In Taiwan, especially in universities, students like to use BBS (Bulletin Board system) as a medium to communicate others and share some information and opinions. Six years ago, I initially knew how to use BBS, and then I’m captivated in BBS everyday. My friends near around have personal boards on BBS, so I can know [...]
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Communities in Cyberspace
Posted in Prior Classes on 6 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Group 6 – What New Media Is Not
Posted in Prior Classes on 5 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
What New Media Is Not from The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich
Differences between new and old media:
New media is analog media converted to a digital representation.
All digital media share the same digital code.
(which means digital media allow different types of files to be displayed in the same computer)
New [...]
Computing Power and Communications
Posted in Prior Classes on 22 October 2006 | Leave a Comment »
What great irony there is that the group of people who used Babbage’s simple calculating machine were, in fact, the first ‘computers’. Some of us might think of the Univac that took up several rooms as the first computer, others the PC/Apple as the first computers, or as noted in last week’s class it was [...]
It’s rather amazing to read the bit-by-bi…
Posted in Prior Classes on 17 October 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Week 3 – It’s rather amazing to read the bit-by-bit innovations regarding the ultimate development of the telephone and how both one-upsmanship, collaboration, and exploratory integration of existing discoveries on the part of the tech-savvy “illuminati” of that day moved things forward. The propellant of transmitting sound electrically seemed to stem from the raw concept [...]
Week 3 Questions
Posted in Prior Classes on 15 October 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Discuss the importance of “supervening necessity” – can you think of other examples?
According to Chapter three, it points out that the supervening necessity of speaking telephone is the limited liability company. Under my explanation, I would say that is a kind of change of social systems, industry standard or the rising needs of something. For [...]
