Cyberculture--Apple Culture

Walk on street today, it's easy to find the exist of Ipod anywhere. Apple is changing from a brand of technique to a new fashion and culture. The market share of Apple in Mp3 player can proves it.

New iPod Touch

Iphone

From the product history, we can find the Apple's development is similar to a genre's development in culture. From first Ipod, then Ipod Mini, Ipod Video, Ipod Nano, Ipod shuffle,Ipod Touch and Iphone. The customers choose Apple is not for its performance, but its culture. It's a sign of new culture and fashion. It influences people's life and behaviors as a new culture.

Ipod is a good example of the cyberculture, which is a real culture.

Conclusion about this period

After this period of learning of Media&Cyberculture, I got a basic understanding of the concepts in this interesting course. At the same time, I made a primary cognition of the real part of culture within it.

Through my reading, watching and collection of the related resourses, I got my personal view and question about this course. And I shared my view with classmates through the disscussion.

In reality, the best point of this course is the type of the assessment, which is asked to finish with a Blogger and Wikispaces. It's really a good way to show the outcome of cyberculture learning. The WEB2.0 is one of the most important and useful invention in the cyberculture.

In my opinion, Blogger is much better than Wikispaces, for it is easy and convenient to use. As a member of WEB2.0, the participation is very important, so this easy way for user seems much more important. At first, I always made some mistake with the management with wikispace. SO as to I had to delete all my work to make a new one. It's a calamity to everyone as me.

But in the steady aspect, Blogger will lose the user for it's fallibility. I lost my post sometimes, which makes me have to republish my post. It's a evil to data and users, even itself.

It's a quite interesting world of Media& Cyberculture.

WEEK9 Generative, Robotic and Participative Art

In this week, the lecture is continued with the topic with Generative Art, Robotic Art and Participative Art.

The difference between them is the first question we should solve. The generative art is a new way of art which is based on the computer technology, running with the program's control. Its creative art is limited by the level of technology. As the video below, it shows a generative art.

As another new style of art, the Robotic art makes people easily associate it with robot. Of course this thought is correct. This kind of new art is built with the technology of robots. It doesn't change the real content of art, but only changes the main body of the art executant. The creator of the art is still the people, not the robots. People use the Telepresence to control robot finishing the art painting or others. As an example in the Viedio

Participative art can be seen as the summary of the digital art, which create a way to make everyone participate. This character is from the digital art itself.

Hypertext?Cybertext? Chatterbots? MOOs?

the battle of hyper/text

This week's theme is the Computer-mediated Textuality, which is a advance and evolvement of the traditional texts.

In my opinion, the most important difference between hypertexts and texts is the electronic linkls. Sometimes, the hypertexts is base on some printed-based texts, such as the hypertexts for some concepts which is from the books.

But hypertexts really provides a new wide easy way for reader to focus on the objective parts, which they are looking for. As the mulriple character of hypertexts, it provides much more information when people read with its help.

I think the worries about the hypertexts' influence to author is needless. The theory about "Author's death" is absurd. Hypertexts' basic definition won't lead to the death or destory to the traditional author. Hypertexts is based on the hundreds of thousands texts from author, it's only a new way to make a new combination by the links with the texts. Author is the source of the hypertexts. It will change its supply mode, but won't be disapear.

In the video above, the director describes the relationship between texts and hypertexts as the enemy. It represent the situation as a new war, the bettlefield of texts and hypertexts. But I don't agree with this viewpoint, for it emphasizes the difference and excessively. It doesn't take enough importance to the connection and hypotaxis between them. The hypertexts is only a new way uses link to rebuild the original texts, it won't instead of its sources. No texts, no hypertexts as well. So this war won't start for their close connection.

Cybertext, Chatterbots and MOOs can be seen as the development of hypertexts with new systematic application or operation. The MUDs and MOOs becomes to a very important and valuable part in E life. So the hypertexts can be considered as a landmark in the internet cultural development, and it is also important in cultural area.

Struggle about piracy with file sharing

Sharing is Caring - Pro Piracy Commercial ? No!!!

Following with the topic for last week, the internet technology makes more way for new piracy, which is mainly based on the file download and sharing. This is really a common behavior even happening on ourselves.

The file sharing really brings much more convenience to our daily life. It's easy, convenient and free. All the people will accept it and like it in personal view. So the view from people makes struggle against the view, which is from the right and interests from producers.

The focus of the struggle is whether file sharing should be considered as a piracy and crime, and whether it should be forbid.

Considering this problem from the external view, the sharing obviously shoud be defined as a piracy and must be limited by related law. Because it destoryed the related industries and culture renew, in the way it reduce their income. If the industries was force to closed, the related market will appeara situation that supply is less than demand, the price will increase, the people will pay more money on it. The piracy will be more popular for the reason high price. This bad circle will run once and once again. From the long views, this sharing activity should be limited by law. Only in this way, the related market can develop in a well-balanced way.

Especially for the P2P software in recent years, it makes the file sharing through internet to a easier and speed way.

Piracy: Good Copy or Bad Copy

As the traditional talks aphorism in China,

"The innovation is a sword with double blades."

which means the innovation always has its good dide and bad side.

In this lecture which is about The Commercialization of the Network, the commercial web appeared in our sight. As a new style business based on internet, it has its shortcoming needs a standard or ruler to limite. Piracy and file share bacomes to the most important appendant of it.

According to the internet technological developmentg and support, the speed up of the internet service, download becomes to be one important part in people's daily cunsumption. people search and download all the resource as they need from internet with pay or free. none of them thinks about the Intellectual Property and the influences to the producer and publisher. The process of download is a process of robe, which is a crime.

Especially in the record and film area, the destroy from piracy is deathful. The MP3 and movie download will decrease the sales of disc and box office income of film. It leads to the income is much lower than budget, even lower than the costs. As a result, some producer will close down for owes. So the download of music and movie threaten the related industries' development badly. It should be limited with a effective law.

In this video, some people are making their inventation of music in a remix way. This way is based on others' product, only make some change or edit, then use them as a new original music in commercial use.

The real way of inventation is based on original resource or thoughts, not from others' work. Their way is a simple change or edit on others' work with a copy, it's a kind of piracy which is a crime. Even worse that they spread it in public activities with commercial purpose.

WEB 2.0 Good or Bad

In this week, the most important concept is the WEB 2.0 technology, which really brings a lot of change in people's daily life. I think WEB 2.0 creates the possibility that we finish this assessment with the blogger and Wikispace, which is a new and creative way.

WEB 2.0 makes everyone of us becomes to the real part with our personal activity to build or extend the effect of internet or cyberculture in our life. It makes everyone as the journalist by recording their daily life as the news sources. all of people's thoughts can be published immediately as they want, and becomes to one part can be searched and read on the internet. It brings the cyberspace more freedom and energy.

In this short video above, it showed the characters of WEB 2.0 technology and the WEB 2.0 life. It emphasises the difference between traditional texts written on papers and the digital texts. the digital texts is not only better with its flexible, but also the form. But the real successful and creative point is not the digital link between the digital texts, it's the writer of these texts, who includes everyone takes part in the internet . WEB 2.0 makes the link with search engine becoms to a deeper connection between people and people.

Some people are struggling about whether the WEB 2.0 is good. in my opinion, this struggle is needless. This group of people just focus on the little disadvantages of WEB 2.0, then make a presentation with saying it's bad. Anything has its advantages and disadvantages, if only it can bring much more benefits than its shortage, it can't be considered as a bad thing.

so WEB 2.0 is good with its changes to people's life.

What is most important to a News

Last week I talked about the News and its growth process. During these days, I was thinking about the question "What is most important to a News" all the time, and I searched some meterial about it.

The key for the question is based on the difference between traditional News and the new style News. As I talked last week, everyone can produce the News and put them on the Internet to share with others. But the doubt is whether this kind of news own the value or the real loyal reader.

In reality, when we talk about the News, most people will remain the appetence to traditional News. Most of the News spreading daily is from the traditional media. By this way, it's easily to prove that the new style of News is only a feasible way of News production, but it is still in a developing stage. The traditional News is still hold the most readers.