My favorite concept

one of my favorite concepts

What have I learn in this class etc...

I learn a lot about how people represent themselves on line in order to get reacting from others. I learn that long before technology was as advanced as it is now some people had already knew that technology was going to take jobs from people and that computers would be able to do the things that they do know and that anyone would be able to use a computer. My favorite thing about the class is that it is online and we get the opportunity to do weekly blogs. I also like the fact that you respond to our questions very quickly. My least favorite thing was that the extra credit had to be done at a certain time and not at anytime throughout the semester. The class can be improved by having shorter readings and more interesting readings. Some of the readings were easy for me to understand but some of them were kind of hard to understand.

What reading I found interesting

One of the readings from this class that I found interesting was the reading on "Second Life". I thought it was interesting that in the article they pointed out that all online avatars were basically created to look one way. Women had big boobs and were skinny and mean had six packs and they were buff. While in reality most people do not look that way. I also found it wired that some women who participated in second life websites said that they sometimes felt uncomfortable, which was due to the harassment of women by men. I really don't understand why anyone would harass an avatar that just stupid to me. However, I don't think that second life websites should have pictures of naked women or display them as prostitutes because its just sending out the wrong message in general. Those negative images could lead men to saying negative things about women.

How college uses and misuse social media to reach students

The link to this article: http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/20/tech/social-media/universities-social-media/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6

 This article talks about how using media to attract college students can be good and bad at times. One potential student had the experience of viewing other peoples experience at john Hopkins so she decided that it would be a good idea for her to attend the school. I wish I could have went to some website to view other students experiences with San Jose State before I made the decision to attend school here, I might have decided to attend school somewhere else. This article also talks about the misuses of social media to reach students. One professor decide to make a math music video which seems to be a bit much and I know it had to be extremely boring. Overall though I do think that it is a great idea for students to share their college experience with other students. That way people can make a good choice on where they choose to attend college.

Blogging: Self presentation and privacy

This  blogging  article basically talks about privacy issues  There are three different types of privacy levels that the author talks about in the article which are  Informational, accessibility , and expressive. Accessibility privacy has to be one of the privacy issues that I fear the most. Like wire tapping and video surveillance  type of citations are not cool. Expressive privacy was also interesting like I am sure that some people feel that they cannot say certain things or make certain comments because of the fear of how they will appear to others. All of this talk about privacy makes me think about this blog that we write for class every week. I like the fact that we can write what ever  we want to on our blogs and express our selves and know one knows who we are. Well no one knew who we were until we had to summit video blogs.

The End of books

The End of books is basically an article that discusses how technology is making books obsolete and how using the computer to find out information is more convenient then reading an actual book. The author discusses the benefits of hypertext which allows you to view related links and pictures associate with what every it is your searching for online. I like hypertext but I also like to read stuff in an actual magazine or book. Only because when I look at the computer to long it starts to make my eyes hurt. I just wish someone invents a program that is not expensive that reads articles and books to you so you don't have to actually read them. Its a program like that on academic search primer but it never works when I try to use it. At first I thought the program might not be compatible with my mac but I tried using it on my PC and it did not work either.