1. Stockwell, S 1981, 'Kurinda Police Shooting',
Legal Service Bulletin, vol. 6, pp. 48, viewed 10 August 2011, via Law Journal Library.
2. Flaming Carrot Comics no. 7, 10 and 11.
Burden, B 1952, ‘Flaming carrot comics no.7′, Renegade Press, Burbank, California.
Underground and Independant Comics.
3. After doing some research into the medical dangers of using mobile phones, I found one particular study and although it is a year old it, I believe it it still releveant and therefore was of much interest to me: 'the effects of the electromagnetic field emitted by cellular telephones upon the inner ear of rats, using distortion product otoacoustic emissions.'
Forty Wistar Albino rats were used. Twenty newborn and 20 adult rats were divided into two groups of 10, one to participate in the study and one as a control. The rats were exposed to the electromagnetic field for 6 hours per day, for 30 consecutive days.
Before and after the 30 day exposure period, distortion product otoacoustic emissions were measured in each group and a signal-to-noise ratio calculated, which was later used in statistical analysis. For both the newborn and adult rat groups, there was no significant difference in distortion product otoacoustic emissions recorded before and after exposure to the cellular telephone electromagnetic field (p>0.05).
Exposure to the electromagnetic field emitted by cellular telephones, for 6 hours a day for 30 consecutive days, had no effect on the hearing of newborn or adult rats, at the outer ear, middle ear or cochlear level.
I found this a rather satisfying study because I now feel a little safer using my mobile phone on a daily basis.
*Citation:
Kayabasoglu, G,
Sezen, O S,
Eraslan, G et al, 2010,
'Effect of chronic exposure to cellular telephone electromagnetic fields on hearing in rats', The Journal of laryngology and otology,
Vol 125, no. 4, pp. 348 - 353, viewed on 9 November 2010 via Cambridge Journals Online.
4. He gets angry and attacks Holden.
Quote: ‘Leon looks shocked, surprised. But the needles in the computer barely move. Holden goes for the inside of his coat. But big Leon is faster. His laser burns a hole the size of a nickel through Holden’s stomach. Unlike a bullet, a laser causes no impact. It goes through Holden’s shoulder and comes out of his back, clean as a whistle. Like a rag doll he falls back into the seat. Big slow Leon is already walking away, but he stops, turns, and with a little smile of satisfaction fires through the back of the seat.’
by Fancher, , H 1982,
‘Blade Runner', Based on the story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick, Draft script. July 24, 1980.-Roland, H 1982, viewed 13 August 2011,
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5. Paul Soukup said “that a society given so much to the use of diagrams and to the maneuvering of objects in space . . . should at the same time develop means of communication which specialize not in sight but in sound.”
*Citation:
Soukup, P 2004,
‘Communication Research trends’, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture, vol. 23, pp. 23. Griffith Library Database.
Task 2.
The 'old internet community/medium' that I have chosen is MySpace. I chose it because I believe it was one of the original social networking sites which started a communication revolution.
The very successful website, MySpace was launched in 2003 by Christopher De Wolf and Tom Anderson, 'both were members of Friendster.com and saw the potential of social networking, especially the combination of traditional social networking with the sort of personal expression enabled by other sites, such as blogs and personal Web pages (Bosworth 2005).
Then from 2005-2006, user profiles jumped from 2 million to 80 million and MySpace started facing some big security issues when critics felt that identity theft was getting easier with millions of users personal information out there for all to see, not to mention the fact that basically anyone including PLAYBOY could create a page with various information and links to other 'sites'.
De Wolf and Anderson then started to up their security measures to help combat these issues.
While all this was going on, college student Mark Zuckerburg was about to lauch a much more popular and successful network media site which we now know as Facebook.
Little did De Wolf and Anderson know at that time, that it would not only live up to the same popularity status as MySpace but surpass it internationally!
I think part of the reason that Facebook took over was partly because it focused on purely providing sharing tools and platform to voice one's own opinion but also to enable the user to create their own community to simply post 'status's and photo's and talk about daily happenings.
As opposed to MySpace which was fantastic for aspiring artists and those who wanted to broadcast themselves/something they created.
What I'm getting is that 'everyday' people tend to use Facebook, whereas aspiring artists or those who want to share something other than what they had for breakfast were using MySpace, and in the end it appears the majority vote ruled.
So MySpace in my opinion, certainly did influence the way we communicate and use technology today in that it started a trend of online social networking and communicating at the click of a mouse.
It has also helped many artists get to where they are today, by simply being discovered on the site.
Additionally, due to it's mass popularity and in agreeance with Corbin (2008) 'MySpace allows users to search their own channels and go where they want to go and, in doing so, it continues to push technology into new and exciting territories'.
*References:
1. Bosworth, Martin H. April 8, 2005.
'What’s Inside MySpace.com?, viewed 13 August, 2011, <
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/03/myspace_inside.html> .
2. Corbin, Kenneth. July 25, 2008.
'Microsoft Searches for Revenue with Facebook.' viewed 13 August 2011,
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3761386/.
3.
A Place for Friends: A History of MySpace 2008, viewed 13 August 2011, <
http://www.randomhistory.com/2008/08/14_myspace.html>
