This week we have learned about hypertext. It is quite different of common text. Hypertext is more complex than text but more convenience. A word could links to a article to explain the word. And you will find there is no end of hypertext if you want.

On one hand, I should say hypertext provides great convenience for readers. Once you read a novel, you do not need to check the history or something you do not understand, just click the hypertext, the full explaination will come out to help you quickly understand. It is a innovation of the reading, as a reader, I should be glad.

On the other hand, hypertext should be the end of original books and authors. Hypertext is more attractive than a 2 kilogramme book. What can we do to save them?

Copyright?

Everything have two sides. High speed development of internet also lead big drawbacks to common life. In the class this week, we have learned about the Commercialization of the Network. With commercial, that means some peole is making money through the network. Because of the high speed development, the network do not have enough time to have rules or laws to control. Download is very common in everybody's life. People do not only use network to search news or messages, they searching the videos, audios, films, pictures and games. Why does people feel crazy to do this? because it is free. For a new comming film, in the cinema you have to paid to watch, but do not worried about that, after a week you could find free film on the website to download. Is that the disadvantages of network or humanity?The copyright can not be protect in the network. We need a suitable law to control this situation but hardly in short time.

Web 2.0

This week we have learned about the key concept Web 2.0. Web 1.0 is more focus on the large amount of database, and Web 2.0 is concentrate on every people.Let's see some core service that Web 2.0 have provide to us.

Blog: just like everybody's dairy on website, people show their feelings, knowledge, point of veiws and connect with other people to made a big web.

RSS：people making articles and public automatically.

Podcasting: people made there own video or audio and public. Just like YouTube.

SNS：people's blog and connect with others.

WIKI：it is a kind of cyclopaedia made by people themselves.

The function of Web 2.0 is very complex as the picture above shows, but it really provides great convenience to us. P2P services connect the all the people together.

News

We are living in a news world today. I guess the first thing to do in the morning is not open your eyes, is serching the news for most of people especially for business man. I do not need to metion the importance of news to humans life. Cosider with our study, Media. Most media production's fuction is to delivery news or messages. For internet, first time I touch the internet, I thought it is convenience to searching news rather than read newspapers or listion to the radio. That means, at the very beginning, internet in my mind, is a news seaching engine. I guess most people have same feeling with me when they first time get touch with the computer.
From the news' view, media affect our life very much. We all 100% trust the news through media productions. In one hand, they have responsibility to tell us the truth. In the other hand, what if they always giving us wrong imformation? Can we touch the real world?

Second life?

Last week in my blog I have metioned about that the cyberculure which could be second life of people. This week in class, our doctor gave us a lecure about ideas of Artificial Life, Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology, Robotics and Cyborgs.



Two picture shows the development of human beings. It seems that during the process, human being stand up and sit down again. Are we go back to monkey?Consider with the lecture we have learned this week, I am confused with the future of people's future. Maybe after a century later or more earlier, all of people sit down at home and control there computers to work, to cook, to get married with some other robot and to life. Is that the future of human beings?Or the second life today becoming the first life in future?

The birth and death of Cyberspace

This week we have learned about the Cyberspace. What is cyberspace? In my simple understanding, cyberspace is another unreal world.
Again, in class we have discussed about "cyber-". I have metioned in my blog that I think Cyber means something existing in suppositional world.
With the birth of internet, the cyberspace appears. It could be called as the second life of people. In cyberspace, most people would like do what they can not do in real world. Thus, I think that cyberculture shows different character of people and cyberculture made people as full people.
For the death of cyberculture, maybe some new media will appear to kill the cyberculture and ocuppied people's second life?

"New" and "Old" Media

This week we have learned the "New" and "Old" Media. The first question appearing in my mind when I see the title is that how to separate new and old media. That means I wanted to know the standard to say one thing is new media or old media? For example, is Computer belongs to new media or old media?
Our teacher gives us five considerations to separate them.
Systemic consideration considered that the basic imformation of a media production exsiting in the market such as its owner, copyright, regulation and the way to access the media production.
Technical consideration gives us a new yardstick to separate them. A new media is a digital and electric media, However, not all the digital and electric media are new media.
Aesthetic consideration. In my understanding about this part, new media always update to be more convenience, and the function of new media could impacted the majority of people. Another characteristic of new media is that people could communication and interact each other through new media.
Logical consideration. Old media always need large supporting from money, culture and technology. It survives hardly in modern life.
Political consideration. New media are seeing as a child in network soceity

Welcome to Carlos's Blog

Welcome here, this is Carlos's new blog. I will review the lecture about Media and Cyberculture on my blog in the coming semester. I hope you can understand the course through my review. Thank you : )
This week we have learned about "What is Media and Cyberculture?" I think Media is a collection of all the ways that people could get information or messages such like newspapers, radio, television and computer. Cyberculture, in my opinion, Cyber means something existing in suppositional world. Thus, I guess Cyberculture talks about the internet culture for modern human beings.

Our teacher have showed a picture in class which is a disc hanging in the vegetable farm to scare the birds or insects. The picture tells us that different kind of people have different kind of understanding about the Media. And they have different ways to use Media. Funny picture but impression meaning.