HUM 101 Roy Forrest
Digital Divide Section 3, 4 Article Selection,
Nomadicity
This chapter is talking about the ease or readily accessibility of being able to have a home entertainment center at your fingertips. Instead of being confined to a home entertainment center that would be very difficult to move around for your entertainment. It is now a portable way of being able to have your entertainment on the move such as a laptop computer, even a cell phone can stream movies or play your music along with many other options of entertainment. This has also changed the regular older technology by combining such a large amount of different entertainment systems into such a small package. Older technologies such as cd players, beeper, Palm Pilot, internet access, and numerous other things. This tends to also become a distraction in some places such as theaters. Commonly you are asked to turn your cell phones off while watching the move. There are also some ideas of devices to block mobil phones are going to become ready for restaurants and theater owners.
Wikipedia and beyond: Jimmy Wales's sprawling vision
Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia who lives in a simple grandmother like home near St. Petersburg, Florida. He seems to be on top of his game with him keeping in touch with the average routine of a teenager going to normal stores such as Starbucks, mall shopping, and others as well. Wales is mentioned as an Internet rock star. He was in the list of 100 most influential people of 2006. Wikipedia dominate a lot of Google search results, which in turn is what it is about with the ability for free encyclopedia where anyone can edit something. Even though he says he has no rich guy status, he is still able to see and hang out with people like the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the Virgin CEO Richard Branson's private island is where he likes to hang out too. He still tries to play it low key even though he has a strange amount of power since he has changed the way people extract information form the web. One issue with Wikipedia is the accuracy of information that is searched, they are not always 100% correct, it is a collaboration of ideas from many people to say it is true (from the web sights point of view that is).
Judgement: of Molly's gaze and Taylor's watch
This chapter is about a very young little girl that was climbing bookcases and yanking toys off shelves for her normal daily routine. While she was hugging a teddybear and having all these toys to play with, she was then really gazing at a TV show with an image that caught her attention. It was a Sesame Street show that caught her attention.
A University of Massachusetts professor went on talking about a way of studies for heart rate, eye tracking, and other things to understand what is going on when television is being watched by viewers. One thing that was found was people are not as glued to the screen as people might think they are. On average, both children and adults look away and at the TV up to one hundred and fifty times and hour. Only if the look lasts fifteen seconds or longer are we likely to watch for up to ten minutes at a stretch, which is also called "attentional inertia" (John E. Richards and Daniel Anderson). Many things can deter us away from being interested in watching something such as if it either too fast or too slow, our attention slips away. But what attracts us normally is the content can be challenging for us.
A Dream Come True
This chapter is talking about the internet's character. Web 2.0 is a term for the participating culture that has become a social reality. No person, fact, or event is beyond anyones grasp. This applies to any online experience that allows the user to help create, edit, or revise content viewed on a website. Interacting with other users, sharing pictures, music, notes and many things. Some "old" media news organizations like Time is frightened by the internet, claims of "old" media's impending irrelevance that its "person of the Year" in 2006, it put a picture of a computer screen on the magazine's cover with the word "You." Then it went on to celebrate the new digital democracy with Web 2.0.
College students used to be the most active people of society. The ones that often protested war, racial bias, social policies. If corruption or injustice occurred in the city or town where they went to school, they took to the streets to demonstrate or march with locals to stand on a picket line. Now they seem to tremble before the internet's truth-eliding, boundary-busting juggernaut.
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