week five-the robot

 New technology developments make increasing benefit of human. A lot of machines produced to replace the work of people. Like washing machine, automatic dishwasher, cleaner, etc. These machines make the work efficient, allow human not work on it directly. People just press several buttons to control working. The requirement of helping and replacing people’s work bring the Robot come out.

Robots make life easier, safer for human. People are accustomed to the coexistence with robots. However, the new worries about the development of robot arise. Would the robot become the host of human? If people cannot control robot anymore when the robot become too intelligent?

Robot also can help people do what we cannot to do. Like some dangerous, we cannot do, but robot can. In this way, the production of robots is good for us. There is a new report that a robot “killing itself” because of tired of doing housework. Link: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/worlds-first-robot-suicide-family-2786901

There is no specific legal statute in using of robot in workplace, but robot can working as agent on behalf individuals or companies (Chopra& White, 2011) Robots is produced by human, they thought is based on the program design. The technologies being used in driverless cars and other automated system more accurate than human, and cause less harm than human doing the same tasks. (Kirpatrick, 2013)   

No matter how robot development, it is still the achievements, human is always the host of robot. Even if the robots meet some trouble, people still can control it, we are thoughtful people. Robot will continue get benefit for human.

Reference:

Chopra, S. &White, L. F. (2011) A legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents. US: The University of Michigan Press.

Kirpatrick, K. (2013) Legual Issues with robots. Communications of the ACM. 56(11), p17-19. 

week four-the advantage and disadvantage of surveillance

Surveillance is used in many industries. In this way, people can use the digital technologies to observe the activity of what they want to see.As the digital technologies product can record of the reality in time, surveillance can provide the in time recording  It is a big advantage for the organization to meet the reality record. Police and security staffs rely on video surveillance make their work more easily.

 With the development of technology, there is improving with monitoring technology. For example, in the underground station, it always has a lot of people. It is difficult to monitor in these place. (Elhamod, 2013)CCTV makes a big help in surveillance. It watches suspicious activities and transmit photos and videos back to the control station. It is the use for the reality life. In the virtual network, the data, information surveillance make the relevant organization get what they want. According to the American management Association and the ePolicy Institute(2008)that take a survey about surveillance approximately 300 US companies, there is a big proportion of fired employers for misusing the internet.(Allmer,2011) surveillance can bring reality and in time data. For the supervisor, it gets information for them. 

 The internet has created many new information and personal security issues. (Flew, 2008) The big issue of surveillance is the privacy security. For the individual, privacy is important. Under the surveillance, it is difficult to keep privacy. Economical and political actors use surveillance in order to control a certain behavior of people that do not know what they are surveilled. (Allmer, 2011) privacy and law embodies a confliction and value. 








References:

Allmer, T. (2011) Critical Surveillance Studies in the Information Society. TripleC (Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 9(2). P566-592

Elhamod, M. (2013) Automated Real-Time Detection of Potentially Suspicious Behavior in Public Transport Areas.IEEE Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems. 14 (2) 688-699.

Flew, T. (2008) New media: An introduction. Oxford:Oxford University Press

week three-How much information should be free and how to decide

Today, we can easily get information from the internet, and the internet is borderless. There is a problem come out. Do we need to pay for the information, and how much information needs to pay?

The information published in the internet, it makes the information be shared. However which kind of information need be paid is not easy to define. All information need be free (Levy, 1984) However, the owner of copyright cannot provide free information. At first, the owner cannot give free information with expense a lot of resources. In this way the user need to pay for their work. A big forward could be made by making information free and be welcome the interest for who want to know it. (Engelkamp, & Jahn, &Seiler, 2003)Paid information is not good for spreading. Pay or not to pay is difficult to decide. Based on the hierarchy of needs of user, decide the paid information may be the suitable choice. The value of the information can also decide the need of users. For example, professional projects need a lot of technical knowledge to support. The information need be strict the truth. In this time, the paid data will more reliable. Users also easier to choose pay for the useful information. Based on the need of information to decide how much information should be paid could be more reality.

Internet promotes new form of economy and new states that abolish scarcity of abundance, diversity replace standardization and replace hierarchy with participation and democratization. (Curran, J. &Fenton, N. &Freedman, D., 2012) Internet can bring profit from different forms.  From the perspective of the consumer decide information get fee or not will suitable for the network environment develop.     

Curran, J. &Fenton, N. &Freedman, D. (2012) Misunderstanding the Internet. London: Routledge Ltd. p.180

Levy, S. (1984) Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. New York: Anchor Press

Engelkamp, J., & Jahn, P. &Seiler, K.H.(2003) The item-order hypothesis reconsidered: The role of order information in free recall. Psychological Research. Vol. 67 Issue 4, p280-290.. 

week two-The value and problems of augmented reality in implementation.

Augmented reality is the combining of real and virtual information shows in 3D and effect the real word. (Kipper & Rampolla, 2013) Augmented reality combine the real and virtual information made the information interchange become real time interaction. It can be widely used in many industries, like military, medical, education, public safety.

   Augmented reality makes people’s life more convenient and also make the information extrude. It provides words information and image information. Digitization information can save a lot of space, and sometimes it is also more reliable. Augmented reality was applied in a variety of innovative with visible scene to people. It will enhance our lives in new ways and get benefit to people.

   Augmented reality need the corresponding equipment support. Object in real world and virtual work need stay in the same space properly. Technical challenge is the foundation of application implementation.  A lot of information and data was stored in these augmented reality device. Each wireless technology may cause security issues, and it depends on how well the encryption work. (Hyman, 2013 June) Privacy concerns are big issue of augmented reality. The encryption work is the solving of the problem from source. To enhance the encryption level and the difficulty of getting information keep the privacy.

  The development of digital technology make augmented reality put into effect easier. Technology service for people who need it make human progress. The issue from the technology and the social will get corresponding solutions. A product or a technology that suitable to the market and customer will stay long. In the future, more suitable one will improve or replace it.        

Kipper, G. & Rampolla, J. (2013) Augmented reality [electronic resource]: An emerging technologies guide to AR. Waltham, Mass.: Syngress.  

Hyman, P. (2013, June) Augmented-Reality Glasses Bring Cloud Security Into Sharp Focus  Communications of the acm. Vol. 56

week one-The basic introduction of media and cyberculture.

Medium is singular and media is plural. From the Oxford Dictionaries we get the definition of medium are: 1) materials or form used by an artist, composer, or writer, 2) An agency or means of doing something, 3) a person claiming to be in contact with the spirits of the dead and to communicate between the dead and the living, 4) the intervening substance through which sensory impressions are conveyed or physical forces are transmitted, 5) a particular form of storage material for computer files, such as magnetic tape or discs.(Oxford dictionaries,2013) The classic media contain film, radio, TV and other kinds of ways. The media exist in many different sorts of environment (like political, personal, historical) and influence the way of media and stories been told. (Stewart, Lavelle, & Kowaltzke, 2001)

Culture is a development process of intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic. (Storey, 2006) Cyberculture is a series of ideas, issues and questions about what happens when we combine the word cyber and culture. The prominent aspect of emerging cyberculture is the question of community. It contains online or virtual communities. Cyberspace is thousands of groups of people’s home where share information, discuss mutual interest, play games and carry out business. (Bell, 2001)

Why we need to learn media? In the beginning of twentieth century, many media began to arrive: first cinema, radio and TV. With the scale of the audiences grew of each new medium, the immediacy of what was being presented is important. Keeping the pace of the development of media could make it more close to audience.

Oxford dictionaries, (2013)

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/medium?q=medium

Stewart, C., Lavelle, M. & Kowaltzke, A. (2001) Media and meaning: An introduction. London: British Film Institute.

Storey, J. (2006) Cultural theory and popular culture: A reader. 3rd edn. Harlow, England ; New York: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Bell, D. (2001) An introduction to cybercultures [electronic resource]. London: Routledge.