topics in digital cultureQUESTION 1 - The concept singularity is a hypothesis on the not so far future of human life on earth. According to Ray Kurzweil‚ the scientist‚ inventor‚ futurist and author of The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology; singularity is a stage in our near future where technological development will start to accrue at an inconceivable speed that normal humans cannot keep up with‚ let alone contain. This possible technological change‚ which is not recognizable to
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WORKING PAPER e rise of social media and its impact on mainstream journalism: A study of how newspapers and broadcasters in the UK and US are responding to a wave of participatory social media‚ and a historic shi in control towards individual consumers. Nic Newman September 2009 Contents Executive summary and key conclusions 1. Framing the debate 2. Mainstream media motivations‚ doubts and dilemmas 2.1 Definitions and motivations 2.2 BBC 2.3 Guardian and Telegraph 2.4 New York Times
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Theatre will always survive in our changing society. It provides us with a mirror of the society within which we live‚ and where conflicts we experience are acted out on stage before us. It provides us with characters with which we identify with. The audience observes the emotions and actions as they happen and share the experience with the characters in real time. The survival of theatre lies in the very nature of humankind: its inner voyeuristic drive. The desire to watch other people dealing
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again‚ ethics is completely dependent on the type of individual‚ however in journalism‚ codes such as the MEAA act as a strict guideline which effectively can prescribe the correct action in all circumstance. It is these guidelines that have been created through the years which have kept many journalists’ ethics pure. These codes of conduct have span back to the early twentieth-century when several pioneering codes of journalism ethics were created into a single document. (Ward. 2004. 24) it is these
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Jose U. Santana 03/06/2013 Digital Music Piracy Every day people through out the world are downloading millions upon millions of digital music from the Internet illegally. Using a Peer-to-peer file-sharing program integrated in websites like 4shared.com and MEGAUPLOAD.com. As having friends in the Music Industry‚ I do believe people should not break the copyright law and instead pay the music artists for their work. Although this ongoing issue is in a way hard to control‚ record label
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Fundamentals of Digital Electronics by Professor Barry Paton Dalhousie University March 1998 Edition Part Number 321948A-01 Fundamentals of Digital Electronics Copyright Copyright © 1998 by National Instruments Corporation‚ 6504 Bridge Point Parkway‚ Austin‚ Texas 78730-5039. Universities‚ colleges‚ and other educational institutions may reproduce all or part of this publication for educational use. For all other uses‚ this publication may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form‚ electronic
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DIGITAL FUEL LEVEL INDICATOR ABSTRACT Imagine this. You are on a highway and suddenly your vehicle stops. To your horror‚ you find that you are out of fuel. You check the fuel indicator and find that it has gone repair and is pointing to a higher value on the scale. This is a major shortcoming of the ANALOG FUEL LEVEL INDICATOR. This drawback can be redressed by simply switching the indicator to DIGITAL type. Our project deals on this mechanism and helps to explain the process which can be
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Bridging the Digital Divide “Mending the Breach: Overcoming the Digital Divide” by Andy Carvin and “Overcoming Technology Barriers: How to Innovate Without Extra Money or Support” by Suzie Boss are two articles on Edutopia‚ a website sponsored by filmmaker George Lucas. These articles address the issue of bridging the digital divide in the classroom. “Mending the Breach: Overcoming the Digital Divide” provides a closer look at what the digital divide is and who it affects most while “Overcoming
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Assignment 4: The Future of Digital Crimes and Digital Terrorism Angela Marshall Professor Christopher Young Strayer University/Information Technology in Crime March 1‚ 2015 Overall impact utilizing information technologies in combatting digital crime and digital terrorism. Every day that passes the world is becoming more and more reliant on information technology. Both public and private sectors of technology‚ banks‚ public utilities‚ commercial companies‚ and even governments use
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