Week 6 lecture／tutespark

We had a new lecturer who named adam muir from Nathan campus in this week. Because the bus was run late, I did not listen the lecture from the beginning. He talked about the history of web and it changes in the last decades, and also discussed this new media brought virtual community and individual identity for people.

Technology as a tool effect people's daily life. The definition of technology is the scientific study of mechanical arts and their application to the world. When technology is used for social and cultural communication that technology becomes a medium of communication. From this point, I think technology and media can not separate with each other. They influence to each other.

Internet makes people's life different. People have common interests during the networks sometimes. Following the development of Web 2.0, people began thinking the internet in the new way. More specifically, I think web 2.0 is an significant development, it has a lot of features to give people more entertainment and tools. It also makes people to have chance to read and write on web.

The teacher also mention about social media. The most popular one which I use it almost everyday is face-book. Face-book as a social network services, it helps people very easy to communicate with each other, sharing their happy and sad, and makes new friends. Moreover, it can makes money on the face-book or other web-sides as well. Some people use social media to make money, it is a such smart way to make money, I think.

Tutespark for this week: Leading on from the lecture on online privacy & social networking....

Who owns the content you put on the internet on various sites?

This includes pictures, video, text, etc?

Think about all the content you upload onto social networking sites - Do you own it?

Who has the right to use your creations?

The content that I put on the internet, I normally put photos, videos and texts on Facebook or renren(chinese friends club web, similar as Facebook). Personally I think all of contents still belong to me, because I shot those pictures and videos, and I wrote those texts by myself. On the other hand, I am the original author to my homepage. However, I agree that the content put on a public or private web site, for example, Facebook and renren. That means I can share my photos or texts with my friends, or other people who I do not even know them, and I also can copy the pictures from my friends as well. Sometimes I do not think I own my upload onto Facebook and renren. Because, my friends or other people could use my pictures to do other things, such as using photo software to change the pictures's meaning or email to another friends as a joking mail.

About the last question, there are two types of answer for me. In China, everybody can use my creations in anytime, anywhere, and without pay. If someone has compassion for me, he/she probably pay me. Because some people do not know what is copyright. They just thinking everything on internet for free, or if it is not free, people can use another way to make it free. But in Australia, most people have a preliminary understanding to copyright. Maybe there is no fake DVD in Australia, or it is very expensive to find a lawyer. If a Australian company attend to use my creations, the company will talk to me first and buy my copyright, then they can use my creations.