Author Archives: Sabrina

SABRINA-MARIA-EMIRA

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/christmas-4-dummies/

HERE IS A LINK TO OUR PAGE. HOPE EVERYONE LIKES IT. THE PHOTOS WILL BE UP LOADED TOMORROW MORNING BECAUSE I (SABRINA) AM HAVING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH MY CAMERA.!!!

How to Gangnam Style…. HEY SEXY LADY!!!

 

So thanks to my aunt, my daughter loves Korean music. She is obsessed with Psy’s viedo Gangnam Style. She studies the video because she wanted to learn how to do the Gangnam Style dance. I had been looking for a “How To Gangnam Style” video for about 2 weeks. My daughter is only 3 so I needed a video that would do the moves slow for her and explain well them well for me. This viedo was almost the perfect video, however, the main part that they left out was the dance with the song itself. Yes, the instructor teaches and explains the moves well but in the end they put the dance together with some instrumental. I found that to be kind of dumb. But you cant get everything you want in life. I HOPE EVERYONE TRIES TO LEARN THE GANGNAM STYLE….

RES. jour.2

I thought that looking for information that i can use in my research document would be easy. It was difficult because i was looking in the wrong  data bases. when i went back to my notes i had some terms written down that helped me find some information. Now i need to begin to put the information in order and set my outline up. i think once i do my outline, writing the paper would be easy because I have the information all i need to do is put into order and begin to write the paper. I hope the outline comes along well because i think that is the most important part of a paper.

1st Journal ASS.

Due to FrankinStorm Sandy things have gotten difficult for me. I stared looking for articles using Google search bar.  So far the most difficult part of my research centers was getting my question set. I always have a problem with starting my papers. I normally don’t know if my question is good enough. I have thought about interviewing one of my English Prof. which is going to be writing a book on my subject. My subject has to deal with how grammar of students has gotten worst due to the abbreviations. I find that when I write I normally write “u” instead of “YOU”.. I have done it in my essays. I guess its because of texting… lol

Social Networking… Sabrina Martinez

While reading the research article, Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck by Danah Boyd I was surprised to see how much of problem users had with the News Feed feature on Facebook. Although there are roughly 800 million active Facebook users, about 700,000 users joined a group to protest against the newly added feature which according to Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg was a feature to help keep tabs on their friends. Being that the information was already public information, I do not understand why the users had a problem with it. In no way it is invasion of privacy because it is only showing the information that the user shares. Yes, viewing the information was more obscure to users when Facebook was originally made however, like all networks companies pay to upgrade the sites and add new features. Many Facebook users have misused social networking sites to tell the world about their problems or for bullying purposes. Yes, you get those people who really read into everything on person does which creates problems.  I see it like this, if you are going to be ashamed if a certain someone is going to read your status or view a picture that they shouldn’t you shouldn’t post it.  If you don’t want people in your business, it shouldn’t be put on a SOCIAL NETWORKIG SITE! Now with the most recent updates I think that it’s a good idea that Facebook left if up to the users to choose whether they want certain information to be seen by their friends. One of the biggest problems I think is that people add other people just because you see you have friends in common etc. I have always said it the social networking is making people more anti-social. It makes me wonder what will  peoples social life look like in the next 20 years… will people be sitting at the same table texting each other while they are out….

Zines – Sabrina Martinez

I thought that the lecture on last Wednesday was interesting. I never knew or even heard of Zines until that class. It was kind of cool to see all the types of Zines people made and the different types of materials used to make a Zine.  I think that zines are a good idea for thank you gifts at a wedding or a birthday. It gave me an idea to create my own zine for a family function I will be having in 2013. I want to create a FAMILY TREE ZINE for my family. I know I would have to work hard getting all the pictures together but I am sure it would be a nice idea. I really liked the zine that was dedicated to Britney Spears, which was made by one of her fans. It just shows how one person can stand up for another without ever meeting them.

Wiki… What – Sabrina Martinez HW5

I started using Wiki about four years ago and me being a student that hated technology I did not know that the public can actually edit the information until the first week of school. I think that it is awesome that anyone can share any kind of information from any part of the world.  I began to use Wiki for study purposes while attending the Ass. Radiology Program at City Tech and now I like to use Wiki for travel information, like what are fun things to do when you are in Saratoga Springs, or what are the best hotels in Florida.  You can get so much information from Wiki however, it becomes a problem when you do one search and you get about 10,000 different hits of information that you have to take time out and go through what is worth reading.  One issue that I tend to think about is, “Who put this information up and how true is the information?” I guess I always leave it up to my judgment to decide.

Creation and Dis. Digital Media- Sabrina Martinez

It cost less money to create and distribute media in the world we are living in.  Camera crews have been down-sized and film handlers have been laid off. Although it has made life much easier for digital producers it has almost and completely shut out the film world.  As we spoke about in class that movie theaters would have to wait until new released movies were delivered personally, it was a waiting game. However, now that movies are delivered digitally it make life much easier. Technology has made it easy for people to get over and download all kinds of media for free. Yes, I am one however, I tend to not download as much because the quality of the videos and music files that are online have lost their quality.

Producers of Digital Media- Sabrina Martinez

                While discussing in class about all the different major companies that own or have partnership in our everyday good and services we the people use, to my surprise I noticed that major companies like Time Warner, Disney and NBC control a lot of the small businesses and their services.  While reading Pavlik’s, “Producers of Digital Media” it fascinated me to know that many news cast and newspapers use photos and videos that are uploaded by the public. Now with 4G technology it amazes me how fast breaking news spreads.  While watching the 2012 Olympic Games, it was a disappointment that I would find out which athletes won gold metal even before I tuned into the actual sport via Twitter.  Technology can be a good thing, as well as a bad thing.  Many parents do not have control over what their children watch via internet because data is being updated every second by your average person who can simply upload a video.