November 2009
3 posts
DIGC202 Week 13
Over the last semester I have learned several things in this course. One of the most important ones was covered in the first day of the class, and that is that globalization is not a new idea, and that in the form of the ancient globalized empires i.e. Rome and Persia, globalization was actually the first way of government aside from small, localized kingdoms mostly centered around city-states. I...
DIGC202 Week 12
YouTube
The final project seemed to come across pretty well, though obviously there seemed to be some difficulty in the actual uploading of a video that long to youtube.com, though fortunately this has since been fixed and the links to our project are on Will’s tumblr at the moment. I guess the biggest difficulty we had is that we uploaded the video files as MOV, which meant that youtube...
DIGC202 Week 9
I found the presentations this week to be interesting. I think that it must have been partially blind luck that 4 groups all studying the same basic topic would actually end up presenting on such different groups. I thought that the obama campaign was a pretty interesting topic, but that is a little biaed on my part, not only as an American, but also because I actually worked on the campaign. It...
September 2009
1 post
DIGC202 Week 7
Campaign: Project Chanology, the online protest by the decentralized, anarchistic organization, the Anonymous.
The campaign is a protest of Scientology, that originally started as an online protest, involving the posting of Youtube videos and the spreading of information about the church, but has moved in to the real world the as time has gone on. The campaign began in Jan. 2008 as a response to...
August 2009
14 posts
DIGC202 Week 6 Post
Topic: Hulu.com
Who:
Ownership is a venture between 3 of the 4 major media US media providers, Hulu is a joint venture of NBC Universal (GE) 27%, Fox Entertainment Group (News Corp) 27% and ABC Inc. (The Walt Disney Company) 27%, with funding by Providence Equity Partners, which holds a 19% stake.
Its CEO is Jason Kilar
It has 100 employees (according to linkedin)
What:
Its business is in...
DIGC202 Week 5 Post
Upon graduation the position I would realistically expect to find would be that of a video/film editor. This is a field with a wide variety of salaries, and in my research I found that of the positions advertised (which almost certainly the top tier of the field is not) there is a range of $14.50/hr (US) to £28,000/yr (UK). The positions were for various agencies, and depending on their level of...
Week 5
Staff Editor, Environmental Justice Foundation, Islington, London, £24,000 - £28,000/yr, Permanent Position.
Freelance Video Editor, Luxury Lifestyle Magazine, London, £50 per video but more if impressed. Freelance Position, time span unspecified.
Creative Film Editor & Camera Man, tellallmyfriends.com, UK. Pay unspecified, permanent position.
Video Editor, Campus Crusade for Christ, Orlando,...
thinking of u
I guess itll be a little odd this week that everyone’s probably gonna be using the word labor a lot, what with the spelling difference and all
DIGC202 Week 4 Post
For the product that I was focusing on this week, I chose to look at the Digital Quran MP4 manufactured by Quran Makka Ltd. (http://www.manufacturer.com/product/m6434341-Digital+Quran+Player+MP4.html), whom I was able to locate at 504, NO.6 Bld, WangTang Industrial Zone, Xinwei Village, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. I was however unable find it on Google Maps. The...
Blog Post this week
Either detail the process of shipping something from the manufacturer, or write up the history of container shipping.
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1044
academic search (EBSCO) seems the way to go
notes for project
John Hartley - written on viral videos (obama girl/ kevin rudd)
Viral Marketing
Look for stuff about youtube (some book perhaps)
Probably check lexus-nexus or whatever it’s called
DIGC202 Week 2 Post
The readings for this week began with The Gutenberg Galaxy, by Marshall McLuhan. It was an interesting piece that spent quite a bit of time in analysis of King Lear, and it’s emphasis in the rise of individualism, which was interesting though I’m not very familiar with the play, so I wasn’t able to follow along in the beginning very well. After that, however, when it moved on to discuss the...
Really?
Is this a real thing or an attempt to make us look foolish?
Post
So now everyone in the room is stuck with this on their dashboard