Homework April 8th-On The Media

1) "Our privacy delusions" was the first segment that I watched. The most interesting part about this was in the beginning talking about how even though your facebook may be private and secure, in reality it is not completely. I think this is interesting because pretty much all college students have a facebook, and we dont always think about the fact that if we are posting ocomments or picture on our friends' walls, that it is fair game to the whole internet. If people share our stuff and it goes viral, then they are protected under the facebook copyright. People should really think about the fact of even though their facebook is private, it does not mean that everything they share or do on facebook is private as well.

2). "How to sort good information from bad on twitter" was the second segment that I watched. This was about how useful twitter can be to people. I thought it was interesting how the man speaking talked about looking at twitter as a meal. Your main dishes come from official sources such as news stations and radio stations. They can give important information to people that could help them out. The side dishes of twitter could be magazines or journalists. Not all of the information can be accurate. It is important for people to realize that not everything on twitter can be trustworthy. A lot of the information that pops up on my newsfeed I am unsure about. I follow a lot of unofficial people and never know if what they are saying is credible or false.

3) "Facebook's new social search" was the third segment that I watched. This segment is about a brand new search bar that appeared on facebook this month. It is called a social graph search and how it works is by letting facebook users search for people with similar interests as them. I found thi segment kind of scary because I had never even heard of this new search tool, until watching this segment. In the segment, it says that Facebook "quietly"updated their privacy policy so that not one person could entirely avoid people being able to look them up through similar interests. This freaks me out personally, and I think everyone should listen to this segment in order to be aware of what is going on. It seems like there is no point to even have our facebooks on private if they wont be completely private.

4) "Facebook vs. Europe" was the fourth segment that I watched, This segment is about Europe being more strict on privacy laws. I was SHOCKED when Max started to talk about how Europeans are required to give every bit of data collected on someone through facebook to that person if wanted. Max was shocked himself when he was given a stack of 1,200 pages of data and information on him...just through Facebook. He said that he wa snot even an active user of Facebook. This scares me because I post a lot of stuff on Facebook, including hundreds of pictures. If Europe is able to do this, then so could the United States, The United States one day may follow in the same footsteps.It is not okay that Facebook does not delete everything that a person actually wants to delete. They still keep record of every picture that you like, of every message that you send, and even everytime that you poke someone. This is definitely an invasion of privacy.

5) "The little thing called like" is the last segment that I read. This segment is all about how you can "like" every little thing on Facebook. It used to be that you could just "like" peoples pictures and other pages. Now you can "like" it when people add other people as friends, for example. This is interesting because most people on facebook "like" pages of brands and what not, just that it will show up on their interests page. They click this button without being aware of all of the information. When  someone "likes" a page, they are signing up to be sent information on that certain page. This is crazy because in a way it is like Facebook is how people advertise all of their products and services. People should be aware of what they are getting themselves into when they press that "like" button.


I thought that the two segments that seemes most related are "Our Privacy Delusions" and "Facebook vs. Europe". These two relate a lot because the first segment is explaing that anyone can see what we post on Facebook, even if our facebooks are private. As long as we post stuff to other people's walls, or tag them in posts, then they are fair game to the world and internet. The second segment relates to the first because it is talking about how facebook will keep every bit of data and activity that you do on there. They even keep stuff that you delete, so nothing fully is erased. Thsi is scary because after listening to these two segments, I feel as if Facebook is not safe for anyone, and it makes people think twice about keeping them

In class blog #10

I am very glad that I decided to take this class as a freshman for many reasons. The biggest reason is because I learned a lot of valuable information that I can apply to more classes and papers in the future. This class has taught me important information on paraphrasing and plagiarism that I can keep with me when I have to cite sources in other classes. I will be writing many more papers in my college career and it is imperative that I learn the basic rules my freshman year. I am also very happy that we went over different sourcesand what they can be used for. Often times, people forget that they can use magazines, newspapers, periodicals, and more as sources in their papers. many students will usually use books and websites just because they are the most common and easily accessible. The annotated bibliography was also helpful because it forced me to research my topic and find many sources before I actually begin the paper it self. I have learned many different tips and rulesto use to make me better at researching and putting together a paper. I think it is a great idea for us to have to present our research in this class because we will have to do that in many of our other classes throughout college, and also once we get into our careers.

I will apply these skills that I have learned to all of my other classes. I will also apply these skills to my career one day. Majority of jobs include employees and workers presenting their information to the rest of their co-workers and it is important that we know how to present our own research or information. I will forever use the CRAP test when taking information from a source. It is a great tip to use for the rest of my life.

in class blog 9

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenorton/5643121091/

1) No real name was given, but the username is: lowjumpingfrog
2). The author does not specify what this photograph was for. I believe it was just a cool picture that he took. It says that the photo is also shown under Sea of Cortez Adventures.
3). The title of the image is: Dolphins.
4). Under the license it says that "some rights are reserved". This means that we are free to share or remix the original picture.
                     1). You must make it clear to others the license terms of this picture if you reuse it.
                     2). It does nott talk about the pictures commercial purposes.
                     3). We have permission to have derivative work.
5.) Dolphins [art]. (2011). Retrieved April 10, 2011, from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenorton/5643121091/


                    

homework march 6th

I have always been familiar with what an annotated bibliography is because we have talked about it all through grade school and in different classes. After watching the video and looking over the web page I found out more detailed information about the annotated bibliography and learned new things about it. An annotated bibliography is the combination of a bibliography and of an annotation. A bibliography is a list of sources that someone uses while researching a topic. An annotation is a summary. When you combine the two words together, an annotated bibliography is a summary of sources. In this class, Mrs. Pashia is requiring us to write an annotated bibliography because it forces us to do our research early and not wait last minute. This will be good experience for us students, and should also prepare us for our papers and get good grades. This forces us to research as many sources as topic and this will allow us to have a wide range of sources and references in our research papers.

In class Blog #8

Today in class we had a speaker come in and talk to us about what special collections is and she explained different examples of a special collection to us. Special collections is found usually within a library, and at UWG the special collections can be found on the first floor of the library. Special collections is the department that stores specific items such as, rare books, archives, manuscripts, etc. These items that are in Special collections are usually fragile, and they need to be taken proper care of. We also talked about what a primary source is and then we went around the room and all gave an example of a primary source that we personally have. Primary sources are an original source. For example, my Grandpa died when I was a baby, so I never got the chance to really know him or learn about him. I have a picture of him from the yearI died and I have kept on to it all these years later because it is all I have left of him. This is an example of a primary source. Other examples could be letters written to you from years ago, or old video, or scrapbooks. Special Collections and Primary sources could be helpful in a research project if you are doing a project on your family or if you are trying to find background information. Some questions could be answered such as, "Where did my family come from?" or "What did my Grandpa look like before he died?"

In class blog #7

Today in class I searched two different databases. I first went to Galileo and typed in "psycINFO" into the search databases bar. I clicked on that and then typed "gun control' into the search bar. All of the articles had many of the same keywords and subject terms. Each article was about gun laws, firearm regulation, and gun control policies. The second database that I researched was "Social Science Journal (ProQuest). I also typed in "gun control" into this database as well to research. The articles that came up on both databases were kind of different from each other. The first database had more information on safety messages and firearm regulations. The articles from the second database had more information on crimes and the government. When I did the subject filter the results for each database were different. The databases both had a good bit of information under "abstract" but it was different types of information according on the database the articles were from. They are both similar to Academic Search Complete. I would use the databases when I am researching for projects or academic classes. These are especially helpful to use for sources in research papers for this class, or English class. From my experience, I liked the psycINFO database the best.

Homework Feb. 20th

I had never even heard of a filter bubble before I watched the video. I had no idea that our computers were basically being monitored and changed to our personal likes. I do not think that filter bubbles are a good thing what so ever. It is kind of cool how if we type something into Google, that the search results will come up with stuff that is similar to our likes and interests, but that is not neccaserily a good thing. What happens if I am trying to do a project and do not want any biased information? That is hard to find if we have filter bubbles. We would only find information on stuff that we want to see, but for research we need to see the entire spectrum and learn about stuff that we don't exactly want to see or learn about. I do not think that anyone should have filter bubbles because this might also lead to not everyone being aware of important information, etc. I then looked at the list of ten things to pop our filter bubbles, and I think that this is a great article. I was so unaware that Google and Facebook, etc. are able to find out our likes, dislikes, interests, and more just by what we click on. It kind of freaks me out and I will definitely use some of the 10 tips to pop my filter bubble. I did not realize that our web history could also have such a big impact on our search results, so I will definitely be clearing that on a regular basis. This was a really interesting topic to learn about and I am glad we did because I feel that it is important information for everyone to know.