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I expressed in my video how the act of privacy has been disrupted by the government  standards when it comes to the leaks from Wikileaks. My theme throughout these blogs is how the diplomats feel robbed by these wikileaks events and a loss of self control over their and the government self preservation. Do these leaks effect national security , is this a fact or an opinion? Do we live in a free society where we are supposed to know the truth. Maybe we live in a society where the truth becomes treason and leads to trouble. Is this what Julian Assange is going through? In one of my videos Julian is accused of rape which could be a form of distraction( caused by the government) from  what his real mission is by trying to send out information which some would call the truth. This video shows how through digital media we can have a huge impact on the world. We can effect how people think on a daily basis to the point where the government gets worried. Spreading information through video is very powerful because its the quickest and easiest way to connect to the world. As Americans we are known to just sit on the coach and watch our TV.

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Does Wikileaks violate the act of privacy?

When you enter Wikileaks in the computer tons of different sites come up with loads of information expressing different views of how the wikileaks has effected society. One of the articles I was interested in was the the pschology behind Wikileaks. Meaning , does the wikileaks violate the act of privacy? By robbing diplomats the control over their self preservation and what they do behind closed doors when it come to the law and war. Does the world have the right to know about human crimes and should it override national security? Should we care , isn't it the end result what really matters?

Audio is to the ear what visual effects are to the eye. Close your eyes and listen to a bombardment of noise and sound. Experience news and information in a totally aural process that lets you consume information faster through your ear. The brain works at an extremely fast rate. Our senses go 90 miles per hour. To have a function of consuming information so quickly is mind blowing. Whether it's a film, tv show, or podcast; audio is the first and last things that the brain registers.

When were able to relax we take in information easier and on a personal opinion I feel like the audio effects are stronger.

Wikileaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes secret , classified media from anonymous sources. This site was created by journalists , mathematicians and start up company technologists from all over the world. The site began as a dialogue between activists who wanted to allievaite suffering. Since 2007 it posted thousands of documents with the intention of getting information to the public domain.

Society has looked upon Wikileaks with both a positive and negative reactions. Some fear Wikileaks is endangering the lives of Amercians diplomats and soldiers. They also feel it puts extra pressure for foreign diplomats and professionals coming to the US at risk. Former intelligence analyst Bob Ayers belives that the information posted on the site might not be a direct threat but it has the power to be a threat to combatants fighting in the area. Wiklileaks founder says his organization has a "Harm-minimization process to identify , redict , or withhold anything that might hurt a source or anyone involved."

Does Wikileaks violate the meaning of privacy?

 Does Wikileaks violate the meaning of privacy?

Psychologist believe to understand the act of privacy we need to realize that we have many parts of ourselves. When your going to be broadcast ,  you prepare a version of yourself that fits the occasion , "your public self."Naturally we want to be able to control our self preservation.
 Privacy is the right to use and decide which version of your self will be known to others in a particular time and place. Privacy is a version of control. Does wikileaks violate the act of privacy of robbing diplomats the control of their self-presentation. Is there a difference between state secrecy and personal privacy. Is it ok for the state department to do any business if its limited to one version of itself. This type of state secrecy in our government has decided to withhold information from their own people. Could that be the government abusing its own power?

In this collage  the world represents our public self. How we want to me viewed by the world and how we go out of our way to make sure our public self is suitable for the situation. How does the united States project itself. Does the government have the right to withhold information to keep its reputation so to speak especially for international affairs. Hows does the world view each other in general. The 2 men represent how we communicate to each other.

Tron and wikileaks: comparison

For a time when the internet and digital blogging and interfacing was a thing of the future, Tron predicted in a humble and entertaining way the future of our own security.  In terms of the uses of security and privacy on the internet, Wikileaks has opened a floodgate of controversy.  Watching the film you see how Flynn was an early hacker trying to foil a larger scheme of a cyber security fiasco.  Their similarities comes down to the privacy and security questions of how we hide and maintain secret information in large organizations.  It can be dangerous for documents to be leaked as the Secretary of State has pointed out repeatedly in response to the WikiLeaks phenomena.

As the internet grows, there becomes more information to obtain.  Whether it's bad, secret, or dangerous information that could be detrimental to lives is in question.  Yet, there seems to be a rebellious cry from Americans who are distrust-worthy of the government and want to expose their secrets.  This is the dilemma that we are faced with.  How secret should we allow ourselves to be when it concerns to government information? 

Blending of intellectual and creativity

THE BLENDING OF

INTELLECT AND CREATIVITY

Bob King introduces us to his philosophy teacher, Macomber, who was his teacher at UCSB in 1971. Macomber made an immense impression upon him helping him to formulate his course, "Digital Media for the Artist".  King's story is a tribute, a personal story, a scientific, professional and technology story all in one. 

King's essay, "The Play of Mind on Mind" explains to us how Macomber viewed education.  Macomber believed that knowledge involves reading, writing and conversation and unlike most professors recommended Cliff Notes.  Cliff Notes would give you the main ideas on which to build a conversation.  Macomber points out that artists practice and perform.  He believed that liberal artists play conversation - it was their creative medium.  Macomber points out that you start elementary school by being told to be still and be quiet.  As one grows one has to re-learn conversational skills.  Macomber points out that students of the arts should see conversation as a creative activity, as a dance.  He says, "try picturing liberal arts education as noisy, talkative, comfortable, very creative and artful like dance".  King notes that Jenlink and Carr proposed different types of conversation, i.e. transacting, transforming and transcendent.  Macomber was ahead of his time by pointing out that people learn by building on what they already know.  King takes this further and calls it the "Katamari style" of learning.

In Kings' essay, "The Crux of the Matter", he describes Macomber's conflict with the Greek-Indo European and Christian/Semitic way of looking at life.  King further explains that Macomber believed that if you added emotion and sexuality to reading, writing and talking a life of the spirit would develop.

In "A Concluding Reflection"  King explains that there are four basic types of knowledge, scientific, aesthetic, intellectual and spiritual.  The common feature of them all is conversation.  He concludes his conversational telling of the story telling us about the next phase of writing a script and adding music.

Thien Nhat Hahn's passage uses the example of a poet who sees a cloud floating in a sheet of paper.  Basically, that nothing in this world is separate, everything is related.

Malcolm Gladwell's article, "the Physical Genius" describes how a sports hero, a master cellist and a renowned brain surgeon all have their imagination as a common denominator.

"Media Studies: A Field Guide" by King demonstrates how intellect and creativity are intertwined.  He describes the context, history, content and method of media studies.  He introduces various concepts from such well known writers as Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, Mimi Ito among others.  King shows that what one learns in higher education is "verticality".  It is an education that is higher and deeper enabling one to talk with intelligence and creativity.

The distortion of authority throught the media

Having read the above reading it easy to understand how imperative it is that we as a country resolve the  authorial strucuture in the media.  Since the media has grown in size since it's initual inception, both the rules and grammar of the internet have been made and broke time and again.  We are now in a period of relative change, where the time tables of the how we are perceived is viewed on the web.

In this writer's opinion, the first thing that must be done is establish rules and regulations on the internet. Having said this, doing so is a tricky ordeal though.  We must stay on a thin line of rules and privacy.  This also plays into the idea of big brother and type of control the government has over the internet.  Although, if there is a way we can establish rules on the internet that blocks certain sites such as Wiki Leaks from exposing secret documents that are private, we may have found the key to the internet.  As it excists itself the internet is a source of none rules.  We are seeing more and more now with the creation of Facebook, Google, and other large media sites that rules have been established for them.  Rules that can be controlled by the viewer or blogger in charge of their page.  Having said all this, it is hard to think of something actually existing without a few major conglomerates controlling everything, which seems to becoming the case.

In the end, we can only hope that rules are established in the future that empower the user and not the companies that enlist these websites.  For that will be the way authority is controlled and abandoned on the internet.

Lack of empathy in the media

Though it is a common thought that the age of the internet has spawned idiocracy in teenagers and college students across the country.  And laxadasical attitude has been formed by the quick search of pressing enter on google, or the hours spent on social networking sites such as facebook, then tweeting about it later.  The truth is, our generation have problably birthed more writers than any other generation since or before because of the advantages we've been bestowed upon through technology.

My hope is that in the future, my generation will reap the rewards of this.  In aligning this thought process with that of an artistic endevour one can speculate about the future of filmmaking, video art, and art in general.

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An example of reframing so far in DMA was in the video by Sugata Mitra. He explained the problem of educating children in some less developed countries. Exceptional teachers are needed, but these teachers do not want to go to these places to work.The framing in this example is the problem where uneducated children will not have the chance to catch up with globalizing technology.  This problem is thought about, discussed, and an experiment is created where a computer is placed in an environment where these children have access to it. These children actually caught on very well and within four hours were  comfortable with this new media. At this point one can reflect on how these results differed from the original 'frame' and with new evidence can 'reframe' their viewpoints. In this case they were surprised to find that these children were not as dependant on great teachers but rather on their desire to learn new things. If the interest is there, children will learn.

I can see examples in my own life of the 'framing/re-framing' process. Coming from Los Angeles, I had little idea of what the experience of living in North Carolina would be like. I became swayed by stories and opinions of others who convinced me that I would not like it. This created a frame where I was looking for negative evidence to support their claims, however as I began talking to more informed people,(locals of NC), and gathering my own experiences, I was then able to create for myself my own idea or frame in which I understood this new place I call home. It was through this process that I became pleasantly surprised.


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