I have only posted one approach and intent that are in relation to each other because from what I was told in class and from what I read on the class website I was informed that one solid approach and intent were due for this segment of the class criteria.
Reaching out to fellow classmates who are viewing my website; weren’t many of you under the same impression?
While browsing through the copious amounts of wordpress websites that students of the NMD 206 classes before have created; they seemed repetitive and similar and related like a family–one project stood out to me wholeheartedly.
Derek O’Brien made a website called appicture a day and it calls attention to the specific autobotography project that I made reference too in my lone search to show the class who views my site what autobotography projects I found outside of the classroom. I think appicture a day is a play on words (aperture) and (a picture)–since Brien is doing what he can to make an honorable come back from his injury he looked towards documenting day to day objects and situations as a release and outlet.
While looking through to get responses finished I had an issue technically with viewing this video. The videos showed up in an unordered fashion, multiple screens and when the play button was pushed the screen would just go white.
if anyone has any answers so that I can get this fixed/answered please let me know.
Political Design: Hacktivism, Hacking Captialism, Hacking Legal Code, Hacktivist Art Accountability, Bringing Biotech Down to Earth, Outing the Old Boys Network, Non Geographic Nation, Executable Literature, Cyber Squatting on A Corporate Domain, De commercializing the Art World, Publicizing the Private Web, Creative Cloning, Corporate Takeover.
This chapter really incorporates all of the main topics that we covered while going over Hacktivism in class discussion during the first month of this Spring semester.
Hacking Capitalism & Legal Code definitely represents the connection that hackers and people who are electronically savvy enough to represent movements and thoughts online implement and affect the legal system and those who are involved in making important decisions that affect the mass groups of people. There are many projects that have been implemented to improve appearances and political parties while other projects are souly to represent the word of the people and what they wish to achieve and have heard.
Hacking Legal Code, Hacktivist Art Accountability: The way that people can get their points across and and instate laws that dictate how we surf the web and what we’re allowed to view. Hacktivist movements like SOPA and PIPA where people join forces online and to prove that as a whole people who are feeling the same way about topics and decisions that affect our day-to-day lives is an incredible poewr to have. Art accountability digitally means that these people who want to represent their abilities of programming and graphic design online and to be represented so that people can give notice and credit to the message that is trying to be portrayed.
Non Geographic Nation: People can communicate easily on a global scale within seconds compared to physical letters and mail which means that if a mass amount of people want to deliver a meaningful desire or message it can be received and understood and acted upon within moments. this helps also to develope deeper relationships over great periods of times to stay connected and have a form of communication.
This article reviews the different forms of theater and how the audience is given the option of not only viewing but having a voice or opinion to offer to the people involved.
It changes the age old rules applied to theatre of one stage to many people, It’s changed so that there is implimentation from both sides to affect the outcome or decision that is made by the people involved in the play.
There are different degrees that are applied to these rules of the theater of the oppressed and it was very enlightening to see the different views and directions that a production and storyline can be viewed in comparison to an in stone script and storyline.
http://www.jtmp.org/jtmp/index.php?q=node/264
representational art: represent something and it has meaning.
1-many change to many to many
The yes Men Fix the World:
How do you justify compensating suffering people from an industrial tragedy with JUST under 1000$?
“I found it refreshing”à the golden skeleton in the closet. It’s unbelievable to me that people who are making money and running their “dream” businesses are saying that if a few bodies are at cost to make them a couple dimes then it is all worth it in the end.
Unintended harm was brought to the people of Bhopal as they were rewarded and then robbed of 12 billion.
“Starving would become the new black”
The yes men fix the world
Economy and control over the market control what corporate wants:
The perspective of this cartoonist is pointing out that the cartoon represents that all ideas together do not work or correspond.
The perspective of the man business cartoon saying that he is at first conservative and then switches into a more exploitative point of how he got what he wanted.
Healthy plantations: genocide of the people who were there (the trail of tears) bought slaves who were violently taken from home lands to get the work so that the money could be given to the white man and slave owner.
Comparable to the “Golden Skeleton”—if it works for me in the end that’s all that matters.
Colbert: Neutral Man’s Burden—I have to think about people in my own family who face discrimination as being white.
Being “neutral”—
Roomie Connection:
February 7, 2012
Wearable clothing/computers.
“the wear cam is a mechanism of self determination and personal safety”
‘safety net”
Foucault (pronounced fooco)
One way power source directed towards placing own power on other people
Consenting by default
JenniCam—first online personality that broadcasted life.
Altaire
Quotes and provoked thoughts from Hacktivism
Altaire-people were making computers and they were not the size of a house.
People joined together to make their own computers without the “okay go ahead” from a business man or big head.
Joline- “what these people were doing with computers was playful…not as big of a deal as people were making it out to be”
A law defines what theft is and what it isn’t. if you come and take land it’s not theft (development of America) and it’s a cultural invention that dictates where material things and ideas belong for the owners well benefit. (most laws protect private property)
Hobby computer was quickly turned into a mass produced computer. The output of a couple hundred dollars and getting an order for 50k and then turned out making half a bill a year.
WARGAMES
I’m wondering why these illegal things were documented on their own times
Revolutionary moments right now
How did the world become afraid of hackers?
Media
News journalist
Everyone has provoked fear to control the people
People realize that business can benefit from these internet websites and with usernames and purchases being made online
Imagine this: a structure that is really non hierarchical and is structured by different principles.
While being in class discussion this past week we were exposed to the idea of “shooting back” and the logistics of being exposed to cameras in corporate and business situations, it ended up being a question that was on my mind for the rest of the day, when I went to the groceries store, when I got my gas, and when I was in school.
There are multiple laws and regulations limiting the use of cameras in a public setting by civilians but we have no say in the big man using cameras to make sure that we are playing the game by their rules. An intriguing thought when you put it in terms like that. While many of us are just living our day-to-day lives to get by while they’re watching it through cameras like a reality television show. Perhaps that is why reality shows are so entertaining; it gives the viewer a false feeling of being the big man.
“Camera/Shy is the only steganographic tool that automatically scans for and delivers decrypted content straight from the Web. It is a stand-alone, Internet Explorer-based browser that leaves no trace on the user’s system and has enhanced security. ”
This would easily be utilized by people trying to make a presence online and doesn’t want to be trace, by how I interpret this description.
http://www.youtube-mp3.org/
allows users to paste youtube links and withdraw the digital file to save the song that it plays. I’m interested to see how much longer this is going to be up for because so many people utilize it to withdraw music from the legal online site of Youtube.
The Six/Four System is a flexible framework consisting of a formally specified Peer-To-Peer protocol. This protocol is best described as a trust-enhanced anonymous tunneling protocol, and meant to provide people with anonymous, secure access to public data. Some German documentation, and our U.S. Department of Commerce export license. “
Being in a long distance relationship myself, I know the ins and outs of the difficulties couples in this situation have to face; if only there was a solution to the small trials and hurdles that we have to face in a day-to-day situation.
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, true–however; the points that lead up to the strength people must have to support that growing heart is difficult to obtain. I would be interested in creating an app that makes leaving messages and gestures technically to show reassurance to the opposite partner giving them positive reinforcement to know that the partner is thinking of them and missing them.
A community for people who are affiliated with people in the ALS community who either have family members diagnosed with the disease or have experiences that they can share with others who are dealing with it currently. The disease is such that it is so different with each case there is no one way to fix the same problem the same way for ever person; bathroom solutions, cleaning habits, eating, drinking, etc…
Since my father was diagnosed with ALS when I was a sophomore in High School, I have seen the ins and outs of this disease and have experienced first hand what it is like to adapt for the person with ALS and perceive what habits they have to change in order to survive and be happy with whatever living conditions they can. The app that I would create to appease this community is a blog or billboard type situation where people can contribute their solutions and coping mechanisms to deal with this death sentence that can make or break the value of life a person has. Thankfully my fathers optimism was easy to deal with and solve problems with ease and positivity.
Hackers with a cause can be perfectly represented by the group that goes by “Anonymous” They are people who have drive to make statements via the web and technology and have made such a statement in the past decade that their hacktivist methods have been world wide recognized. In comparison to Political Design there is a more diplomatic drive and reason to be proved with what is being said and represented to the public. Such as in current political situations with those candidates who are running for President–much political design goes into the thought process of how this single human is represented and portrayed by millions of people in our country and billions world wide.
Almost anything that is referred to as executable means that there is something being called to action or work when it occurs. An executable file is referring to something that this file is going to do for the user. Execution and Representation are defined as two completely different things, as stated by the dictionary;
“Execution: the carrying out or putting into effect of a plan, order, or course of action”
“Representation:the action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented”
Execution is about the following through with an Idea–> such as our third step of idea development that we will be doing this semester.
Representation is the form or state that we chose to execute these ideas and in what way we follow through with it.
The “Yes Men Save the World” film that was shown to us in class revealed two hacktivist men who put their clever charm to the test to not only fool people on the receiving end of the issues but the causing people of the issues as well into seeing obvious problems that are overlooked for the sake of gaining $$$. For reasons many people cannot understand, hacktivists (for the most part) are coming from an honest point of view to represent the unspoken truths that are hidden by larger companies that have the abilities to conceal dishonest facts about their production and resourcing for their corporations.
As a nation and planet we are connected with an internet connection that gives us the power to create, maintain and diminish relationships at the click of a button or type of a word; Hacktivists use this to their advantage while reaching out to the public eye and revealing things in mass quantities to all who are available to see it. This causes multiple questions and opinions to form; allowing the hacktivists to take part in stirring the pot of questions reguarding what is “right” for the people not only of the united states (rich or poor) but for those of every nation and the connections that have already been made.
The fact that this author of the website had no ill intentions put into this website to voice the people’s opinion over what had occurred-and eventually was rewarded with responses by the affected communities and and people’s responses is inspirational. It’s a true story of someone who was inspired and compelled to start something to represent a positive message.
The PIPA SOPA movement to save our rights on the internet is another way to take the initiative and show the world that we are all for the most part feeling the same way about an important situation.
“Sometimes they’re doing things the wrong way for the simple reason that no one’s stopped to consider if there’s a better way to do it.”
Cognitive dissonance – the psychological discomfort which occurs when you’re confronted with a set of facts suggesting that what you’re doing or believing is irrational or stupid.
Occupy Wall Street is one of the most momentous things that my generation will be able to say they experienced in our lifetime.
A nationally (becoming world wide) dominant movement standing up against corporate greed, while having a common voice to stand for what mass amounts of people believe in is an incredible thing to observe happening. While going to classes first semester, I observed tents, and cardboard box creations that were being occupied by students of the University of Maine–standing for what the same people in New York, Boston, Manhatten, etc… were also standing for (literally standing).
They’ve gotten the attention they’ve demanded and the purpose and reason behind their occupation of the land they stand on is admirable.
Questions that I have of this subject:
1.)There are many people who want this movement to stop, so that they don’t have to change their lifestyles–these people who want the movement to stop are the driving reason behind why it is happening. What moves has this group of people taken so far to try and stop the movement?
2.)What legal responsibilities do the people who participate in the movement have to deal with for standing for what they believe in?
3.) How long will it take before the founding groups of people who started the movement get what they want from this statement they’ve made?
Quotes and provoked thoughts from Hacktivism
Altaire-people were making computers and they were not the size of a house.
People joined together to make their own computers without the “okay go ahead” from a business man or big head.
Joline- “what these people were doing with computers was playful…not as big of a deal as people were making it out to be”
A law defines what theft is and what it isn’t. if you come and take land it’s not theft (development of America) and it’s a cultural invention that dictates where material things and ideas belong for the owners well benefit. (most laws protect private property)
Hobby computer was quickly turned into a mass produced computer. The output of a couple hundred dollars and getting an order for 50k and then turned out making half a bill a year.
WARGAMES
I’m wondering why these illegal things were documented on their own times
Revolutionary moments right now
How did the world become afraid of hackers?
Media
News journalist
Everyone has provoked fear to control the people
People realize that business can benefit from these internet websites and with usernames and purchases being made online
Imagine this: a structure that is really non hierarchical and is structured by different principles.
According to Vin; Land, Water and Sky are all of the transportation media that we have. All of these have contributed to people’s interacting with each other since the very beginning. Transport vehicles are brought from one place to another through transport MEDIUMS (MEDIA and MEDIUM—there’s a difference! He makes sure that you understand that in this article.) Our skies are used as a transportation Medium while Planes, Jets, Parachutes and Birds are Transport Vehicles.
There are three communication media in the world of New Media: Mass medium, New Medium and Interpersonal Medium. The idea of Communication Media are things that we come across every minute of our day-to-day student careers while talking to fellow student colleagues, professors talking to a lecture hall, the Announcements folder in the our first class is many groups contacting our whole student body
While one person is conversing with another, there is a lot of control being distributed to those involved in the interpersonal conversation over the content that is being said; On top of that—there is a personalization factor that is added to the conversation that is applied to who is involved which makes it more individualized. When more people are added to either side to the conversation and it grows to a number that is hard to control (content wise) the sources and information become less reliable and controllable.
Many-to-many communication isn’t a natural ability that humans are capable of having without being dependant on a certain form of technology to use as a vehicle to distribute those thoughts amongst the mass amount of people they have targeted as an audience. While certain facts and rules can be spread amongst large groups of people, there is control over what is spread between each person and that has some boundaries on what is spread. Mass Production and spreading of information is much more difficult tofind and stop the sources and the spread of rumors/false information.