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Our powerpoint presentation slides

This is our powerpoint presentation slides that Jorge (Me), Sry and Phillip presented in Week 4 on “An introduction to Participatory Culture”.

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How does the use of location-aware applications change our experience of the world?

The use of location-aware applications can change the people experience of the world where it demonstrate the use of that person searching location status. Many location-aware application has a feature where people with the same app can browse through the map to find that user location status for e.g. an individual that has been accepted upon that users’ request from that location-aware application can search for that friend or a family member, and it identify the person location status through a map with icons appear on his/her smartphone or tablet. Location-aware applications can also search different shops or places onto the map to locate the user nearest location as a GPS technological format.

Foursquare “check ins” 

I think foursquare is a really good example of location-aware application where it deals with location from users mobile device with interaction. There is feature where it only shared with other people when the user decides whether they want to “check in” to tell Foursquare their particular location in private or they can ‘check ins’ with a friend or a family member to share their location status. For e.g. a mother of that child is worried that this son hasn’t arrived at home at a certain time so she will use her Foursquare app to map out the location status of our son.

Foursquare 2013, Privacy 101: What we think when we think about privacy,Foursqaure Headquarters, New York City, viewed 10 Oct 2013, <https://foursquare.com/privacy/>

Is location awareness a momentous development or merely a passing fed?

I think that location awareness has become a momentous development rather than a passing fed where the future of technology is really approach very fast in terms of people uses smartphones and tablets to deal with mapping and navigational purposes.

Here a YouTube video explaining the user’s adaptation of location technologies that are bringing experience, navigation approach to change our perception of the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBI3oqkVBXQ

 

Does the walled garden approach of Apple’s App Store foster or stifle innovation?

Looking at both the Apple walled garden approach to development for their mobile devices, it is tempting to simply say that it is stifling creativity, because the apps need to be approved for sale before they get installed into devices.

However is it?

The advantages of a walled garden are simple: Create a cost for the developer, and you automatically filter out the ones that are not serious about the product they are making.

The Apple Store and Apple products also have one key advantage. Apple devices already have credit card details available.  A developer is far more easily assured of getting an income from their work, because there is already a payment system that the consumers of Apple products are used to.

Also, they have been around a lot longer.  The Play Store (formerly Android Marketplace) is a comparatively new development.

The result: Apple still has a far larger number of developers:

There is also another problem. By abandoning control over the content, the door has been left open for a large number of low quality apps. Apps that do one thing, and do it poorly.

And the best apps are generally hosted by both operating systems anyway.

The walled garden environment keeps out the poor quality apps. When Apple must give its approval, then the developers have to work hard to bring their apps up to scratch. And it also keeps out things like malware and pornography.

In the walled garden analogy, it is a garden where the gardeners are not allowed to bring weeds in, and are not allowed to trim the hedges into certain shapes. Within those strictures, anything goes.

But, unless you want specific benefits of either platform, there is not really all that much difference on the consumer end. With the Apple operating system, you get stability, with the Android system you are able to get things like pornography which are not available on the Iphone.

Question: How are mobile phones being used in the developing world?

The mobile phone is an equaliser. They require very little by the way of infrastructure. A cellphone tower can cover a large area, without having to lay any cables or optical fibres. Before the advent of the mobile phone, such services were simply not available, even to wealthy people in places like the favelas of Brazil. The government and utility services simply did not reach them.

So, they have been able to use stolen, hacked and legally bought phones where they could not buy them before. And they use them in ways that people in the West were using them. For example, “beeping”, where you dial a phone and then hang up. This is a good way to get the attention of a caller, so they can either call you back or simply go to a prearranged location or take any other prearranged action.  They are also used as a defacto public phone. One telephone can service a wide community, with customers of the owner of such a phone paying the owner a fee to make calls.

 

Are social media becoming political media?

I think people in nowadays are not aware with the situation about politicians adopting to social media as an instant communication tool. Social media can give people decision to discuss politics to the politician members to spread the message throughout their Facebook page wall or in twitter with a tweet that seeks their attention, and also raising awareness of the political uses of social media platforms for e.g. seeking interaction throughout Facebook and twitter from the latest update on the federal election campaign happen on 7th September 2013 are shaping up with the votes. Social media has become an important role in political campaign to shape people opinion via online, and it get people to contribute in public.

The Conversation 2013, Moving politics online: How Australian Mainstream Media portray social media as political tool, The Conversation Media Group, viewed 30 September 2013, <http://theconversation.com/moving-politics-online-how-australian-mainstream-media-portray-social-media-as-political-tools-15465>

What are the role of social media in politics?

The role of social media in politics can really play the minds of politicians to receive information where the people are entitle to express their opinions about the political decisions. It kind of a good thing that social media is revolved around our daily lives being connected 24/7 online to discuss politics with their own country state politician members to form part into a discussion to write their comments. This is a supported resource material where it discusses the Australia’s youngest Prime Minister, Wyatt Roy sharing his thoughts and experience adopting to social media to receive feedback, and also how different politician members are engaging more with the audience with instant messages responded from his Facebook and Twitter account. This suggest that politicians are beginning to see the benefit in using social media as a tool to seek for political news from day to day basis.

WyattRoy MP 2013, Role of social media in politics, Liberal National Party, OLD, viewed 30 September 2013, <http://www.wyattroy.com.au/2013/04/29/role-of-social-media-in-politics/>

Can twitter and Facebook really become a sustained weapon in political struggle?

I think twitter and Facebook has become a sustained weapon if they really need to discuss any circumstances that relates to politics. The politicians can be connected with users to have an opportunity to be more socialise and contribute in an instant communication tool where they can discuss anything involves around political struggle to be changed for different countries around the world.