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Net Neutrality: William Maldonado

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When Tom Wheeler classified  broadband internet service as a utility letting our internet service providers know that just because they provide the public with internet service they do not have the right to control what we see or affect the speeds of our service, I couldn’t help but let smirk. The reason I smirked is because finally we making big companies get off their high horse, also because many people as I believe that the internet is one of our last outlets to truly express ourselves without limitation. Another person I believe would have also smirked is Aaron Swartz. The reason I believe he would have smirked is because as an internet innovator he would’ve appreciated this win against the big man. What he did for the internet community and for the people was very admirable. It is because of people like him that other people have the guts to stand up and fight for our rights, and we need that now because now there is more threats towards our one of our last outlets to be truly free. The internet is being attacked with CISPA once again. What CISPA does is that it allows for government agencies to watch us as we go about our daily lives using the internet without even letting you know and frankly I don’t even let my family watch me like a hawk as I go about my daily internet use, so why would I let the government do it for a profit. If you want to join the fight new CISPA click here.

 

Net Neutrality

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Originally my knowledge on Net Neutrality was hazy at best so I’m glad I got to read an article about it. Although I agree with what the government did with Net Neutrality, it still worries me. I always felt that the Internet never really belonged to any one country, so the attempt to apply laws to it by any one country wouldn’t work. That being said this ruling wasn’t directly on the internet, it was on American internet providers which is fine to me. However it still gives me the fear that the government will try to regulate the internet more in the future, something I am heavily against. In the end I can only wait and see what happens.

Media Convergence/Vinyl Vs CD’s&MP3 :William Maldonado

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While reading Media Convergence something that really caught my attention was the “Black Box Fallacy” which is a concept by Jenkins in which he states that while digital media is converging the physical forms of the media are separating, but i would say that his concept is wrong because there are already devices out today that combine movies,tv,music,games and etc in one physical hardware device. Some examples of such a device is the Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and other ones that don’t offer as much but still offer a great deal of media in a small device Google Chromecast and Roku. Another Part of the first chapter of Media Convergence, was when they quoted Howard Rheingold where he said “The computer and the internet were designed, but the ways people used them were not designed into either technology,  nor were the most world-shifting uses of these tools anticipated by their designers or vendors. …“. This made think back to the early stages of the internet on how it was originally designed during war time to send encrypted information amongst themselves without the enemy deciphering the messages. Then they mentioned how SMS texting was just a way for phone companies to alert users of a voicemail later transformed into something for the public just like the computer. This made me open up my mind to thinking differently, in that the public are truly the ones that have the power on the changes that technological advances makes even if it wasn’t originally meant for the public.

The article written by Sean Poynton Brna makes a very good argument on why I should buy Vinyls. Although he wasn’t trying to change anyones mind to not use mp3’s and CD’s, but instead was just simply trying to make people more aware of the things they cant hear originally on mp3’s and CD’s due to the compression they do to the sound. He made me curious and want to experience the rest the frequencies that we cant hear and I found it very interesting how something that isn’t in the range of human hearing can still stimulate our brains whether it be on a sub-conscious level or not. So Ill have to make a trip and get me a vinyl this weekend.