Class Notes 4/1/15

• Ghostery tracks cookies
• Rubicon hires advertisers to put and track cookies on webpages
• Analytics and stats
• Google’s analytics are not very granular (do not provide a high amount of detail)
• Facebook is highly granular
• statcounter.com
• Analytics are incredibly powerful
• Is it immoral to track someone without telling them?
• “Lurker”- People who go but don’t participate
• Tamagatchi and the Pet Rock
• Brewster Khale- backs up the internet, “digital librarian”

3/23/15

• Noam Chomsky
  • Wrote “Manufacturing Consent”
• Allen Ginsberg
  • Was a poet
  • Wrote a poem called “Howl” (1957)
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  • Refused to perform howl in 1957
  • Other famous media critics
• Convergence in the media
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• Easier to go along
• Juliet B Shor wrote a lot of books! She said the purpose of the media is for people to buy stuff
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• Kids are growing up in a consumer & commercial society
• Susan Linn
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• Wrote a book called “consuming kids”
• http://www.consumingkids.com/
• Sut Jhally
• “Advertisements make you think you need things you really don’t”
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• Others say “the more stuff we buy, the more people we help”
• Jhlally’s message is that the media convinces us because of its power to buy things we don’t need
• Tyler Clementi
• TED Talks
• ASKII Code
• Internet Webpages formed like a human body
• 2 Parts, head and a body
• Head part is the part that is intellectual and describes how the body will behave
• We Pages have tags, tags exist in a really cool way, they describe how specific elements on a page will be formatted
• Tags have beginnings and endings and they come in pairs
• Matryoshka Dolls
• Hyperlinks
• https://www.ted.com/
• Image= IMG
• Link= Anchor= ANC
• HTML Simple Templates

Class Notes 3/2/15

• Technology = Quality
• Spirituality = Quality
• The fundamental question is the balance between technology and human interaction.
• How much time do we have left for living, how do we define living??
• Public Speaking Documentary (2010) directed by Martin Scorcese -Fran Levivitz
• Marshall McLunan
• Technological Determinism is a concept by Marshall McLuhan. In 1967 he wrote the book The Medium is the Massage. He said this electronic revolution is going to change everything. Technology will make the world a global village.
• Wired Magazine
• It doesn’t matter what you text- it’s the fact that  you’re texting. Technology determines society.
• Samuel Pepys
• The issue of privacy, especially downloading the archives or Facebook
• Writing Tools
• Word Frequency analysis software
• Meta Analysis- what are the big ideas behind this data?

Classnotes 2/25/15

• Image-Size- to change the size of the image in photoshop
• Always keep Constrained proportions checked UNLESS you want to distort the image!
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• I made that!!!
• Comfortable landscape
• Portrait and landscape (Human vision occurs in landscape format!

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• I did this wrong! Not everything is squared!
• Photoshop has filters and they are very useful

Class Notes 2/17/15

• David Carr popular NY Times Journalist dies at 58 at the peak of his career
• Lung cancer and heart disease combination which was the cause of death
• Carr Didn’t become a journalist till well into his life
• The Movie: Page One is a documentary about the NY Times (2011)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCdsSezvACw
  • NSA (National Security Administration) has built a giant data facility to create a yottabyte, which is a BOATLOAD of data. Woaaaah!
  • Stationed in Utah, this machine will allow scientists to view E-Mails, SMS messages, and other materials
  • Costing 1.2 BILLION DOLLAHS
• George Orwell 1984 interesting book about a dystopia “Big Brother is watching”
• Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein
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• Shelley wrote about how technology will become a monster (i.e. Frankenstein)
• We use photoshop to manipulate text and images
• It can be used for print or screen applications
• Use for web pages as well
  • 1)Photoshop files come in different formats for the screen
    • .JPG is one format
    • .GIF is for lower resolution
    • .PNG scalable images
    • .PSD is Photoshops documents, these files cannot be put on the internet because it has layers. Layers are the primary feature of photoshop
    • 72 DPI Dots Per Inch is the pixel size for computers
  • Computer screens are based on the colors of light (AKA the rainbow) three colors of light. They are additive, add to each other for more colors. RED, GREEN and BLUE
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  • RGB Values & internet Lingo
  • 0-9 & A-F characters
• When you’re in photoshop, the layer in italics with the lock is LOCKED, you can’t do anything to it
  • To solve this problem, double click the layer
• In photoshop, the eyeball is a toggle, turn it on and off

February 11th, 2015

• Google Glass was shut down before it was put on shelves
  • Not enough demand for the product so why waste time and money trying to develop it?
• Privacy issues with not knowing when people are recording- invasion of privacy
• Apple Watch is coming out
• Brian William’s was suspnded without pay for 6 months for false statements
• Jon Stewart leaving the Daily Show after this year
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• Technological Utopia- Ideal society
• Distopia- Unideal society
• Science Fiction
• Vannevar Bush Article:
• http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/
• MEMEX
• “Wouldn’t it be cool if we had this thing where everyone can go online and post stuff and share stuff etc etc collaborate like we never have before”
• This was Vannevar’s idea
• H.G Wells first to come with the idea of the internet
• Technology VS Humanity
• 1797 Wolfgang gertus wrote Faust
• The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
• Technological revolution- “We know how to make more stuff but we don’t know how to stop it”
• The one constant in your whole life will be change

February 9th, 2015

• Mark Andreessen and Eric Bina came up with the browser
• The first browser was called Mosaic
• They allowed people to click on Hyperlinks
• This was only 22 years ago
• The people at Xerox created the mouse
• Steve jobs took the mouse from them
• Paolo Alto Research Center (PARK)
• Archive.org
• Gave you feedback on each site on the internet from each year
• Billions of websites saved from all over the years
• https://archive.org/web/
• There are websites which contain static pages, as well as dynamic websites.
• Dynamic websites very, very important. They are content managed websites, and have a content management system.
• Dynamic websites have databases

• Why back up the internet?
• Brwester Khale backs up the internet so everything ever put on the internet doesn’t disappear!!
• Gilgamesh & Cuneiform
• Architecture and great buildings
  • Gugenheim Museum in NY
• Costs about $30 to scan a book into a computer
• Jimmy Wales creator of Wikipedia
  • Wiki: Hawaiian word for fast
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• All of these people believe information should be free to everyone
• Vanabar Bush (?) created a computer system that essentially became the internet

Class Notes 2/4/15

Can students have too much tech?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/opinion/can-students-have-too-much-tech.html

“Students who gain access to a home computer between the 5th and 8th grades tend to witness a persistent decline in reading and math scores,” the economists wrote, adding that license to surf the Internet was also linked to lower grades in younger children.

-If you want to paste pure text, use the plain text clipboard icon in the second row from the tool box/Kitchen Sink.

-To add a link, ALWAYS check the box that says “open in new tab”, otherwise the user will leave your site!

-Humanity VS Technology

-Arts and Science (a metaphor for humanity vs. Technology)

-Question of our lives i finding the balance in our lives for humanity and technology

-What means more to you, the friends you have or the technology you have?

-250 words on Echo or Hololens for extra credit

-Language and writing ARE technology

-The Greeks and Romans came up with language systems that could be learned by large groups of people and they were specifically designed so that only a few people in their societies could understand them on purpose.

-Sputnik- first satellite to orbit the moon

1) Most technology advances have been through the military

2) Technology has primarily been ethnocentric

-Tim Berners-Lee

-Worked out HTML

-Between 1991-1994 World Wide Web, wasn’t sure if public would use it