For this week’s blog I thought I’d mix it up by speaking more about my debate topic, seeing as though the blog’s are a preparation for the tutorial. Within this though, I will try to breakdown how they make the ‘invisible, visible’ and will briefly allude to last week in how it gets our attention as a result.
The debate topic is “whether filesharing is only “piracy” or whether it holds the potential to change the world via a new form of sharing” (I am FOR filesharing, arguing that it has the potential to change the world). Firstly, filesharing is a part of everyday life through the constant growth of technology especially in recent years. It can be as simple as communicating through mediums such as Facebook chat or iMessage which is an essential part of how we communicate today. Because of how we live, we need information up-to-date and easily accessible. Over a billion people own iPhones alone not including other smartphones, so they are definitely taking over everyday life. We need to move with the times and as a result filesharing should be greater accepted if we are to move forward. Everyone is guilty of downloading illegal copies of their favourite show, simpy because we have the access to do so, less room is taken up from DVDs and it costs nothing. Websites such as ‘piratebay.com’ get our attention simply by making the invisible, visible in other words, by making the inaccessible, accessible.
We can’t put a limit to where technology can take us. We have constantly improved; from VCRs to DVDs to BlueRay and then to computer files that have been downloaded. We are paying a lot of money for the technology we run it on (smartphone, laptop, tablet, etc), so we should be entitled to greater filesharing that isn’t deemed illegal. A movie for example still will be making money because people like going to the cinema. It is traditional and a good day out so it will never waver in the market, but what is changing is how we receive and use content. Therefore, this ever-evolving technology not only has the potential to change the world, however, it is changing the world as we speak.
References
The debate topic is “whether filesharing is only “piracy” or whether it holds the potential to change the world via a new form of sharing” (I am FOR filesharing, arguing that it has the potential to change the world). Firstly, filesharing is a part of everyday life through the constant growth of technology especially in recent years. It can be as simple as communicating through mediums such as Facebook chat or iMessage which is an essential part of how we communicate today. Because of how we live, we need information up-to-date and easily accessible. Over a billion people own iPhones alone not including other smartphones, so they are definitely taking over everyday life. We need to move with the times and as a result filesharing should be greater accepted if we are to move forward. Everyone is guilty of downloading illegal copies of their favourite show, simpy because we have the access to do so, less room is taken up from DVDs and it costs nothing. Websites such as ‘piratebay.com’ get our attention simply by making the invisible, visible in other words, by making the inaccessible, accessible.
We can’t put a limit to where technology can take us. We have constantly improved; from VCRs to DVDs to BlueRay and then to computer files that have been downloaded. We are paying a lot of money for the technology we run it on (smartphone, laptop, tablet, etc), so we should be entitled to greater filesharing that isn’t deemed illegal. A movie for example still will be making money because people like going to the cinema. It is traditional and a good day out so it will never waver in the market, but what is changing is how we receive and use content. Therefore, this ever-evolving technology not only has the potential to change the world, however, it is changing the world as we speak.
References
Gillespie, Tarleton (2014) ‘Facebook’s algorithm — why our assumptions are wrong, and our concerns are right’, Culture Digitally, , <http://culturedigitally.org/ 2014/07/facebooks-algorithm-why-our-assumptions-are-wrong-and-our-concerns-are-right/>
Rheingold, Howard (2012) ‘Attention’, Prezi presentation, , <http:// prezi.com/dwbns6kt3fza/attention/>
Rheingold, Howard (2012) ‘Attention’, Prezi presentation, , <http:// prezi.com/dwbns6kt3fza/attention/>
