Category Archives: 112 MC
Surveillance
At the beginning of March, we had a very interesting lecture about surveillance, sousveillance and privacy. We were shown videos to help explain what these were. I found it hard to research how many cameras and what the surveillance is … Continue reading
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Tasks
Here is my final google map task! I have enjoyed completed these three tasks for my 112MC. I enjoyed the first task the most because I had not used photoshop for a while so got to re-use my skills and … Continue reading
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Mark Weiser
‘The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.’ This quote from Mark Weister practically sums up technology. When it is first invented it is something … Continue reading
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Marshall McLuhan
“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools and yesterday’s concepts” — Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan studies media convergence and has a theory that relates to atoms. He says … Continue reading
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First manyeyes task
Here is the first visualisation i made in manyeyes. I did this to get to know the website and the infomation came from my flatmates answering the questions. I have made the pie chart so you can click on a … Continue reading
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Web 3.0
This video is on my tutors blog and is a humorous was of explaining web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0. I just told my flatmate that we might aswell quit university now because we are going to get killed by machines … Continue reading
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Task 2 montage
To create my montage, I put all the graphs into Photoshop. I then clicked select all and dragged them onto one new page so they were all overlapping. I was planning on changing the transparency and played around with that … Continue reading
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Flickr
I think this is pretty cool for flickr! I find flickr easy to use once you have learnt how. The only confusing thing I found was I did not know what ‘sets’ meant! Underneath it says ‘Now you know how … Continue reading
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Task 3
As I have said previously, I did not realise you could create your own maps on google and was interested in learning how it works. I chose to do my hometown, Milton Keynes because the city center has so many … Continue reading
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Task 2
I have now converted all my data into charts after having many problems with manyeyes. I used various charts such as pie chart and bar graph to represent my data. I decided to do each question seperatly so used google … Continue reading
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