For my Wikipedia assignment, I decided to add an image to the page for Aruba. This pass summer, I visited with my family and all the attractions are beautiful. One of the days we were there, we went on a ATV ride across the country and we were able to see all the amazing locations Aruba has to offer. The last stop on the tour was a natural pool that was created in the ocean. It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. Waves would be crashing over these huge rocks, but there in the middle was a small section of water that resembled a pool. It was 3 inches deep on the outside and the middle was 20 feet deep. Fish swam all around your feet. It was an amazing site to see. Since the page for Aruba did not have a picture of the natural pool, I decided to upload one that I had taken while on my trip there. I thought that other people should be able to know about this amazing location.
Michael Farias Wikipedia Assignment Reflection
For my project, I decided to edit the wikipedia page of the Colombian soccer player Juan Fernando Quintero. I am a huge soccer fan and this player is very special to me. The world cup was this summer and Quintero had a very good tournament with Colombia and I edited the world cup section of his wikipedia by adding more information. The information that was originally there was very broad so I added more to make it more complete. I very much enjoyed doing this but I realized that you have to write from a neutral point of view and state the facts. I had to research each game and find out at what minute in the game did he score or assist to a goal and at what minute was he substituted out of the game. It was a decent amount of work but it was a lot of fun and I would like to write more for wikipedia.
Isaac Espinoza 10/15 blog post
”The electronic letter functions less as a material artifact than as a medium. The handwritten letter carries an elaborate signature of presence, concluding with an author’s signature.” (Nunes, 97)
This statement can be applied across most forms of technology. If we take an email for example and compare the effect that has on a person than the effect a handwritten letter has on a person. An email cannot be done without the use of a computer and will always be less personal than a letter. It lacks the character that can be transmitted through a letter through functions like handwriting. Anyone can take my computer and send an email pretending to me and it would be believable. But the same could not be said with letters. Now I can argue that photography has passed through a similar process as it has shifted from film to digital. Photography in its earlier days involved more input from the photographer. He or she was required to not only take the picture but measure the light, focus the lens, and then snap the picture. Then that picture would have to be developed and printed in the darkroom. It took much longer but in the end, the final product had “presence”. Its something that we can hold in our hands and in its imperfections lied its beauty. This is what leads us to value something like a handwritten letter or printed photograph more than an email or picture I posted on Facebook a couple weeks ago.
Works Cited
-Nunes, Mark. “The Email, The Letter, and The Post.” from Cyberspaces of Everyday Life. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Carolyn Pena Wikipedia Reflection
I decided to upload a picture that I took of the Pulitzer fountain which is located in Manhattan. I had a couple of different pictures of this fountain because I used to work right across from it. On my breaks, I would go sit here and relax for 30 minutes. Since I would go here almost every day, I noticed that during the time I was there at least 5-10 people would take a picture of the fountain or with it. It’s a beautiful fountain but I always wondered if the people who would take a picture of it knew any history of it or the name of it. One of the main reasons I knew the name to this fountain was since I have my location enabled, my iPhone automatically put the name of the location on top of the picture in my camera roll. I was amazed that my iPhone was able to recognize the image and pinpoint the name of the fountain. When you search up Pulitzer fountain on Wikipedia, there is only one picture there of the actual fountain which was taken in 2014. The other pictures were the layout of where the fountain is located and a few on the sculpture that is on top of the fountain. As I mentioned before, I would always go here for lunch breaks which made me feel credible enough to post one of my pictures of the Pulitzer fountain. I believed that my picture was good enough to illustrate what the Pulitzer fountain looked like from my point of view. On Wikipedia, the article itself had the most information on the restoration of the Pulitzer fountain but I just chose the gallery aspect of this article because that’s where I believed my picture belonged best. The picture I uploaded of the Pulitzer fountain was taken this year 2018 and I believe Wikipedia needed an update on how the Pulitzer Fountain looked now.
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Alassane Diop 10/15 Week 8
As technology evolves over the course of years we are able to communicate through different ways besides the primitive use of our mouths. We have been using our mouths since the dawn of time, then we developed writing many centuries ago which allowed us to put our thoughts on paper. This was a game changer because we can keep a history of what we speak on a physical form which can not be changed and be held around for years. Books and written documents allowed us to keep records and show proof. Unlike a game of telephone where the premise is whatever you said to one person may be changed as infomation spreads. This causes misinformation and false facts.
We then later devolped a form of spreading infomation to other parts of the world which is letters and the postal system. Before the invention of phones to help us talk long distances in the 20th century we had letters which were in written forms. It started off by having people travel on foot or vehicles in long distances to reach the destination. This may take days or even weeks for a full transaction.
In recent times we have created an virtual form of mail, which is e-mail. It is the quickets way to post messeges from deiffent parts of the world. The great benefit of it is that its almost instant. As long as both parties have a internet connection they can both recieve e-mails. Unlike regualer mail which takes much longer.
TingFung 10/16 Weekly Reading
TingFung,Chu ” Email, the Letter, And the Post”
In this weekly reading, I choose “Email, the Letter, And the Post” by Mark Nunes, the author describes the development and history of email, how the email this concept came up in the early 17th Century. Back to that period, people communicate with the mail and the post to post by the delivery. In fact, the process of mailing is basically the same as the email system. Due to technology was not highly advanced back to that time, the email was just a theory. Subsequently, with the internet was developed into people daily, people are able to connect the world through the computer, the email becomes the essential software in the electronic devices, people just simply open the email box, would receive multiple messages or advisement from Travel agency to promote the cheaper air ticket, inform people that there is new clothes or shoes or any other kind of promotion. More importantly, email has become part of the life for the modern era, without the email, there will be more inconvenient for the people in this era.
Although when the email came out and being used on the internet, this was the new hit for the people having a new way for communication. Technology, however, will be constantly to change in a period to period. For instance, virtually every single person has a smartphone, not many people are still using the old black and white screen cell phone that only has a few functions for calling and sending the message, no taking photo or recording footage function. The points, people are still relying on the email without it, but once the new device is similar to the email and has been using in our lives, the email will become the history and won’t be using anymore.
Source: NUNES, MARK. “Front Matter.” Cyberspaces of Everyday Life, NED – New edition ed., vol. 19, University of Minnesota Press, 2006, pp. i-vi. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttrmg.1.
Oct 16th post
For this weeks post i will write about chapter 3 “Emails, Letters, and Post” by Mark Nunes. i found this article interesting because it explained the history of handwriting and the transition to email and typing. written text was in a way overthrow ed by email and electronic text which was the norm. as technology advances, how fast we write,send, and recieve mail has also quickly escalated. i remember my aunt telling me stories of having to write letters to people in other states and even other countries. she would tell me how long and tedious it was send information from one person to another. as technology progressed, information became readily available. the rate of how fast we can send info back and forth improved so fast, it was very similar to having a phone conversation . i even noticed how text and email advanced from its earlier days. i remember writing emails with aol, having to wait for the application to start up, the glitches, and the waiting. now we recieve hundreds of emails a day without a second thought. i find the rate of improvement scary as it is common to send a text or email so fast, i fear we as people will heavily rely on this technolgy in the long run, which may negatively affect our literacy rate for the current and especially the future generations.
Works Cited
-Nunes, Mark. “The Email, The Letter, and The Post.” from Cyberspaces of Everyday Life. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Anthony Dyce Blog Post 10/15
For this week’s blog post I decided to respond to “Emails, Letters, and the Post” by Mark Nunes. In this reading he talks about the development of sending email to person-to-person through communication that was growing at a rapid rate. Email is something we used frequently to communicate. Email is similar to sending a letter; the only difference is instead of using pen & paper, you use a keyboard to type a message on a computer. According to Nunes states, “email simulates and actualizes this system of point- to-point connection as a lived space. But as an enacted network of exchange, email dispatches packets across global/geographical space of networks and phone lines in a manner fat removed from site-to-site postal mapping of dispatch and delivery.” This quote makes me think about how fortunate we have the access to send email messages to anyone we want. It’s way much faster and easier to send an email. I believe if it wasn’t for an email we would have to write letters instead of just sending it to the Post office or having to find a mailbox.
Works Citied
Nunes, Mark. “The Email, The Letter, and The Post.” from Cyberspaces of Everyday Life. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Miranda Pacheco // October 15th : Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of Presence
In Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of Presence author Esther Milne speaks of the origins of what we know present day as EMail. Something I found quite interesting was this concept of language, and its involvement within the creation of electronic mail. An example of this is the “@“ sign, its was introduced by a man named Tomlinson “because his email program required a distinction in the address between the name of the user and the name of the user’s machine” (Padlipsky 148). This symbol was meant to be translated in a specific way in order to describe a specific function, and throughout the chapter Milne shows how it was misinterpreted in the cyber world. The “@“ sign meant something completely different in the multics operating system, interesting enough according to Milne’s research it was interrupted negatively. The ARPANET “interpreted the @ sign as a ‘kill line’ command” (Milne 149). Which led to the debate of what an email header would look like and how it would be translated. Back to the reason I find this interesting is because my deep fascination with language. I’ve always been intrigued about one word, or even one statement being translated in various forms and holding its own meanings. I never thought the same would apply to technology and language, I never thought that the “@” sign is an actual form of language that has become universal and can be used by all people.
CITATION:
Milne Esther, “Letter, Postcards, Email: Technologies of Presence” , Taylor & Francis, 2010.
A. Padlipsky, “And they argued all Night . . .” in Peter H Salus (ed),The ARPANET SourcebooL The Unpublished Foundations of the Internet (Charlottesville: Peer-to-Peer Communications LLC, 2008) 506.
Oct 16
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet written by NYU’s Finn Bruton, describes the problem with the modern day of technology and shows the connection between the advancement of technology and the resulting exploitive actions. Showing examples of computer hacking of companies solely done of the internet. However, the most important aspect of Bruton’s work shows how computer technologist are stopping these types of hacks. However, the government is shown to have the most influence in the ability to stop these hackers with the use of regulation against such things as spam. Even the term ‘spam’ is revealing. Spam referring to the canned meat where it may be delicious for a moment but overall it cannot sustain you. Such as spam on the internet may be interesting, but it cannot be the active ingredient in a healthy diet for the internet.
Brunton, Finn. Spam: a Shadow History of the Internet. MIT Press Ltd, 2015.
