause in the ToS to say that Facebook is not legally responsible for any activities a user posts that may be considered illegal to the government where they live, e.g. inciting riots, planning bank robberies, organizing lynch mobs etc... This is to ensure that the owners of the website are not held responsible for one persons misdeeds therefore punishing everyone else who would use the site the way it was intended to be used.

I don't have any major concerns about this myself as I don't really use social networking websites very often but it makes sense to not be held liable for everyone out there who makes an offensive post

NCT Tutorial 4 Post 1

In this post we have to choose a topic from a listing provided by our lecturer. Of this list i have chosen to respond to the question of What sort of computer games do you find most engaging? Why? What does it say about you? Why does computer game violence, mostly, not affect the players? Is there a level at which it does effect changes in people?

I find that the most engaging computer games for myself are either First Person Shooters or MMORPG's like World of Warcraft. First person shooters provide a challenge especially in multiplayer as there is no predictability with the oponents as your versing other human players with their own play styles from around the world. In an MMORPG like World of Warcraft in particular theres an essence of challenge there as well but its more of a fantasy world where magic and swordplay is still the most common things to be seen. In this world its more on teamwork to achive a goal in a set quest as the game is not really geared to have one type of class being able to do everything well. For example, a dungeon run in WoW requires a varied team. You need a "tank class" to soak up damage, 3 damage dealers of varied classes to deal damage but they just cant take many hits and a healer to keep the group alive. 

Im not sure exactly what this says about me but I personally have never let what happens in the game affect me in real life outside of the game apart from at one point in time an urge to go back to the game as the MMO can be very addictive when played with likeminded people you can get along with.

Computer Game Violence mostly doesn't affect people in real life as the majority of people can tell that its not real and will leave the game behind after they finish playing much like watching a movie. You leave your sense of disbelief at the start of the movie and don't use it again till the end and its this way with the majority of people playing computer games. Unfortunately there are people in the world who invest themselves so heavily in the world of the game they are playing that the bleed over effect is so great they can no longer tell the difference between the game world and the real world. This can be due to stress, depression or a number of outside effects that make the game world more appealing than the real world.

New Communication Technologies Tutorial Task 1 Week3

TASK 1

 

-  As a request by our Lecturer Steven Stockwell we were requested to locate the first journal Article he wrote. He wrote a journal article for the Legal Service Bulletin, ISSN 0817-3516, 1981, Volume 6, Issue Feb 1981, pp. 48 - 49 on the Kuranda Police Shooting. I found this document on the Griffith University Database. (citation: Stockwell, Stephen, 1981, 'Kuranda Kolice Shooting', Legal Service Bulletin, vol 6, pp 48, viewed 12 August 2011, via Griffith University Database

 

-Governor Slugwell appears in 3 comics of  Flaming Carrot Comics. He appeared in issues 7, 10 and 11. (citation: Burden, Bob, 1985, Flaming Carrot Comics, no. 7,  Renegade Press, Burbank, CA) I found these in the Griffith University Trial databases -Underground and Independent Comics.

- The latest thinking is that mobile phones can cause brain cancer with prolonged use. (citation: Cell Phones and Cancer Risk 2011, viewed 12th August 2011, http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cellphones)

- In this reference Leon looks surprised but there is no reaction to the needles, resulting in Holden pulling a gun but Leon is faster and shoots first. (citation: Fancher, Hampton, 1938-; Peoples, David Webb, 1940-; Kibbee, Roland, 1914-1984, Blade Runner 1982 Draft Script, Electronic Edition by Alexander Street Press, L.L. C., 2009) I found this script on the American Film Script's Online in the Griffith University Trial Databases.

- The main paradox Walter Ong sees in 20th century communication is that it is founded on love and hope of a higher presence that points communication beyond an exchange of information to something deeper. (citation: Soukup, P.A, 2006, 'Contexts of Faith: The Religious Foundation of Walter Ong's Literacy and Orality',  Journal of Media and Religion,Volume 5 Issue 3 Page 175, viewed 12 August 2011 via Griffith University Library Database)