Milestones in Television History

Book Research

Books written by Stephen Stockwell:

Stockwell, Stephen. (2005) Political campaign strategy : doing democracy in the 21st century. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

Stockwell, Stephen. (2000) All media guide to fair cross cultural reporting: for journalists, program makers, and media students. Nathan, Queensland: Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy

Research and explore social media with this useful book:

Bell, Gavin. (2009) Building social web applications. Beijing, China: Cambridge

Academic Books that give insight into Jean Luc Godard's Alphaville:

Drake, Chris. (2005) Alphavile: A French Film Guide. Tauris & Company, London.

Meehan, Paul. (2008) Tech-noir: the fusion of science fiction and film noir. Jefferson, N.C : McFarland.

Sanders, Steven. (2008) The philosophy of science fiction film. Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky.

Available at Griffith University South Bank Campus 

My Thoughts on Communication Technologies

I have been using communication technologies such as Facebook, Yahoo mail and Youtube ever since I felt it was a social necessity developed early through my primary school environment. Such sites and content became a topic for conversation, a way of interacting outside school and the norm that the vast majority was conforming to at the time. Thus if you weren't making use of such technologies you may be considered out of touch or excluded by peers. Now I rely heavily on such technologies daily to communicate with friends when organising a social event or lecturers when submitting material an so on. In ambiguous terms I rely communication technologies to successfully interact with the world around me. 

Privacy?

While I was young privacy was always a huge issue, due to my parents innate concern. However now it is something I put little thought into, I keep my accounts private and that for me seems to work well. I am yet to have an issue with privacy.

However in reality I think this oblivious approach to privacy can definitely be dangerous.  Knowing who is accessing your personal information is a necessity and is something I am growing more concerned about. For example, the extent to which companies such as Facebook and google who collect information about their users is something I ignored while being bombarded with customized advertisements based on everything I looked at on the web. While some adds or information may be useful its also scary to think just how much these companies know about me.

Evernote: Remember Everything!

Evernote is a web application designed for those with a less than perfect memory, which is pretty inclusive of us all. It aims to make the information you need available to you anywhere through a range of features such as reminders, note taking and audio recording. Students may use it to keep track of their class notes, teachers may use it to store lesson plans, travellers plan trips and so on. The diversity of this app maximises its productivity. According to Evernote, their main goal is:

"To give everyone the ability to easily capture any moment, idea, inspiration, or experience whenever they want."

Definitely one to check out. www.evernote.com

Social Media Analysis: Click here to take survey

Here's a short 5 question survey that will help us understand and gain a deeper insight into the use of social media.

Google Glass: A Revolutionary Innovation

This innovative concept released by Google has broadened the frontier of technological advancement and has the potential to revolutionise the way we take pictures, web search and communicate between one another making it an impressive piece of work.

A pretty dramatic change from what was into what is.