Class Notes 3/25/15

• Google is filling out the form instead of person
• Facebook is the opposite where you fill out the form
• Single individual web pages
  • Two types of webpages
    • Static and Dynamic
    • Static is a single page
• What you see is what you get
• Google is a hybrid version of the dynamic type of web pages
• Deprecated means that something is becoming obsolete
• Dewbey
• If you can use wordpress, you can drupel in a day
• TLD- Top Level Domain
• .org .com .edu
• ICAN is olne of the many organizations that runs the internet
• You can own any domain at any point by using on eof those websites!
• Get your own URL!
  • Standards for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
  • You can go to networksolutions.com or Go Daddy
• USPTO.gov
• Competitibe intelligence is how you research your enemies
• Super easy to get your own domain and super easy too!
  • What is copyright?
    Copyright is a form of protection grounded in the U.S. Constitution and granted by law for original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Copyright covers both published and unpublished works.
    What does copyright protect?
    Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section “What Works Are Protected.”
    How is a copyright different from a patent or a trademark?
    Copyright protects original works of authorship, while a patent protects inventions or discoveries. Ideas and discoveries are not protected by the copyright law, although the way in which they are expressed may be. A trademark protects words, phrases, symbols, or designs identifying the source of the goods or services of one party and distinguishing them from those of others.
• WIPO wourld intellectual property
• Pirate Bay

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 3/4/15

• Ascap revenues lifted through music streaming
• BMI & Ascap both license music & such, protect people who create intellectual property
• Intellectual property- creations of the mind
• Ascap protects trademark and the performance and distribution of music
• Online research tools
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Etymology- the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.
• Online encyclopedias about all different types of media
• synonym
• One person organized thesarus by concepts, not by alphabetical order!
• Roche’s thesarus
• Urban dictionary
• Peter Mark Roche
• ascii

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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 2/18/15

• Photoshop stuff!
• Control A- Select All
• To change zero point put most click and hold
• To reset zero point double click in the square
• To see rulers CTRL + R
• CTRL + N open a new file
• The top menu is a text based menu and is for file management purposes
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• File menu! Huzzah!
• Photoshop only has one undo, then hit up window history maaang!
• Bad quality from window history, when you go back you lose EEEEVERYTHING! no!!!!
• Save as and Save
• Rename files often so you don’t lose old files
• Photoshop is spooky!
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• CTRL+Z is undo
• List has lots of good tools
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• CTRL+D is DESELECT! WOAAAAAAAH! 
• CTRL+H is hide!
• Colorpicker!
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• ignore HSB but RGB is cool!!

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