After reading all these things about Photo Shop it was amazing to think of what gets changed and goes unnoticed on a daily basis! I am a complete freak for gossip magazines, but shocking to me was that people magazine was able to Photoshop a picture of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt together to make it look like they were together! Some people would see that cover and never think twice about what they saw and the thought that it could be an altered image. What really bothers me is that we don’t have any nationwide laws against things being published. Most upsetting to me is the fact that people came change and alter pictures of American troops overseas. Out of respect for those risking it all so that you can sit here in your warm house on your fancy computer and alter those pictures, you wouldn’t disgrace their names and their values because you think it would be funny.
It’s just amazing what America has come to these days. America is preached as a free nation with freedom of choice however, you give people too much of an opportunity to all speak their mind and do as they personally feel, you lose creditability as a person in regards to allowing people to do as they please. It becomes a big joke and there is no definitive line separating the truths and the lies. Who do you believe?
In a court case, can you put up a big enough argument that no video or pictures should be used as the defendant you feel like the photos and videos may have been altered by anyone at any time? How do we maintain that level of honesty in such a large independent nation? What sources can we trust to be creditable? The Website for the History of Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and law had some of the most wide-know journalist companies our there! If we are getting lied to on the front cover of Time, Newsweek, TV Guide, Redbook, Star, Men’s Fitness and National Geographic who can we trust to give us the real picture, the real information.
I took complete offense to the DOVE commercial. I love that they promote real beauty and real women. The Photoshoped, warped look of the girl after several hours of hair, make-up and on screen air-brush she looked beautiful and fake. That’s not what women want to see! Women care about using a product that works on real women. Not something that works on a supermodel who never had the problems before anyways. Photoshop can be a very devious and tricky thing to detect. We need to find a better way to hold people accountable for their changes.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Five principles of new media
The readings on “The Five Principles of New Media” were a very confusing reading. I’m not sure if it was the style of presentation or the material. I get really confused when it comes to the technical terms of computers and technology, so I got really confused with the in depth look at the Five principles of numerical representation, modularity, automation, variability and transcoding.
I understood numerical representation as the way a computer is ran. It is run off of numbers and all the numbers and codes are equated to the pictures we see and run programs we use.
I understood modularity as the pieces of a computer that work together to form the big picture. I would think of it as a file saved in my documents. I save my homework in a certain file but the computer saves pieces of this files code throughout the computer and when I click to access that file at a later time, the computer pulls all these pieces from all over the hard drive into one piece that is my homework.
I understand automation to be the basic function of movement and our own creative edge on a file. Most common example of this would be the ability to add motion to a PowerPoint presentation with moving words and pictures that fly into the presentation from every angle.
Variability was a hard one for me to understand. I think I understood it as the ability to have a varying response to the same action. Each time I added a color to the paper, the squares would appear in different arrangements and different sizes. They never appeared in the same shape in the same spot two times in a row.
Transcoding seemed to be difficult as well. The overlying idea was that it was the merge of our culture with technology?!?!? The first thing to come to mind was as if I were to take a picture of a modern day pop star and used Photoshop or another editing program to warp the picture and create a shimmery, distorted, but still fully understandable picture or the same pop star.
Overall I didn’t understand exactly how this incorporated into the other readings we’ve had this semester. I thought it was kind of a throw-off to switch the subject and style of reading right before our mid-term evaluation. I was thinking we would be getting a great article with a story to dispute or an idea to argue, but this seems to be factual information on how computers work and a greater vocabulary lesson on its components.
I understood numerical representation as the way a computer is ran. It is run off of numbers and all the numbers and codes are equated to the pictures we see and run programs we use.
I understood modularity as the pieces of a computer that work together to form the big picture. I would think of it as a file saved in my documents. I save my homework in a certain file but the computer saves pieces of this files code throughout the computer and when I click to access that file at a later time, the computer pulls all these pieces from all over the hard drive into one piece that is my homework.
I understand automation to be the basic function of movement and our own creative edge on a file. Most common example of this would be the ability to add motion to a PowerPoint presentation with moving words and pictures that fly into the presentation from every angle.
Variability was a hard one for me to understand. I think I understood it as the ability to have a varying response to the same action. Each time I added a color to the paper, the squares would appear in different arrangements and different sizes. They never appeared in the same shape in the same spot two times in a row.
Transcoding seemed to be difficult as well. The overlying idea was that it was the merge of our culture with technology?!?!? The first thing to come to mind was as if I were to take a picture of a modern day pop star and used Photoshop or another editing program to warp the picture and create a shimmery, distorted, but still fully understandable picture or the same pop star.
Overall I didn’t understand exactly how this incorporated into the other readings we’ve had this semester. I thought it was kind of a throw-off to switch the subject and style of reading right before our mid-term evaluation. I was thinking we would be getting a great article with a story to dispute or an idea to argue, but this seems to be factual information on how computers work and a greater vocabulary lesson on its components.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Case Studies
I though most of the group presentation today delt with technology in today's world and privacy issues. The only ones that didn't real fit that title were the librarian as a keystone species, and the one about the gardener. I was alittle lost on the librarian one because i felt that most of the conent was lost in the video aspect of the presentation. I also wasnt too sure about the gardener presentation, because i felt they didn't describe exactly what type of gardener they were talking about up-front. The other presentation delt with privacy of computer use of students, privacy with rooms of a job, and when is too much freedom too much.
After these presentations today i have a better understanding of what is expected of our iundividual projects and what else i need to focus on my research. I now better understand the keystone species and location. The keystone species is what is present to allow all of this stuff to take place. I also learned that locality is the objects within the ecology and how they are used based on the topic of your ecology. The computers used in the video servalenced operating room would be different from those kids that loved playing "Pueblo" and again different from the hi-tech school where the photo-shopped class was taking place.
Overall i enjoyed learning from most of the presentations today, i just found a couple of them hard to follow as the group presented based on thier choice of presentation style.
After these presentations today i have a better understanding of what is expected of our iundividual projects and what else i need to focus on my research. I now better understand the keystone species and location. The keystone species is what is present to allow all of this stuff to take place. I also learned that locality is the objects within the ecology and how they are used based on the topic of your ecology. The computers used in the video servalenced operating room would be different from those kids that loved playing "Pueblo" and again different from the hi-tech school where the photo-shopped class was taking place.
Overall i enjoyed learning from most of the presentations today, i just found a couple of them hard to follow as the group presented based on thier choice of presentation style.
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