MOBILE PHONE, a dominant items in eLandscape future

Time is flying. I have been writing this blog for a month already. It is the first time I have tried this kind of work. I usually hide my own work from others. My English is bad, so I don’t want to embarrass myself. I have gained lots of experience by writing the blog. I learned how to response for each topic. I have a chance to explore and share my ideas to others. I don’t know that my thought is right or wrong and good or bad but it is a great whole new experience.

As from my previous entry, I think social media or e-culture offer many different things to human living on this earth. I felt that we are so lucky to born within this period. Let’s imagine 50 years back. How can people from Australia and Asia communicate? How do they live without Internet or mobile phone? What do they do while riding the train or tram? I always stated in my earlier entry that technology has overcome human life. Which area of Social media is set to dominate the eLandscape in the future? From what I have learned from this unit, the most stands out topic would be mobile phone. I think human today cannot live without that small machine or in other word ‘smart phone’.


Can you live without mobile phone? My answer is no. This media product will definitely developed into a higher level, which means it will capture more people attention. It will sure offer more function or tool in the future. People will not be able to live without them. They are so important in our live. We will lose in communication if we don’t have one. In what criteria help you decide on which mobile phone you should buy? I desperately want Blackberry right now. Why do I want it? Blackberry is a smart phone. New technologies get ever smaller and more powerful (Levinson, P. 2009). You can upload or chat via Facebook at anytime. It is a time killer. People don’t have to carry their laptop anymore. With Blackberry, technology is in your hands.

This small technology offers convenience and entertainment at the same time. We would say that, with the iPhone, for the first time, we had a technology specifically designed to enable not just new media but new new media literally at the user’s disposal, any place the user happen to be (Levinson, P. 2009). Personally, one of the reasons I think mobile phone will be able to dominate in eLanscape in the future is privacy. It allows user to take them to the bed, even in the toilet. We will be able to access to all the entertainment tools whenever and wherever we are or like.

As everyone know that Japan is the world leading in high technology. Before iPhone or Blacberry was invented, Japanese people are able to use the Internet on their mobile already. However, you can find an iPhone in Japan. Even though, the iPhone lacks other technology long available on Japanese cell phones, such as digital TV broadcasts, a built-in camcorder, voice recognition and an "electronic wallet" function, it provided a global standard.


Can you see how Japanese people react to this new media product? Even though, their country has already provided an amazing technology for them. People are excited about new technology everyday. This small item is getting more powerful. According to Kageyama’s article, Japanese is still going to stick to Japanese old-style phone, as it creates a community and other unique functions. People will not be able to survive without one. We are incapable to escape from this technology, as we are living among it functions such as Internet access, cameras, MP3 player or even alarm clock.

Documentary, a small part in media industry

All time favorite documentary



I watched film, animation, cartoon and TV series but I rarely watch documentary. I can count a number of documentaries I watched per years. Documentary ranks at the bottom for my favourite media product. However, one of the most memorable documentaries for me is ‘March of the Penguins’. The documentary is so touching. I cried every time I watch it. Even though, there is no story line or script, it was fabulous. March of the Penguins was released in 2005, which $ 127 millions of American viewer (Thomas & Wilma de, 2008). It is usually hard for film documentary to attract such a huge amount of audience. There was another documentary I watched in high school, which a couple years back, but I cannot remember it. As a young teenager, I found documentary is such a boring entertainment product; however, my opinion changes as I grown up.

Documentary becomes one of tool that provides enormous knowledge. Have you ever seen the documentary called ‘Inside undercover in North Korea? This National Geographic’s documentary will make you treasure your own country. You will be grateful to be born outside North Korea. Documentary gives different feeling with film. It offers a realistic story and environment. There is an absent of Hollywood star. I think this is one of the reasons that documentary does not reach what they are aiming for. According to Ana Vicente (2008:271), the relatively uncommercial aspects of documentary throughout history have forced the genre to the continuous search for its ideal platform. Documentary is not a money maker as much as film. By referring back to March of the Penguins, there were only a few successful documentaries from 2002 -2006.

Thomas & Wilma de, 2008

A major effect of documentary is fund, distributed and viewed; however new technology offer more chance for documentary maker. Advance in technology first changed the way in which film produced; now, technology advance are transforming the way in which the film reach their audience (Thomas & Wilma de, 2008). Film that always superior documentary stand in the same position. By having new cheap and convenience platform – VoD (DVD and Video on Demand) to gain audience as a long establish business models for documentaries.


How about online documentary? I think online documentary offer a great opportunity for people to do a freedom of speech. Technology is still the main scenario for this. In the context of this burgeon doing world of online video, documentary has a place, but it has to be consider in a wider sense than in film and on television (Thomas & Wilma de, 2008). There is a limit in length and amateur production value. Everything will be found and download online. This makes the Internet become hero. I have been watching one of documentary from my country. He would update his clip every week. I have never imagines to enjoy and have fun with someone daily life story but its fun and enjoyable. It became everyday activity for many people, which we can call them ‘vlogging’. It is a great idea of throwing your though to public. Youtube is the most valuable place for those online documentary film makers.

Here is my favourite online documentary maker. He gives funny conversation. The video was record during red shirt protest in Thailand. I think this is benefit of online documentary. It give an ability for people to talk or comment on everything, even though it risky. Personally, I think online documentary maker wants to share their experience with others around the world. Sometime, their story can be useful, some people may learn from their freedom of speech.



There is no right or wrong to publish your thought through online documentary. It is a potential for all voices to be heard as the Internet is such an open space. You would not know a number of people go online during midnight. It allows word to spread from one to other. I think online documentary provide a space for people to speak freely. People can show their true feeling toward many issues. It is also show other side of the world that we might not know.

Mummy, I want my iPhone

Are you addicted to mobile phone? How long have you been on mobile phone per day? How many text messages you text per day? Have you ever get tired of talking on mobile phone? For myself, I rarely talk on mobile phone. I prefer face to face communication. This may sound strange to people living in 21st century but I found it annoying. I had my first mobile phone when I was 14, which a couple years ago. I am now in my early twenty. My uncle bought it for me because I was going to study aboard. I still remember how excited I felt at that time. However, I still cannot live without the mobile phone. I will be nervous for all day if I left my mobile at home. When did mobile phone become so important to human life?

From that time on, I just realized that mobile phone had developed into a higher technology. Everyone has mobile phone that contains camera, radio, video or e-mail. We have the technology that people use to read, write, see, hear and produce new new media–the device, in other word, that we hold in our hands when we work and play with new new media. A desktop, laptop, or cellphone or cellphone-like device is engaged any time someone reads or writes a blog, views a video on Youtube or sends and receives a tweet (Levinson, P. 2009). I am totally agreed with this idea. It is a feature that offers by new new media.

This lead to a topic of this week – Will the mobile phone screen become the dominant screen of the 21st century? Do we really need another screen to view movies, take photos, design art and access the Internet? What do you think? When iPhone was launched, I desperately want to get one. One of my friend got iPhone only one week after it launch. She kept telling me how good iPhone is and she was trying to encourage me to buy one. This video clip from Youtube shows how much technology has overcome people live. People became mad about new technology that would make their life trendier, easier and faster. According to Levinson, we would say that, with the iPhone, for the first time, we had a technology specifically designed to enable not just new media but new new media literally at the user’s disposal, any place the user happen to be.



Personally, those application offers by smart phone are essential. I found it as an entertainment tool. I have to take the train to university and it takes me one hour to get there. I don’t like to sleep on the train, so those applications provide by new technology on mobile phone help a lot. I can listen to music, watch video, chatting on Facebok or look up latest photo of my friend with only one small item. I think mobile phone offer convenience for people. Mobile phone is such a time killer. It’s killing those boring time while riding the train. A wireless device, wether cellphone, Blackberry or iPhone, makes all of those formerly useless places useful (Levinson, P. 2009). I can also store my favourite movie scene and watch them while I am on the train.

New technologies get ever smaller and more powerful (Levinson, P. 2009). On of my friend is not writing down her appointment or any information anymore. She rather uses her Blackberry to take a photo of it. She would take a photo of document she wants to print. It is convenience but what if her mobile phone dies? What will she do? This is one of negative side of those smartie items. Since iPhone, Blackberry and other smartphone offers many tool and function, people decrease their interest in other media such as cinema, newspaper, book or TV. I think this shows a negative effect to our way of living. For example, I used to read newspaper to get myself update with the world current issue but I am now checking everything on the Internet. It saves time and money but I read less than before. As people do not read article on the website but there are actually scanning it. I will look for information that I want to know and that’s it. I move on to other website.

For me, those application offers by iPhone, Blackberry or other mobile technology are useful. It is not wrong to use another screen to view movies, take photos, design art and access the Internet. However, we need to control ourself when using it because they may cause trouble for other people. It takes us only a few minutes to download the movie from the Internet. Let’s think about those producers who spend time writing a script and filming for years. Also, paparazzi photos are all taken by this small technology.

This video clip calls ‘Micro Movie’. It is a short film which user can download and store them into their own smartphone. The quality is great. The story line is fantastic. It short and powerful just like mobile phone small but powerful.



Credit: http://www.northeastmovies.co.uk/films/1684/the-piper-at-the-gates-of-dawn

Broadcast Yourself

Internet offers many different kind of information. It offers people the useful information to the most non-sense issue. There are lot of information provided on the internet. I always go on internet to look for something. My favourite singer song lyric or a photo of my favourite place. It is up to date and fast. As being an overseas student in Australia internet is a valuable source. I used internet for a couple reason entertainment, news and education. In order to keep myself update with a situation in my country internet is the right place.

Youtube is always a place I wander around every time I’m on the internet. Youtube seems to be a popular topic for a part few years. My latest entry was also about Youtube. Likewise, I am still focusing with it this week. Even though, I use internet for many reason but one of the are that I have never touch is ‘politics’. As I stated in my earlier entry that I always close my eyes and ears whenever this topic appear in front of me. I still see politic as a boring story. However, since my country is dealing with political issue at the moment. I am starting to pay attention on it.

I begin to watch my country political situation on Youtube. This website is actually change people life. Youtube can be used effectively by any industry. Politic is also one of the industries that effectively used this online page. According to Paul Levinson book, Youtube’s trademark, along with it logo, ‘Broadcast Youself’ allow people to explore their idea and ability with anything. This site is usually used by political parties and politicians but there is also the danger of political figures being subjected to ridicule through satire and parody (Blackboard, view 2010).

Have you ever seen this video clip? If not, please check it out.




What are benefits? This parody video of Barrack Obama actually changes his life. This clip was published on Youtube in June 2007 and attracted over 17,636,281 people from around the world right now (Youtube, view 2010). The video, at the very least, showed, Obama as someone cool, interesting and attractive. The trend held trough the November, 2008 general election, in which at least 50 percent of 18-to-29 year-olds voted in America for the first time since 1972, and 66 percent of them voted for Obama. Obama was elected to be a recent President of United State of America because of this parody clip. This is unbelievable. I have to say that Youtube is such a powerful medium even in political area. It gives a chance for people to show their talent and ability, with somebody actually achieve their dream by posting a clip on the site.

What about the disadvantage? According to Crush on Obama clip, there are also video clip that relate to politic but representing in a negative way. Youtube allow everyone to be a producer, so people can do whatever they like. It is free and open space for everyone. Anything recorded via any audiovisual device is a candidate for universal dissemination on Youtube (Levinson, P. 2009). I also agreed with Levinson that Youtube clip stay in publish for years – in effect, forever. Let’s watch this video. Personally, I will be mad if I am Sarah Palin. This clip kills an image of her. How would you feel if someone is making fun of yourself? Would you feel happy? I don’t think so. I also think that this will be able to ruin her career.



I think Youtube offer both advantage and disadvantage. It is a good place to share ideas and knowledge but for political I think Youtube is not a save place. They will not be able to control the producer around the world. Politicians have to be careful with this technology. Can this be one of culture jamming? Yes, it can be, by making fun of famous people and embarrassed them. This is how culture jamming work. Human invented this technology for our convenience and entertainment but now we have defended ourself from it. How pathetic? Social media is such an open space, especially for people involve with public issue like politician, actor, singer or celebrity.

Producer VS Produser

How many Youtube video have you seen per day? My answer is uncountable. I am addicted to Youtube. I found it like an amusement park that offer lots of thing to be involve. There are many different things that wait for me to explore. I watch Youtube everyday. I watch more than 10 videos per day. Is that insane? I think Youtube is where people have an opportunity to bring out their talent or ability. It is also a place that people are able to learn something new. I think Youtube is a place that offer people knowledge as well as entertainment issue.



I actually learn Korean and by watching Youtube’s clip. I watched TV show that my favourite Korean singer or actor and actress appeared as a guest. I learn their everyday conversation. It also makes me pay for Korean language class. There is also a parody video clip that caught my attention. Those parody clips are all fantastic. I think they are very creative, even though it’s not their original idea and work. The original one is good but those parodies offer something different.

According to Bruns (2008) “There is an absence of producers, distributors, or consumers, and the presence of a seemingly endless string of users acting incrementally as content producers by gradually extending and improving the information present in the information commons, the value chain begins and ends (but only temporarily, ready for further development) with content.” Have you ever heard of this word “produsage”? What is it? According to produsage.org, in the online, networked, information economy, participants are not simply passive consumers, but active users, with some of them participating more strongly with a focus only on their own personal use, some of them participating more strongly in ways which are inherently constructive and productive of social networks and communal content. These latter users occupy a hybrid position of being both users and what in traditional terms would have to be described loosely as producers: they are productive users, or produsers, engaged in the act of produsage.

I think Youtube is a great sample of produsage. It is a place where people can throw their idea around on wether it’s their original work or parody. This video clip ‘Hitler find out there is no Santa’ is such a wonderful example. There are 208,405 watched this video and more than 50 comments. People who create this video see as a creative thinker to me. I think this kind of work need a load of creative skill. She or He uses a benefit out of the original producer. However, these kinds of video clip can say as a stolen piece of idea or work. They extend and improve the original work and it is still view by many people around the world. Also, I agreed that the value chain begins and ends with the content.



This kind of work is such a new form of media product. It cost cheaper and easier to access. There is no copyright to worry about. People can view it anytime and everywhere. However, it is not the right thing to do, as if you think back to the original producer. How much time do they spend on each project? How much research do they have to do when filming just one 2-3 minutes TV commercial, music video or movie? How much do they need to pay for the location of filming? How much time do they spend on the script? If you think of this kind of question, you will feel very sorry for them. I felt bad for them to see their work get stolen, even though I enjoy it so much. Again I think technology offer many opportunity for people to do thing. Technology allows us to make thing easier and faster but it also bring back painfulness to some people. I think it is very hurtful when seeing your idea has been taken by others. Personally, that is how technology pays back on us and we cannot escape from it.

We have come too far

2010, human life have been taking over by technology. We rely so much in it function and offer. It offers convenience and fast feature lifestyle; however there is advantage and disadvantage about it. Technology makes our life easier and faster but on the other side, it harms human ethic and moral, as we start to use it in a wrong way. How many porn video clip we see on TV after midnight? The answer is uncountable. It is not wrong to put an advertisement on TV, but this is public space. Let’s imagine, the website that you click will always have a pornography advertisement banner at one of the corner of website. Is it the right thing to do?

Have you ever heard of this word ‘cybersex’? This word is very new to me. This is actually sound cool to me as well. How can people have sex online and call it cybersex? Isn’t it a bit strange? Personally, this is a very strange issue to me. I used to watch one of my country TV shows. They were reporting about cybersex, but I did not know what is it that the time. A teenage girl was support to be at school, studying, talking to her friend or enjoy her school life. She decided to live with computer instead. What have technology done to our society? This girl sells her body online for those unbelievable creatures. People would pay for the girl to rip her cloth off. How is a pathetic life and society? Are women one of the victims of this issue? I think so. Women are always involved in sex issue. I think people should pay more respect to female gender, even in a digital world.

Recently, Microsoft has advertised a new kin line of phone that encourages sexting among teens. However, there were many compliant, so the company decided to pull out the ad. Sexting - sending explicit photos and texts via mobile phones - is a growing problem for parents, teachers and police around the world. It is a personal thing for the user but according to a high technology, there are problems that come afterward. Teenager is still very young to differentiate the right and wrong. This ad may cause a serious problem. It is not wrong to be creative but I think people sometime go beyond that.

The internet is a perfect drug delivery system because you are anonymous, aroused and have role models for these behaviours," Layden said. "To have drug pumped into your house 24/7, free, and children know how to use it better than grown-ups know how to use it -- it's a perfect delivery system if we want to have a whole generation of young addicts who will never have the drug out of their mind." I am totally agreed with that. I think we use the main feature in a wrong way. It was invented to give people an easier and faster life but we turn it into something dangerous. I think this is a serious case. Our society will turn into dangerous place. We will not be able to recover it. We have chance to use a good side of it but people choose the reverse side. Our society has become a slave for this human invention.

According to Singel article, the panelists all agreed that the government should fund health campaigns to educate the public about the dangers of pornography. I think is a great idea because this will create people awareness. Therefore, they can protect their child from the dark side of the internet. Education might be the only way that can resolve from a tiny part to a bigger one. I believe that if people have enough knowledge on each issue or topic and they aware of it side effect, this will enable to cure our society in some way. I think education will at least guide they to a good and bad side of it.

Cybersex is such a harmful object offer by the internet. We should stop them before it spread wider to our future generation. So, if that happen I think there is no way to cure this tragedy society.

Do you want a second life? No,I don't

When I was in secondary school, my dream job is architecture. I love to see a beautiful house and landscape. I have always dream to work within that industry but it will never happen. It is because I hate Math, so that is it. How can architecture fail math? That unfriendly subject at school faded my dream away. I am now studying something completely different but I am happy with it. So, why do people want a second life?

By the way, what do people really want in life? Money, house, car, mobile phone, a good job or a happy life. I am the youngest child in the family, so I get whatever I want. But there is still thing that my parents are enabling to support. And my mum used to say that ‘People won’t be able to get everything they want’. At that time, I thought it is not true because I always get what I want. However, I started to realize as I grew up that my mum was right. Also, I was a kid once and I used to be addicted to video game. I grew up with my younger cousin. He is a boy. We play exactly the same game and toy. At the time a play station was very new, so as a kid we were very excited and after that we had become addicting to it. As a young age we suppose to run under a hot sun but we spend most of our time inside the house. I have always thought back on those days. Why won’t I play as a kid?

Similarly, Second Life is another great example of how people turn away from a good thing in a real world. Second Life is a 3D virtual world developed by Linda Lap, which she now had become a millionaire. This online society offers a lot of opportunity for people who need to step their life away from a reality. This is where technology has taken an important part of human life and behaviour. It is where people can be whoever they like and do whatever they want. Furthermore, users have a chance to create their own character call ‘avatar’. The members are enabling to choose body type, skin color, hair style, face or even a gender. Second Life avoided traffic by allowing users to fly from one place to other within a second. This is called ‘teleport’. Everything seems to be very easy and convenience in that digital interact world.

As an article by Jeremy Goldkorn in 2006, one of Chinese woman has become a millionaire in real life by selling a fake land and house in Second Life. She is the first virtual millionaire. According to Goldkorn, Hubei-born Ailin Graef, known in Second Life as Anshe Chung, runs her virtual real estate agency, Anshe Chung Studios, with her husband Guntram Graef. They offer land and houses in places like Dreamland Asia, the Mainland, Gothica, and Furriers. This proved that Meadows statement about this online community is true. Meadows argue that experiences create a grounding of belief. “People in virtual worlds build things, use them, sell them, trade them and discuss them. When another person confirms what I am seeing, places value on it, spends time working to pay for it, buys it, keeps it, uses it, talks about it, gets emotional about it, and then sells it – this tells me there is something real happening. The suspension of disbelief has become a grounding of belief”

How can online money become real? This is unbelievable. Personally, the different between Second Life and reality is such a huge gap. I believe that a real experience is such a valuable thing. I would not be able to identify a real taste of Indian food, if I have never touched it. How can you tell the different between face to face interviews compare to typing and answering thought online communication. It is different. I also believe that being you is the most valuable thing. To say the true I sometime want to be like my older sister. But I am happy with the way I am now, even though I am quite a lazy girl; however people can change.

I understand that people want the best for their life. They want to be someone or something that is incredibly hard to achieve, so they sign in with Second Life. It gives a chance for people who want something more in life which they cannot achieve or do in real life. It is good that people have a goal and determinations. It is not wrong to involve in virtual world but not for me. I have been realized how much time I spend on the Internet each day. It kills the time for my assignment. I better take a good management for my first life before starting to create a second life.