Essay Topic

Hello there!

I have finally decided on my Essay topic for my assignment in New Communication Technologies. I have chosen Essay topic number 3: 

"What is communication? Do whales communicate? Do birds? Do atoms? Does DNA communicate? What would you suggest as the limits to communication? When does a failure of human communication occur?"

I went to bubble.us and layed out some thoughts on what my essay might contain, this was very easy to use, and I think it is much better than post its, or drawing it myself.

I also used the Diigo feature, where I could highlight, bookmark pages, add photos and then keep everything in one place. The internet is making things easier than they were I guess.

Here is my Diigo page if you want to have a look on what I have found so far. This will be my first Academic Essay since I started at Griffith, and I hope I will do well. I am going to get started right away.

Here are two references that I know I will be using, but there will be more as I go along:

Knowlton, S. W. and Berger, C. R. (1997), Message Planning, Communication Failure, and Cognitive Load Further Explorations of the Hierarchy Principle. Human Communication Research, 24: 4–30. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2958.1997.tb00585.x

Franco, B. (1994). The communication conundrum: What is the message? who is listening? The Journal of American History, 81(1), 151-151. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/docview/224932766?accountid=14543

WikiLeaks

Print screen (wikileaks.org)

This week, in lectures we talked about CyberPolitics and eDemocracy, and also about Wikileaks and the Julian Assange case. Before starting the New Communication Technology course, I did not know who Assange was. I had however heard of Wikileaks, but not enough. To be honest I thought it was related to Wikipeda. That is embarrassing. I understand now that Wikileaks is a non-for-profit organization that publishes secrets and classified information to the people, and that Assange now is being wanted because of it. (http://wikileaks.org/About.html)

So Wikileaks and Assange is what they call hacker-activists. Which I understand as hacking for good, not evil. When I have heard the term "hacking" I have always thought about evil people wanting to destroy or find information about innocent people, but I guess there are as much "good" hackers as there are "bad". They call them Whistleblowers, the ones that finds out big secrets that for example the government have been lying about - and tells it to everyone by posting it anonymously online

I am pleased with the new information I have learned so far, and hope to be even more educated in the CyberPolitics, and I will probably follow the case against Assagne more closely now.

References:

http://wikileaks.org/

(Post 12)

Survey results

Last week I posted a Survey on my blog, asking questions about social media focusing mostly on Facebook. I found that doing surveys can be informative and exciting, either for resarch or just for your own curiousity. Here are my results:

I did 10 questions in my Survey, and I had 20 responses. Of those 20, 70% were between 16-25. Most of the people (65%) started using Facebook in 2007. And since facebook first opened for all in the fall of 2006, it seems like most of the people where quick to jump on the "Facebook wave". I also asked in the survey if they were one of those who refused going on Facebook but then later gave in where only 25% said "yes".

I went on to ask how long people think Facebook will be here, where I put both "Facebook will be here forever" and "10+" which is pretty much of the same thing, anyway 40% of the people actually thinks that Facebook will be here forever. 

I then went on to ask what they mainly used Facebook for. Where 85% answered "Keep in touch with my friends and family", followed by "Kill time" 55% and "Sneak around" 40% (see picture)

When asking if Facebook was addictive 80 % answered "yes"

I wanted to know if Facebook or any other social media had ever helped them progress in their carrier, were the majority (65%) said no, 25% said it was slightly helpful, 10% said "yes, some" and no one answered "yes, definietly".

Last question on the Survey was which social medias they currently are using, where 100% answered Facebook and Youtube followed on with 80%.

Thank you, to all that filled out the Survey, very much appreciated!

Diagram

(Post 9 reults)