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Verizon has been linked as a phone company in which the government can easily access your phone records. in an article written by paul la monica he compares it to the book 1984. In that book all hope in a democracy was lost. Big brother who was the government controlled everything and overlooked everyone. he thinks that the NSA has an army of people who just sit in company head quarters spying on every verizon phone call. This honestly isn't as ridiculous as it sounds. i believe that the NSA has a situation similar to this if not identical. If a phone user were to use words that tip off the government they could react faster than one could click end to the call. Certain words that could link someone to being a terrorist could cause this reaction. If you have nothing to hide then i don't really think its that bad that the government knows.

annotated bibliography

1.clarke, neils. Game addiction : the experience and the effects / Neils Clark and P. Shavaun Scott.. jefferson NC: McFarland, 2009. Print. a) the topic of addiction is examined neutrally, using accepted research in neuroscience, media studies, and developmental psychology, among others, to reveal how today's gamers interact with and become consumed by the virtual worlds of their video games" this book breaks down every aspect of addiction. 2.Feature, Sherry RauhWebMD. "Video Game Addiction." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. B)this website gives a look to the effects of video game addiction. it shows ways to cope with the addiction. Also it shows you signs that you are indeed addicted to video games 3.Kem, Lee. "Gamer Addiction." Gamer Addiction. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. C.) this article shows the college student aspect. How college students grades drop and their lack of hygenine decreases as a result of video game addiction. The interviewed 1500 teenagers and show how they react. 4.Patterson, Sean. "Video Game Addiction Risk-Factors Pinpointed by New Study." WebProNews. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. D) during this article i read about how kids use video games to escape their lives. while doing this they become addicted and take on traits of the video game characters. this is very useful for talking about video game addiction because i know people its relatable too

August Runyon, Foster King, Justin Twarog, Matt Collard

Digital Story

Intro: For my digital story I am doing video game addiction. Kids who play video games are becoming more and more addicted. I have friends who will sit in their rooms for hours when new games come out and will be anti social. World of warcraft is known as an extremely addictive game. Reports have been done and its shown that they cause kids social, emotional, and physical problems. Things I would include: -kids buying the game and avoiding school -kids not leaving their rooms -effects of the game on weight -how it causes them to be anti social These games will continue to become more and more addictive. It is even resulting in lower self esteem for these participants. They put on weight which leads to them feeling bad about themselves. For my digital story id like to put together a cause and effect diagram from playing this with comics. In one of the comics I would have someone right before they started to play the game. I would let that one lead into another comic which would show someone after they've been playing the game for a while. This is after they've put on weight, avoided all social gatherings, and how they've gradually lost self esteem. This diagram would show kids what could happen if they begin to obsess over video games. On some occasions people have been so addicted they began to act as if they are in the game. Grand theft Auto 5 caused a friend of mine to speed on occasions because he had been so used to it in the game. Overall I think this could cause kids to rethink whether or not they are going to make the choice to get involved in this game.

how digital media is changing

digital and social media are changing rapidly now a days. a book club in california used " #Religion" to create a discussion. when you hashtag something whenever someone types in religion on twitter it allows them to see this post. This is a whole new way of being able to get the message across. social media is allowing you to connect yourself to religion. it is meshing two things one constantly does. Photos are constantly snapped for Instagram no matter where you are. whether you are eating dinner, at a sporting event or whatever digital media is taking over even more so then it already has. this is in my opinion a good thing because it will continue to make life easier.

Social Action project

For my social action project i would like to do it on people who don't get a job or lose their job by something they put on the internet in the past. this has been an increasingly relevant problem. colleges and jobs now a days hire people to look at peoples social networking sights. this is more so a social media issue rather than a digital media. i would like to do this by creating a comic strip saying acting out how people put something online and an interviewing committee finding it a few years later. the years later strip will show the person whose currently accessing the pictures of the person who has posted innaproprite pictures. this will be open to adjust but another way could be creating a video acting this out. i took a class last year on editing film so i have a little bit of experience with it. i found this article at http://www.infinity-cs.com/how-social-media-effect-next-job/

discussing questions

1. What makes a person unique? 2. are you guilty of ascribing people to stereotypes? how so? 3. what will you do to try and relationship with a person and not their identities?

Social action project

I would use twitter and word of mouth to get the word out for my Social Action project. If I could get a famous person to retweet me on an issue then millions of people would have access to seeing it and it could really get the word out. Twitter is such a powerful recourse if it is used the right way. Word of mouth can also be really useful because if you get people talking about an issue and generate interest then they will continue to talk about it with others and word will spread. Both of these ideas can be very effective forms to create social action. Most people are unaware of issues going on today and if they don't know about them then how can they prevent them?

Social Action Project

There is a variety of ways one could promote justice with social media. 1. bullying is an increasing trend now a days people are made fun of for all sorts of things. whether its physical appearance, religion, or social status bullying happens in many different ways. its truly awful that people have to live with bullies and it should be stopped 2. Unjust working conditions and wages is quietly becoming a big thing. Big companies are doing all they can to work around regulated laws and overworking their employees. I recently read an article about how apple was cheating employees out of a couple thousand dollars by making them clock out but keeping them for an extra few minutes a day to be searched. This should be stopped because it isn't fair. 3. Internet privacy has also become a growing issue. Just about every american has some sort of social media account and the issue is that too many people have access to them. People can gain access to photos, personal info, or potentially credit card information with one simple click of the mouse. The question is where should the line be drawn? How much should someone be allowed to know?

Apple wages

The article I am blogging about involves people suing apple for millions of dollars because of unpaid wages. They would have to wait in line and take part in bag checks after they had clocked out. Apple's idea was right but they should've given the employees bag checks while they hadn't been clocked out. This is unjust and unfair. Members of the company are taking action now and apple would lose more than the few extra dollars they would've paid the employees. The article stated employees would wait 5 to 10 extra minutes each day which added up to them losing about 1500 dollars a year. That's a lot of money to lose by being at work and not getting anything. Apple is just trying to prevent items from being stolen so these bag checks are understandable but not paying their employees for the in convince just isn't right and should be fixed immediately.. http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=19826977

old monitors leave hazardous trail

I am writing my webblog on hazardous waste and the dangerous it can be. two inspectors in Fresno stopped by for a routine check and found waste as big as a football field. they also said they needed cell phones to keep track of each other. this is terrible and needs to be tamed. their is no longer a use for any of this. people would use the glass to make cathode rays but that demand has never been lower. 660 million pounds are stored all throughout the country and it would cost roughly 85-360 million dollars to clean it all. states are finally taking responsibility as 22 of them. this is all a scheme of people trying to make money. its all just a big scheme to make money and it shows the shadiness of corporate America that its all about the money.

my comic

Facebook and self esteem

The article i read had to deal with Facebook and self esteem. it stated that people with higher self esteem cared more about posting about themselves. while people with lower self esteem cared about what other people posted about them. i can relate to this article because whether its Facebook twitter or Instagram people are always taking one side of it. either they care about posting about themselves or what others are saying about them. some of my friends who have high self esteem compete to see who can get more likes on Instagram or who has more followers on twitter. Users who have lower self-esteem continuously monitor their wall and delete unwanted posts from other users, they said. people are truly affected by this and it leads to cyber bullying and in sometimes death. two years ago a kid in the school district i lived in was severely bullied on Facebook because he was gay and it began to lower his self esteem more and more and he ended up committing suicide. overall social media in general can have positive and negative effects, but people shouldn't take it so seriously to a point where it lowers their self esteem.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-09-15/news/42083769_1_self-esteem-social-network-facebook

Discussion questions

1. What do you consider technology?
2.Do you consider technology more of a science or an art?
3. How far do you think technology can go?
4. Why do you think every tool has to have a story?

Parents and Social media

For my first blog post I read an article called Cyber parenting. It was all about how parents are one click away from viewing any social media site of their child's at any moment.  A mother in this named Karen Sanders talks about how she will find herself stalking her daughter and even sometimes her daughters friends. Social media does pose many potential future risks when it comes to getting a job in the future or something else of importance.  therefore I think parents should be concerned but where should the line be drawn? I don't think parents should be stalking other peoples children. A parent in the article sat down on Tumblr and looked at one of their child's friends pages and saw posts that made them think less of the kid. That in my opinion is crossing the line, let the kids parents worry about their own child. Its their job not yours. It makes sense for them to have a grasp on what their child is doing. I think parents should sit down with their kids and talk out a plan setting boundaries for social media such as going over the basics such as not swearing, posting derogatory things, or anything that someone could potentially take the wrong way. If parents let their children know that they are watching them most if not all children will think twice before every one of their posts.  i hope parents and children can talk all this out and form a mutual agreement preventing the improper use of social media. Social media can be a very powerful resource, but only if you use it correctly! 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/fashion/cyber-parents-accessing-perhaps-tmi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

1.  Matt Collard, Buffalo Ny, mcollard17@jcu.edu
2.Matt
4. i am into sports, my knowledge of sports and ability to hold conversations makes me special , i am extremely friendly and i am always up for a fun time!
5. for me to take intellectual and creative risks it has to be a no judgement zone,
6. the most important technological invention was the iPhone  because of the fact it makes life so much easier. One can type papers, figure out anything they want to know and get in contact with people in an  instant.
7. cell phone, computer and car
8a when it comes to computers i am like a 7 because I know how to do all the basic functions and sometimes a little bit more

8b. digital media i don't have much experience so like a 3

8c. when it comes to social media I'm a 6 because I'm using both twitter and Instagram daily

9. What is your favorite hobby?