Nov 14

How are Drones influencing commerce and surveillance in the media?

When I think about Drones I see them as some  unidentifiable object circling around in the sky. After reading  the article it came to my attention that drones  have been around for a long time. drones are quickly becoming the new

and exciting technological toy for some people.However, drones are very useful depending on what you want to use them for. It has been a fact that the  military  use Drones often to spy on other or to detect the weather.Nowadays, Drones are looked at as  an invasion of one’s privacy because it has a camera and can

detect and pick up on most things.In our society, large  companies and agencies  are trying  to make  drones a everyday use tool.Some companies want to replace people with drones  to cut expense.

Nov 14

How are drones influencing commerce and surveillance in the media?

When these drone things were brought to my attention, the very first thing that popped up into my mind was: The invasion of one’s privacy. As if having an automatic toilet isn’t good enough, these flying gadgets come along! “Within the last year media coverage on actual and potential civil drone uses appears to have increased (Maximilian Jablonowski, Culture Machine Vol 16, 2015). Why are there a large amount of these devices floating? I mean shouldn’t we have a say as to whether or not we want this to come into play?

Drones are influencing commerce in media as well. According to the Center for a New America Security, “…hobbyist drones include those that are readily for purchase- generally for no more than a thousand dollars- by any interested party”. I like how this article puts an emphasis on no more than a thousand dollars. That’s the amount of money I make at my job in three months! OK, maybe I’m over-exaggerating, but that is a bit pricy. Why would someone pay that much for this? What would you possibly need it or be using it for? This device should only be used for people who’re fighting at war in the military. It can help them capture the people they’re at war with. I mean I honestly don’t think it would be a good idea to put this on the market. The supply and demand of this machine can cause problems for many people, myself included. There could be a peeping Tom in the building right next to me who is watching me bathe just from looking in their drown.

If my opinion on this topic doesn’t convince you about the dangers of drones, maybe this statement from the article will: “According to researches at John Hopkins University, many machines in this soaring industry may be vulnerable to serious cyber threats which could include, among other things, cause an otherwise sophisticated autonomous filter to come crashing down” (“Johns Hopkins Team Hacks, Crashes Hobby to Expose Security Flaws”). There you have it! There were actually researchers who took the time out of their day to come up with a conclusion which focuses on the dangers of using drones.

I said it before, and I’m going to say it one last time. DRONES ARE AN INVASION OF ONE’S PRIVACY. I don’t think I would even be able to walk down the street if I knew that this thing was following me. I don’t think I can live this way.

Nov 14

Open Source

I believe going open source with some sort of supervision or restrictions by the company, wouldn’t be so bad for a business to use. Reason being, you get a glimpse of different opinions about different aspects on what you have open to the public. Sometimes it is great to get users point of views in order to tweak, make improvements and learn off of what might have been changed; and of course doing our research before allowing the change. I believe the only challenge we might have as being open sourced, is trying to convinced the world that our information can be trusted. Normally when individuals are aware that a site that their using is open sourced, it causes mistrust because they know it might have been tweaked by any ordinary individual. Perfect example, Wikipedia. Most professors enforce not using it when we have research assignments because it is open source and it’s not guaranteed that the information is correct. According to The Political Economy of Open Source, the idea of distributing source code freely was seen as a natural offshoot of standard research practice; indeed, it was mostly taken for granted. Which is something I can truly believe because look at Wiki again as an example. People begin to take advantage of the fact that they’re now able to mess with something. Which can ruin it for someone who really is eager to find and learn from research especially from an open source. In some cases, some individuals prefer open source because the person who wrote it might have experienced or deeply researched the topic. Sort of like Yelp, when doing a review, you know it’s from someone who visited the place. Which is a very helpful option for more individuals because it helps us in a way that we need to be helped.

Nov 09

Open Source

Open source can help us find legitimate information but now it is becoming more unbenefitial to us because a lot of the information is not true. We are now able to make so many modifications to the source that is out there that it makes us question if its true or not. For example, if a celebrity does not like what is written about them on a website such as wikipedia, they can go into the account amd tweek things here and there. Also, fans are sometimes able to go into the pages of celebrities information on wiki. An example of this is when someone changed Rachel Roy’s name to Becky after fans believed she had an affair with Jay Z when the song Lemonade by beyonca came out. Open source needs to be controlled and the public should not have much access to information of others. I believe everyone should have access only to their own accounts. Although they might write things that are untrue, is best to write a lie about yourself then of someone else.

Nov 08

Open Source Media

Open source media is something I have never actually been aware about until finding out about about them reading these articles. I found these articles informative and educating. It is the function in which a site developer opens to the public, granting access to the public, providing informational updates. Throughout time search engines have been built to provide many sources. Open source media is theoretical media, meaning no proof except through word of mouth. I am a fan of theories in order to get an idea of what potentially happened in time or in an event.

Nov 08

Open Source

Open source media is changing the way people approach content because now nobody can know what are the real sources. Now sites are getting new information everyday and updating their site so people are holding back on that information. For example on Wikipedia, the info changes all the time and that makes it unreliable. Even now in order to do research papers and find reliable sources it is tougher to do than back in the day. In the article it talks about how open sources are free and open to the public. I actually like that this is happening now due to the increase in technology because the information should be open to the public. I like being able to search and find information on anything i want with the tap of a finger. This is an easier way to get information and moving forward in technology, I hope that this never changes. I think it is a viable business model because you can generate revenue off your content and the public can know everything about your business. This is a great way to get your business out into the public and a better way to get income off of your business.

Nov 08

How is open source media changing the ways people approach content?

YAHIAOUI Youssef (International Student – France)
November 8th, 2016
First of all we have to know that open source media is created by softwares that allows us to communicate via their platforms and this case, the rights to use it and to change information inside the software.
In France, I was working in an IT company (Turnover : 30 million €) and the softwares that they are selling are based on an open source software (Nagios : Nagios provides enterprise-class Open Source IT monitoring, network monitoring, server and application monitoring). So all their activities are based on an open source media. Without Nagios they couldn’t do anything.
Nowadays, open source media have changed the ways people approach content. Wikipedia is a good example. As stated in the article “Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue” of YOCHAI BENKLER and HELEN NISSENBAUM nowadays you can cooperate effectively to provide information, knowledge or cultural goods without relying on either market pricing or managerial hierarchies to coordinate their common enterprise. This is one of the biggest strenghts of open source media and this lead to the fact that people are more involved and interact each other very easily. But it is also a weakness because everyone can change the information easily and data may be wrong. So like for everything in this life there is a good and bad side, but definitely open source has changed the ways people approach content.

Nov 08

Open source

By definition, open source is a software code that is made available to, and can be changed by, anybody. Some of the most successful open source software programs are Apache, WordPress and even Firefox. From a worker’s point of view, creating an open source is easy because it’s inexpensive and the control of the source doesn’t fall only into one hand. It’s a collaborative project. People can make any changes they want, but those changes are still monitored and corrected. This is why open source media has high reliability. The first article touched on how the collaborative nature of open source is allowing contribution from regular people. Allowing people to freely contribute makes them feel like they’re valid and like they get to interact with others in a different way than usual. From a business point of view, open source is a preferred way to go because it draws people in to the project and is low maintenance.

Nov 08

Open source

Topic: How is open source media changing the ways people approach content?

Question: Is going Open Source a viable business model?

 

I believe that question is subjective and it’s all up to someone’s opinion on that topic. I do believe open source is a viable business model and even convenient for the people who run these websites because 1. They don’t need to pay writers to write on their site 2. They have access to millions of people who essentially make their job easier. Of course it becomes tricky when you can’t filter the information being put out but that’s the LEAST you can try and do when running a website that way. If you can find a way to filter the information AND or edit it I think it’s quite genius and extremely smart. It’s like having robots working for you and not having to pay them. Bad because it takes away jobs from journalists and bloggers but smart for the company in more ways than not.

 

Nov 08

Open Source

Open Source is often confused to its alternative commercial software with the benefit of being “free.” But it’s only free when the software is built by the community and not a big corporation. With the ladder, you’ll have to pay some sort of annual subscription.  Even with the community built software there still limitations to what you can do with it.

“Free software’ turned out to be an unfortunate label, despite FSF’s vehement attempts to convey the message that free was about freedom, not price, as in the slogan ‘think free speech, not free beer,'”  The Political Economy of Open Source

There are pros and cons to open source. The pros, frequent updates by developers that supporting the platform, people will be more personally attached to the product they edited or “created”, with less big companies like Microsoft, there will be more jobs and more diverse job markets. The cons, it will be difficult to use. Open source products are bare bones and very technical for the average person to use. There will be undercuts in value, if I were to create something and Microsoft were to use my idea and tweak something they can sell it for a cheaper value, “The source code is available and users can modify it freely.” The Political Economy of Open Source. there can be too many people with the same or close to the same exact product.

Open source can bring some great things and also some bad things, but nothing would really change.

 

 

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