Monday, December 9, 2013
TWIF Flattener #4 - Uploading
Use one of the current events sources linked at http://svhs-hwc-spring2014.blogspot.com/2013/12/approved-sources-for-twif-current.html to find a recent news article that relates to, supports, or refutes Friedman's assertion that uploading was a "flattener." Your comment should include the title of the news article, a link to the article, and a summary of the article including an explanation of how the article relates to this point. Don't forget to check your rubric for evaluation criteria!
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ReplyDeleteHealth care website picks up pace, with more than 1 million enrolled
ReplyDeletehttp://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/29/healthcare-websitepicksupsteammorethanonemillionenrolled.html
This article discusses the recent changes to, and the milestones made by, the Obamacare website. It’s main points are that the site has reached a little over one million enrollments which is a significant jump from the previous months cumulative sign-ups. This jump stems from an enrollment deadline that was set for Christmas Eve, but the site is still nowhere near close to the projected three million. It also mentions that many bugs were fixed since its inception. This displays the uploading flattener in two major ways. The first being that a person can now buy health insurance, an almost essential commodity, online. This allows more people to complete this task on their own time schedule and not have to set up a meeting. The second way is that the sites developers can easily upload a fixed version of the site without much down time. They can improve the site without people waiting in between. Both of these uploading capabilities have allowed many Americans to more easily get an insurance plan.
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ReplyDeleteThe wiki: technology that changed Internet communications
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pri.org/stories/2011-11-28/wiki-technology-changed-internet-communications
This article explains the importance of the online encyclopedia, wiki. It tells that the invention of an online encyclopedia was the turning point of the internet and online communication. In TWIF, it tells the reader about the importance of wikipedia and other online blogs and chats. It explains that wikipedia played a major role in the advancement in the internet and communication. The article relates to what TWIF states because the authors also discuss the importance of Wikipedia. In both TWIF and the article, there is a generalization that Wikipedia was the starting point of online blogs and chats, which eventually took a role in the advancement of technology.
Amnesty Condemns Greek Blogger Conviction
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/amnesty-condemns-greek-blogger-conviction/2014/01/20/b049e046-8209-11e3-a273-6ffd9cf9f4ba_story.html
This article shows how uploading can be negative onto a blog. A Greek man has been convicted for voicing his opinion on a blog negatively about a Greek Orthodox monk. The chapter in TWIF explains how anyone can write anything on the internet for their ideas and opinions to be heard and receive recognition for them. In the case displayed in the article, the person that voiced his supposed negative opinion received recognition by becoming convicted into jail. The article relates to TWIF because in the book, Friedman explains how uploading gives people the opportunity to voice their opinion for the world to see and receive recognition. The article shows how somebody stated their opinion and received negative recognition.
Wikipedia: Friend not foe
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/archival/EnglishJournalArticle2.pdf
Since Wikipedia launched back in 2001, it has generated some speculation. The article above explains local institutions and how they are either banning Wikipedia or advising not to use it. Educators question its credibility and believe that students are using it as an easy route out of a research assignment. Since anyone can edit the site's information, their reasoning is not completely far fetched. In The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman stated that he uses Wikipedia frequently while writing his book. He explains that Wikipedia is successful because the information is never set in stone and is constantly changing and improving itself. Also, there is the policy of NPOV (neutral point of view) which allows both sides of issue to be satisfied with the given information. The article from the New York times states that "Wikipedia is more like a library than a typical reference work." This agrees with Thomas Friedman because he advises to use the website knowing that it is not alway 100% accurate.
When the Thrill of Blogging is Gone
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/fashion/07blogs.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1390325574-SlV5590HIRLcWZY/qgGkug
This article is all about how bloggers who had blogs were stopped. One blogger said that because she encouraged people to vote for someone, her blog stopped being popular. Also the blogger said that with all the other blogs out there, it was hard to get people interested in hers. By just voicing her opinion on who to vote for, it ruined her blog in a way that was unexpected. Another blogger confessed to ending her blog now that the blog was no longer anonymous. Since people would know who wrote the blogger felt she could not express herself as freely as she could before, so she ended her blog. This article relates with TWIF because Thomas talks about how blogging allows people to say what they want, but he also states how there are so many blogs now. It also relates to Thomas's ideas because he says that with uploading, blogging, and Wikipedia it could all be very dangerous, and the article has the example of people ending their blog because people judge or did not like what the bloggers were saying.
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ReplyDeleteAt Super Bowl Stadium, More Mobile Uploads Than Downloads
ReplyDeletehttp://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/superbowl-att/
In an article found on the website of the New York Times, spectators, using AT&T, a multinational telecommunications provider, at the 2012 Super Bowl in Indianapolis, uploaded exceedingly amounts of data to share content to the public or to their family and friends. During the Super Bowl, about two hundred and fifty gigabytes of data were used, which broke the record for the amount of data used at a single sporting event. To satisfy this claim, John Donovan, "AT&T's senior executive vice president of technology and network operations," quoted, "Lucas Oil Stadium," the stadium where the 2012 Super Bowl was played, "uploaded forty percent more data than they downloaded..." In fact, most of the media that was uploaded during the Super Bowl was taken on iPhones and Androids. On a side note, this epitomizes the escalated demand for smart phones with "wireless data." Moreover, this article corresponds with Friedman's argument on uploading, the forth flattener. As an obvious correspondence, spectators at the Super Bowl could upload as many videos at anytime during the Super Bowl due to the fact that the majority of the people in the stadium had smartphones. Before the demand of wireless technology arose, part of the tenth flattener, uploading could not take place, and average people could not post their viewpoints online. In addition, the latent correlation lies in Mr. Donovan's blog entitled, "A different take on the big game - stats from the stands," which shows all of the astounding stats that took place in the stands. As an AT&T employee, Mr. Donovan had the ability to receive the spectators' stats, but it was his choice to post these facts on a blog for the public read. With new advancements in technology, like the rise of the Internet, run-of-the-mill people now have the privilege to upload media and create blogs. To sum up, this article displays that ordinary people can upload data at their will to become the providers of events rather than the viewers of news.
Uploading the Avant-Garde,http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06FOB-medium-t.html
ReplyDeleteThis article shows the way that people are now connected in ways not previously thought to be possible because of one simple website, YouTube. The first video ever posted on YouTube was a 19-second video called "Me at the Zoo", it is a simple video made by one of the websites creators about him at the zoo, nowadays you can go on YouTube and find close to, if not, anything. For example every minute over 20 hours worth of video is uploaded to YouTube. YouTube has not only had influence over the internet either, videos from it are used on many T.V and news show that it is almost impossible to go a day and not see a video from YouTube. This goes along with Friedman's views of the world being flattened because anyone can now go on their phone, computer, or anything and find out almost any information in the world in video form in a matter of seconds.
Instagram Direct Takes Photo-Sharing Private
ReplyDeletehttp://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/instagram-introduces-private-messaging/
Instagram, a popular application for smartphones, allows users to upload both pictures and videos for others to view. This article is about how a new feature has been added to Instagram. This feature allows users to upload videos or pictures that only certain people can view. Before this was implemented, everyone could see someone's pictures, or, if someone had a private account, all of his or her followers could see the pictures. Now users can make some media only available to specific people. This relates to Friedman's fourth flattener, "Uploading," because this new feature allows users to upload their content in a new, creative way. Before, Instagram was more of a typical social media application, but now it is developing many more uses. A company could use this new feature to upload a picture of something related to their business that only people from the company could see, or a teenager could just use it to show something funny to his or her close friends. Even though uploading appears to have reached a maximum in terms of amount of data, pictures, or videos, Instagram has shown that new forms of uploading are still being created, and these forms can have a wide variety of uses for both professional and personal use.
China orders real name register for online video uploadshttp://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/21/us-china-internet-idUSBREA0K04T20140121
ReplyDeleteChinese internet users now must use their real names to register on chinese online video sites. This was put in place to minimize the inappropriate comments on the sites. These sites are very popular in China because the people are able to upload the videos and have their own opinion on different topics. This applies to the flattener "Uploading" because people all around the world are allowed to upload their own videos, pictures, stories etc. This is a big flattener because on many sites it gives people the freedom to express themselves. Blogging is another form of uploading words that you feel you need to express. Sites used for blogging are Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc. People are able to see the perspective of others from across the globe.
About social networks and blogs
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/0/22717886
Friedman’s assertion about uploading is that it is a large group of people collaborating on a network or project online from many different places. This article describes the basics of Twitter, Facebook, and blogs and some of the precautions you must take on them. This article relates to Friedman’s assertion about uploading because it describes how people can share their lives with each other on Facebook and Twitter. For example, people can follow their family and friends and share photos, comments, and chat with people. It also relates because on blogs people can share their stories and have other people comment on their blogs and have discussions with each other. So, people are collaborating on social networks with many people and sharing information in new and exciting ways.