Journal Entry 10

1. YouTube has been used as a source of digital media advertising as it gets forwrd to a much larger number of people. Also due to YouTube being a very popular site, many watch the videos and therefore advertisements on it.

2. sites have changed the boundaries of advertising as you can watch anything from any part of the world as long as you have the internte. You can also watch the news online, TV shows etc. This gives the viewer a much higher access to such media

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Group Task 2- Moral Development Theory

Group Task 2     This is my group moral development theory task.   

Journal Entry 9

1. Digital Media: refers to electronic media that work on digital codes. Today, computing is primarily based on the binary numeral system. In this case digital refers to the discrete states of “0″ and “1″ for representing arbitrary data. Digital media can refer to anything that is technologically presented and simulated.

2. Evolution: The history of digital starts with the development of the number 0 by the Babylonians about 2000BC. Early use of something like zero by the Indian scholar Pingala (circa 5th-2nd century BC), implied at first glance by his use of binary numbers, is only the modern binary representation using 0 and 1 applied to Pingala’s binary system, which used short and long syllables making it similar to Morse code. Around 1620, Francis Bacon researches the first binary alphabet for representing numbers and alphabetic characters. The intended use was to establish secret communication for e.g. cities under siege and armies abroad. Leibniz was the first mathematician to develop calculations in the binary system. Around 1830, first electrifies binary information in his telegraphy experiments. He replaces “1″ with “+” and “0″ with “-” and thus translates binary information into electric currents.

3. Digital Newspapers are popular because: the program will make available bibliographic records and holdings information for some 140,000 newspaper titles from the 1600s to the present. Further, it will include scope notes and encyclopedia-style entries discussing the historical significance of specific newspapers. Added content will also include contextually relevant historical information. “One organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort.” In March, 2007, more than 226,000 pages of newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910 were put online at a fully-searchable site called “Chronicling America.” Digital newspapers are popular as they can comprise a lot of data together.  

Journal Entry 8

Scenario 1: You are on a train coming home from a day at the beach. The train stops at a station and a group a youths get on the train and start bashing an elderly ethnic man. You notice people getting off the train.

1. In a senario like this, I would alert other people and go to help the old man.

Scenario 2: You get a message from a girl that you are interested asking you to come over her house. When you get there a number of her friends are present and they say they are bored. One of them promotes the idea of going for a walk and causing a riot. At first you tell them “No way”. However, the girl you like states that “she will like you more if you go”.

2. In this situation, I would just go home.

Journal Entry 7

1. A person’s conscience is like an ability of concluding whether an action of his/her was right or wrong. If the action goes against his moral values and beliefs, a person will have a sense of guilt and remorse. It is compared to the metaphor “the voice within”.

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Journal Entry 5

1. This lesson I want to complete my journals and update my previous journals.

2. It can be done with me going on to my wordpress and writing and/or editing previous journals.

3. I am responsible for part of the interview.

Journal Entry 6

1. Moral maturity: it is measured by marking the level of moral judgement of people. Maturity can be called as “growing up”. Moral maturity is required by a person to judge situations and choices, their benefits and losses, and their effects on other aspects.

2. The 25 year old man had no moral maturity. This can be seen in his action e.g. he ran away when he was being arrested, spat on officers and resisted arrest.

3. Morality: morality means a code of conduct held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong, whether by society, philosophy, religion, or individual conscience.

   Immorality: not moral, not good.

4. Governor Spitzer’s actions were immoral as being such a respectable person, in a high position with a family would never be involved with what he did. Also his actions were very immoral as they set a very wrong example to other people who might look up to him as an inspirational person.

Journal Entry 2

Today, I completed the table of reactions that we did last lesson. I recorded my results, and added the results I did not record. This gave me a good idea on how to conduct experiments, the safety precautions and safety gear required. Doing these experiments to observe the reactions gave me a real life experience of these reactions, what they look like and how to identify them.

Journal Entry 3

This lesson I have filled out the peer evaluation form for my last project. My group and I have also discussed what exactly we need to find out in order to carry out this project. We read the hard copy of Encyclopaedia Britannica and read through the letter from Sir Darline which states what we have to update. Knowing this we have listed all we have to find out. Once we find out everything, the project will be nearly complete.

Journal Entry 5

1. The countries that have banned the internet are China and Burma.

2. The image is probably identifiable as of Chinese perspective.It shows a page of Youtube with the Dalai Lama on it with the sign “banned”.

3. Countries like China and Burma have taken drastic steps of banning the internet to protect their people from bad information that can be found online. Also this is to protect people from cyber bullying.

4. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/27/wburma527.xml 

     http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2690168.ece

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/27/wburma1027.xml

   http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54/147.html

4. If the internet was banned in Australia then I would feel really “lost” as there would be practically no link to information that could be found on the internet. It woul feel like being secluded. Doing work, contacting friends and family elsewhere would be a harder task.