Summary: This article is about the rapid decline of the media industry over the past few years when mostly talking about newspapers, newsrooms and giving percentages of how many people still read the paper, whether online or in person.
I feel like the decline of the media industry is in part of because how technology has advanced. People don't feel the need to read the papers or watch the news anymore now with social applications such as twitter and facebook, where people can get all the up-to-date news through notifications on their mobile phones.
An advantage I think is that people now can read the latest breaking news on the go and much more easily, instead of having to wait every morning for the newspapers to find out what happened since the day before. Another advantage is that it can save people money in that they don't have to pay monthly subscriptions for the daily newspaper or for news and entertainment magazines.
In my opinion I don't think there needs to be a 'solution', because as technology evolves it makes sense that outdated methods and items become obsolete, it works with everything else (Cell phones, TVs, Computers etc.) and there's no reason newspapers should be an exception.
A disadvantage is that it's putting newspapers and media outlets out of business, newspaper companies who have been around for years and years successfully are now dealing with rapidly declining numbers of subscribers and readers each year, forcing them to keep down-sizing to help save and budget money and to budget also makes newspaper companies cut people's jobs
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Warmup: White House Outlines Online Privacy Guidelines
Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/business/white-house-outlines-online-privacy-guidelines.html?_r=1
Summary: President Obama has moved to help start creating guidelines that will help people using the internet have some control over what personal information about them is seen or public. People will have a privacy option which is where they can set limits to who is searching for information about them and what information about them can be publicly viewed.
Benefits: A benefit to companies collecting online user data is that it kind of serves as a group survey, by checking online user data companies can see what parts of their company are the most used while being able to see by the data, what are some parts of the company that aren't used as much and can help figure out a way to improve that certain area for the better.
I don't believe the guidelines are necessary, but they are useful by serving as a good step toward listening to people who may feel like they want to have more protection online and be able to be in control when it comes to their personal data being able to be viewed.
Summary: President Obama has moved to help start creating guidelines that will help people using the internet have some control over what personal information about them is seen or public. People will have a privacy option which is where they can set limits to who is searching for information about them and what information about them can be publicly viewed.
Benefits: A benefit to companies collecting online user data is that it kind of serves as a group survey, by checking online user data companies can see what parts of their company are the most used while being able to see by the data, what are some parts of the company that aren't used as much and can help figure out a way to improve that certain area for the better.
I don't believe the guidelines are necessary, but they are useful by serving as a good step toward listening to people who may feel like they want to have more protection online and be able to be in control when it comes to their personal data being able to be viewed.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Warmup: Education
Technology: Ipad (Handheld Digital Device)
How is this technology used? An Ipad can be used in a variety of ways in the education sector. An example from personal experience is that here at Washington-Lee we have a few classrooms where teachers have a cart of Ipads for students to use as a subsitute for computers. They are much more convinient and take up less space in the classroom than computers and have all the same basic capabilities such as Internet access that can be used when doing research for a project.
Advantages: Technology, like an Ipad, is much easier and useful for students when it comes to things such as research. A textbook and an Ipad are about the same size, but with an Ipad students can find multiple sources faster and easier than the time it would take them to scan through big textbooks looking for the same information.
Disadvantages: An Ipad, with capabilities such as internet access and the option of installing games and apps can provide more of a distraction to students than a teaching tool, with that being said, if there are students who get easily distracted than they would get LESS work done with the Ipad as opposed to a stack of textbooks holding the same information.
Social & Ethical Issues: People and Machines can be a big factor, because while many kids in this day of age are tech savvy there are some kids who have never used an Ipad or any kind of similar technology, so to take the time out to go over how to use an Ipad could take away from valuable class time the teachers might have needed.
How is this technology used? An Ipad can be used in a variety of ways in the education sector. An example from personal experience is that here at Washington-Lee we have a few classrooms where teachers have a cart of Ipads for students to use as a subsitute for computers. They are much more convinient and take up less space in the classroom than computers and have all the same basic capabilities such as Internet access that can be used when doing research for a project.
Advantages: Technology, like an Ipad, is much easier and useful for students when it comes to things such as research. A textbook and an Ipad are about the same size, but with an Ipad students can find multiple sources faster and easier than the time it would take them to scan through big textbooks looking for the same information.
Disadvantages: An Ipad, with capabilities such as internet access and the option of installing games and apps can provide more of a distraction to students than a teaching tool, with that being said, if there are students who get easily distracted than they would get LESS work done with the Ipad as opposed to a stack of textbooks holding the same information.
Social & Ethical Issues: People and Machines can be a big factor, because while many kids in this day of age are tech savvy there are some kids who have never used an Ipad or any kind of similar technology, so to take the time out to go over how to use an Ipad could take away from valuable class time the teachers might have needed.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Warmup; What is MITx?
Link - http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-faq-1219.html
Synopsis - This article is about MITx, a degree offered by MIT for completing a series of online-courses that they will start in the Spring of 2012.
Stakeholders: The stakeholders in this are any students who might have been rejected by MIT but want to go there still, also any students applying to college in general that have that other option available.
Social and Ethical Issues: One of the biggest issues is Control in a way, because MIT is one of, if not the most prestigious colleges in the world. By offering an online set of classes through their school there will be more people studying at MIT that might not have initially gotten accepted.
Advantages: An advantage could be that more kids have an opportunity to a education from one of the best colleges. And it's online so it can be convenient for people who may also work part-time.
Opinion: It's cool that MIT is opening it's doors to more kids and branching out to form an online school, which many major colleges are starting to do.
I personally would probably not take advantage of MITx, since I'm not really a huge fan of math and science.
Synopsis - This article is about MITx, a degree offered by MIT for completing a series of online-courses that they will start in the Spring of 2012.
Stakeholders: The stakeholders in this are any students who might have been rejected by MIT but want to go there still, also any students applying to college in general that have that other option available.
Social and Ethical Issues: One of the biggest issues is Control in a way, because MIT is one of, if not the most prestigious colleges in the world. By offering an online set of classes through their school there will be more people studying at MIT that might not have initially gotten accepted.
Advantages: An advantage could be that more kids have an opportunity to a education from one of the best colleges. And it's online so it can be convenient for people who may also work part-time.
Opinion: It's cool that MIT is opening it's doors to more kids and branching out to form an online school, which many major colleges are starting to do.
I personally would probably not take advantage of MITx, since I'm not really a huge fan of math and science.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Warmup: Waldorf School
Title: Silicon Valley School that doesn't compute
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=all
Synopsis: Waldorf Schools are a string of schools around the country that dismiss the idea that computers and technology are aids in helping kids learn in schools and instead the schools try to encourage kids to use hands-on learning instead to help learning progress, their are no computers in the classrooms at all.
Stakeholders: The kids who go to Waldorf schools and their families and people who are wondering if technology does or doesn't help kids learn better in school
Social and Ethical Issues: Everybody is using technology, it's a part of our daily lives including in schools and these schools are isolating kids from learning to use the technology that they will have to use once in the world and out of schools which might make it hard for them to adapt
Area of Impact: Education
Opinion on Issues: I think this isn't a very good method, kids should learn to use technology from a young age since our society is more or less centered around the use of it, everyone uses computers and smartphones for the most part, so why not have these kids learn also how they can be tools to help them learn?
Agree or Disagree with Waldorf School: I disagree, because like I said before, isolating these kids from technology might hinder them more than help them
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=all
Synopsis: Waldorf Schools are a string of schools around the country that dismiss the idea that computers and technology are aids in helping kids learn in schools and instead the schools try to encourage kids to use hands-on learning instead to help learning progress, their are no computers in the classrooms at all.
Stakeholders: The kids who go to Waldorf schools and their families and people who are wondering if technology does or doesn't help kids learn better in school
Social and Ethical Issues: Everybody is using technology, it's a part of our daily lives including in schools and these schools are isolating kids from learning to use the technology that they will have to use once in the world and out of schools which might make it hard for them to adapt
Area of Impact: Education
Opinion on Issues: I think this isn't a very good method, kids should learn to use technology from a young age since our society is more or less centered around the use of it, everyone uses computers and smartphones for the most part, so why not have these kids learn also how they can be tools to help them learn?
Agree or Disagree with Waldorf School: I disagree, because like I said before, isolating these kids from technology might hinder them more than help them
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Warmup: Amazon Re-writes Rules of book Publishing
Title: Amazon Rewrites the rules of Book publishing
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-publishing.html?_r=1
Amazon is starting to publish books books on their own, they are publishing now122 different books in regular and e-book form. They hired people who have experience in that field to work for them, in short, amazon is becoming a all-in-one place for book buying, selling and publishing.
The stakeholders are authors and other publishing companies, authors now have a choice to publish with amazon and in short, cut out the middle man which was publishing companies. Publishers are scared because amazon is now going to try and take over the publishing business now also.
The area of impact affected is Business and Employment, because this is strictly for business. Amazon is doing this to make more money since if they publish their own books than they would be cutting out the middleman which was the publishing companies, it also affects employment because since they started a publishing section of amazon, they have to employ more people to work on that section of the company.
Future changes that might occur is that amazon will slowly start to do more and more so that they cut out middlemen for all sections of their company, maybe they'll start to publish music artists or produce movies.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-publishing.html?_r=1
Amazon is starting to publish books books on their own, they are publishing now122 different books in regular and e-book form. They hired people who have experience in that field to work for them, in short, amazon is becoming a all-in-one place for book buying, selling and publishing.
The stakeholders are authors and other publishing companies, authors now have a choice to publish with amazon and in short, cut out the middle man which was publishing companies. Publishers are scared because amazon is now going to try and take over the publishing business now also.
The area of impact affected is Business and Employment, because this is strictly for business. Amazon is doing this to make more money since if they publish their own books than they would be cutting out the middleman which was the publishing companies, it also affects employment because since they started a publishing section of amazon, they have to employ more people to work on that section of the company.
Future changes that might occur is that amazon will slowly start to do more and more so that they cut out middlemen for all sections of their company, maybe they'll start to publish music artists or produce movies.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Warmup: "Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control"
Summary of the article: There is a new way to hack voting machines that will be used in 2012 for elections which is disturbing, but even more disturbing is the fact that it can be hacked in a way that leaves no trace behind, and only costs a mere $10.50 worth of equipment to do it and the knowledge in the field of science that even kids as young as 8th grade learn.
The stakeholders are everybody in America, because if the system used to choose our leaders can be manipulated, it could lead to, in a worst case scenario, get a candidate elected that wouldn't have been elected otherwise, and if that said candidate was maybe viewed as un-qualified or un-worthy to be president, it could put our whole country at risk.
The area that it would impact would be all of them, because candidates each have different views on each of these areas and depending on who would be elected, some areas might be helped more than it usually would or some areas would lose needed funding or help.
The advantage is that voting machines make vote tallying easier to add up and more organized. Disadvantage is that they can, as you can see here, be manipulated.
A solution to the issue at hand simply would be to design new voting machines and/or different programs for them that cannot be hacked as easily, or they could do hand balloting, but the disadvantage to that is that it would take much, much longer to tally up all votes in all states.
The stakeholders are everybody in America, because if the system used to choose our leaders can be manipulated, it could lead to, in a worst case scenario, get a candidate elected that wouldn't have been elected otherwise, and if that said candidate was maybe viewed as un-qualified or un-worthy to be president, it could put our whole country at risk.
The area that it would impact would be all of them, because candidates each have different views on each of these areas and depending on who would be elected, some areas might be helped more than it usually would or some areas would lose needed funding or help.
The advantage is that voting machines make vote tallying easier to add up and more organized. Disadvantage is that they can, as you can see here, be manipulated.
A solution to the issue at hand simply would be to design new voting machines and/or different programs for them that cannot be hacked as easily, or they could do hand balloting, but the disadvantage to that is that it would take much, much longer to tally up all votes in all states.
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