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Blog Post 6 – Ahmad Woods

Posted on October 1, 2012 by | 1 comment

Internet privacy has been a growing concern in the digital age. Social networking sites like Facebook where users share personal data make it really easy for identity thefts to go in and do their things. Don’t believe me? Well then check this video out

You’ll be surprised at the amount of information people leave out to the public. Reading the online privacy article however it seems the biggest threat to our privacy is the technology tracking advertiser use. These things are particularly dirty because you have no way of turning them off and it’s mostly involuntary. The article explains that most people aren’t even aware of the extent of data being gathered on them. To make matters more complicated these advertisers aren’t even held accountable and they can hold on to your info for an undisclosed amount of time.

These advertisers aren’t even regulated and we should all be aware of how dangerous little to no regulation can be *cough*2008 market crash cough* People seriously need to be made aware of this and be educated on their options. Like I didn’t even know half of this stuff was going on until I read the article. Very informative albeit a very long read.

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Notes from today, and reading/blogging homework for Monday, September 24

Posted on September 19, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Today we discussed Web 2.0, social media, social networking, and participatory media. The typewith.me document we created is available here. We ran out of time before we could view and discuss a few videos in class. One is the Tim Berners-Lee TED talk embedded in the open data article you read for today; the other is The Machine is Us/ing Us:

On Monday 9/24, we’ll move into a discussion of access — personal and institutional, and the digital divide. Please read Martin, The Politics of Research (pdf). Use the comments feature of the course site to comment on a classmate’s blog post: one comment of at least 100 words or 2 comments of 50 words minimum on 2 different posts. Please get in touch if you have any questions or issues with the comment feature.

Slides from today are available here.

 

~Prof. Leonard

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HW-Blog Post #1

Posted on September 10, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Reading Chap. 1 of Badke’s book, I can see my habits time and time again. I’m one of those “Googlers,” finding the basic info on a topic I know little about, put my opinions if needed and pray for an A. In Chap. 1, he explains the info fog and how before the “.com’s” they were traditional socities: like when a family member tells you a secret recipe that has been passed down generation after generation, and the printing press: the reason why it doesn’t take months to replicate a book, magazine or journal. The reason why I “googled” because it was the easy way. It takes time to look in a library/encyclopedia and gather all of the un-biased info that you need for a research paper when the top 5 websites discussing the generalization of your topic is within a search. Forget checking the credibility of the site & source. After reading this chapter, I realized I wasn’t putting 100% when it comes to getting info/checking sources and I plan to change that this semester.

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Notes from today, and reading and blogging assigments for Wednesday, September 12

Posted on September 10, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Today we discussed non-text media in digital and analog formats, in particular some of the advantages, disadvantages, and challenges presented by the ease of creation and distribution of digital media. We ran out of time before we could discuss a relevant and recent article about digital vs. analog in the film industry, Film Is Dead? Long Live Movies: How Digital Is Changing the Nature of Movies. Take a look if you like; in it, the differences in the technologies are explained, and different film critics voice their opinions about each medium and the issues in general.

On Wednesday, September 12, we’ll discuss alternative print and digital media. I have to go out of town, so please welcome our guest lecturers, my colleagues Professor Maura Smale of the Library department at City Tech and Professor Susan Thomas of the Library department at Long Island University. For Wednesday, please read the following:

Thomas Eland, Critical thinking, deviant knowledge and the alternative press
Fred Wright, The history and characteristics of zines, part I
Zine World, Zines 101 — A quick guide to zines
Write one 100-word reading response blog post.

Looking ahead to next week, remember that classes are cancelled on Monday, September 17 and Tuesday, September 18. The college and the library are OPEN.

Slides from today are available here.

~Prof. Leonard

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HW #3 Producers of digital Media

Posted on September 10, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Through reading Pavlik’s, “Producers Of Digital Media” I took a big understanding to how and why media changed through time. In the reading it was confirmed that most of the newspapers were privately owned, however many people were into blogging. So the privately owned newspapers had to start allowing the publics voice in the paper or they would end up with no sales. The reason being is that people would simply go online and look at blog post for recent news and unbiased thoughts. The way that we know the internet plays a big role is even the presidential candidates promote very hard through internet ads on common websites like youtube. That goes to show that the internet is very powerful because if people promote on their to be world leaders harder then they do on the public campaigns then you know that the online community is very large and at the same time very powerful.

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Homework_2 Improved Technology

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The media of public communications, such as news media which we know of, have often “interwined” as the author Pavlik described, with new technology startegies throughout time. While reading Media in the Digital Age I have learned about the early use of daguerreotype, which gave the newspaper media the quality of storytelling in including photo images. Next the use of technology to reach out the audience with daily news, through the radio and television. Pavlik stated that journalists and other media leaders should utilize technology more in order to keep news in particular existing. Agreeing to his writing keeping up with new and continuously technology, we can all keep informed by daily updates that we are surrounded by. There are a whole new technology resources such as blogging, internet, mobile devices, gps, tablets and so on. As the two videos assigned to watch, it supported the idea that technology has made our time easier for many things including the communication between others in search of information. Proving that technology could be used for positive outcomes.

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Homework #1 Chapter 1 Blog Response

Posted on August 28, 2012 by | 1 comment

From the 1st page of the chapter to the last, Badke came out the gate swinging. Badke’s style of writing is very aggressive and he doesn’t waste anytime getting his point across. Badke approached his topic head on and spoke about how societies and their traditions have escalated throughout time. As Badke progresses in his teaching he briefly shows how information and culture was passed down from generation to generation. Although he agrees passing culture generation to generation is a good thing, he also takes one step ahead and talks about the disadvantages. Although they were passing the information down, it was verbally so it was becoming more inaccurate every generation. This inaccuracy all came to a halt with the invention of the printing press because it allowed for multiple copies of documents so no one had to pass it down because it was written all around. Then came the Internet, which was an advancement that was also a major setback because of people putting up information that was false.

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LIB1201 8/29 Homework

Posted on August 28, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Reading chapter 1 of Badke’s book my impressions of it is it puts up a solid effort in engaging you for some boring old school text book.  The author clearly has a sense of humor which finds its way into his writing.  I never thought I could laugh reading a book on effective ways of studying.  The information present in chapter 1 and the examples made to explain them were once again engaging.  Badke goes on about how a traditional society handles information, to the invention of the printing press and World Wide Web and what changes they brought to the game. Terms such as “gatekeeping” which was a consequence of the printing press was a fairly new term to me that easily describes something I already knew.  He also goes into ebooks and how they shook up the industry of print and how they changed the way we get our information and who publishes this information. Chapter 1 over all was a great way to introduce the book.

Initially I thought our professor made a typo; why in the world would she ask us to read chapter 1 then jump ALL THE WAY to chapter 8? Surely there must a method to her madness.  I was right. Each so called chapter pretty much stands on its own. I figure I can use this book to suit a very specific need in studying different kinds of materials.  This chapter goes on about connoisseur and glutton reading, interesting terms to describe two kinds of readers.  A reader who is a “mindless sponge” reading for entertainment is classified as the glutton reader and the reader who is ruthless in only using the information who needs is the connoisseur. He also explains in this chapter why plagiarism is a serious offense and 5 steps to zero in on the content you need from a book. I never actually considered using a books index to help me research and a feel like a fool for not doing so before.  Promptly taking his advice a simply read all the study questions at the end of the chapter to do this homework assignment as they basically clued me on to what to look out for and what to retain.

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Homework #1: Response to Chapter 8 of Research Strategies by William Badke

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Badke’s explanation of how to read for research in chapter 8 sparked a great interest to me. While the tips presented to the reader about analytical reading (be ruthless, get to know the materialnwithout reading it all, etc.) from section 8.0-8.2 were very helpful, the sections following 8.2 became very thought provoking. I began to noticed my own traits for reading sources weren’t up to par. Section 8.3 of this chapter was completely relevant. I was one of those people who only used one or two sources for my data while referring to others to seem like I did more research than I actually did. I always knew that my research was “half way done” but it always seemed to work, giving me no reason to try harder. This is one thing I hope to change, and will change with the help of this class. One question that was placed into my mind while reading Badke’s section on paraphrasing when he stated (188), “this method leaves you particularly open to a charge of plagiarism, since you are still reproducing the writer’s work, thought for thought if not word for word,” was what if you are thinking the same thought as the author. The author can’t be the only person in the world who thought about a certain topic that specific way. I never thought expressing your own thought in your own words as paraphrasing, even if it was similar to the author or not. I may have been misinterpreting the concept of paraphrasing throughout my high school years. I will now try to avoid it. Through reading the preface, chapter 1 & 2 of “Research Strategies” by William Badke,  I already see the significance of the text; we shall use it to see what we’ve been doing and to understand the advantages and disadvantages of these techniques. Also, to learn new techniques and become an analytical reader.

-Destiny Modeste

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Posted on August 28, 2012 by | Leave a comment

While reading Badke’s book, I found it interesting to see the way he expresses his opinions and knowledge in the sources we use in our daily lives. That is finding any kind of information, by using the social web, books, electronic devices, and so on. Badke shared in the first chapter the beginning of information and how it was used, and passed from generation to generation. Not forgetting to mention “tradition” which for Badke is a way of seeing what knowledge is. For example going from verbally to print information to now being able to have information seen in electronic devices, like a kindle. Badke made it clear that not all information found or shared could be reliable, for instance the world of Internet where any individual can share freely. Going to chapter 8 is why Badke shares some tips on ways to make research comfortable for our future works, and to also know how to find correctly the  information we need.

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