MediaTech: Internet/New Media: Basic: The Jobs-Gates Rivalry (W12-P3) [VID] Fa16

Before there could an Internet of connected PCs, there needed to be PCs (personal computers).  Who is primarily responsible for bringing the PC into lives and putting it in our homes?  What is their story?




"Are you a pirate?"  What's that mean?  Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Any life lessons you learn from this movie?
Any career lessons you learn from this movie?


The Pirates of Silicon Valley tells the story of the Jobs-Gates rivalry from the early 1970s until the late 1990s.



The following video interview of Jobs' biographer picks up the Jobs-Gates story where Pirates left off.

For a humorous, but insightful look at the rivalry you might also want to check out the "Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates. Epic Rap Battle."

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MediaTech: Internet/New Media: Winston's Model and the History of the Internet (W12-P2) Fa16

How much do you know about the development of the Internet and the use of computers as communication tools?  What do you recall from previous readings, notes and discussion?

Can you trace the development of the Internet using Winston's model?

What would a timeline (a list of events) look like for the development of the Internet as a communication tool?  How does the history in video below fit into Winston's model?  How, for example, does ARPANET fit into the history and Winston's model?

Starting with the late 1960s, what new communication tools appeared on the Internet?  Examples: What year did email first appear?  What year did blogs appear?

Zuckerman gives a good timeline (or list) in his brief talk.



What would you add to this timeline for more recent years?  
See the evolution of social media for the rest of the timeline.

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MediaTech: Internet/New Media: The Internet Explained (W12-P1) [VID] Fa16

So, how does the Internet work?  What are the steps in the process?  The parts?




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MediaTech: Cell Phones and the Consequences of Tech: More on Digital Divide (Rogers) (W9-P4) Fa16

Why is there a digital divide?  There are many answers to that, but one way to look at it is to see it in the context of the diffusion of innovations.

Put another way, 

• those with cash can afford to get the costly innovation.  Price usually higher at first.  
• Change agents (in this case: marketers, advertisers, sales people), focus on those people with the cash.  So, maybe only those with the cash, learn about the product.
• Those with cash, tell those with cash.
• If those with cash get adopt the innovation, then they benefit from it.  Imagine when cell phone just came out.  Those who could afford to buy the cell phone had advantages over those people who could not afford it.  Maybe those with cash can more easily get there business phone calls and then make even more money. Those who did not have the cell phone missed that important business call and lost the money.
• Imagine this process repeating again and again.  The gap between the two groups widens.  

How to fix this gap, this digital divide?

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MediaTech: Cell Phones and the Consequences of Tech: The Digital Divide (W9-P3) Fa16

Quickly browse some the Current News on the Digital Divide

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MediaTech: Cell Phones, Popcorn and the Consequences of Cell Phone Tech (W9) [VID] Fa16

If I say popcorn and cell phones, what pops into your mind?  Excuse the pun.  Pop.

Seen the videos on the Internet that show people using cell phones to pop popcorn?

Are there health concerns you have when using cell phones?
That is, is there a serious consequence of us adopting cell phones?

Be sure to stop the video at 3 minutes in and do a little thinking.




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MediaTech: Cell Phones and the Consequences of Tech: Types of Consequences (Rogers) (W9-P2) Fa16

Think of desirable and undesirable consequences as the good and bad consequences of adopting an innovation.  Desirable = good, positive.  Undesirable = bad, negative.

What would be some desirable or good consequences of university students adopting cell/smart phones?
What would be some undesirable consequences?


As for direct and indirect, think of consequences as chain of consequences.

Adopt an innovation ---> direct consequence  ---> indirect consequence  -----> indirect consequence.

For example, if you adopt a new 3-D HDTV, then you can then you invite all your friends over and be "the talk of the town."  Now, that you are popular among your friends, you fell the pressure to keep inviting your new "friends" over (indirect consequence).  Now you lose time and money time and money entertaining your new friends (indirect consequence).  Which leads to you not having the time to spend on other important things in your life (indirect consequence).  The loss of time is not a direct consequence, but an indirect consequence.

Anticipated consequences are those that you think are going to happen if you adopt the innovation.  The unanticipated consequences are those that you don't see coming.  For example, you adopt that newest, expensive, tech toy and it is great.  You can do all sorts of things with it.  However, you didn't think about the struggle of paying off the bill for the new toy.

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MediaTech: Cell Phones and the Consequences of Tech: Cell Phones, Smartphones and Media Convergence (W9-P1) Fa16

How does a cell phone call work?





What is a smartphone?

"A cellular telephone with built-in applications and Internet access. In addition to digital voice service, modern smartphones provide text messaging, e-mail, Web browsing, still and video cameras, MP3 player and video playback and calling. In addition to their built-in functions, smartphones run myriad free and paid applications, turning the once single-minded cellphone into a mobile personal computer. For an overview of included and nice-to-have features..." (PCMag.com)

What's the difference between a cell phone and a smartphone?  How does a dumb phone fit in here?  

How does the banana phone fit in?  :)

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MediaTech: Internet/New Media: Basic: The Jobs-Gates Rivalry (W8-P3) [VID] Fa16

"Are you a pirate?"  What's that mean?  Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Any life lessons you learn from this movie?
Any career lessons you learn from this movie?


The Pirates of Silicon Valley tells the story of the Jobs-Gates rivalry from the early 1970s until the late 1990s.



The following video interview of Jobs' biographer picks up the Jobs-Gates story where Pirates left off.





For a humorous, but insightful look at the rivalry you might also want to check out the "Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates. Epic Rap Battle."

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MediaTech: Internet/New Media: The Basics: What is a Blog, RSS and RSS Reader? (W8-P2) [VID] Fa16

What is a blog?  How do you blog (steps in the process)?



What is the relationship between a blog and Twitter or Facebook?  What is a micro-blog?

What are ways you can read and/or subscribe to a blog?  What's an RSS and how does it work?





Feedly is a popular example of a RSS reader.





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MediaTech: Internet/New Media: The Basics: How Email Works (W8-P1) [VID] Fa16

Let's start with some very basics.
Let's start with the first main way the internet was used as a communication tool.

How does email work?  What are the steps in the process?  The parts?

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HistMedia: Internet/New Media: The Jobs-Gates Rivalry (W14-P2) [VID] Fa15

"Are you a pirate?"  What's that mean?  Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Any life lessons you learn from this movie?
Any career lessons you learn from this movie?


The Pirates of Silicon Valley tells the story of the Jobs-Gates rivalry from the early 1970s until the late 1990s.



The following video interview of Jobs' biographer picks up the Jobs-Gates story where Pirates left off.





For a humorous, but insightful look at the rivalry you might also want to check out the "Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates. Epic Rap Battle."

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MediaTech: Internet/New Media: History of the Internet (W12-P3) [VID] Fa15

What would a timeline (a list of events) look like for the development of the Internet as a communication tool?  Starting with the late 1960s, what new communication tools appeared on the Internet?  Examples: What year did email first appear?  What year did blogs appear?

Zuckerman gives a good timeline (or list) in his brief talk.



What would you add to this timeline for more recent years?

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MediaTech: Internet/New Media: Winston's Model and the Internet (W12-P2) Fa15

How much do you know about the development of the Internet and the use of computers as communication tools?  What do you recall from previous readings, notes and discussion?

Can you trace the development of the Internet using Winston's model?

Source: Media Technology and Society: A History From the Telegraph to the Internet







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MediaTech: Internet/New Media: The Internet Explained (W12-P1) [VID] Fa15

So, how does the Internet work?  What are the steps in the process?  The parts?




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MediaTech: Cell Phones and the Consequences of Tech: More on Digital Divide (Rogers) (W9-P4) Fa15

Why is there a digital divide?  There are many answers to that, but one way to look at it is to see it in the context of the diffusion of innovations.

Put another way, 

• those with cash can afford to get the costly innovation.  Price usually higher at first.  
• Change agents (in this case: marketers, advertisers, sales people), focus on those people with the cash.  So, maybe only those with the cash, learn about the product.
• Those with cash, tell those with cash.
• If those with cash get adopt the innovation, then they benefit from it.  Imagine when cell phone just came out.  Those who could afford to buy the cell phone had advantages over those people who could not afford it.  Maybe those with cash can more easily get there business phone calls and then make even more money. Those who did not have the cell phone missed that important business call and lost the money.
• Imagine this process repeating again and again.  The gap between the two groups widens.  

How to fix this gap, this digital divide?

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MediaTech: Cell Phones and the Consequences of Tech: The Digital Divide (W9-P3) Fa15

Quickly browse some the Current News on the Digital Divide

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MediaTech: Cell Phones and the Consequences of Tech: Types of Consequences (Rogers) (W9-P2) Fa15

Think of desirable and undesirable consequences as the good and bad consequences of adopting an innovation.  Desirable = good, positive.  Undesirable = bad, negative.

What would be some desirable or good consequences of university students adopting cell/smart phones?
What would be some undesirable consequences?


As for direct and indirect, think of consequences as chain of consequences.

Adopt an innovation ---> direct consequence  ---> indirect consequence  -----> indirect consequence.

For example, if you adopt a new 3-D HDTV, then you can then you invite all your friends over and be "the talk of the town."  Now, that you are popular among your friends, you fell the pressure to keep inviting your new "friends" over (indirect consequence).  Now you lose time and money time and money entertaining your new friends (indirect consequence).  Which leads to you not having the time to spend on other important things in your life (indirect consequence).  The loss of time is not a direct consequence, but an indirect consequence.

Anticipated consequences are those that you think are going to happen if you adopt the innovation.  The unanticipated consequences are those that you don't see coming.  For example, you adopt that newest, expensive, tech toy and it is great.  You can do all sorts of things with it.  However, you didn't think about the struggle of paying off the bill for the new toy.



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MediaTech: Cell Phones and the Consequences of Tech: Cell Phones, Smartphones and Media Convergence (W9-P1) Fa15

What is a smartphone?

"A cellular telephone with built-in applications and Internet access. In addition to digital voice service, modern smartphones provide text messaging, e-mail, Web browsing, still and video cameras, MP3 player and video playback and calling. In addition to their built-in functions, smartphones run myriad free and paid applications, turning the once single-minded cellphone into a mobile personal computer. For an overview of included and nice-to-have features..." (PCMag.com)

What's the difference between a cell phone and a smartphone?  How does a dumb phone fit in here?  

How does the banana phone fit in?  :)

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MediaTech: Cell Phones, Popcorn and the Consequences of Cell Phone Tech (W9) [VID] Fa15

If I say popcorn and cell phones, what pops into your mind?  Excuse the pun.  Pop.

Seen the videos on the Internet that show people using cell phones to pop popcorn?

Are there health concerns you have when using cell phones?
That is, is there a serious consequence of us adopting cell phones?

Be sure to stop the video at 3 minutes in and do a little thinking.





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